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Angry Stranger


One afternoon, several years ago, and just after we had purchased our land for The Sanctuary at Camilla ministry God gave my wife and me, a man, who was a stranger to us, approached me at the front gate and quizzed me about what I was going to build on my property. I told him we were building a Christian retreat facility there. The man rudely exclaimed, “What’s that to me? I don’t care if you build a whorehouse back there!” I confirmed for him, he had no worries there!

Three months later, this same man drove to the back where our little chapel was being constructed and he met me at the top of our hill. He asked if I remembered him. I told him I didn’t, although he did look kind of familiar. He reminded me he was that same fellow who attempted to slander me and accuse me of building a house of ill-repute a while back. Now, I remembered! This man told me he wanted to apologize for what he had said back then, and he asked if I would pray for him. I said, yes, and that maybe we could go into our little chapel building; since my Bible was in there, and I would like to read some important Scriptures concerning God's forgiveness and salvation to him. He agreed, and we did.

This man who had previously shown such hatred and viciousness before toward God’s property was now humbling himself before God asking for forgiveness. He went on to confess a lifestyle he was ashamed of and was now seeking God’s mercy and healing of his past. He accepted Christ that afternoon before His God, and in our little Sanctuary chapel. He was healed from his life of sin thanks to the mercy and salvation of our Lord Jesus (Read; 1 Thessalonians 5:8,9). “But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.”




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