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100 Passengers
Guest Author - Diana Pederson

Margaret D. Mitchell. 100 Passengers. Winepress Publishing. 2006.

Christians often feel intimidated about sharing their faith in the workplace. Indeed, today many businesses specifically prohibit such activities. Fortunately, the airline industry doesn’t seem to have a prohibition against this. Therefore, Mitchell was able to be used by God to reach 100 of her passengers with news that Jesus loved them and would help them through life’s difficulties.

Mitchell states in her introduction:
Over the years, God created space in my heart for humility, mercy, and love. Throughout this journey, God empowered me to do His work of serving others His way. To that end, I came to know God’s peace, joy, and favor unspeakable in my workplace. And I understood His true meaning of the word, steward(ess). [Page x.]

Mitchell has a master’s degree in Journalism. She could easily have claimed that this job was beneath her and gone on muttering about how life isn’t fair. Instead, she allowed God to mold her into a worker He could use to reach many of the airline employees and passengers.

I was always a bit surprised at how willingly perfect strangers would open up to her on those long lonely flights to bury a loved one, or simply to go on a vacation. When Christians allow themselves to be used, God schedules divine appointments that allow them to minister His love and concern to the people of his choosing.

God’s leading was shown in how trips were scheduled after Mitchell prayed for her week’s schedule. He would put people in her path that just needed someone to listen to them. Other times, she needed to encourage them to return to their faith and listen to what God was saying to them. She was bold in her willingness to pray in very public places (in a row in an airplane, in the terminal, even on the runway for an employee).

Recommendation

Do you feel you could NEVER pray for someone at your workplace? Are you shy about talking to complete strangers? Reading this book will show you many ways that God opens doors to allow His children to share their belief in Him and to provide needed counseling, prayer, and comfort to the people of His choosing.

I challenge you to read this book and then begin praying each day about your workplace asking Him to use you to talk to just one person about His love and concern. Your results may not be as dramatic as those shared in this book, but you will be surprised at just how many God ordained appointments come your way. I truly believe that God wants to use us more often than we realize because we are reluctant to open our mouths and say “I believe in Jesus and his Salvation.” Or “Would you like me to pray with you about whatever their current concern is.“



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Content copyright © 2009 by Diana Pederson. All rights reserved.
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