Power with a Purpose
Saving Grace of Signs and Wonders
Jordan Seng
April 1, 2001
Evangelism can be hard if you're the quiet type. If only I could heal the sick, or prophesy, or raise someone from the dead, I used to think, maybe people would at least listen to my good news. One day, I realized I could do just that. When I was a college freshman, a student in my dormitory had a crisis and abruptly withdrew from school. Many weeks later, he gave me a call. He had just had a dream, he said, and it seemed, well, spiritual. He knew I was a Christian. Did I think God was trying to talk to him? Later that night, I prayed with some friends about it. We discussed the way the prophet Daniel interpreted dreams, and then I went to bed. And I had a dream. In my dream an angel took me to a classroom and told me some significant things about my friend that I could not otherwise have known. The next morning I called my friend and told him what the angel had told me. "I didn't know God talks to people like that," he said, and thus he began a process that led him to Jesus. A little later, my Christian fellowship was studying evangelistic methods. We read John 4, where a Samaritan woman is so surprised by Jesus' extensive supernatural knowledge of her dubious marital history that she returns to her village, exclaiming, "Come see a man who told me everything I ever did!" Almost everyone in our study group agreed the story showed how important it is to have honest conversations with non-believers and how we need to reach across social boundaries just as Jesus reached across the Jewish-Samaritan divide. I raised my hand. "Doesn't it also show how valuable it is to have prophetic revelations about the people you're witnessing to?" And so it began. Over the next few years, I had dozens of dreams in which an angel would explain otherwise ...
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