What’s one memorable time in your life when you saw God work in an amazing way? What happened?
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lyndygayle on October 24, 2011 at 11:05 am
When God began to call me to go into counseling I argued for a long time. I didn’t want to go back to school. I was afraid and insecure. We didn’t have the money. He set about arranging a series of incidents that let me know that he was going to do it though me…That I didn’t need to be good enough..he already was.
1. A past pastor emailed me when I was crying in the floor because I was discouraged while studying for the Graduate entrance exam. It had been 13 years since my BA and I had been home raising my boys. He said the entire staff had me on their heart and wanted to encourage me that whatever I was doing was right.
2. My husband got stationed (Army) within driving distance to a Christian University that started the Marriage & Family Program the year I was ready to apply. There is NO active duty post in this state.
3. I got a scholarship for the Christian school (that I didn’t qualify for per the rules). The Head of the scholarship team said that God put it on their hearts to provide it to me.
4. I wrecked my car of the first night of school. God provided other students that allowed me to ride with them.
I could go on and on. The thing that God taught me the most through this experience was….each time he told me to do something I had to act in obedience and he provided whatever I needed. He never provided first. I had to step over the cliff and each time he caught me. More important than a degree….was the lesson he taught me as my ABBA. He’s my provider and protector. He is faithful. Thank you for letting me share my story.
aljan93 on October 26, 2011 at 1:37 pm
I praise God for your story!!! It shed Gods marvoulous light into my life, and your testimony drove home the basic truths of what God will do for his children when he has a divine purpose he wants to accomplish through them. I could go on and on. This has blessed me more than I can say in words. God is using you!!!
lyndygayle on October 27, 2011 at 9:01 pm
alijan93, I’m happy you were blessed. Thank you for encouraging me.
GChoo on October 25, 2011 at 1:05 pm
God has been very gracious to me all my life. I came from an idol worshipping family. However, i have been very fortunate to be sent to a methodist all girls school because my grandparents and parents felt that christians schools provide the best education then. I believe it still is.
It was at the age of 12 that i became a christian. My parents weren’t too pleased. My christian life was full of ups and downs but God has always been there for me despite me going out of his righteous path a number of times. I made mistakes along the way and God would bring me back. In all my life i have never been worried about money because God has given me a financially contented heart. The devil has always been tempting me off God’s path but God would always get me back.
My worst disappointment happened when i settled in Scotland and had served in a small church of 40 members for 9 years. The first few years were really happy times where i served in the children’s ministry. At the same time I was helping out with the administration and accounts of the church. When i finally joined the deacon board, encouraged by the pastor then and the one who disappointed me, the 1st year on the board went well. However, uneventful things happened in the following terms had left me disappointed and discouraged with the church and doubtful of God. I was left with health problems due to stress.
When i come to think of it, i should have just let go of the faith. But amazingly, i realised it was the fault of human. I didn’t know where i should go. i kept on praying and searching the Bible for the injustices in the church and disappointment i had faced. I also prayed for God to show me the way to a church where my teenage sons would grow to truly know Him. They were bored with church because there wasn’t a youth ministry and in the adult congregation. After 6 months of praying and talking to the boys about moving church, God showed us the way to this wonderful and spiritually God focused church. The church worship services are held in their high school. I didn’t even know! Amazingly God connected us to one of my boy’s schoolmate and i got to know his mum who attends the church.
In fact there are many memorable things that happened to me. This one is about my older son having gone through the youth alpha course soon after he joined the new church. Not only had he received the most important knowledge of his life, he made an affirmation about his faith by being baptised six months after we settled there. This is something i have never thought it will happen so soon. God has shown to me He knows our heart but at times we just have to wait upon Him. As God had said ‘His ways are not our ways. And His thoughts are not our thoughts.’ Another good news, my younger son just informed us a week ago that he is going to be baptised in early December. I am so overwhelmed by God’s love for me.
My life may not always be smooth but i know that i can count on God to see us through when we learn to trust and praise Him whatever our circumstances.
lyndygayle on October 26, 2011 at 11:18 am
GChoo,
I am blessed by your story. I think God for the salvation of your two sons and your continued faith. Thank you for sharing your story.
lindagma on October 28, 2011 at 8:24 am
My son is a brittle diabetic and has been since age 10. He was home from work after getting a mild concussion. He was in his workshop and realized his sugar was low. He headed for the house and just as he went in the door, he collapsed to the floor. When his daughter, who lives next door, came home and saw his door open with 113 temp outside, she went to investigate.
She knew immediately what was wrong when she saw him on the floor and called the paramedics. When they got to him, his sugar was only 23. He had been laying there for two & half hours
They transported him to the hospital and eventually brought his sugar up to the point that he was coherent. After waking up, he realized that his left arm was paralyzed. With xrays and MRI, they determined he had crushed two vertebra, torn a ligament and ruptured a disc.
In a 6 hr surgery, they put in two steel plates to stabilize the vertebra and removed the damaged disc and replaced it with a plug. But his arm was still paralyzed from a damaged nerve.
After two months of therapy, he is beginning to get use of his left arm. He is left handed and was so happy last week when he was able to manage writing with his left hand.
He has a long way to go but the therapist are amazed at how much use of his arm he has achieved. By all medical rights, he never should have survived a 2 1/2 hour insulin reaction. Had he not been in his shop and fell, leaving the door open, his daughter wouldn’t have checked on him. His wife works late and wouldn’t have been home until 7:30pm. Nor should he be using his arm as much as he is. This is just one of many times that God has spared his life. Both he and his older brother are type one diabetics and God has brought them both through many death experiences.
dartasunshine on October 29, 2011 at 4:46 pm
After you have suffered awhile, He will establish and settle you. My Eldest son was murdered, beyond explaination the devastating pain I felt. As if He was ripped from the embilicol cord while someone was carving a hole in my heart. The first yr. of his death I walked around with smile on my face saying “Praise the Lord” Bless you Jesus,”God does not put more on us than we can bear”. All while, having the smell in my nostrils of my son in every stage of His life. I smell him @ birth most days and some days when you was 2yr, 3yr., 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and so on. What a blessing my baby’s fragrance. I could not and would not tell anyone because who would understand and besides this was my way of holding on to him. I was so happy to have him all to myself. Oh but God in second year after an extremely long shower, I hear this sound like a wounded animal or grossly injured child. There was great sorrowful, remorseful, painful sound and I kept saying LORD help. Of course it was me, It did not sound like me and right in the me I heard, JESUS wept so can you. I begin to let go and let God! I had begun the grief process Journey.