Where Do You Get Your Energy From?

by Kay Heitsch

Do you ever wonder how you can be a witness to other people? I know I have. Personally, I didn't feel comfortable with the traditional way people seemed to do witnessing. I knew I wanted to share how the Lord was working in my life, but the conventional method wasn't for me. When I became a Christian, I told the Lord I wanted to be used by Him. How He was going to use me has taken several different paths.

Several years ago, I had an exciting encounter on the road where I walked in my neighborhood. I had asked the Lord to bring people out to the street who needed a touch from Him. Because of this request, the Lord has given me several "Divine connections."

There was a lot of construction going on in our neighborhood. I would always wave at the guys working on the homes as I walked by each day on my daily power walk. I felt like I halfway knew these construction workers because I saw them every morning. This particular morning I smiled and waved like always when one of the men yelled, "Wait a minute, we have a question to ask you." I was surprised and wondered what they could want to ask me.

I stopped and waited. A burly man walked out to the street and said, "Hi, my name is John. The guys and I have been talking about you. We want to know where you get all your energy." I felt John was no doubt expecting me to say something like, "From all the coffee I drink." Although I did drink coffee, I knew exactly where my energy came from. "Do I dare tell him the truth?" I quickly thought.

I looked John straight in the eye and said, "Do you really want to know where my energy comes from?" John said he did, so this is what I told him. "Well, you see, John, I spend one on one time with the Creator of the Universe before I come out to walk each day." John looked like I had hit him with a ton of bricks, then said, "How would that give you energy?" I explained, "The way I see it is that God keeps the whole Universe energized. If I spend one on one time with Him, I'll be energized too." With a look of enlightenment, John said, "I can see that it's working. I'll have to give it a try."

I thought our conversation was over when John said, "When you are spending time with the Creator, will you talk to Him about me? I have cancer." I certainly wasn't expecting this. I told him that I would pray. I then walked back home and found some Christian pamphlets that I thought would be helpful. I drove back to the site and gave them to John.

Later on, in the week, John came out to the road again when I was walking by. John told me that he had gone down to the VFW and shared what I told him with the "boys at the bar." John said he had even given out some of the pamphlets I had given him.

I know the way I did witnessing that day wasn't the traditional way, but it got the job done. I could see that the Lord not only used me to share His love, but He also used John, who didn't even know that he was also a witness for the Creator of the Universe, where all energy comes from.