Hello CCAS members,
I hope everyone is doing well this week. I just finished reading Luke 15:1-7.
It reminded me when I was just a kid, I went with my father to visit U.S. Army Chaplain Steve Arnold on one of the bases he frequently visited. He was a mighty preacher of the gospel and, what I can remember, an effective soul winner. Recently I read an account of how this man of God helped a woman find salvation -- a person who had been dragged down by terrible sin. Late one night a man came to Chaplain Arnold and asked him to go and pray with a dying girl. He accompanied the stranger to a house located in a district of the city noted for its prostitutes. There he found a desperate soul named Mary who said to him, "Isn't there something in the Bible about a sheep that went astray and a shepherd who went out and brought it back again?" The chaplain gladly recounted the story and made the gospel application. As he knelt to pray, several other girls slipped to their knees, sobbing by their companion's bed. Arnold said that when he looked up after his prayer, the dying girl's face was radiant. Over and over she exclaimed, "Oh, it is wonderful! The Good Shepherd has found me and is holding me to His heart!" Later, Arnold was told by one of Mary's friends that she had died.
Several years afterward in another city, a young woman came up to Arnold at the close of a service. "Don't you remember me?" she said. "I'm the girl that told you of Mary's passing. But there's something else I want you to know."
"What is it?" he asked.
"When the Good Shepherd brought Mary in on one shoulder, I came in on the other!"
Yes, CCAS members, the Good Shepherd is still seeking lost sheep!
This has been an Overcomers moment.........Talk to you soon, Howard Kent
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