I had seen this woman around in the church on several occasions, but had never engaged myself in any form of conversation with her, only an exchange of smiles, hugs and wishing each other well. God had given me so many new friends, so I was always caught up talking to someone else and never really had time to get to know her. Then just in the last two weeks, somehow, she and I found ourselves chatting in long conversations. At the end of one of these conversations, she casually mentioned that she enjoyed my sermon on the "Baptism Stone" that I gave on May the 7^th. That was 10 months ago, and yet she was talking about it as if it was just yesterday because I saw tears welling up in her eyes; things seemed to be still fresh in her mind. I was curious, so I asked her specifically what message in that sermon had touched her? Then she explained...

A Message of Assurance

That week leading up to 7^th May, she had had a very hard week. Her faith was questioned by several people, and they had ridiculed it. They made her doubt her beliefs. They had made her doubt God's love for her, and they made her question if indeed she belonged to God. That day on May the 7^th, she was held up going to church, so when she arrived late; she missed half of the sermon already. She sat at the back and started to listen. Suddenly something I said caught her ears. I had been speaking about my baptism stone and apparently I had given the following scripture in my sermon:

Revelation 2:17

Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.