
“Piano Man” is a homeless backslidden brother in Christ who told me tales of addiction, jail-time, infidelity, the loss of his wife and daughter, and the recent passing of his mother. When his mother died it rendered him homeless. Four months ago, when we first met, he was to the point of suicide. We fumbled through scripture to support the Biblical positions I was proposing to him and he agreed to all. But where I really wanted to go was to Jesus for repentance and restoration; to which, we did. A week later “Piano Man” was still distracted, trying not to lose his mother’s items; some pawned and others in a storage facility. He asked me for money. I said “No” because I was disappointed he wasn’t moving on as I thought he should. At that moment, in His love and mercy, Jesus told me “Pay the bills.” What does one do then? Of course I paid the bills, Piano Man cried and over the next couple days his position changed…on life and Jesus! Piano Man is now entering a local year-long program to rehabilitate himself back into society. Jesus gave me another “message” for Piano Man, “XXXXXX [Piano man] the Soul Winner.” Jesus told me He was going to take this year and build a testimony in Piano Man. Jesus is going to take all that negativity and turn Piano Man into a worker in the kingdom. My flesh was wrong and Jesus was right again, as usual!
