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Lately my job in the Honor Academy call center has been a little off.  People have not been answering their phone which means that I don’t get to talk to very many people.  When you work in a call center, the point is to talk to people not to leave 50 voicemails a day.  I was getting slightly irritated until the Lord led me to the most incredible phone call that I have had so far. 

A girl had sent me an email saying that she was interested in coming to the Honor Academy and wanted to know how to get signed up.   I responded and gave her a call.  When she got on the phone I asked her how she was doing and to my surprise she said she was doing “okay” that there had been a lot of things coming up from her past lately.  I left an open invitation for her to talk about anything that she needed to, and praise God she took it.  This girl talked about how she felt that she was unworthy of God’s love that she had messed up so much in her past that she believed herself to be beyond the point of redemption.  She continued to condemn herself saying that the things she had done, the people that she had hurt, were unforgiveable. 

At this point, I related so many of the things she had said to myself and the way that I was.  I began to share parts of my testimony with her. The Lord kept leading me to passages of scripture that I was able to share with her.  We talked and wrestled with different situations and sins.  It was incredible because in a way it was like sharing the gospel with someone for the first time.  When I told her that Jesus had died for all of her sins, not just some, she reacted in amazement.  When I told her that Jesus still saw her as valuable and that He wants her and pursuing her she was so touched. 

After 97 minutes on the phone, I had her pray, we quoted scripture together, and I prayed for her.  Hearing the sincerity in her prayer and the passion that she had was so amazing.  I truly believe that she fully asked out of the deepest and most inner places of her heart for forgiveness and gave it over to God.  I am always so amazed at the ways that God uses me over the phone and it is such a privilege to be able to interact with His children on a daily basis!