A visitor came into our Friday night program. We had just prayed, as a group, that we wished we could reach someone new into the program. Just then we noticed an elderly man walking slowly back and forth in front of the Enabled building. He kept looking in as he walked to and from the window in front of the building. One of our students went to the door and talked with the visitor. Soon he entered in and asked if he could join this group’s meeting.
He introduced himself as Fred Arney, a passer buyer, on his way to Georgia to visit family. He was on foot, no place to go and nowhere to find shelter for the night. He was hungry and really distraught with his current circumstances. He was polite and very quiet mannered, as he spoke very quietly just above a whisper. He said, he saw this was some type of ministry and knew it would be safe to come in and really needed to be in God’s presence.
We welcomed him in and gave him a Bible and told him about our program. He smiled as we led him to a seat and introduced ourselves to him. He joined right in our sharing of testimonies and asking for prayer requests.
James 5:16 “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
Freds’ testimony was that as he left Toledo, Ohio. He was telling testimony of how God was working in his life. He wanted to share his love for Jesus. Enclosed is a poem he wrote and was sharing in his journey to Georgia. (I did not change his spelling, so it reads as he wrote it).
Sin shall not have deminsion over you
Far you are not under the LAW but under GRACE
Vingnes is mine sayes the Lord
Amaizing Grace how sweet it sounds
that saved a wretch like me
I wonth was lost But now I am found
Was los blind but now I see
If the Son shall set you free you shall be free indeed.
IS MY NAME WRITTEN THERE?
World I care not for riches…neither silver nor Gold
I would make sure of heaven
I would enter the fold, in the clouds of thy Kingdom
with His pages so clear and fair,
Tell me Jesus my Savior is my name written there?
Lord my sins they are many like the sands of the sea
But the BLOOD of my Savior is suffience far me
Far the promise is written in bright letters that glow
tho your sins be as scarlet, I will make them like snow
Is my Name Written There?
O that beautiful city with its mansion of light
with it’s glorified beings in pure garment of white.
where no evil thing cometh to do-spoil
what is fair where the Angels are watching
Yes my Name’s written there…Yes my name is written there
you can find it in His book yes on the page of life
In the book of the Kingdom
Yes my names written there
Fred Arney
We closed around 9:30 P M and Joyce and I cleaned the pantry and started turning the lights off and Fred left. We watched him as he slowly walked away on his venture to Georgia.
Director HOPE International
Grace Baptist Church Enabled Ministries
