Peer pressure is hard to take.   If you’re in the wrong group and they are doing things that you know are bad, you feel the pressure to go along with the group.

You have to be careful who you run with.  What if your group believes one way and you the other, but because of peer pressure you do things that you would not ordinarily do?  Peer pressure can make you into a person that really isn’t you.

You see there was a young man who was thinking about doing a bad crime.   His peers were egging him on.  He didn’t know how to get out of it.

At the same time he heard a preacher in the neighborhood talking about Jesus and telling the people that he saves.

This young man didn’t know which way to turn.   His peer group was dangerous and bad, but this preacher in town was preaching about Jesus and doing good.  He was torn between the two.

Then something miraculous happened.  This young man’s family asked him to go and listen to the preacher speak about Jesus.  So, he decided to go along with his family.   While he was sitting in the pulpit he didn’t see it coming.  It hit him so fast.  It was the holy spirit.  It just came upon him.  He could feel this presence flow through him.   He was visibly shaken to those who witnessed the event.  But, they didn’t know it, but Jesus spoke softly and quietly to him.  He said “Dude, you don’t have to do this.  You are my son now and forever.  I died on the cross for you so that you would not be filled with sin”.   Come to me and I will save you.  You can live with me forever and ever.”

When this happened to this young man he knew that something big had happened to him.  At this point, he realized that Jesus is alive and well.    He had decided not to live his live in sin and he made a commitment to follow the Lord.

The Lord performs many miracles.  We just need to see them.

This story is fictional, but may very well happen in real life.

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Author Billie Jean Kotulski

Disclosure:  Billie Kotulski is not a minister.  She just speaks from her heart.