Stirring Up Your Faith
Today was a great Sunday. Parke was very encouraging and he stirred up my faith as well as, I’m sure, the faith of others that were present. Sometimes it just takes sharing a testimony to remind you of the goodness of God and how interested He is personally in our lives. For that reason I want to share a testimony that many of you already know – maybe it will encourage you, too. If you are a Christian and you think what I am saying is a coincidence – then I will dare to say that maybe you have put God in a box of your own making.
The condensed version: Dick and I were 38 and 27 when we got married and because we were “older” we decided that we should go ahead and have children instead of waiting. Before we knew it, 7 years had gone by and still no children. In February of 2000, we had a guest speaker at our church that was ministering individually to the congregation. She came over to pray for Dick and I and told us that the thing that we had been hoping and praying for, God was going to give us. She did not know us so she didn’t know we had been praying for a baby. Dick and I just looked at each other as she turned to walk away – but then she turned back towards us and said “by Easter”.
I admit, I was dumb-founded. It was just too amazing and we had been waiting too long. But come the night before Easter, my friend called me and asked me if I had bought a pregnancy test. She believed! She convinced me that I should and I did, even though my faith wasn’t too high. On Easter morning I took the pregnancy test and it was positive!! I don’t normally like speaking in front of people but there was nothing that was going to keep me from announcing our good news to the church and when I did – the place came apart. There was lots of rejoicing! William was born in December of that year.
God still speaks today. He really does. See this page for the whole story.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
God is truly an awesome God!
January 10th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Your story moved me to tears. God is good indeed.
January 11th, 2010 at 2:16 am
Wooohoooo BECKY!
We had one of those “nothing will stop me from giving testimony” moments yesterday.
A friend of mine’s dad has been seriously ill and was diagnosed with a lymphoma that would give him AT THE MOST 5 or 6 years to live. Last Sunday she got up and asked for further prayer as he was due to start chemo this week.
During worship yesterday she snuck up to me and said “Dad doesn’t have what they think he had, he still has a lymphoma of some sort but it isn’t fatal and he won’t need chemo until 2 years time!”
And for some reason, I don’t know what because he did not know about this, the guy leading the meeting left testimony time until right at the end.
So when she went up and told everyone, THAT was the final thing we heard, THAT was what we left church and entered our week’s hearing. I wouldn’t say the place came apart (we’re English remember), but it was fairly wild.
I told her afterwards that if she had not gone up front to give testimony I would have dragged her up there!