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Peter Grant - Prevision Partnership

At the cusp of the change from leading Cumberland Community Church in Atlanta to setting up world teaching ministry, Prevision Partnership, in 2006, Peter Grant was praying for God to reveal his love to him in supernatural ways.

One day after he’d prayed this, he met a homeless woman at the door of a restaurant. She asked him for money for food and he offered to buy her lunch.

While standing in line to order, God said to him: “Ask her if she knows why you’re doing this and if she says no, tell her it’s because I love her and think she’s absolutely wonderful.”

Seeing the possibility of an opening to share the gospel, Peter enthusiastically complied.

But the woman would not accept it. She looked down and wouldn’t look up and said: “No, no, no, no.”

Peter took her hands and looked into her eyes and said: “No, please, I’m a pastor and I know what God’s voice sounds like and God just told me to tell you this: He loves you and he thinks that you’re absolutely wonderful.”

Following that, they had a brief conversation, but then she disappeared.

Peter recalls: “To this day I think she was an angel because I couldn’t see where she went. I couldn’t follow her - I couldn’t follow up the conversation with her. She literally just turned on her heels and vanished.”

As he returned to his seat he felt the Holy Spirit say to him: “That wasn’t just for her, that was for you.”

Peter says: “It was like the Holy Spirit was saying: ‘How come you can tell a homeless woman that I absolutely love her and I think that she’s absolutely wonderful, and there’s not a bone in your body that doubts that statement, but you have a hard time believing it yourself, just because you’ve been a Christian leader for a number of years?”

This event was the beginning of a deeper and fresher experience of God’s love than ever before for Peter. “The phrase ‘Living a life well-loved,’ has been I guess my mantra almost since then,” he says. “It’s what I want the focus of my ministry to be - so it’s not so much about ministry, it’s about whether I am living a life well-loved or just busy and climbing the ladder of success.”

In 2009 he is conducting evangelistic events and conferences in Scotland and then in India and Nepal. He is also writing a book on lifestyle evangelism based on his research on a fishing boat in Galilee, which brought illuminating insights into Jesus’ teaching about being fishers of men.

Dr Peter Grant is a graduate of the 1996 Arrow Leadership Program.

 

 

 

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