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Hi Kathy,
I am in agreement with you. Neil is on my prayer list now. Thank you for sharing your interactions that you've had with him.
Someone who fights so hard against the TRUTH is being pursued by God. He still has the choice to accept or reject, but you can be assured that the LORD is working in his life to show Neil the way.
John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in him might be saved".
One of the quotes that I absolutely love from Corey Ten Boom's book, The Hiding Place
is: "there is no darkness so deep, that God's love is not deeper still". This is also true of our friend Neil.
One of the prison guards who had abused Corey's sister in the Nazi concentration camp (where she died), was someone who came up to Corey years later when she was speaking and sharing her testimony was this guard. He came to her and asked if she could forgive him. This man had become a Christian and recognized that he needed forgiveness from God. Corey reached out and forgave him.
This is the same thing we must do, to those who call us evil, or abuse us. We can only do this because of Christ's magnificent love and forgiveness for us.
Let's not forget the many who have come to Christ, who once claimed atheism:
Josh McDowell
T.S. Elliott
C.S. Lewis
Faraday
Kelvin
Galileo
Pasteur
To name a few. The list is long of people who came to know that God is real, and that there is salvation in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Prayers are good, & they will not go unanswered.
Cheryl
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