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Hi,

This is our friend Elijah.  He came to visit us a couple months ago and was helping us here with some dishes after baby Hosanna's birth.  Elijah is a homeless preacher.  He travels from place to place preaching with signs, tracts, and testimonies (and stops by to see us from time to time).  He holds a special place in our hearts.  We met Elijah about a year and a half ago.  We had some disagreements on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount teachings and sadly He left frustrated and discouraged.  To our elation and praise to God, he returned almost a year later!!! What a blessing.  Jesus had been working in his heart and life.  Elijah had changed his mind, dropped dispensationalism, and saw that Jesus did mean what He said in the Sermon on the Mount for us today.  Elijah says that now Jesus is teaching him how to endure persecution and giving him a love in his heart that was never there before. 

We are encouraged that Jesus (Yeshua) can reach and work with souls anywhere in the world.  He can take a hardened frustrated heart, melt it, and remold it into a vessel that will bring Him glory.  We are encouraged that there are souls willing to change their mind when they see what the Creator of the universe has to say.  Yeshua bless Elijah. We hope he is well wherever he is, and is continuing to allow Jesus to change his heart and mind, enduring until the end.

Burton