Public speaking has never been easy for me. I remember doing terrible on my speeches in my public speaking class in college. The older I've gotten the easier it has become.
In January I shared my testimony with my local Emmaus community. I was so nervous to speak in front of people. God was telling me I needed to tell people my story of how I came to know Jesus. I was blessed to have people praying for me and with me, friends there to hear it, and my boss for making me practice several times. I was still incredibly nervous. You know how you feel like your body is just shaking on the inside? That's how I was the entire time I was talking.
I had so many people come up to me that night and tell me how good it was. People came up to me at church later on and told me how good it was. The most amazing thing from that night was a young guy who was touched by it.
First, let me give you a short side story. There were people there I knew would cry hearing my story. I knew I couldn't look at them or I would cry. "My people" from church were to the left of me, to the right of me, and directly in front of me. Where in the world could I look without focusing on one of them?
So, I focus on this young guy directly in front of me. I didn't know him. I had never seen him before. I figured he was a safe person to look at. Until shortly into my talk I look at him and he is crying. Hard. After that I just looked at the back wall.
He came up to me afterwards and said he could relate to a lot of the things I said. Our conversation ended with him taking my copy of my talk because he said it was something he'd like to read again.
That's how God does things. He lays something on your heart that He wants you to do for yourself but at the same time there are others out there that may need it too.
I'll share my testimony in my next post.
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