Heather Roberts wrote: Okay, I have a cool GOD story for you. Can I just tell you—God is amazing! Three significant things came out of a recent trial my family experienced.
Gary and I were put on the church prayer chain at Grace Community Church because our air conditioner went out in the house. We all were pretty sweaty and stinky! With four boys you can probably imagine! It was looking at costing us $4,400 to fix it...that alone would make you sweat right?
# 1~NO doubt the prayer chain was a huge blessing! A contractor friend (no names will be mentioned to protect the innocent) from church sent his AC guy over to our house and this stranger took my husband step by step through the process of fixing this unit. God gave us a better gift than just fixing it, He gave Gary the knowledge to do it himself and it only cost us $35 for the replacement part! The stranger, however, would take nothing!
# 2~After months of prayer and petition the Lord told us very clearly just recently “Without delay!” for Gary to undergo a vasectomy reversal. To make a long story short (‘cause this is another sermon altogether): We stepped out in faith and obeyed. In November, Gary will have this surgery. For the last three months we have been saving up money for the procedure. Had we needed to pay for the AC it would have drained our savings.
# 3~The first air conditioner company Gary called to get the $4400 estimate was a company he really just randomly picked from the phonebook. Come to find out the guy who answered the call was my old best friend’s younger brother. He gave me her phone # and she and I have been playing phone tag after years of no communication! Her brother told me he never works on this side of town! He thought it was pretty weird that he ended up being the one to come to our house. She had actually been on my mind for the last couple of weeks! WILD HUH? It was just a God thing.
The message: So often God wants to bless us but we just don’t have the patience to receive it or the faith to believe it. I learned that YES we will need to go through some HOT STINKY days... but, boy, is the reward all worth it in the end. God tripled the blessings in our life and He showed Himself in 3 special ways!
# 1~God the Father who is our provider!
# 2~God the Holy Spirit who leads us!
# 3~God the Son who heals the broken hearted!
Gary and I were put on the church prayer chain at Grace Community Church because our air conditioner went out in the house. We all were pretty sweaty and stinky! With four boys you can probably imagine! It was looking at costing us $4,400 to fix it...that alone would make you sweat right?
# 1~NO doubt the prayer chain was a huge blessing! A contractor friend (no names will be mentioned to protect the innocent) from church sent his AC guy over to our house and this stranger took my husband step by step through the process of fixing this unit. God gave us a better gift than just fixing it, He gave Gary the knowledge to do it himself and it only cost us $35 for the replacement part! The stranger, however, would take nothing!
# 2~After months of prayer and petition the Lord told us very clearly just recently “Without delay!” for Gary to undergo a vasectomy reversal. To make a long story short (‘cause this is another sermon altogether): We stepped out in faith and obeyed. In November, Gary will have this surgery. For the last three months we have been saving up money for the procedure. Had we needed to pay for the AC it would have drained our savings.
# 3~The first air conditioner company Gary called to get the $4400 estimate was a company he really just randomly picked from the phonebook. Come to find out the guy who answered the call was my old best friend’s younger brother. He gave me her phone # and she and I have been playing phone tag after years of no communication! Her brother told me he never works on this side of town! He thought it was pretty weird that he ended up being the one to come to our house. She had actually been on my mind for the last couple of weeks! WILD HUH? It was just a God thing.
The message: So often God wants to bless us but we just don’t have the patience to receive it or the faith to believe it. I learned that YES we will need to go through some HOT STINKY days... but, boy, is the reward all worth it in the end. God tripled the blessings in our life and He showed Himself in 3 special ways!
# 1~God the Father who is our provider!
# 2~God the Holy Spirit who leads us!
# 3~God the Son who heals the broken hearted!
2 comments:
I love to hear how God blesses His people. BTW, I had four babies after a reversal. One in heaven and a 12, 10 and 2 year old. We lived in FL and flew to Cary Levitt in New Braunfels.
NO way this is the same doctor we are going to see! WOW! Hearing your story helps reassure a sometimes doubtful heart. Thanks for sharing. 4 babies… you are blessed! ~Heather
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