Look Out August Is Coming
The month of August will be here in a few days. I have a little fear and trembling about August. It is the eight month in the year. A lot of important things has happened to me in the month of August. Some good, some bad.
In August 1987 , the Lord gave me the house I am currently living in. If I would have lived by His principles it would have been paid off by now, but I listened to others when things got tight and refinanced it. Lord forgive me for taking such a gift and being short sighted with it. This was during the time I was trying to "have it All". If I couldn't pay cash, there was plastic. Got in trouble with the plastic.
In August 1997 Matt and I startted seeing each other. Now this had been building for about a year or so. Matt, bless his heart is a good man, but extremely dense. We were friends for over a year and so finally I got frustrated at him beng so dense I finally asked him to come over and we needed to talk. We worked together and I didn't want to have a relationship at work. He had came over before and put a bookshelf together, and we had went to Wal-Mart to buy plants and soil together. We had worked together on stuff at work. So I figured it was high time we come to an understanding. Matt is a quiet man. When we started talking, he said that he liked me, but he was nervous. He was lonely and was about ready to go back to going to the bars as he did when he was in the Navy. We started this relationship. Kind of cautious at first, because we were older and had to learn about each other. Now when you have a relationship, you have to ask some tought questions. Like do you have ant STD's that I need to know about, any old girlfriends that you are still not quite over. Are they over you? Any children around that you know about? This begins our courtship. We were married in November of 1999
In August 2008, I preached my first message. It was on Fath, there are two conponents of faith, first we musty believe. Secondly we must believe that God is who He says He is and will do what he said he will do. Going forth into the ministry was a long overdue thing. In 2006, my pastor asked me to start coming to the ministers meetings. Since at the time I wasn't a member of the church and I thught the meetings were for seasoned ministers I didn't come. One day I was asking God about my spiritual progress and He said that I had hindered my own self because of my thinking. I did, because I was having trouble with my eyes and I couldn't figure out how God was going to use me to speak to people and I would have to read up close. Recently there was a life group that I have been going to. It discusses abusive situations. We are discussing Joyce Meyers book "The Penny". One of the ladies said her son gave her a large print Bible. She didn't need it, she blessed me with it. So I am able to use this to minister with. I have study Bibles at home for research. Going into the ministry was scary. People expect you to act a certain way. Christianity is a daily thing, I live my life the same way. I just have to watch out for those moments, when ministering to someone is needed. This was also the beginning of the end for my mom. She couldn't come to hear me, she didn't feel like it. She gave me one of her suits to wear and started giving me her church clothes. I should have known something was getting ready to happen. The thing is God had pulled her through so many times, we just kept hoping for oine more miracle. She went to tyhe hospital August 30, 2008. She came out in October and died in November.
In August 2009, I waas about at the end of my rope with Matt. I was praying and wittnessing to him daily about the Lord. Matt had an encounter with God at my moms funeral, but then he went back and closed the door. In February or March, he threatened to leave me. I prayed and God said to let him leave he would be back. I wasn't aware of his plans until his brother called from Georgia the next day. Plamns had been made for him to leave. That evening I just went on to school. I knew that God had my back. I called my pastor and he said that when he drove by the house the Lord had spoke to him and told him what was happening. He told me to pray and put a prayer cloth under his pillow. I got a prayer cloth and put it under the mattress on his side of the bed. I didn't say anything. I just prayed and went on to church as I usually did. This went on for months and then in May I started working wwith the food pantry at the church. They needed men to load and unload the truck, to open the big heavy boxes of cans of food. When I went to work there in June, I asked Matt to come and help. He used the classic ezxcuse,hey don't want me there. I told him they need yiou there. They need men. When he got there, everybody was glad to see him. Matt is strong, he can pick up the big boxes open tyhem, break them down for the dumpster as well as carry the bags out for the older ladies that come by. As the month went on I just couldn't understand why he hadn't give his heart to Jesus. He had been so close. I talked to someone that was former military and they said that it was hard for a militart man to surrender to the call of God, because you are trainned not to surrender. Thatt made sense. I just kept praying and one night in August at one or two in the morning Matt woke me up and said I just ask Jesus to forgive me for my sins. I was thrilled., but I knew I had to kept it low key so I went back to sleep. As I was getting for work he said that he had a dream about heaven. He said it was the most interesting place he had ever seen. It was bright with color and plenty of things to do, he said he knew he wasn't going there in the shape he was ion . So he prayed and accepted the Lord in his life. That evening he came home from work and said I want to be baptized. I called our pastor and told him. He talked to Matt and Matt was baptized on Sunday August 24th. He had gotten the job promotion as case manager.
August 2010, things were getting really bad at work. The church was having 72 hours of prayer. One of the mornings Matt and I got up and went there at 4:30 and prayed an hour. The Holy Spirit was ther, there was sucha peace I din't want to leave. I left and went to work. I began trainning someone to help me. On August 16 I was MC at the grandstand at the Stae Fair and when I got back there were a bunch of calls on the phine. Someone said I used too many hours in trainning the person. Then the Holy Spirit gave me the scripture in Ecclesiastes 3 There is a time and a season, your season is up here. Wait for further instructions. I waited and I prayed. The last weekend of the month, I was writing my letter of resignation and looking for another job here at home and the Lord said."In the past you have not waited on Me, if you would have waited I would have taken care of things, this time wait and I will take care of it'. That Friday at work I started cleanning out my desk, I was prompted to come up and get more things during the weekend, but I didn't do it. On that Tuesday I was in my office, they came in and said my job was gone. I knew this was what the Lord was talking about. So I just said OK and got what I could and left. It was also during this time Matt comes in fromwork and says, he has the job as case manager over those who have substance abuse problems. He also said this'I need the Holy Ghost to help me with thses people" On that Sunday august 29th he recieved the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Matt was so overcome in the Spirit he was slain in the spirit. When he got uo he was so drunk in the sopirit some of us helped him to his seat.
This August is coming whats going to happen now. Our finances are in a mess. Things are not going well. I am scheduled to start school. I am just a little nervous...
In August 1987 , the Lord gave me the house I am currently living in. If I would have lived by His principles it would have been paid off by now, but I listened to others when things got tight and refinanced it. Lord forgive me for taking such a gift and being short sighted with it. This was during the time I was trying to "have it All". If I couldn't pay cash, there was plastic. Got in trouble with the plastic.
In August 1997 Matt and I startted seeing each other. Now this had been building for about a year or so. Matt, bless his heart is a good man, but extremely dense. We were friends for over a year and so finally I got frustrated at him beng so dense I finally asked him to come over and we needed to talk. We worked together and I didn't want to have a relationship at work. He had came over before and put a bookshelf together, and we had went to Wal-Mart to buy plants and soil together. We had worked together on stuff at work. So I figured it was high time we come to an understanding. Matt is a quiet man. When we started talking, he said that he liked me, but he was nervous. He was lonely and was about ready to go back to going to the bars as he did when he was in the Navy. We started this relationship. Kind of cautious at first, because we were older and had to learn about each other. Now when you have a relationship, you have to ask some tought questions. Like do you have ant STD's that I need to know about, any old girlfriends that you are still not quite over. Are they over you? Any children around that you know about? This begins our courtship. We were married in November of 1999
In August 2008, I preached my first message. It was on Fath, there are two conponents of faith, first we musty believe. Secondly we must believe that God is who He says He is and will do what he said he will do. Going forth into the ministry was a long overdue thing. In 2006, my pastor asked me to start coming to the ministers meetings. Since at the time I wasn't a member of the church and I thught the meetings were for seasoned ministers I didn't come. One day I was asking God about my spiritual progress and He said that I had hindered my own self because of my thinking. I did, because I was having trouble with my eyes and I couldn't figure out how God was going to use me to speak to people and I would have to read up close. Recently there was a life group that I have been going to. It discusses abusive situations. We are discussing Joyce Meyers book "The Penny". One of the ladies said her son gave her a large print Bible. She didn't need it, she blessed me with it. So I am able to use this to minister with. I have study Bibles at home for research. Going into the ministry was scary. People expect you to act a certain way. Christianity is a daily thing, I live my life the same way. I just have to watch out for those moments, when ministering to someone is needed. This was also the beginning of the end for my mom. She couldn't come to hear me, she didn't feel like it. She gave me one of her suits to wear and started giving me her church clothes. I should have known something was getting ready to happen. The thing is God had pulled her through so many times, we just kept hoping for oine more miracle. She went to tyhe hospital August 30, 2008. She came out in October and died in November.
In August 2009, I waas about at the end of my rope with Matt. I was praying and wittnessing to him daily about the Lord. Matt had an encounter with God at my moms funeral, but then he went back and closed the door. In February or March, he threatened to leave me. I prayed and God said to let him leave he would be back. I wasn't aware of his plans until his brother called from Georgia the next day. Plamns had been made for him to leave. That evening I just went on to school. I knew that God had my back. I called my pastor and he said that when he drove by the house the Lord had spoke to him and told him what was happening. He told me to pray and put a prayer cloth under his pillow. I got a prayer cloth and put it under the mattress on his side of the bed. I didn't say anything. I just prayed and went on to church as I usually did. This went on for months and then in May I started working wwith the food pantry at the church. They needed men to load and unload the truck, to open the big heavy boxes of cans of food. When I went to work there in June, I asked Matt to come and help. He used the classic ezxcuse,hey don't want me there. I told him they need yiou there. They need men. When he got there, everybody was glad to see him. Matt is strong, he can pick up the big boxes open tyhem, break them down for the dumpster as well as carry the bags out for the older ladies that come by. As the month went on I just couldn't understand why he hadn't give his heart to Jesus. He had been so close. I talked to someone that was former military and they said that it was hard for a militart man to surrender to the call of God, because you are trainned not to surrender. Thatt made sense. I just kept praying and one night in August at one or two in the morning Matt woke me up and said I just ask Jesus to forgive me for my sins. I was thrilled., but I knew I had to kept it low key so I went back to sleep. As I was getting for work he said that he had a dream about heaven. He said it was the most interesting place he had ever seen. It was bright with color and plenty of things to do, he said he knew he wasn't going there in the shape he was ion . So he prayed and accepted the Lord in his life. That evening he came home from work and said I want to be baptized. I called our pastor and told him. He talked to Matt and Matt was baptized on Sunday August 24th. He had gotten the job promotion as case manager.
August 2010, things were getting really bad at work. The church was having 72 hours of prayer. One of the mornings Matt and I got up and went there at 4:30 and prayed an hour. The Holy Spirit was ther, there was sucha peace I din't want to leave. I left and went to work. I began trainning someone to help me. On August 16 I was MC at the grandstand at the Stae Fair and when I got back there were a bunch of calls on the phine. Someone said I used too many hours in trainning the person. Then the Holy Spirit gave me the scripture in Ecclesiastes 3 There is a time and a season, your season is up here. Wait for further instructions. I waited and I prayed. The last weekend of the month, I was writing my letter of resignation and looking for another job here at home and the Lord said."In the past you have not waited on Me, if you would have waited I would have taken care of things, this time wait and I will take care of it'. That Friday at work I started cleanning out my desk, I was prompted to come up and get more things during the weekend, but I didn't do it. On that Tuesday I was in my office, they came in and said my job was gone. I knew this was what the Lord was talking about. So I just said OK and got what I could and left. It was also during this time Matt comes in fromwork and says, he has the job as case manager over those who have substance abuse problems. He also said this'I need the Holy Ghost to help me with thses people" On that Sunday august 29th he recieved the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Matt was so overcome in the Spirit he was slain in the spirit. When he got uo he was so drunk in the sopirit some of us helped him to his seat.
This August is coming whats going to happen now. Our finances are in a mess. Things are not going well. I am scheduled to start school. I am just a little nervous...
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