Sunset at Hyde Park

Yesterday afternoon I got a call from my friend Daniel who was so touched by the Gospel message he heard at his church that he felt compelled to buy a mega phone and share it with the rest of the world. He told me he would be in Piccadilly Circus and he would like me to join him.

Meanwhile I had been suffering from mad head aches, toothache’s and lack of sleep and on top of that I did not feel like my relationship with God was strong enough for me to go out and try to win people to God. I felt so inadequate to go with him, After service I had some of the brothers pray for me then I decided to go and join him for half an hour and give out some tracts and hopefully speak with some people.

As I got there Dan was already in full swing preaching the gospel. So I began giving out tracts then met a young man who said to me that he believed in God but he felt he had to do good things to please God. For the better part of 3 hours I sat with him in Piccadilly circus going through the scriptures and explaining to him how our best efforts still fall short of God’s standard and so we can do nothing to be made right before God but its God who loved us so much that he placed the judgement that we would of received for our sins on to Jesus. That Jesus died for the sins of man Kind, that when we place our faith in Jesus he will do the work of saving us and changing us and I explained how to identify if we are in the faith or not.

Afterwards he spoke of how he wanted to take his relationship more seriously with God. I asked him to tell me what he understood baptism to be, after sometime of discussing what baptism meant we were both convinced he could get baptised straight away, so we went through some more scriptures and he was asking a ton of questions, he said, “I am scared of getting baptised coz it feels like I am committing my whole life to God and I don’t know if I can trust God but for some reason I feel compelled to get baptised today.”

So we decided to find a shop and buy some shorts so he could get baptised, unfortunately by this time it was like 8pm on a Sunday night and everywhere was closed. We walked for an hour talking about scriptures answering questions and finally found a shop that sold us the shorts real cheap.

We went to Hyde Park and baptised him in the Lake, Ironically it was the same spot where there were police riots a few days before. The whole experience blew me away because I did not in anyway feel that my walk with God was strong enough to evangelise. I also realised that many people had sowed seed into this man’s life and God had given me the privilege to partake in the good work of leading him further in his walk with the Lord. Earlier that day I put on a pair of jeans then changed my mind and put on a pair of shorts even tho there was talk of rain that day, I took one tract with me (for what reason I don’t know). So without even thinking about it the lord was leading me into this. (wow)

I realised that this whole experience was not the norm in London (For me at least) I wrestled with whether it was right or not to do so and my brother reminded me about the story of the Ethiopian Eunuch who was baptised after believing the message of Jesus Christ in Acts 8:26-40

I was reminded that our standing with God is not about how well we do Christian things (even Baptising someone in the Hyde Park Lake) but its about trusting in the work of Christ on the Cross that because of him we are righteous and qualified to be ambassadors for his kingdom. It was by the lords Grace that I was able to partake in this and all I had to be was available, I remembered a verse that Jahaziel once said “its not about your ability but your availability”

Please continue to pray for the guy who got Baptised his name is Richard! There is a short video of him being baptised which you can watch here

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