cybra
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I don't know if this is a praise report or not, but I'm going to share it anyway. Since last year I had a friend who was going through sooooo much. She's a single parent of 2 sons, she had just gotten out a a bad relationship, gotten into another relationship in which she was to be maried, but they broke up, her car was repossessed, she had her heat cut off when it was freezing cold, her phone was cut off, and her mom was in and out of the hospital having surgeries to keep her lungs open. Well, you ladies who know me know how I love to fast and pray. I have kept her lifted up before the Lord since all this started. One day she came to me, crying her heart out, saying she felt she needed to put her sons (7 and 10) in a home because she could not care for them any longer. Well, I have worked in homes and I felt her children would not survive in them. So, I came home and told my husband I realized our kids were grown, but we have a big house and these children needed to continue living somewhere where the ways of the Lord were taught. I felt we should take her sons until she got back on her feet. My husband agreed and I was going to take them. However, during bible study she stood and gave her testimony of how God had finally answered her prayers. She had applied for this job (she's in school and will graduate in December) and got it. What was so great about it, they are going to pay her a stipen until she graduates and then she starts working for them in January. Now this stipen is more than she was getting with her part-time job. On top of that, we found out yesterday she made the Dean's list despite all she was going through! Now, she can keep her kids, and she'll be able to get a used car when they give her the first check in a few days. Her heat and phone are back on, and she is PRAISING THE LORD FOR IT ALL.
We were in choir rehearsal when I found out and the Spirit of the Lord hit me like a fire. It's a wonderful feeling to know your prayers are being answered, even if they were prayers for someone else's situation. I began to cry and just get all wrapped up in the Lord. It was like once the Spirit hit me, it went all through the choir. We sang as if we were in church on Sunday and God truly had his way. I can NEVER remember anything like this happening during a rehearsal. But the power of the Lord is strong and I thank God everytime I hear about what he is doing for his children...it gives me joy, increases my faith, and makes me walk around with hope even when things are a little out of sorts in my own life.
I share this because maybe it will offer others hope, joy, and strenghtening of their faith. GOD IS STILL ANSWERING PRAYERS so please don't give up.
Okay, I'll stop crying and writing now
We were in choir rehearsal when I found out and the Spirit of the Lord hit me like a fire. It's a wonderful feeling to know your prayers are being answered, even if they were prayers for someone else's situation. I began to cry and just get all wrapped up in the Lord. It was like once the Spirit hit me, it went all through the choir. We sang as if we were in church on Sunday and God truly had his way. I can NEVER remember anything like this happening during a rehearsal. But the power of the Lord is strong and I thank God everytime I hear about what he is doing for his children...it gives me joy, increases my faith, and makes me walk around with hope even when things are a little out of sorts in my own life.
I share this because maybe it will offer others hope, joy, and strenghtening of their faith. GOD IS STILL ANSWERING PRAYERS so please don't give up.
Okay, I'll stop crying and writing now