Shopkeeper Seeks Truth

A WEC Story

One afternoon while I was visiting another town, I met up with a friend of mine as she was sitting in her clothes shop. She greeted me warmly and told my friend how we had met when she had just got divorced and was really struggling. I had first seen her outside her shop and told her that we had come to pray for this town, and that I felt that God wanted me to pray for her in particular. She had burst into tears, and brought us inside, and told me about her suffering - we prayed and cried together.

She shared that God had helped her so much since that first meeting. She talked about her disillusionment with all the apparently 'religious' people around her, and we looked at 1 Samuel 16:7 where it talked about God not looking at our outward things, but that he looks at our heart. She said she is not religious but loves God. We looked at Jeremiah 29:13,14: where God says, "If you look for me wholeheartedly you will find me. I will be found by you." In talking more about this, it was obvious that she has no concept of God as someone she can find, or be found by....no concept of being able to have a real relationship with Him. She began talking more about the things that she needs from Him.

After two cups of tea and lots of talking we prayed for her about those things, and asked God that He would also give her a heart to really seek Him Himself, that He would show her His love for her. She was again touched by prayer, hugged me and said, 'please keep coming'. She kept the two little pieces of Scripture I had written out for her, and put them on her desk saying, I will keep reading these.