God desires to use all of us at all moments and times to bring lost and broken people out of the pit of darkness and into the light.
In a powerful street-side encounter in downtown Orlando with Richard Lorenzo Jr. and Nik Keswani, a young girl named Isabella experienced healing, deliverance and salvation just moments after stepping off her school bus.
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“This right here was directly ordained by God,” Keswani says. What unfolded was an unplanned, spirit-led moment of transformation.
The encounter began with a simple question from Lorenzo: “What do you think the purpose of life is?” Isabella responded, “Just be yourself,” explaining how peer pressure and bullying at school made that difficult.
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As the conversation continued, it became evident that Isabella was carrying deep emotional wounds. “I feel like you go through a lot of pressure even with school work,” says Lorenzo, sharing a vision he had of her feeling alone and depressed in her room. “Have you ever had a feeling of suicide?” he asked gently. “Yeah. And that was recent… actually Friday,” Isabella admitted. What followed stunned her. “How would he know something like that?” she asked through tears. Keswani explained how it is, “Because the Spirit of God just revealed that to him, not because he’s a psychic.”
She listened as they shared their own stories of rejection, addiction and how they encountered Jesus. Isabella then revealed she was a Seventh-day Adventist and had just been at church that past Saturday. “I told my mom, ‘Mom, I really need to talk to someone. I need prayer,’” she says. “It’s crazy that you guys are here now.” She shared how she had encountered the presence of God before, even during a week-long fast, but had also seen dark, spiritual manifestations in her lifetime. “I seen the shadow on my wall like it was reaching out,” she said, remembering a moment that first happened when she was six.
The group began to pray for her, and Isabella experienced a powerful release. “I felt like I had goosebumps. I felt like I needed it,” she says. They led her in renouncing fear, anxiety, depression and suicide.
With tears in her eyes, Isabella gave her life to Christ. “Jesus, I believe you died on the cross… your blood washes my sin clean… I repent of all sin,” she prays aloud. They declared her future would be used for God’s glory. “She’s going to be used to bring many Seventh-day Adventists out of religion into relationship with Jesus,” prophesies Lorenzo.
In that moment, on a street corner, God answered her cry. “I really needed that,” she says. “Like, I really did.”
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This encounter is a powerful reminder that no moment is too ordinary for God to move. What began as a simple walk down the street became a divine appointment that altered the course of a young girl’s life. In a world clouded by confusion, pain and spiritual darkness, the light of the gospel still breaks through—often when it’s least expected.
This is the heart of evangelism: bringing the love and truth of Jesus to the doorstep of the broken, the searching and the lost. And when we show up in obedience, heaven meets earth in ways that can transform lives forever.
Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
