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My phone rang. A friend from St. Louis, a precious Gentile Christian who lived a life of witnessing to my people, was calling. She told me that a Christian Hebrew brother was to have surgery in the morning and she thought he would appreciate it very much if I would go up early and have prayer with him. I would meet his wife there too. I promised her I would. Early the next morning I went to his room on sixth floor. As I entered, I noticed that this Jewish man's wife was sitting next to him knitting. <strong>The</strong>re was a curtain drawn between his bed and the one next to him. We had a precious time fellowshipping in the Word of God and in prayer. When the nurse came to give the man his pre-operation sedative, I knew we should quietly leave and let him go to sleep. His wife and I were walking down the corridor toward the waiting room when I heard a voice saying, "Nurse, nurse! Vait a minute, nurse. I vant to talk to you, nurse." I turned around, and there was a little, old, bald-headed man in his eighties running down the hallway, yelling, wanting me to stop. He was no taller than I, and I am only four-feet-eight and three quarters. When he caught up with me, he said, "Nurse, I vant you to bless me like you blessed him." "But, sir, I didn't bless him." "Yes, you did. I heard you say brocha [a blessing] over him. I vant you to bless me vith the same vords. I vant you to say the same vords over me, just like you said over him." "But I didn't bless him. I was praying for him." "Call it vat you vant. Say vat you vant. Say the same prayer over me." I said, "zada [meaning grandfather in Yiddish], I can't pray the same prayer for you that I prayed for him, because he's a believer in Yeshua Ha Mashiach [Jesus the Messiah]. He believes in Yeshua Ha Mashiach. Do you?" He opened his eyes wide and blinked. "How can I?" he asked. "I never heard fom [which in Yiddish means about] Him. I never heard anything fom Him." I said, "Would you like to hear from Him?' He blinked his eyes again and answered, "Vy not?" (Jewish people have the habit of answering a question with a question. "Vy not?" can mean anything. It can mean "yes." It can mean "no." "Vy not?"
"All right. Would you like to come to the waiting room where this man's wife is sitting? I'll tell you about Jesus." "Vy not?" he said again. We sat down on the sofa. I began to tell him he was a sinner and why he needed a Saviour. I quoted scriptures from the Old Testament to him. All of a sudden he began to cry. I said, "What are you crying about?" "Oh, I'm just remembering all my sins that I did ven I vas a little boy. I remember ven I vas eight years old I stole an apple from the grocer. I remember that -- ven I vas such a tief, I vas such a tief." He was crying, and I was praising the Lord for the faithfulness of the Holy Spirit in reminding a man that was eighty years old of the sins that he committed when he was a child in Russia. Now he was weeping more and more profusely. He pulled a gold, blue and white farmer's handkerchief from his pajama pocket, blew his nose and wiped his eyes. I felt he was sufficiently under conviction for sin, so I proceeded to press upon his heart the claims of Jesus as his only Saviour. "Now," I said, "I'm going to pray for you. You want me that I should pray?" "Vy not?" So I prayed for him. When I finished, I said, "Now you pray." "Out loud?" "Yes." "I don't vant to." "All right. You don't have to pray out loud." "Do you have to hear me?" he asked. "No, I really don't, but I'd like to." "I don't vant you to hear me." "All right. Just so God hears you. That is the most important -- that God should hear you. Go ahead. Just pray in your heart then."
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studied that beautiful face by flas
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I laughed and said, "O that's all r
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Lord. Adonai -- God, the only Lord.
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