His Eye is on the Sparrow

(Randy Bright, one of my dearest and oldest friends told me this story some years ago. He said he was told that the story is true. We are not sure if it is or not…but it is still a good story!)

A young man was asked to speak to a group of Hindi, Muslim and Buddhists. He was so nervous he was about to faint. When he was introduced, he came out to address the gathering and began praying to the Lord how afraid he was. He told the Lord he was very intimidated with the solemn looking people and the knowledge that most of them were atheists. He asked the Lord to help him and tell him what to do.

The Lord spoke to him and told him to sing “His Eye Is on the Sparrow”. The young man sat down at the piano and started to play and sing. He shut his eyes immediately and kept them closed for the whole song. When he finished he gave a SHORT altar call. He asked for those interested in accepting Jesus as their Lord and personal Savior to raise their hands. Nearly everyone in the audience raised their hands!

The young man was totally startled and whispered to the "older" preacher who had introduced him, “what happened?” He asked how he could get such a response by singing a song in front of these people who didn’t believe in God or Jesus. The older preacher whispered back and told him "son, from the very second you started singing and playing a sparrow flew in the window and flew around your head the entire time you sang and played!