Stevie Waltrip, wife of famed NASCAR driver and FOX announcer Darrell Waltrip, has a quiet ministry to encourage Dale Earnhardt Junior. She writes out a Bible verse for Junior to place in his race car for encouragement.
Stevie Waltrip's habit of giving a Bible verse started with Dale's father. Each week she supplied Dale Senior with a verse to place on the dash of his race car while he race in the weekly NASCAR race.
Darrell Waltrip tells the story here. Stevie started giving her husband a verse on duct tape or a note card each week for his car. When Dale Earnhardt Sr. saw this, he asked, "Where's mine?"
From that point on, Stevie provided a verse for him as well. She spent time praying each week for which verse to write out.
The Bible verse given to Junior this past week an it was placed on his car dash was Isaiah 40:28-31
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. joined the Twitter world as he promised to do if he won the Daytona 500. This week we have had an unprecedented look into the world of Junior. He is using Twitter at rate of dozens of posts each day.
So the quiet ministry of Stevie Waltrip became public to the half-million Twitter followers of Junior.What is your quiet ministry? A little action, done for good, can effect the life of one person or may effect the life of countless others.
Please share your quiet ministry with us.
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