For years, author and ministry leader Lysa TerKeurst has been sharing a story of how God led her to give her personal Bible to a man she met traveling on an airplane. Last week, she got an unexpected update to that story while she was in the San Antonio area on her Trust Again Tour.
“When I see God’s hand of faithfulness behind me in a previous experience, it can fuel me for where I’m at right now,” TerKeurst told attendees of a one-night Trust Again Tour event at Riverside Church in Denver March 3. “Because the same God that did it then is fully capable of doing it again. The same God that did it then is fully capable of doing it again. Let me tell you about one of those situations that has so fueled my heart.”
TerKeurst told the crowd that a few nights prior she was just about to kick off her event in San Antonio when a woman on her team came to her and said, “Lysa, you are never going to believe what just happened.”
“Do you remember that story, Lysa, from 20 years ago when you were on a plane, and you were reading your Bible and a man sat down beside you and started asking you questions?” the woman asked.
Lysa TerKeurst Recaps ‘Bible Man’ Story
Lysa TerKeurst is president and chief visionary officer of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including “Good Boundaries and Goodbyes,” “Forgiving What You Can’t Forget,” and “It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way.”
Last year, TerKeurst published “I Want to Trust You, but I Don’t: Moving Forward When You’re Skeptical of Others, Afraid of What God Will Allow, and Doubtful of Your Own Discernment.” She appeared on “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” in October, where she shared with Dr. Ed Stetzer and Daniel Yang what she has learned about trusting God and others after having had her trust deeply broken.
TerKeurst’s March 3 event included a Q&A for VIPs prior to the main session. The main session featured two messages from TerKeurst, as well as worship from Tasha Layton. Approximately 1,000 women were in attendance, not counting a number of men who were also in the audience.
At the beginning of her main speaking session, TerKeurst recapped the story of meeting the man on the plane, which she has told elsewhere, including on her blog.
TerKeurst said she had gotten on the plane feeling tired from speaking, and she opened her Bible partly to avoid talking to anyone around her. But a man sitting next her was intrigued by the fact she was reading the Bible and asked her about it. “I really, really love God. And so that’s why I’m eager to read his Word,” TerKeurst told him.
