Recently, I was approached by someone in a store, and it threw me of a loop! This young man started off the conversation giving me compliments about my singing ability. He had been in a service where I ministered and he was saying how he was blessed. At first I was cool, but then discernment kicked in, for it has been on high alert for some time, and I knew that there was some ulterior motive.
At that point I decided to chuck the deuces and get up out of there, but he kept pressing the issue of how he “felt” when I sang (not ministered), and he could get me “out of his mind” for several weeks after he heard me sing (not minister). I was about go left, and when I say go left, I was about to pull the RN card and go off. You may ask what is an RN card, it is my REAL NI**A card that gives Big V the green light go forth LOL!
BUT GOD…
This man had the audacity to try and give me his number. What was interesting was that never fed in to what he was trying to do, I never communicated verbally or nonverbally that I approved of this mess. However, I was curious to why he thought this was ok, and why he felt that I out of all people was down with this kind of lifestyle.
So after the cashier gave me my receipt I sat down with the young man because I saw a ministry opportunity, and I needed to press forward in the name of Jesus, because somewhere down the line someone perverted this young man’s mind and he needed some truth to set him free.
Come to find out at every church he has been a member of the men in the music ministry, whether they be musicians, BGV, or worship leaders were all gay, and feed into the lifestyle he had tried to kick for many years. They all saw his innocence and took advantage of him, making him feel it was ok to compromise in this area. To give God praise and live any old kind of way.
He openly confessed to me that from age 15 to now (he is 27) he has had over 10 sexual relationships with men in the church. And 5 of them currently pay for his rent, car payment, and other necessities.
It blew his mind that I was not gay. He kept saying, this can’t be real, you have to be gay!
I knew I only had a few more minutes to minister to this young man, so I took him to the word, I took him right to Romans chapter one where it says, (18-32) “18 But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness.[i] 19They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. 20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. 21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. 23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. 25 They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. 26 That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. 27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved. 28 Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. 29 Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.30 They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. 31 They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. 32 They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.”
I felt the conviction in his spirit, I saw the tears starting to form… I knew timing was critical, and I needed another verse to reassure him that it was going to be ok… So I went to 1 John 1:9, “But if we confess our sin to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.”
I needed more word, but kept saying that he couldn’t make it out of this, and that he was too far in, so the only person that I thought could relay the message of forgiveness in this capacity was David, so I read to him pieces of Psalms 51, and explained the scenario. Then went back to Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned and fall short of His Glory…”
Then I felt it was only right to tell the young man that the reason why Jesus came in the first place was to save sinners, and there were and are so many men and women in the Bible and that walk around today that have sin in their lives. So, I said to him that just because we were born into sin, and sin every day that we should strive to be holy and righteous. I said, “We are sinners saved by grace, and without grace there is no way we would be able to have any relationship with God.”
I grabbed his hand and started to pray with him, yes right there in front of a grocery store, and God was there. When I said amen, he continued to pray and asked for forgiveness for the things he had done, and the things he was planning on doing, and he asked God for help with his issue.
It was time to go, so I gave him my information and asked him to keep in touch. I embraced him and said, “Just because someone tried to pervert you doesn’t mean you have to stay perverted!” He said thank you!
