Help Me Conduct an Experiment

I need your help in beginning a book project. The tentative title is I Can Do That. What is that? That is a time or event where God was present in your life. An easy one for me to remember was back in 1989. My sister Janet and her husband J. B. were praying for Karen and I. They were led of God to help us so they obeyed and I received this letter. "Dear Norm and Karen, We were praying for you and felt like God wanted us to send you this. Kind of weird! Love, Janet". Inside the envelope with the letter was a check for $153.51. Their letter had been sent to us on Thursday. That check matched to the penny ($153.51) the bill we had received on Friday. We had no way to pay the bill but God had already taken care of that.

I was talking to my friend, Burt Robinson at Annual Conference when he shared one of his stories. He was an All-American young man that grew up in church but arriving at college wasn't a Christian. He felt led to go to Bible study on campus but when he saw that the Geek Squad was in attendance he didn't go in. The next week he drifted by and this time saw a young man: a long-haired, Indian-looking guy named Erwin, standing outside at the door. "You going in?", Burt asked. "Yeah. You coming with me?", Erwin answered. Burt did go in and was saved and converted that night.

You can do that! You can pray for your family. You can stand at the door and go in to Bible study. Will you share your stories with me? I want you to be a contributor. Once you get started noticing how God is at work for you and through you you'll notice it more and more.

Burt is living proof of that. Burt was called into the ministry a few years after that life-changing night. The men in his first church wanted to give him a gift - send him to Promise Keepers in Colorado. He's like, I don't need to go there but they had gotten him the tickets so he went.

The first night they introduced the opening speaker: a short-haired, Indian-looking guy named Erwin Raphael McManus. Burt had another story to share!

Send your God-moments to me in the comment section or to reverendnorm@msn.com. Your story may be just the encouragement someone needs to notice what God is up to in their lives. You can do that!