When the man said he didn’t know much about the Bible, TerKeurst offered to answer any questions he had. “Inside my heart I am panicking because I’m like, he is about to ask me a bunch of questions, and I’m not sure that I will be able to find the answer in the Bible,” she told the crowd in Denver. “So I was sending up desperate prayers” for God’s guidance.
“[The man] started asking questions and, ya’ll, it was the most amazing thing,” TerKeurst said. “I would just flip the pages of the Bible and point to a verse, read the verse, and somehow it applied in some way to whatever question he was asking. I could not believe it. It was phenomenal.”
As she was “having this wonderful time witnessing to this man,” TerKeurst sensed the Holy Spirit was telling her to give the man her Bible. “Now, this is my Bible Bible,” she said. “This is like my study Bible. It has my tear stains. It has years of notes in it. My kids have drawn pictures in this Bible. It’s, like, my family Bible.”
So TerKeurst told God she’d be happy to send the man a different Bible. But God continued impressing on her that he wanted her to give the man that Bible. “And so finally I closed the Bible up and I put it in his lap,” said TerKeurst, “and I said, ‘Sir, you’re supposed to have my Bible.’”
The man refused at first, telling her, “I cannot take what is obviously such a treasured possession from you.”
“Well, I’ll be honest, I don’t want you to have it,” she replied. “But God does. And the God of the universe has paused in the midst of all of his creation to make sure you were sitting here today, and you are supposed to have this Bible.”
So the man thanked her and accepted it. A couple weeks later, the man called TerKeurst at her ministry and told her he had taken a week off of work and read the entire Bible. Then, he felt he needed to go to church. After he picked one church to visit, he had a sense that he should go to a different church instead.
“That was the Holy Spirit,” TerKeurst told him.
