Just Excited

Tonight in our community house, a group of about 13 youth who had previously asked if they could just come over on Monday nights to have a safe comfortable place to have a bible study came by. My roommates and I had no previous expectations of what it might look like and what these teenagers would talk about (most of them are just beginning their walks and some are just there out of curiosity I think), we had just decided to sit back and see what God was going to do. A 19 year old boy named Charlie who had organized the gathering stood up and began telling the others why he wanted this group to meet and sharing his testimony. Charlie has lived in this neighborhood his whole life and everyone knows him. Charlie grew up and was heading down the wrong path to say the least. Charlie has gone to jail 4 times already and was involved in a life style that so many young men around here live. The 4th time that Charlie was in jail, for come to find out was just being in the wrong place at the wrong time and a group of cops who acted in lets just say a questionable manner, was given a bible to read by a fellow inmate. Charlie didn't believe in God but thought he would just read it like a regular book because he was bored. He started with the New Testament and he said Matthew 15 changed his life. That fear of being left behind on this earth when God comes down to take his people scared Charlie. He asked God into his life and went on to share an amazing transformation in his life. Charlie accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior in April of this year in a prison cell and now just 6 months later God spoke through Charlie to his friends and neighbors as if he was the next Billy Graham. He had the room in tears and was quoting the word by heart. Charlie is thinking about being a preacher and has asked God to give him the words so that his friends and family may come to know Christ. He went on to tell stories of how is home life has changed from one where no one really even spoke to each other, much less love on one another, to a home where the gospel is spoken and lived out daily. Charlie said God has given him a vision that this whole block will be saved and after tonight I can't wait to see what God is going to do here!!!!!