Miracle Story: True Tongues

A Street Preaching Encounter and a Family’s Response

Yeah, a few months ago, I was out preaching and I don't like to stop preaching once I get started. And, you know, we always have people behind us on the road that are, as I'm sure everybody that does this kind of ministry has, they all run by and roll their windows down and have such pleasantries for you to help you on your day.

But somebody was behind me as I was preaching and they were, you know, I couldn't understand the word they were saying and they were getting very loud and everything. And my dear friend, Yoli, said, John, you need to come talk to this guy.

I said, Yoli, not now. I don't have time. I said, she goes, no, really. So I said, OK. So I turn around and I look out and here's this gentleman sitting in his car and he's driving a transportation car that delivers patients to doctors.

So he's got this patient in the back of his car, but he stopped there literally crying his eyes out. So I go over there to talk to him and say, are you OK? You know, what's going on? And he's going on and on and on in Spanish and Yoli's translating and he's saying, thank you, thank you for preaching.

You were here, we were here almost a year ago and we heard your preaching and we were sitting in that room and we got in our cars and we left and we just want to thank you. And then the passenger, the poor passenger, he he was happy for the driver, but he just went ahead and got out of the car and walked to his to his appointment.

And then the guy gets his wife on the phone on FaceTime. And so I'm looking at his wife, beautiful wife, on his phone, on FaceTime with a little baby. She's bawling her eyes out, crying and crying, talking in Spanish, bouncing her baby around and I'm just going, wow, this is pretty cool.

Hearing the Preaching in His Own Language

And when they were done and I said, thank you, I said, well, hey, why don't you come to St. Andrews and and we'll go we'll go out to church. We'll go get some lunch or something and have a have a talk.

Just have a great afternoon. Oh, yeah, yeah, we'll do that. And I said, well, that's great. That's wonderful. And I think I had a time of prayer for him. And then I said, well, I got to go back. I got to finish preaching here.

There's a bunch more people in here that were just like you were on the day you were here. And and so he he said, OK, thank you. And I turn around to walk away and then something hit me like, like what?

And I couldn't figure it out. And it was like, what is what am I missing? God, I felt like I was missing something. People watching this probably already figured it out. You're a lot smarter than me. But I I didn't get it.

And I got back over to where I preach and then it hit me. I said, you only stop that car. And she goes, why? I said, stop that car. And she yelled for him and he stopped. And we went walking over there and I said, I think his name's Alejandro.

I said, Alejandro, how? I have to ask you a question. How in the world did you understand the preaching? Because I don't preach in Spanish. And he said, I heard every word that you preached in my own language.

God Makes Up for Human Deficits in Ministry

And I'll never forget that. I could not believe that. And again, that's it doesn't happen all the time. It doesn't happen to everybody. So you don't have to it's it's not all about you. It's you just have to be willing to go.

And God makes up for the deficits. God makes up for the things. I can't tell you how many people that don't speak a language that God pulls out of that place. I don't know. It's just it's just beautiful.

He is the one that does all the things that anything good down there is from him. It's certainly not from me or anyone else on that sidewalk. We we don't have that kind of power and never will.