I love reading and hearing about the things God does and is doing. It's also written that testimonies help us over come. There are instruction telling us to past along the wonderful things the Lord does for us. And considering that He uses the things that happen in our lives to teach us, it absolutely amazes me that the testimony section of Christian forums is not overflowing with posts. I wish I could change that. So I guess I need to add some testimonies. I hope you like them.
I used to be a retail manager and is was needing to hire a couple of employee. So I asked the Lord to help me hire a couple of people. I picked up about 100 applications and put my hand on each application without looking at it, and I ask the Lord if I should hire that person. I had gone through about 70 applications when I heard His voice say, "That One". It's always weird when you suddenly pick up His small quiet voice. So I put that application aside and kept going and with about ten applications left again I heard Him say, "That One".
The first thing I did was look at them to make sure their schedule was open and part time was ok. I used to get rid of two thirds of the applications that way, but these two were fine. In fact when I looked closer they would certainly have been applications I would have considered. The odds of that had to be about one in a hundred.
Now I was excited because I was going to get two nice hard working Christian employee, or so I thought. I was about to get a lesson on how God's thoughts are not our thoughts. I brought the first one in to interviews. Everything looked great until the very end. The last job she had was making a selling jewelry. It turned out she was making and selling spiritual stones to New Age shops and such. I think my jaw must have hit the floor. "OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" exploded in my head.
So I thanked her at told her I would give her a call. Then I went to my office to check the spirit. The Spirit checked out. I wanted a nice hard working honest Christian employee, the Lord wanted an opportunity to help this person out. So I called her up and she was excited to get the job.
Then I told the Lord that the spirits influencing her would fine out what He was up to and drive her away. I was about to get a lesson in making confessions of poor faith to the Lord. Now I think about it, He could have hid his plans from any demon. Anyway, she did call back and turn the job down. I tried to talk to her about her reasons, but while she said she did need a job and it seems to be a good job she said she just couldn't take it.
So I brought in the next person. This one certainly would be good. She had worked on summer in a well respect Christian church. She interviewed great and she took the job. She was very good at it too.
A few weeks had gone by when one day while I was walking by her check stand the Lord suddenly spoke to me saying, "ask her where she is from". I told the Lord, "Look at her. She is from around here.", but then I figured I should do what He asked.
"Where are you from", is all I said and suddenly I got this long response.
"Oh, I am from Russia, My dad brought us over hear because of religious persecution. We are Jewish. Well... my dad is Jewish, my sister is Christian, and I am Pagan," was her answer.
"Pagan", I asked, "What do you mean by Pagan".
"Well, I cast spell and read tarot cards." was her explanation.
I left it for then and of course started up a long conversation with my Lord. "I thought I was going to get nice Christian employees but you are getting me demonize people", I told Him off.
HIs response was, "Karl, her sister has me to help her and isn't putting her under you a pretty good way to do it."
The problem with talking to God is that He always makes sense and more sense than I do. He just doesn't do things like I think He should.
I used to be a retail manager and is was needing to hire a couple of employee. So I asked the Lord to help me hire a couple of people. I picked up about 100 applications and put my hand on each application without looking at it, and I ask the Lord if I should hire that person. I had gone through about 70 applications when I heard His voice say, "That One". It's always weird when you suddenly pick up His small quiet voice. So I put that application aside and kept going and with about ten applications left again I heard Him say, "That One".
The first thing I did was look at them to make sure their schedule was open and part time was ok. I used to get rid of two thirds of the applications that way, but these two were fine. In fact when I looked closer they would certainly have been applications I would have considered. The odds of that had to be about one in a hundred.
Now I was excited because I was going to get two nice hard working Christian employee, or so I thought. I was about to get a lesson on how God's thoughts are not our thoughts. I brought the first one in to interviews. Everything looked great until the very end. The last job she had was making a selling jewelry. It turned out she was making and selling spiritual stones to New Age shops and such. I think my jaw must have hit the floor. "OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" exploded in my head.
So I thanked her at told her I would give her a call. Then I went to my office to check the spirit. The Spirit checked out. I wanted a nice hard working honest Christian employee, the Lord wanted an opportunity to help this person out. So I called her up and she was excited to get the job.
Then I told the Lord that the spirits influencing her would fine out what He was up to and drive her away. I was about to get a lesson in making confessions of poor faith to the Lord. Now I think about it, He could have hid his plans from any demon. Anyway, she did call back and turn the job down. I tried to talk to her about her reasons, but while she said she did need a job and it seems to be a good job she said she just couldn't take it.
So I brought in the next person. This one certainly would be good. She had worked on summer in a well respect Christian church. She interviewed great and she took the job. She was very good at it too.
A few weeks had gone by when one day while I was walking by her check stand the Lord suddenly spoke to me saying, "ask her where she is from". I told the Lord, "Look at her. She is from around here.", but then I figured I should do what He asked.
"Where are you from", is all I said and suddenly I got this long response.
"Oh, I am from Russia, My dad brought us over hear because of religious persecution. We are Jewish. Well... my dad is Jewish, my sister is Christian, and I am Pagan," was her answer.
"Pagan", I asked, "What do you mean by Pagan".
"Well, I cast spell and read tarot cards." was her explanation.
I left it for then and of course started up a long conversation with my Lord. "I thought I was going to get nice Christian employees but you are getting me demonize people", I told Him off.
HIs response was, "Karl, her sister has me to help her and isn't putting her under you a pretty good way to do it."
The problem with talking to God is that He always makes sense and more sense than I do. He just doesn't do things like I think He should.