ATHEIST STARTLED WHEN GOD SPOKE THROUGH HIS PRAYER
“I had a very rational mind. It had to be
logical. I needed proof. There had to be
evidence. And if there wasn’t proof then
it was just something people made up,”
Lein told reporters. “Part of the training for
engineers is to be skeptical, to demand
data, to want to see evidence.”
He married, got an MBA and launched a
successful career at Intel. All his
achievements and the world that
surrounded him seemed very concrete
and observable. There was no need to
believe in something intangible that
required you to suspend your scientific
mind, he reasoned.
Why would I need God? I mean, if he even
existed why would I have any need for
him , he thought.
But his wife pleaded with him to attend
church, and he acquiesced because he
thought “church was a place nice people
go.” All the while he tactfully but firmly
let people know he was an atheist.
Then he volunteered at a youth camp and
that’s when his skepticism got shattered.
He was asked to pray publicly.
Put on the spot without any preparation,
Lein got nervous. But he quickly figured
he could keep up appearances by drawing
on his childhood memories from Sunday
School and Vacation Bible School. He
would fake his way through the prayer.
But as he began to pray, something very
unusual happened. Words oddly began to
flow naturally from his mouth, without
him needing to conjure up any memories
whatsoever.
The Holy Spirit took over and directed his
prayer for each child! By the time he was
done, a simple prayer had extended to 15
minutes. And it hit the mark.
One girl was so deeply moved that she
began crying.
“In between the sobs she begins to share
that her uncle was abusing her,” he
recalls. “And that she hadn’t been able to
tell anybody else until that moment.
That’s when I think something clicked for
me.”
Suddenly, “God was relevant and He
really wanted to do amazing things in my
life,” Lein says. “I became a Christian that
day. And I heard a voice, and it wasn’t
Charleton Heston, it was more a thought
that comes up and often times it sounds
like Clay’s voice but it was definitely God.
And it said, ‘Try me.'”
This experience didn’t fit into a neat
scientific box, measurable by
instrumentation or by the five senses. But
it was evidence nevertheless that
completely upended his skepticism.
Lein began thinking about how God had
changed that teenager’s life in just 15
minutes. What would happen if he gave
God more than 15 minutes?
“A question I had for God: if you can do
that with my life, if I get out of my way
for just 15 minutes, what could You do
with my whole life if I got out of Your
way with all of it?” he recalls.
Lein launched into a new path for his
life. He enrolled in seminary and was
ordained an Episcopalian minister.
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