This makes me smile. Please share your testimony.
It's just been me learning to trust God. . .really trust him and not just say i trust him. April 2007 i got a temp to perm job. . .or so i thought. Sept 2007 they laid me off for budget reasons. I was mad at God for getting my hopes up.
But apparently He needed me home with my kids. I was out of work and had two toddlers and a school aged child. I did ChaCha for a while, did some mystery shopping and got unemployment. i ended up back in school full time as well.
Not one time did I have a threat of eviction(I had section 8 but still had a portion of my own to pay) I never received a turn off notice and never went without anything that we needed. God kept us. in the literal sense.
fast forward January 2009 I told God I needed to be connected with people who were about something more than the 1st and the 15th(y'all know what i'm talking about
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So he showed me a commercial for the North Carolina Women's Conference. I looked online and the tickets were so high i thought i'd die because i knew i wasn't going.
They had a scholarship application on the website. I filled it out even though the deadline had passed. The response I got back was that there was no more funding. I said, ok God you showed me that commercial in the middle of the night for a reason but if it isn't meant for me to go, I wont go. I had a job interview that same week through the same temp service.
Someone else got the job. I was bumbed. But still greatful for what I did have. Anyway, I got another email from the conference informing me that oh yeah by the way, your ticket will be at the desk. Hallelujiah!! I was so excited I knew God was about to make moves I prepared myself. The day before the conference I got called in for a second interview with the same job that was on January 27 the day before my birthday and the conference which were on the 28th.
The first temp didn't work out. I got that job. Hallelujiah! Now remember I said I was on unemployment. Well, my last payment was Feb 9 I had gotten all the extensions I could and there was no money I ALMOST panicked but I remember that God kept me that whole time so I didn't even worry about it. I enjoyed the conference, networked with 1200 women of all walks of life who were positive and motivated to do and be better. Got to hear some awesome speakers including lisa ling, susan taylor and jean chatzy.
My start date for the new job was. . . . . . .Feb 9 Hallelujiah. seemless transitiion from unemployment to paycheck. Aint God good?!
Now when I moved into my section 8 home I had been looking for homes to buy. Not that I had the money but I knew i'd buy eventually so I went house shopping. Well summer 2009 God confirmed that I needed to take my house hunting seriously.
It seemed crazy to be looking for a house in the middle of a recession and with only 6 months of work under my belt, 5 of which were temp. I looked anyway. The house I have was great, fell in love with it. Then BOOM! someone bought it, or so I thought. The house was gone off the market and I just kept looking. My realtor kept sending me leads. He sent me an email and before looking i replied that ONE of these houses is gonna be mine. Sure enough, MY house was back on the market.
Got a fantabulous lender who got me preapproved and approved with a 4.875 home loan. Got my house for a great deal plus my fantabulous realtor got the seller to cover 5000.00 in closing costs.
Oct 9 I closed. Oct 31 I moved in. It doesn't feel new. It feels like mine, it always was.
Congratluations and thank you for a wonderful and very inspiring testimony.
