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Never Giving Up On Someone
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I just started a new job when I met him, the man God wanted to reach. At the time, my job was to work on radio towers and he soon became my climbing partner which meant we were now climbing up radio towers together. You get to know someone really well when you are stuck with them 9-12 hours a day 5-6 days a week with literally nowhere to go. I never wanted to push God on him, but I also wasn’t going to hide who I was from him. I would share with him how every morning as I drove to work, I turned on worship music and had a list of people that I would pray for. He responded, "you don’t pray for me, do you?" It turns out he hated God. Still, I continued to pray for him and kept telling him I was praying; I wanted him to know someone cared. After a while, his response softened and he told me, “well, if you’re going to pray, pray for my daughter but not for me.” He later moved away, but we stayed in touch as I saw his heart continue to soften. He fell off the wagon one night and became suicidal. He came to me that night... 
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Ministering To Women In Jail
I was a sixteen year old girl when I heard Matthew 25:36. “I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you cared for me, I was in prison and you visited me.” The verse about visiting those in prison had always stuck with me. Many years later, a group called the Gideons spoke to my church about their prison ministry. I asked one of the members after church if I could get involved in their ministry. He said that I had to be a Gideon, and I reluctantly left it at that. But three months later, the member reached out to me, saying that a new jail was being built in my town that would house men and women. They were told if they didn’t have a woman to visit the women’s section, they could no longer go to minister to the men’s section. I jumped at the chance. Each and every Saturday morning for the past 19 years, I have spent two hours at the women's jail. I meet with...
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Check Out Our Latest Podcast Episode
Episode 27 of The Christian Heart Podcast has four uplifting stories including that of Congressman Steve Scalise whose faith got him through the life-threatening injuries he sustained from being shot at the Congressional baseball practice in June 2017; a mom whose two-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor and how she used it for God’s glory; how two ladies donated thousands of masks for our health care workers during the pandemic; and a man who found a unique way to get Bibles into the hands of the homeless. The episode is just 11 minutes long, and can be heard on your favorite podcast app or by clicking here. |
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We would love your help in spreading the word about The Christian Heart. We'd like to see more people read these encouraging stories, especially during these troubled times. Since we don't have any money in our ministry, would you mind forwarding our stories to your friends? Our goal is to encourage Christians to have a stronger walk with The Lord and put their faith into action; and to show everyone what happens when The Lord enters your life. We would truly appreciate your help! Also, do you have a story of how you're living out your faith that you'd like to share? Or know of someone who is displaying their love for Jesus in their day-to-day life? If so, please share that story with us! We are always looking to highlight unique ways in which people are trying to bring others to the Lord. Just click here and give us a little information. Please know, the stories we post on The Christian Heart are always anonymous so your name will never be mentioned. Thanks for your suggestion!.
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