I had a "God Moment" tonight!

[chosenbyone]

The following was an email I sent to Falla39 and Rhoni when I got home from church that I wanted to share with the rest of my AFF family.

Tonight was one of those "God moments" for me. Pastor Kilgore (Jr.) had called me on Friday and told me about what was going on at the church and had mentioned that Brother Warman from Auburn Hills, Michigan was going to be there today preaching both services (morning and evening...they have Sunday night services the first Sunday of the month).

I had committed to going tonight, but as the weekend progressed, I started feeling poorly. I had almost decided not to go, but I felt that I should go regardless, since Pastor Jim had taken the time to call. I got up from resting on the sofa about 45 minutes before the services started and I arrived right on time.

Once again, it seemed every song was sent directly from God to me. Then Brother Warman preached "Measured Faith" and used Romans 12:3 as his text. He mentioned that God new our beginning and our end and he had given each of as the "measure of faith" to endure any sickness, trial, problem, etc... He knew that we could handle anything as long as we stirred up the faith that he had given us.

Also, he mentioned that there were people that felt that they had missed out with God's calling, because of the years wasted by not being obedient. He stated that a thousand years was like a day to God and seventy years of our life would only but a second on God's clock. We had bought into the lie and became defeated and God was just waiting for us to snap out of it...again, God knew our beginning and our end.

He only preached about 25 minutes, but each minute I felt my faith growing and I knew that God had already given me the faith to overcome the circumstances in my life. I have been so worried about how I seemed to be worse off now than before I had gone back to work. I lost my insurance and my finances were being drained. Additionally, the stress from the last several months had started to affect my health.

My biggest obstacle to being in the perfect will of God has been me. I have always been someone who demonstrated the tenacity to fix whatever was going wrong in my life....sorting out every scenario in order to bring about a resolution. I grew increasingly frustrated that I couldn't resolve these issues this time. I had to stop trying to fix things and allow God to move the mountains in my life. He has been waiting for me to get out of the way and have the faith in him to do what he has willed for me.

I scheduled an appointment with an eligibility nurse tomorrow morning at the Harris County Hospital District to discuss social services. I had allowed the problems I only saw with my physical eyes to drive me to the point of desperation, With that said, when I made the appointment with HCHD Thursday afternoon, I didn't know that Thursday morning I had received an email that was sent to my aol account from an HR Director of a major sleep study company here in Houston.

She had seen my resume which I had posted on careerbuilder.com and she wanted me to come in Monday (tomorrow) afternoon at 2 to discuss a Practice (Operations) Manger position at her company. They have four sleep study clinics in the Houston area and from what I read about the position it was exactly what I loved to do. I didn't get the email until yesterday around eleven in the morning and my first thought was, "Oh, no! I can't believe my luck!" (how ironic that you had started a thread Rhonda on AFF about luck). But, I did email her back and apologized for the delay in replying to her email and explained to her that the aol account was one that I seldom used or checked (I know now that it was the Lord that had me to check it yesterday and not two weeks from now). I wrote that I would call her Monday morning in order to discuss me coming in to meet with her.

What I realized this evening was that God had already started to work on my behalf with the little bit of faith that I had tucked away in the corner of my being. He just used the message tonight so that little bit of faith that I had would increase, so that every mountain, specially my illness, was going to be removed. Praise the Lord!

Sorry, for the long email, but I just had to share this testimony with the two people who had the faith in God to believe in the miracles that have begun to be fully realized in my life. I have been so blessed.

Love and blessing to you both...

[Cindy]

Praise the Lord Chosen. Will be praying for more of God's blessings on your life.

[rgcraig]

That is beautiful!

We limit what God will do for us by not having the faith we need. Just beautiful!

[dizzyde]

ChosenB1,

That is an beautiful testimony, I am so moved! I am sorry that I didn't know about the struggles you have been having, I will be praying for you, that God continues the work He has begun, and that your strength will increase!

I was wondering if you had made it to the Mens Conference, it sounds like like you didn't. I am glad you were able to make to the service tonight, it sounds like God was right on time, as usual!

[OneAccord]

Wow, great testimony. Now THIS is why I keep coming to AFF.

A measure of faith. Thats all it takes. If we can muster up just a speck of faith... God will fiull in the rest with what we need. May God bless you- and may your faith lead to great things!

[Cindy]

CB1 I have been meaning to tell you I like your new avatar.

[chosenbyone]

I logged back in (I was going to bed) to look up the lyrics to a song that I use to sing with my cousins in a quartet when we were kids that I haven't thought of in many years.

After what happened this evening, I kept singing the chorus over and over again. Do any of you remember this song?

http://www.lachurch.net/mp3/Avenaven...gusthisfar.mp3

Chorus 1:
He didn't bring us this far to leave us
He didn't teach us to swim to let us drown
He didn't build His home in us to move away
He didn't lift us up to let us down
There are some promises in a letter
Written a long, long time ago
They're not getting older, they're getting better
Because He still wants us to know

Chorus 2:
He didn't bring us this far to leave us
He didn't teach us to swim to let us drown
He didn't build His home in us to move away
He didn't lift us up to let us down (to let us down, let us down)
He didn't lift us up to let us down

I read those promises in His letter
And now I claim them for my own
Filling my heart and making life better
And I just wanted you to know

Repeat Chorus 2

Never use the word defeat
Claim His promises, every one of them
And every spoken word He'll hear
Because we're everything to Him

Repeat Chorus 2

He didn't lift us up to let us down

[chosenbyone]

I wanted to thank you my AFF family for your comments and offers of prayers. You all have been such a blessing to me.

[Kay B]

Thank you Chosen B1 for sharing what God is doing in your life. I am encourage to put all my confidence and trust in Him.
I will be praying for you.
Blessings

[chosenbyone]

Originally Posted by dizzyde

ChosenB1,

That is an beautiful testimony, I am so moved! I am sorry that I didn't know about the struggles you have been having, I will be praying for you, that God continues the work He has begun, and that your strength will increase!

I was wondering if you had made it to the Mens Conference, it sounds like like you didn't. I am glad you were able to make to the service tonight, it sounds like God was right on time, as usual!

DD,

One thing that I learned a long time ago was no matter how bad I thought I had it, there were so many more people who were dealing with so much more than me.

I thought of how much God has touched me physically, emotionally and spiritually since I discovered AFF. When I went back and read the thread, "What Does Mother's Day Mean to You", that I posted this time last year, I was reminded just how much God has healed me. Since then, I went back to work and found a new desire to live. When I lost that job in January, I was stunned and it was very hard to process. It was a long story, but I was so thankful that God was in control.

I look forward to finding out what God has for me this year!

I didn't go to the men's conference on Friday. I had an appointment at ten that morning and they had the news playing on the TV. I saw the storms and thought it was best that I didn't try to make the drive.

I hope to make it to a couple of the services during campmeeting.