God is present and God is working

Many of you know that I feel very called to serve Herman and to help on his walk to find Jesus in his own life. Even though he's not living on the property right now, ministry with him still continues, so right now I'm meeting with him once a week in La Kennedy to talk about faith, and life, and his future.  Many of you know he fell hard back into the culture of Los Pinos: violence, drugs, a serious lack of ambition, and a dark spiritual environment. But it has been such a blessing that God has given me influence in his life, and he will talk to me about serious things, faith and problems, when he won’t talk to anyone else. Even from the first to the second time I met him, I’ve seen such changes just in his face and his demeanor, he smiled this last time! Just a  short story of how I saw God working in him most recently:

We sat down to meet in Dunkin Donuts, and I asked him about his “homework” from last week, reading some chapters in Romans. He said he doesn’t really understand it, doesn’t really want to talk about it. I present him with another passage, Ephesians 3:14-21, I want us to read together, my prayer for him every day. He reads it and tells me, “Molly, you know I’m not a Christian any more, this doesn’t mean anything to me, I don’t understand it.” He looks back down at it and reads it over and over again for a good five minutes, all the while I’m praying hard that God will speak to him and let him feel the words. A few minutes later, he writes down the verse and says he wants to read it more throughout this next week. Later when we go to Burger King for lunch, before he eats, he asks if we should pray. I say yeah we should, do you want to or do you want me to. He says he will, and he prays. Afterwards he tells me that’s the first time he prayed in six months, and this is the only time he’s read the Bible in that same time period. He just smiles, and I did too. One second he says he’s not a Christian and he doesn’t want to have anything to do with the Bible, and then God gets a hold of him again and he's praying and captivated by God's Word. I have so much hope for his future! 

There’s a battle going on for him, but whatever the devil tries to destroy in his life, God will only build back stronger and greater than before! God is working in Herman!! Please pray that Herman will feel the gospel, that all the work was done way before he was even a thought, with Jesus on the cross. He knew every bad thing Herman would ever do, but He said it doesn’t matter, that’s my son, and I want to give my life for him. I said these words to Herman, and he got a big smile on his face. Pray that God repeats this truth in his heart over and over and over again until it finally clicks! 

Herman (in the middle, light blue shirt) with his family and 

his family in Christ on his 18th birthday