"Cheers" . . .
"A Lesson on Hearing God"

While my wife and i were living in southwestern Michigan,
i had a friend named Dave
and we had just left a prayer meeting at church.

As we were approaching a bar called the "Silver Dollar Saloon".
Dave said he just felt lead by God to go in
and Toast the LORD with a beer (a bizzare sort of Praise)!

Now i used to play guitar in a country rock band and played
at that bar all the time as a young believer
and had many wild and mind blowing times
sharing God with people and listening to their stories.
Sometimes at closing time i would play some Worship tunes
and many people accepted the LORD.

Now the funny thing was,
i felt God was telling me the same thing.
So i said, what the heck, let's go...
So there we are having a beer and Praising God,
when up walks this big old mean looking brute
and guess who he sits next to ?

Now at the time, i had real long hair
and i could tell this guy was just loving me . . . Not !
So i ask him politely if i could get him a drink,
and he replies, "ya wanna die tonight" ?
So i tell him,
"i'm kinda busy tonight but how bout a rain check".
Believe it or not, he thought that was really funny!

Now picture this, there we were,
sharing another round of beers,
me and Dave telling him about God
and him crying in his beer (just like a country song).

After closing time, he takes us outside and opens his trunk
and inside is two cans of gas and some flares.
He tells us we're angels from God sent to save him,
that night he was going to set himself on fire in front
of an army reqruiting office, seems his son enlisted and
it was the only way he could think of to convince his son
not to join the Army.
(he was a veteran and wanted to
spare his son the horrors of war)

Now God knows, Dave and i were by no means "angels" ,
but we were sure glad to help . . .