Long ago, a man named Mr. Moody was trying to get to know a family so he could teach them about the Lord Jesus, but he just wasn’t able to. Then one day, as he was preaching, he saw one of the boys from that family sitting in the audience. He was there to make trouble, not to listen. He was poking pins into the backs of other boys near him! Mr. Moody decided to try to help that boy. As all the boys left, he shook hands with all of them, but then, after he shook hands with that boy, he patted him on the head and told him he was glad to see him and hoped he would come again. The boy, Mark, looked ashamed of himself and walked away.
The next week he was back, and he kept coming. After two or three weeks more, he asked someone to pray for him, as he wanted to become a Christian. He came to Jesus just as he was, and the Lord Jesus saved him.
A few weeks later, one evening Mr. Moody noticed that Mark was crying. It was because he wanted them to pray for his mother. Mr. Moody asked him if he had ever talked with her or tried to pray with her. He had not, so Mr. Moody told him, “I want you to talk with your mother tonight. I will pray for you both.”
When Mark went home, his mother was talking with some friends. Mark sat there and waited for a chance to talk, but finally his mother said it was time for him to go to bed. He started to leave, but then he ran back to his mother and threw his arms around her neck.
“What is the matter?” she asked him.
Crying, he told his mother that he had been a Christian for five weeks. He had stopped swearing and was trying to be obedient to her. He would be so happy if she would become a Christian too.
Mark went off to bed, but soon his mother couldn’t stand it. She went up to his room and, stopping outside the door, she heard him crying and praying for her to be saved.
She couldn’t sleep that night. The next day she told her son to go ask Mr. Moody to come, and he went as soon as he could. He found her crying.
“Mr. Moody,” she said, “I want to become a Christian.”
Boys and girls, if you live with people who don’t know the Lord Jesus, did you know that you can help lead them to the Lord? The Bible says, “A little child shall lead them” (Isaiah 11:66The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. (Isaiah 11:6)). Mark was able to talk with his mother when Mr. Moody was not able to. The Lord will help you if you ask Him to!
Messages of God’s Love 8/27/2023