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Trusting in only God!!!
dogcombat:
Richard,
I think that God has shown you (and those inspired by what you've written) a HARD truth. Coming to the END of ourselves is NOT the fun part. However, it IS the first part. Like the analogy of Jonah, when things APPEAR to be dark, dreary, and lost. You realize later on that God had you right where HE wanted you. And since He showed you that HE'S in control, HE has the final say in all of our doings and what's being done to us.
Ches
Richard D:
Chess.
You are so right, I was apart of Christendom and had stop going to church altogether and became so confident in myself I felt on top of the world and then I got laid off.
I enjoyed the first part of my lay off but as time went on I started to become fearful as no one was hiring. In and attempt to preoccupy my mind I spent hours on the internet.
My favorite place was you tube and I was engross in aliens and u.f.o then I started to get into Satanic things you know and would not even read anything that had to do with God because I got so turned off from God because I felt no matter what I was going to hell but somehow I came across Ray’s papers and started reading them and wow, something happen to me right their and then.
Chess, I’ll never look at God from the perspective I once use to. I now know the goodness of God regardless of what happens to me in this life. God is awesome and wonderful, there is none other who is greater than our God.
Chess, I don’t deserve what God is doing for me at all, the only thing I deserve is death for ever but I know God is going to save all and that testifies to the greatness of God in itself. :)
In God’s love. Richard. Your friend and brother.
dogcombat:
Richard,
That's the point of Grace. Our heavenly father giving us what we DON'T deserve (Isa 26,
10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. )
since none are righteous and deserving of His Grace. And all have fallen short of His Glory. But He's chosen the foolish things to confound the wise....(1 Cor 1).
In a nutshell, my brother, God must show us what we DIDN'T know about Him, before He reveals what we ARE to know about Him. Because we love Him, because He FIRST loved us. Grace CAN'T be EARNED, only EXPERIENCED.
Ches
hammerandnails:
Hi, everybody,
Is encouraging and uplifting to see how God is working in the lives of my brothers and sisters in Christ.
Richard, I too was layed off recently. I would like to share how God is providing for me, and is not in the way that I thought it would
come!!!
About little over a year ago, I had offered my body a living sacrifice to the Lord.
On 5.21. of this year the fire fell!!!!!!!!!!! :o
Believe me, I tried very hard not to think it strange ???
On that day I got fired!!!
Although it was a reason, it was totaly unfounded.
3 days latter, here came the prosecution. It came so hard, I didn;t know what hit me.
Things escalated to the point that my life was threatened and I had to go file a police report.
5 days later my dad, who is not a beliver, had a stroke. Never been sick a day in his life.
Same day, (in the emergency room next to my dad) had a heart attack!!!
Combined, they had 4 surgeries in the same day.
Wait, there is more :o :o :o
In order that you may understand how is God providing for me in this season, I must take you back
4 years. My husband and I got separated after 16 years of marriage. I was the one who left!!!
I was gona show him!!!!!
Come back to the present day.
Guess where I had to go after I lost my 6000$ a mo. job??????
Yes, you guessed it!!!!
Back to my holier than thou, I am always right, everybody is stupid, I have the answer to all things,
I am never wrong, I can do all things, unbelieving husband!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait, there is more!!!
Although I had applied to about 40 to 50 jobs in the past 3 mo, and despite the fact that I am a nurse with 7 years
teaching experience and 14 years of bedside experiece, I did not get as much as ONE PHONECALL or EMAIL
with an offer of any kind.
My car is to be repessessed in about two weeks.
Meanwhile, at home, God is prospering my husband in everyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you think that I was envious, don't. Oh, may be for a moment.
In the process, he, my husband, became more holier than thou, IF THAT IS POSSIBLE. :'(
And, in his eyes, I can't do anything right.
Despite the fact that I am a mother (that's a full time job by itself) I cook, clean, serve, wash,
type, file, I take care of 3 dogs and one bird, I visit my parents (dad is paralized) and cook, clean, serve etc.
then comes the issue of looking good. I must look good too!!!
No matter what I do, he is never happy, not a peep about how good of a job I do, or even acknoledging that I even do a job.
If a piece of furniture is here, or an object there, it should always be somewhere else, even with an inch.
Mean while, I am trying sooooo hard to give God honor!!!!
Yes God is burning, pruning, scourging, cutting, and breaking my sanctified self!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I got to the point where God is providing.
When I moved in the house, the house was in foreclosure. He had not payed the mortgage for the past 7 mo.
Honestly, I was expecting God to take the house too, but he didn't.
Not only that He didn't, the loan (balance) was modified with an interest of 2 % until 2011, and 5 % after
that, and can never go ove 6 %. Not only that, but we don't have to make any payments until Dec!
What you think about that???? Blessed be the Lord forever!!! ;D
In the mean time, all the bills are payed (mind you my beloved husband thinks that is all him
and his majesty that is doing all this) we have food on the table, even he was able to make some improvements on the house.
We don't have what we want, BUT WE HAVE ALL THAT WE NEED!!!!! 8)
In the middle of all this I feel like the morning after a freight train hit you.
There are days that I don't know if I can put one foot in front of the other, much more accomplish my duty as a wife and mother.
And today is one of those days.
And if I hear one more time "You call yourself a christian??" out of his mouth.....................
Or another good one: "God is on my side, can't you see?"
Enough of that.
In conclusion, God is providing richly!!!
One scripture that the HS took me to is in the Book of Ezra:
"Who is there among you of all His people? his God be with him,
and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build
the house of the Lord God of Israel (He is God,) which is in Jerusalem.
And whosoever remains in any place where he sojourns,
let the men of that place help him with silver, and with gold,
and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering
for the house of God that is in Jerusalem" Ezra1:3,4
It was to me for a confirmation that when you are building the temple of the Lord,
(which temple you are) God takes care of his children. He is a faithful Father!!!!!!
As for me "I forgot prosperity" like Jeremiah lamented.
Can any of you send me a picture of a 20$ bill??? ;D LOL
Is ok, God is teaching me and molding me.
And this will serve me right, because when I had money, I did not know how to spend it faster.
Can anybody out there relate????
Love you all,
your sister Ariel.
Richard D:
Ariel.
After reading your story my heart goes out to you my sister. I don’t understand why God allows these things to happen in the way he does except I know it’s in our best interest. I do know God does take care of us and he can be well trusted.
If someone told me I would be a contractor after being laid off I would of laugh at the idea at that time. All I kept thinking is no one is hiring and as soon as unemployment runs out I will loose everything.
I was earning between five to six thousand a month also. I was not a rich man but I had no issue paying my bills and buying what I wanted. As I look back now I see how proud I was with my noise up in the air, last spring I had a new roof put on my home and had all new windows put in my home and a brand new living room set and many things more also.
I know now I was not only proud but I trusted in my own ability to provide for my needs. God has shown be since then that it is He-God who provides and gives to His creatures.
Today I earn more money in half the time as when I worked but the difference now is I know it’s of God and I need to depend on God every day for work. I’m no longer proud of myself as if I’m something special and my ability comes from God and not me.
This is what God wanted me to know but He had to take away the security I had in myself and put it into Him. I know now that for the rest of my life whatever I have I have by the hand of God and God only.
In God’s love. Richard.
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