Conversation Starters...

Okay, I spent 20 minutes looking for a picture of the back of my Suburban, this is the best I can do...really I could have ran outside and snapped a current picture, but hey its wet and rainy outside.  So this is what you are going to get...read on!

I wanted to show you a small portion of my testimony that follows me as I drive about. On the rear back door lives 9 Christian fish...we are still short one, but are awaiting its arrival. 

There are two big fish with 7 small fish that follow after.  Each fish represents one of us.  The fish represent that fact that we are Christians.

Today this testimony of 9 fish, a car and adoption led me to pray for a man named Roman in a parking lot, where my family had just shopped for our groceries.

Let me set up for you...

Princess Sweetness and I are coming out of the food warehouse store with a cart of groceries.  My Knight met us outside the door, as he had run an errand as we shopped.  He led us to our silver Suburban *Katrinka.  As he began unpacking the cart I spotted directly behind us -what I anticipated to be a gray 15 passenger van.  My husband stopped unpacking and walked over to this van to see if indeed it was *big* enough for our family.  As he walked around it, peaking in, a man came up behind him.  My Knight asked him if this was his van.  The man said, "No." 

 I explained we were in need of a bigger car, as we were full presently, with our newest daughter arriving from Ethiopia. I told him that we now had 8 children, 7 who had been adopted.

The man began to tell me that he and his wife had looked at this type of van. He said it had 10-12 seats.  My Knight went back to packing the car.  I kept talking. 

The man said they too had adopted children, 3, from Korea.  How he wanted another, but his wife said if he got any more, he'd need a new wife.  He commended me on having the patience for so many.  I turned the talk to God.  I asked him if he was a Christian.  He said he saw my fish and knew I was one.  I asked him again if he too was a Christian. 

 He replied, "My wife is, but I am not born-again, I am...(insert a religion)." 

 I said, " I don't care what your religion is, is Jesus your Lord and Savior?" 

He didn't say anything.

I asked him if he had read John 3:3 that says we must be born-again.  I told him this was not a religion, but came straight from God. I asked him if he had read John lately.

He said, "It had been a long time."

I smiled and told him he should. I asked him what his name was.

He said, "Roman."

I said, "Roman can I pray for you?"

He said, "Yes."

I asked if I could put my hand on his shoulder while I prayed, he nodded his head.

I then prayed that God would bless him and his wife.  Strengthen his marriage and bless his family in ways that could only come from God.  I prayed that his children would be blessed and that God would open his heart to understand who He was.  I finished by saying..in Jesus' name amen.

He thanked me and drove away. 

I wonder if he will tell his wife when he gets home. I am sure she is praying that he too becomes a Christian. I am sure it is her hearts desire.

Regardless, God is drawing him closer.  And how could I not thank Him, for allowing me to plant seeds in Roman's life.  Seeds that I pray that God will continue to water, until he comes to salvation through repentance and asking Jesus to be His Lord and Savior.

How I love to pray with people, how I love to lead people into His family.  Oh, how I love to share my love for Jesus.  Of course I would have loved to lead him to Jesus right there, but God didn't open that door.  God knows how eager I am to lead others to Christ.  He knows how I love adoption in the physical and in the spiritual. 

Lord, thank you for giving me the opportunity to point Roman to You.  Lord, please continue to speak to him through whoever You wish.  I ask that someday I see him again, maybe in heaven if not here

 and he will say, "Guess what...I am a Christian!"

Hey...do you know Jesus as your Lord and Savior?  I'd love to share how to become a Christian...

send me an email or leave me a comment...and we'll pray too!

I've heard it said that, "Fish on a car isn't going to save anyone."  Hmm, I think maybe not, but what a great way to start a conversation that just might lead to sharing Jesus!