“Joy
in Obedience”
It’s
January 2003. I can remember when my husband and I purchased our first
property. We put it on a 30-year note. I so vividly remember that it would
be paid off in 2003. It seemed so far away. I would be 49.
So old!
Now here
I am in 2003, land has been paid for and sold. Nothing pushed the clock
back. I’m here. It came whether we bought the land or not.
This
is much the same way our days move along in our walk with God. He is forever
faithful and present. I look and listen to his leading-his calling
me. He sometimes calls me places that cost me time or money or fun!
However,
when I go He is there. He is at work. Sometimes I just sit back and watch.
I’m an audience to His awesome power. My presence wasn’t so much
that I was needed but that I needed to see His miraculous awesome humongous
hand at work. It is always amazing. My jaw hangs in wonder!
An example
is when my youngest niece was born. I went to be with her mama, my sister-in-law,
in Houston where she gave birth to Abbey. Abbey was going to be born
with heart problems. Blocked valve and switched ventricles and holes and
a whole lot of things to worry a mama and her family that loves her.
I felt impressed to go. God said go, I went. I was there through
her birth, surgery, recovery, and then God sent me home the very day she
went home. I didn’t know she would be able to go home that day.
I prayed
and I prayed and I prayed for God’s will to be done in the life of Abbey.
I prayed that God would bless her with many days of jumping and playing
and getting to know His Son Jesus. I prayed for strength to come
for my brother and his wife. I prayed for miracles. I prayed for
healing of her heart.
The doctor’s
came out and told us that because of her problems, she has an ‘imperfect
perfect’ heart. Because of one problem it offsets another and with
the pace maker her heart is beating steadily. He said she can live a wonderful
life and run and play like other kids. Except no trampolines!
A miracle!
God impressed
on me to go to New York at the beginning of the month. I looked into it
and then kind of blew it off assuming I had misunderstood. Then one evening
I had a message on my cell phone from my niece who lives in New York. She
said she was down. She didn’t know why exactly. She was okay, just down.
Well,
I called her back and said we were coming to visit. So we did. And she
was so happy. We went. We enjoyed our visit. We had fun with Ashley. She
told us how much it meant to her for us to be there.
The man
who drove us to the airport to come home was from Ghana. I asked him if
he knew Jesus. He said not very well and that he was Catholic. His brother,
however, was a Reverend and preached at a big church in Ghana. He said
he has faith but not very much. I told him it doesn’t take much and that
he could pray and ask God to help him to believe. I also told him
that I bet his brother had been praying for him.
Position
of obedience. Witness of miracles. A pretty good seat in the house as I
see
it.
A miracle!
God is
alive and working in America. Look around and see what He is doing!
Love
you,
Martha
