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Kat:

Hi Richard,

Maybe it is necessary to go through severe trials to reach a point of truly trusting in God.  It's a hard thing to desire (trials) but to read your words of how God has striped away your pride and how you are trusting Him, makes me think it is worth it and I don't mean just for you, but everybody.  I guess it does happen in different ways for different people. 

But a consolation is I think you have reach a place in your understanding that very few people get to.  I will be praying for your situation. 

mercy, peace and love
Kat

Richard D:
Kat


What I have learned or discovered in these past several months is worth more than all the gold on earth. Some may find my words difficult to except but I accept it with ease knowing now that my comfort zone was a deception to me.

If someone could restore me back to my former days I would reject it. If God wanted me there I would still be there. I’m moving on with God and into the future He has planed for me, what ever it entails.


The transition between trusting in our ability to trusting God is very uncomfortable at first but as we leaned not towards our understanding but God’s it becomes easier

It’s one thing to read a scripture and another thing to live it. I find it’s in living it that the beast looses the influence it once had and where God starts to reign and self starts to die.

Do not feel sad for me but rather be happy for me I trust God for everything now. God is able to meet all my needs. God has always met all my needs but the difference now is I know He does where before I did not.

If someone on this forum or who reads this thread is going through my ordeal then listen to what I’m saying and just go all the ways with God as it makes no sense to hold on to the things of this life.

Consider yourself dead and all things lost and God will give you back one hundred fold. And this comes from a brother who stands to loose all his earthly possessions.

Praise and honor and glory belong to God and not us.


             In His Trust and understanding. Richard the trusting one.

tinknocker:
Richard

I too have been where your at. I'm also in the trades. I owned a Heating and Air Conditioning company in 1990 when the economy went bad. I lost my business, my home and had to file bankruptcy in 1992. After all that I still owed the IRS $80,000.00 and they cleaned out every account I had. I learned a good lesson through all that. Material things don't mean squat! I did go off the deep end for awhile even walking away from my marriage and kids for 9 months. But praise God he restored my mind, gave me a job, restored my marriage, making it better than it was before all this transpired. I did get angry with God during that time but I know now that I had to go through this to show me my first love was money and material things, not God. That has been corrected! It took awhile, things don't change overnight. Hopefully you will not have to go through this, but God directs our steps. Rest in Him, He is all that we really have to hold onto that doesn't go away.

Praying for you Brother
tinknocker

Marlene:
Richard, You are right. Just know you have God and he is all we need. Maybe he is trying to find people in USA again. We have grown to be in comfort. My husband and I have struggled for years. We do have a home that is his great grandmothers. We struggled with medicals bills because of my health. I had to stop working two years ago and still fighting for my disability. I had a very serious illness in 2005. It came to thousands of dollars. I was so worried over it. A friend told me about a plan at the hospital and they knocked off half of it. God certainly blessed. Even though our minister at the church we had doen so much for told the dollar amount of what we gave each week. Then sat in Gods seat and said god may kill for that. He said, "He did not know who gave what"
we knew it was a lie. Cause a young family with lots of kids found out he knew and they left. We had been in that church most of our married life and his family also. His family knew that he knew how much everyone gave. My husbands family have some money. They did not leave , but I am not holding it against us. Something came good out of all this. The most important thing was we found out that organized church doesnt have it right. I think, God may be working on organzied churches by showing them who is in control. Yes, and also, what they love most.  I prayed for you last night. But, there is one thing no one can take from us and that is his LOVE for us and that is MORE THAN WORDS. He does tell us to be content with what we have. He will make a way for all of us who Love and Obey him. No, matter the state we are in.
Love To You  Your Sister in Christ
Marlene

Richard D:
Tintnocker

I also do heating and air conditioning for a living, I’m trusting in God not man this time around. I don’t know what tomorrow holds in store for me but I do know God will get me there.

God has removed my footing in this life and has taken away my comfort zone from me but I have learned a great deal from my situation like trusting God like never before.

There is a certain peace in trusting God with ones life that I can’t explain. A peace I never had before. I’m starting to see the real comfort zone of life is in God and only in God.

How foolish a thing for one to trust in there job or anyone else for that matter when it’s God who dictates to the universe what will be. Not our job or people but God who calls all the shots that will ever ring out.

I put all my trust in God these days and would have it no other way.


                            In His Love. Richard. The trusting one.

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