Beth Moore: The Hair Brush (LIFE Today / James Robison)

I will tell you a story that I told many many years ago that remains dear to me particularly because people bring it back up to me over and over again it's probably the thing I've been asked about as much as anything regarding stories and Bible studies along the years but it's such a statement in my own life and such a memory of God overtaking me and enabling me to do something I couldn't do you have no idea how dangerous you would be if you would live film to the measure with the fullness of Christ I was headed off to the east side of the country to Asheville North Carolina to speak so I was having to go to a part of the airport that was just one large room where you went off into several different halls down to the smaller plane so it was for a small airport in a small part of the terminal it was packed absolutely packed and our chairs were all facing one another and suddenly I see that the eyes of all the people against the wall are watching something behind me and it was like a movie because all of their eyes shifted this way this big around and they began to come this way whatever it was was going right behind me and I'm thinking oh I wish I were looking or you like that I'm a people watcher I was so desperately thought what are they looking at and I can't wait to look for myself until it comes all the way around here and then suddenly in my peripheral vision I begin to see a little of it and it is a flight of the hostess that is pushing up a man in a wheelchair right to the end of my row and there's nobody between us and this place is packed so I want you to know that Jesus went to a significant amount of trouble to make sure that I saw this man so I'm waiting until everybody else gets more polite and then I go and when I looked over at him he was the oddest sight he looked like he was not one iota less than about 129 I'm not kidding this was the oldest looking person I had ever seen not only that but he had gray hair that was down to here his fingernails were every bit as long as money was clean but it's just an odd sight his pants it looked like that here obviously lost a lot of weight because they were just bunched up I'll never forget how he looked at he was just his head was just hanging down like this and his hair was in strings like this huh this is how much God thinks of us just memorizing scripture but not do anything with it because the Lord begins to compel my heart overwhelms me overwhelms me well I have learned I walk with him a long time I knew about that is scary that God is up to something when he is overwhelming your heart like that and I thought oh please God no oh please please God no because I'm already knowing he wants me to witness to this man and so I save myself in my spirit now I'm not talking out loud but in my spare time talking about silently and I'm saying I'm sure my mouth is going because I say to him do not every witness to that man and now I'm gonna tell you as clear as I'm talking to you now the Lord spoke to my heart then very few times I've ever heard God be this articulate with me and I'm telling you word for word these words came into my heart I'm not asking you witness to him I'm asking you to brush his hair Lord that man needs witnessing to what good it's combed hair if a man is lost I can tell Lord that man I am your witness I am your witness I am your witness I am your girl me me I got the plan I got the Roman Road then still in my heart I mean we were just having a fight I didn't tell you to witness to him I told you to brush his hair I thought I don't have a hairbrush you fix my hair and then it's done for the day into our unfix it and that brushes in the luggage or she want to say to you so I remember and I the Lord still compel me come out so I get up walk over and I'm thinking about them I don't even have a hairbrush you're all supposed to be thoroughly equipped unto all good works I did not have a hairball I walk over I get right in front of the man his heads hanging out like this I lean out like this I said sir may I have the honor of brushing your hair and he says what a little ladder sir I had the honor of brushing your hair goes little lady if you want me to hear you you're going to speak up sir now I have the privilege I brought in your hair to which everyone therefore goes whoa and ever I can feel every honest piercing they just like it and I'm just sure Milly ated and he looks at me and says if you want to I'll go I don't want to I went yes sir I would absolutely love to but my caller Beth I don't have a hairbrush he says I have a hairbrush he said it's back in my bag so I go all the way around the wheelchair his bag is on the back of it like this I get down on my knees i unzip this little duffel bag and I start pulling out it's clean undershirts his pair of pajamas all sorts of things and as I do I cannot tell you the feeling that overwhelms me I'm just flooded with the love of cries I found the hairbrush is one of those real old bristle ones don't look anything like our brushes do now and and when I stood up I began then I went over to him and I thought he'll tell you the truth this is what I'm good at I had two girls I'm good at this so I just came and I just began to brush his hair and it was so matted that I couldn't even believe it so I had to get down to the very bottom of it not I just brushed the very ends of it and then just a little bit I took us forever and I want to tell you I was oblivious to everybody else in that room at that point nobody else was alive to me I just kept brushing and kept brush until that hair was as smooth as silk I went back around to Minh and squatted down in front of him put my hands on his hands they were on his knees his head was just like that I said sir do you know Jesus and he said yes I do I said well of course you do that figures I wanted to share the gospel with you but no you need your hair brushed and he told me that his abroad of so many years would not marry him until he came to know Christ and he said I was just sitting here thinking to myself and he wept I'm about to cry telling you he said I was just sitting here thinking what a mess I must be for my bride he'd been that hospital for months he was about to return back home nobody had cut his hair anything I don't know how long had been since he'd been brushed that hostess came and put him on the plane and she came back out and she was crying I mean hard and she said what made you do that and I said Jesus he's the bossiest thing she didn't need Christ so I did get to talk to her knows what our need is man didn't need witnessing do we need his hair brushed when we are filled to the measure with the fullness of Christ you sweet thing you cannot believe the needs we can make we can do what we know we can and while you're doing it you're just thinking that ain't me that is that really ain't me no god you

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Length: 8min 25sec (505 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 10 2010