Hi, my name is Leanne Friesman and this is Restoring Word.
I have an important message today for believers who are hearing this short little devotional
and in a nutshell, I want to tell you that what you do for the body of Christ matters.
It's vital in the day and hour that we're living in that you do your part whatever that
may look like and I want to share an important testimony about someone's life that someone
who's really near and dear to me.
His name is Steve Worley and about three weeks ago, Steve passed away.
He had quite the life.
He was a passionate Christian who had been radically saved.
He was a biker, a drug dealer, I mean, I just want you to think of, you know, like someone
who was involved in someone like the Hell's Angels and that type of lifestyle and culture.
He lived that and then he got to the point where the drugs and the lawlessness and everything
involved in all of that just didn't fill his heart anymore and he knew because his mom
had been praying for him for years that he was going to have to give his life to Christ
and when he did, it was radical.
He had one death experience from a heroin overdose where he died and was tormented by
demons and in hell, during this tormenting process, he heard a voice say, son, I'm not
done with you yet and all of a sudden, he came back into his body and he knew he had
to get straight.
He knew that he had to be delivered from the drugs and the lifestyle.
Anyway, he got radically saved and he came to Oklahoma and that's a whole longer story.
He went to work for Victory Christian Center and he and I worked for Billy Joe Doherty
for 27 years and I can tell you over the course of those years, many times he wanted to be
in the pulpit.
He wanted to be the one that was out casting the net, so to speak, but Steve had a gift
and his gift was he could build, fix, make, rebuild, remake.
He could lead others.
He had a heart for the lost.
He had a heart for the hurting and he knew that in order to win the loss, to touch hurting
people, you had to have the facilities to do it and I guess probably conservatively,
I would say probably he saved the ministry over the course of that 27 years, probably
$2 to $3 million, conservatively.
I mean, that's being conservative.
Why?
Because when you have people in house that are talented and they can build things and
fix things and you don't have to subcontract out or you have somebody who really can supervise
work that is being done and make sure it's being done correctly or, you know, we had
a roof that had to be patched over and over again.
There's just a lot of things that Steve saw and did and worked through and the last ten
years that he was at Victory, he began to ride with the tribe of Judah and this is a
biker ministry out of Houston, Texas and he began to share the gospel with the people
that he really had an anointing to share the gospel with and he stepped into the most productive
season in his life because he reached and he touched people that you and I can't reach
that, you know, when you've been somewhere and you've done that and you know how that
feels, you have a heart of compassion for those that need Christ.
I'm thankful for Steve's life and I'm thankful for what he did and I'm thankful for the tribe
of Judah and all the guys that ride with that tribe and I'm thankful for their witness and
what they do.
God is doing something in this hour but it's going to take everybody doing the little part,
the puzzle piece.
the unique thing that you know only they can do and if you sit around and you say
well I don't you know who am I or I but I can't really do what but what if I you
know could I really do this if you if you don't step to the plate and do your
part there are people that are not going to be reached and you know not everybody
has to be in that pulpit position sometimes people are for a season and
then they aren't sometimes you know God wants to reward you for what you've done
in this season and he's gonna put you in a place in the other season I mean I can
definitely see God doing that for me
please whatever the Lord is telling you to do do it the Holy Spirit is moving
across the country right now and he's looking for those that are hungry if you
haven't seen the movie Jesus revolution you need to see it if you're in a
foreign country just as soon as you have access to it you need to see it and then
you need to make sure that the people in your country get the opportunity to
witness it because you'll understand the spiritual outpouring that happened
in America in the 70s my pastor Billy Joe and Sharon Doherty came out of it
you know at the time did anyone think that maybe you know their life would be
so significant yet no you know what but God does big supernatural things with
everyday people who are humble who are obedient who are broken who are honest
and what I loved about this movie was and are imperfect okay he uses broken
imperfect hurting people to share the news of this gospel and the message is
real and it will change your life forever thank you for listening have a
great day