[ Testimony ] Do you have a testimony? Want to share it with the world?

[for_his_glory]

Here is my life as short as I can write it and I pray it ministers to all the broken hearts out there and to know there is hope in the name of Jesus. I was brought up with an abusive father who was work related disabled and his pain caused him to become an angry man at times when things did not go his way. It was during those times he would accuse my siblings and me of things we did not do and he would beat us with his belt and tell us we would never amount to anything. This caused my issues with anger and self doubt beginning in my early years. I will add that when we grew up and moved out of the house he mellowed out quite a bit.

My mother and grandparents were my rock of love even though they could not stop the pain of abuse. I went to church as a child so I knew a little bit about Jesus, but was never really into the whole church thing. Church was just a place to go to have some fun with other kids. There are eight kids in my family so I was never alone. Church had fun things to do that we could not do at home.

School was another place of abuse as we were raised on welfare as my dad was disabled and that brought with it much teasing, which is another place that helped build up my anger and taught me how to physically fight back. During my junior year I met a guy who I dated for awhile and he took me to a church. I thought the people were crazy or something, because they were waving their hands around in the air and speaking a funny language, but long story short I did repeat the sinners prayer, as I was told I would go to hell if I did not repent of my sins and ask Jesus to be my Lord and Savior. I spoke the words, but really did not have Jesus in my heart as I only went through the emotions. I soon quit going to church and broke up with that guy. I married another man after graduation and that marriage brought with it a lot of mental abuse. We divorced after eight years and now for the first time in my life I was truly on my own as we had moved away after we got married.

I got into drinking pretty heavy and I went as far as looking for love in the wrong places. If I did not have the money for drinks I would in a sense prostitute myself for drinks thinking that these guys truly like me because they were spending their money on me. I never had that attention before. My wake up call from that was when I got date raped. That opened my eyes real quick to evaluate who I was and what I was turning into. I quit going to the clubs after I met this guy at work and we hit it off so well that we got married three months after dating. Trying to make this short, it was like he turned into Satan himself after we got married. He was a drug user and an alcoholic who beat me all the time and almost killed me a few times. I didn’t know he was like this before I married him as he hid it well. Physical abuse will go away, but the mental abuse will stay with you forever.

Now this is where God comes into play. I was going to church during that marriage and getting closer to Jesus even though I truly did not know him that well yet, but he knew me, amen. I was so scared my husband was going to kill me. I was a prisoner in my own house. He took me to work and brought me home and God forbid if he saw me talking to any other guy I worked with. I would get beat up when we got home. I wasn’t allowed to have friends or even talk to them on the phone. He was having affairs left and right and would come home afterwards and beat me up because he thought I was also sleeping around, which I never did and come on he watched me like a hawk.

I knew I had to get out of this marriage as I had everything beat out of me. I hated myself and the world and had no self-esteem left at all. I had no money no car no nothing and I truly felt he was going to eventually kill me. I cried out to God and he made a financial way where there was no way. We had opened a checking account in both our names earlier that day and deposited three hundred dollars, (God working here as he would have never put both names on the account). When we got home we got into a hugh fight and I told him I was staying home from work because I was to upset to go in so he went to work and I stayed home. God spoke to my heart and told me to call the airlines and see what a ticket cost. You got it, exactly three hundred dollars so I had my sister take me to the bank and I packed up what I could take on a plane and flew home. It hurts the things I had to leave behind, but my life is more important than material things.

Now here I am living with my mother, which would be for ten years, and holding everything inside me because I didn’t want to burden anyone with my problems. My mom and I get along great and we had so much fun in those ten years, but I was still hurting and lonely inside. I needed someone to love me for whom I was and not for what they wanted me to be. Again I cried out to God because the thoughts of suicide were persisting so I started going to a church near by, but wasn’t getting any help from the pastor at all. I would try to talk to him, but all he did was pat me on the back and tell me I was a strong person and I could handle my problems myself. I thought if this is what church is I don’t need it, but God had other plans He took me out of that church.

Within my misery God came to me in Spirit and showed me a revival that was in the paper so I decided to go even though it was far an hour drive. I liked the music as music was a temporal release and so many people came and talked to me as they were truly glad I came. When the pastor got up to speak I walked away to go to my car to leave because the music was done and I didn’t want to hear what he had to say. What he was talking about I could care less until I heard him say, “you are the head and not the tail”, (Deuteronomy 28) and like a bolt of lightning I was drawn back to hear what he was talking about. I never heard anyone preach to my heart like Jesus was using this man that day. I started going to their church because I wanted so much more of this word he was speaking. It was like I never read the Bible before and those words just leaped off those pages and found their way to my heart.

God started tearing down that wall I had built around me and changed my heart from anger and hate to love and compassion as He healed my broken heart that day. Later on I met another guy at church and we married and God has been blessing this marriage for many years now as God has truly given me a Godly man after His own heart. After getting proper instruction in the word of God through the Holy Spirit directly and He using others to teach me, God called me into His ministry to teach His word first using me in the Prison Ministry reaching out to the inmates for a time and season and then later teaching throughout the whole world via the internet.

Thank you Jesus for always walking beside, me keeping me safe through the fires of my life, even though I was not aware of your presence. To God be all the praise and glory for the things you have done for me that has made me who I am today as being a humbled servant as you have showed me your mercy and grace that is abounding.

 

[stovebolts]

The testimony I am about to give will be aired on March 27th on
Redwords lou radio show, Ya Know What I'm Saying. The reason I want you to know this before hand is that I am asking that it be shared with anyone you know who may be contemplating suicide or are going through similar things that I went through so they know there is hope in Christ.

TDC Radio if you want you can read this on one of your shows and if anyone wants to contact me they can PM me here on CF, for_his_glory, or email me at heavenbound72000@yahoo.com and in the subject line just type Need Help.

I look forward to hearing your testimony!

 

[Tessa]

I found you testimony very moving for_his_glory Love you sister

 

[stovebolts]

Here is my life as short as I can write it and I pray it ministers to all the broken hearts out there and to know there is hope in the name of Jesus. I was brought up with an abusive father who was work related disabled and his pain caused him to become an angry man at times when things did not go his way. It was during those times he would accuse my siblings and me of things we did not do and he would beat us with his belt and tell us we would never amount to anything. This caused my issues with anger and self doubt beginning in my early years. I will add that when we grew up and moved out of the house he mellowed out quite a bit.

My mother and grandparents were my rock of love even though they could not stop the pain of abuse. I went to church as a child so I knew a little bit about Jesus, but was never really into the whole church thing. Church was just a place to go to have some fun with other kids. There are eight kids in my family so I was never alone. Church had fun things to do that we could not do at home.

School was another place of abuse as we were raised on welfare as my dad was disabled and that brought with it much teasing, which is another place that helped build up my anger and taught me how to physically fight back. During my junior year I met a guy who I dated for awhile and he took me to a church. I thought the people were crazy or something, because they were waving their hands around in the air and speaking a funny language, but long story short I did repeat the sinners prayer, as I was told I would go to hell if I did not repent of my sins and ask Jesus to be my Lord and Savior. I spoke the words, but really did not have Jesus in my heart as I only went through the emotions. I soon quit going to church and broke up with that guy. I married another man after graduation and that marriage brought with it a lot of mental abuse. We divorced after eight years and now for the first time in my life I was truly on my own as we had moved away after we got married.

I got into drinking pretty heavy and I went as far as looking for love in the wrong places. If I did not have the money for drinks I would in a sense prostitute myself for drinks thinking that these guys truly like me because they were spending their money on me. I never had that attention before. My wake up call from that was when I got date raped. That opened my eyes real quick to evaluate who I was and what I was turning into. I quit going to the clubs after I met this guy at work and we hit it off so well that we got married three months after dating. Trying to make this short, it was like he turned into Satan himself after we got married. He was a drug user and an alcoholic who beat me all the time and almost killed me a few times. I didn’t know he was like this before I married him as he hid it well. Physical abuse will go away, but the mental abuse will stay with you forever.

Now this is where God comes into play. I was going to church during that marriage and getting closer to Jesus even though I truly did not know him that well yet, but he knew me, amen. I was so scared my husband was going to kill me. I was a prisoner in my own house. He took me to work and brought me home and God forbid if he saw me talking to any other guy I worked with. I would get beat up when we got home. I wasn’t allowed to have friends or even talk to them on the phone. He was having affairs left and right and would come home afterwards and beat me up because he thought I was also sleeping around, which I never did and come on he watched me like a hawk.

I knew I had to get out of this marriage as I had everything beat out of me. I hated myself and the world and had no self-esteem left at all. I had no money no car no nothing and I truly felt he was going to eventually kill me. I cried out to God and he made a financial way where there was no way. We had opened a checking account in both our names earlier that day and deposited three hundred dollars, (God working here as he would have never put both names on the account). When we got home we got into a hugh fight and I told him I was staying home from work because I was to upset to go in so he went to work and I stayed home. God spoke to my heart and told me to call the airlines and see what a ticket cost. You got it, exactly three hundred dollars so I had my sister take me to the bank and I packed up what I could take on a plane and flew home. It hurts the things I had to leave behind, but my life is more important than material things.

Now here I am living with my mother, which would be for ten years, and holding everything inside me because I didn’t want to burden anyone with my problems. My mom and I get along great and we had so much fun in those ten years, but I was still hurting and lonely inside. I needed someone to love me for whom I was and not for what they wanted me to be. Again I cried out to God because the thoughts of suicide were persisting so I started going to a church near by, but wasn’t getting any help from the pastor at all. I would try to talk to him, but all he did was pat me on the back and tell me I was a strong person and I could handle my problems myself. I thought if this is what church is I don’t need it, but God had other plans He took me out of that church.

Within my misery God came to me in Spirit and showed me a revival that was in the paper so I decided to go even though it was far an hour drive. I liked the music as music was a temporal release and so many people came and talked to me as they were truly glad I came. When the pastor got up to speak I walked away to go to my car to leave because the music was done and I didn’t want to hear what he had to say. What he was talking about I could care less until I heard him say, “you are the head and not the tail”, (Deuteronomy 28) and like a bolt of lightning I was drawn back to hear what he was talking about. I never heard anyone preach to my heart like Jesus was using this man that day. I started going to their church because I wanted so much more of this word he was speaking. It was like I never read the Bible before and those words just leaped off those pages and found their way to my heart.

God started tearing down that wall I had built around me and changed my heart from anger and hate to love and compassion as He healed my broken heart that day. Later on I met another guy at church and we married and God has been blessing this marriage for many years now as God has truly given me a Godly man after His own heart. After getting proper instruction in the word of God through the Holy Spirit directly and He using others to teach me, God called me into His ministry to teach His word first using me in the Prison Ministry reaching out to the inmates for a time and season and then later teaching throughout the whole world via the internet.

Thank you Jesus for always walking beside, me keeping me safe through the fires of my life, even though I was not aware of your presence. To God be all the praise and glory for the things you have done for me that has made me who I am today as being a humbled servant as you have showed me your mercy and grace that is abounding.

Very powerful testimony!

 

[Truthfrees]

This thread slowing down on the testimoies eh? Ok, I'll post another one of mine.

God Let me drive my truck on an empty tank of gas!

I think this was in 2012 or 2013? I was living in Colorado Springs and work was slow. The economy was continuing to slide down. When you're self employed, it is either feast or famine. We had plenty of both at times. So during this time period, work was very slow, and I spent a lot of time drawing closer to God, reading His Word, watching good teaching videos and so forth, so in the midst of [poverty, I was growing rich in the Lord and His word!

I had been doing a lot of studying about translation by faith. Both in scripture and on youtube videos by Pastor Bruce Allen. I was excited about translation and the Lord had already been helping me very much through that time period. So anyway, one day I found myself with a very important appointment that I had to go to in the afternoon...and my truck was on fumes! I did not have enough gas to make it to my appointment, and I knew it! It was a real slow period of work for me. Inbetween winter and summer, too warm for furnaces, too cool for A/C...and tax time to boot. It always gets very slow right before the Christmas holiday, and stays slow until tax time is over unless there is a blizzard, lol. There was no blizzard. It was pretty warm. So consequently, I was very used to running out of gas here and there in my truck. Not only was work slow, but my gas gauge did not work either but the odometer did so I was always having to calculate how much gas I got, what my mileage was (around 10 MPG in that old truck). And it didn't take much of a miscalculation of distance or math to leave me walking that day, lol.

So I was pretty certain that I did not have enough gas to make my appointment, but it was prearranged by a couple weeks or so and work was so slow...I had to go. Very verrry important. I could not blow it off or call them and and tell them, I don't have enough gas...How would that sound?! Not very professional!

So I had to try to make it. You bet I prayed before I left. Because I had been studying Translation by faith and that was in my head at the time, I asked God to please give me a demonstration of translation and let me make this appointment! Amen...

So I left. It really wasn't all that far, about 6 or 8 miles. And as I'm driving there...the old familiar sputtering happened and it was obvious I just ran out of gas. So I pull into some kind of business and coasted into a parking space. I put it in park and thought well, the Lord did not answer my prayer. Ok, so what. Praise the Lord anyway. and I checked the time and considered what my plan of action should be at this point...

I don't know why, but without thought I sorta touched the gas pedal with my foot...and, Vroooom! It revved right up! Now there was no doubt that I ran out of gas. I had ran out of gas too many times in that truck to not know how it sounds and acts when I run out. I ran out of gas! But when I heard the engine rev, I instantly knew that the Lord had answered my prayer. So I said aloud watch this faith! and put it in gear and backed out and went on my merry way without another sputter or anything! I made my appointment on time, and drove all the way back home without a sputter. Praising the Lord the whole way! I parked it and went in, and after awhile my son came home and I told him what happened! And that, he better not try to drive it anywhere because it was out of gas. I figured it had to be because I went way past where I knew it was out.

Since I had been learning about translation by faith, and trans-relocation to another spot on earth (like Phillip after he baptized the Ethiopian), and that is what I prayed for...I consider that it was and exactly what I asked for. That the Lord literally trans-relocated me like I asked.

My son said that he had a few dollars and would walk over to the 7-11 with the gas can (which was only two blocks away) and get some gas for it. I said ok. But then my son did not go that night, he procrastinated or whatever but he did go in the morning. But he did not walk with the can. He decided to chance it. 7-11 was only two blocks away! Well he didn't make it. It did start and rolled up the street for him a little but he didn't make two blocks!

I think that was super cool how the Lord let me go do some business with no gas! I think I made it about half way to my appt initially so the Lord wound up trans-relocating me around 10 miles or so. So Praise the Lord!!
There was not any...supernatural blinking in or out like scripture makes it sound like what happened to Phillip but I got what I asked for, He helped me and everything turned out ok! Our God is so good! It felt like favor to me, and that just made me feel soo greatful! I love our Lord! I will praise Him forever! (I just hate walking and running out of gas, and He helped me just cuz' I asked.)
That's about as cool as it gets! Thank you Lord!!

hey you have really awesome testimonies - God is awesome - God bless you - thanks for sharing

 

[Truthfrees]

Here is my life as short as I can write it and I pray it ministers to all the broken hearts out there and to know there is hope in the name of Jesus. I was brought up with an abusive father who was work related disabled and his pain caused him to become an angry man at times when things did not go his way. It was during those times he would accuse my siblings and me of things we did not do and he would beat us with his belt and tell us we would never amount to anything. This caused my issues with anger and self doubt beginning in my early years. I will add that when we grew up and moved out of the house he mellowed out quite a bit.

My mother and grandparents were my rock of love even though they could not stop the pain of abuse. I went to church as a child so I knew a little bit about Jesus, but was never really into the whole church thing. Church was just a place to go to have some fun with other kids. There are eight kids in my family so I was never alone. Church had fun things to do that we could not do at home.

School was another place of abuse as we were raised on welfare as my dad was disabled and that brought with it much teasing, which is another place that helped build up my anger and taught me how to physically fight back. During my junior year I met a guy who I dated for awhile and he took me to a church. I thought the people were crazy or something, because they were waving their hands around in the air and speaking a funny language, but long story short I did repeat the sinners prayer, as I was told I would go to hell if I did not repent of my sins and ask Jesus to be my Lord and Savior. I spoke the words, but really did not have Jesus in my heart as I only went through the emotions. I soon quit going to church and broke up with that guy. I married another man after graduation and that marriage brought with it a lot of mental abuse. We divorced after eight years and now for the first time in my life I was truly on my own as we had moved away after we got married.

I got into drinking pretty heavy and I went as far as looking for love in the wrong places. If I did not have the money for drinks I would in a sense prostitute myself for drinks thinking that these guys truly like me because they were spending their money on me. I never had that attention before. My wake up call from that was when I got date raped. That opened my eyes real quick to evaluate who I was and what I was turning into. I quit going to the clubs after I met this guy at work and we hit it off so well that we got married three months after dating. Trying to make this short, it was like he turned into Satan himself after we got married. He was a drug user and an alcoholic who beat me all the time and almost killed me a few times. I didn’t know he was like this before I married him as he hid it well. Physical abuse will go away, but the mental abuse will stay with you forever.

Now this is where God comes into play. I was going to church during that marriage and getting closer to Jesus even though I truly did not know him that well yet, but he knew me, amen. I was so scared my husband was going to kill me. I was a prisoner in my own house. He took me to work and brought me home and God forbid if he saw me talking to any other guy I worked with. I would get beat up when we got home. I wasn’t allowed to have friends or even talk to them on the phone. He was having affairs left and right and would come home afterwards and beat me up because he thought I was also sleeping around, which I never did and come on he watched me like a hawk.

I knew I had to get out of this marriage as I had everything beat out of me. I hated myself and the world and had no self-esteem left at all. I had no money no car no nothing and I truly felt he was going to eventually kill me. I cried out to God and he made a financial way where there was no way. We had opened a checking account in both our names earlier that day and deposited three hundred dollars, (God working here as he would have never put both names on the account). When we got home we got into a hugh fight and I told him I was staying home from work because I was to upset to go in so he went to work and I stayed home. God spoke to my heart and told me to call the airlines and see what a ticket cost. You got it, exactly three hundred dollars so I had my sister take me to the bank and I packed up what I could take on a plane and flew home. It hurts the things I had to leave behind, but my life is more important than material things.

Now here I am living with my mother, which would be for ten years, and holding everything inside me because I didn’t want to burden anyone with my problems. My mom and I get along great and we had so much fun in those ten years, but I was still hurting and lonely inside. I needed someone to love me for whom I was and not for what they wanted me to be. Again I cried out to God because the thoughts of suicide were persisting so I started going to a church near by, but wasn’t getting any help from the pastor at all. I would try to talk to him, but all he did was pat me on the back and tell me I was a strong person and I could handle my problems myself. I thought if this is what church is I don’t need it, but God had other plans He took me out of that church.

Within my misery God came to me in Spirit and showed me a revival that was in the paper so I decided to go even though it was far an hour drive. I liked the music as music was a temporal release and so many people came and talked to me as they were truly glad I came. When the pastor got up to speak I walked away to go to my car to leave because the music was done and I didn’t want to hear what he had to say. What he was talking about I could care less until I heard him say, “you are the head and not the tail”, (Deuteronomy 28) and like a bolt of lightning I was drawn back to hear what he was talking about. I never heard anyone preach to my heart like Jesus was using this man that day. I started going to their church because I wanted so much more of this word he was speaking. It was like I never read the Bible before and those words just leaped off those pages and found their way to my heart.

God started tearing down that wall I had built around me and changed my heart from anger and hate to love and compassion as He healed my broken heart that day. Later on I met another guy at church and we married and God has been blessing this marriage for many years now as God has truly given me a Godly man after His own heart. After getting proper instruction in the word of God through the Holy Spirit directly and He using others to teach me, God called me into His ministry to teach His word first using me in the Prison Ministry reaching out to the inmates for a time and season and then later teaching throughout the whole world via the internet.

Thank you Jesus for always walking beside, me keeping me safe through the fires of my life, even though I was not aware of your presence. To God be all the praise and glory for the things you have done for me that has made me who I am today as being a humbled servant as you have showed me your mercy and grace that is abounding.

wow- what an awesome testimony

 

[for_his_glory]

Everything is confirmed for Wednesday the 27th at 7PM with Redwords Lou show.

 

[Tessa]

Will try to be listening, Lou told me how to do it properly

 

[Edward]

Geez, what a few days I have had since posting last time! I have a few more testimonies since then! I feel in my spirit though that I shouldn't speak yet of a couple of them but I can on what happened last Saturday! I didn't even pray and ask for help, and the Lord helped me!

but...fist things first. I want to recount what the Lord did for me before and then I will catch up some with late;y, lol!
I better post that one later, it could take a little while to type and I'm just home for lunch and have more work to do yet today.

 

[Tessa]

We've got a cliff hanger

 

[Edward]

Ok so this testimony is from when I was still in Colorado Springs and God protected me by letting me hide in the shadow of his wings as in Psalm 91.

I had let both my sons move in with me because they had been evicted from their place. Drugs and money problems. It went ok for a short while but one Saturday I woke up to extreme noise. Both my sons were fighting. I got up and came out and they were going at it hot and heavy, and tearing up my house! So I told them to stop it and suddenly the younger sons anger turned my way and he began being very disrespectful towards me. This did not sit well with me and in fact P'd me off and I started yelling at him. He freaked out and got even more disrespectful towards me to the point that I threatened him that I'd call the po-po on him if he didn't settle down and stop tearing things up....

All that did was rile him up and the next thing I know he's pushing me and daring me to. So I did. I called the police and told them my kids wont stop fighting and one of them needs to go away for a few so it can calm down. They said they would send someone out and I hung up. I went back into my bedroom in an effort to not stir him up any more than he already was, to wait.

It didn't take the police long to show up and there was two of them, and one wanted to talk to me to get my side of the story and the other one took both boys outside to get their side. Now I am still a little unclear on how this happens, but my two boys go from a knock down drag out fight to being friends and working together within the same 15 minute time span...? They went outside and teamed up on me and told the cop that I started it all and everything was all my fault! When me and the one cop step outside and I start hearing the one cop tell the other that apparently it's all my fault...I got so indignant! I hate being falsely accused and I started raising my voice and speaking truth...prolly not the best idea. One of the cops looks over at me and says if we have to come back here today, you are going to jail...Then they said their everybody calm down nows, and they left.

Now the cops taking their side emboldened my younger son to get in my face and taunt me and start being ultra disrespectful...I can't take that from a youngster so I popped him a good one...and he didn't even retaliate he just whipped out his phone and called the cops on me, to get me arrested! I'm no idiot, so I hit the door and started walking, lol! I didn't want to go to jail.

But with my hurt back and walking, where the heck am I supposed to go?! I can't walk far anymore for any great distance. I knew I had prolly over reacted a little but my mission now was to stay out of jail. So I made a corner and kept walking...and started praying. Lord, please don't let me get arrested! I turn up an alley and keep walking, I get another block and have to rest. SO I sat down in the sun and continued to pray to the Lord for my freedom!

All of a sudden, within me, I hear a clear voice telling me to get up and go left...So I do. then it's, turn right here...so I do. Then it's stop. Sit here and rest. Then in a bit it's get up and walk and go right...and this sort of thing goes on for like an hour or something. I am never more than four blocks or so from my house, and a few times, I see police cars in the distance a few blocks down, cruising, looking for me! I see them crossing the intersections and stuff. But they never see me or come close to where I am at.

I'm out walking in circles while three police cars are searching the area for me to arrest me! I am very close and very exposed! Can't run. And not really scared at that point. I know full well what is happening! The Holy Spirit is guiding me, hiding me, answering my prayer! So I pay attention and am listening. He tells me several times, stop and rest here...when to sit, when to get up. Which way to go, which turns. Which alleys, which streets...and I just listen and obey the voice.

After an hour or so of this I hear, ok, it's safe for you to go home now...!!!!!!!

So I start walking home, praising Him! And asking for the Spirit of Peace to be upon my house and kids when I get there...and sure enough, when I get home the kids are all apologetic! And ask where I was hiding? You was in 7-11's bathroom hiding, huh? (&-11 was 2 blocks away)...you had to be cuz there was 3 cars looking for you and they never found a trace of you...

No I was not in 7-11. I was being hidden in the shadow of the Lord. I saw them. Many times. They never saw me!

When I realized the magnitude of what had just happened...I don't think I have ever felt so much gratitude in my life, to the Lord! That was huge!
True story!

 

[Tessa]

I pictured it all happening as I read your words. We have an amazing God.

 

[Edward]

Ok, so last Saturday, I was not on call and supposed to be off, but the office asked me if I would mind doing one no heat call on Saturday. A man's furnace blower would not come on. I jumped at the chance. Work is a little thin lately because it's been warmer. It's kind of between the seasons of winter and summer. Too warm for heaters and too cool for A/C.

So I go out early enough on Saturday that I will have time to make it to the supply house before they close at 11, just in case I do not have his particular motor or part, whatever on my truck. I walk into this customers basement and his furnace is like, 50 or 60 years old. An old belt drive blower motor and a cast iron burner. I know that I don't have a belt drive motor on the truck, but still...let's be sure it's the motor and not the switch. The customer tells me that the pilot is out also.

Well, waddaya know! it's only a bad fan/limit switch! And I do have one of those on the truck! I got excited because the job just got easier! So in my excitement, I go right out and get the new part and install it...and forget to quote him first. Everything is more expensive on the weekend. He freaks at the price (just over 500.) and asks well will you at least light my pilot so I don't have to pay 500 bucks and still not have heat? Sure, why not, as long as it lights....but it doesn't light. It's been 20 years since it's been serviced and it needs cleaned. A furnace service is double on the weekend, and this is an ancient furnace that will take a half day to service, easy. I quote him for that and he doesn't like price so says forget it, I'm not paying for the fan switch either. (Sigh) I can't even guarantee that cleaning the pilot will indeed make it work because the gas control is obviously original, it might be bad! So I give my boss a call and ask how he wants me to handle this...

He drops some off the price and says clean the pilot also, but nothing else is included, nor a full servicing. So the customer says this is acceptable, do it. Now this old furnace doesn't even have a pilot access to light it through, so they had a grill type igniter in it, push the button and it sparks and lights it. It only has a pilot sight hole to be able to see if the pilot is lit or not. A 50 year old igniter is almost guaranteed to not make it through a disassembly/reassembly and still work. Sigh. Whatever, let's just do it. It is a major pain in the butt to take this thing apart enough to get the pilot out so I can clean it. and the thermocouple is so old that the tip is burnt off of it and gone! He agrees to a extra charge for a new one. He understands that the igniter might not make it, the gas valve is in question...but does want heat so go for it.

It is another major pain to reassemble the pilot into the unit...and finally...it's time to light it up again. I sure hope that igniter still works! The igniter will not work anymore, just like I thought. So with no pilot access door to light it through it becomes, do you have any fireplace matches to try to stick it through the sight hole for the pilot to light it...another hour later and I still can not get this thing to light! The pilot is waay back in there and down low. The matches are short and don't curve.

AT some point one has to consider the time and serviceability of the unit. I have already spent entirely too much time on this old neglected unit. This is overtime, flat rate. At this point for all I know, the original gas valve will not work and perhaps that is why it will not light again. SO I try again, and it wont light. I sat there for a minute and thought, I should give up and I am pondering exactly what I will say to this guy about, it is not happening. I have gone as far as I can reasonably go with this unit and it is not going to happen today...for the price quoted. I have to be careful how I say this, because he already threatened to not pay once already.

So I have made up my mind to call it quits. Just looking for right words...and he walks in. So to buy a little time to think, I strike one more match and go through the motions, so I can think while he is standing there...

...and it lights! Just as easy peasy as any other normal unit. This was only a stalling mechanism this time, I'm not even giving it a honest try and poof it lights! Just like that!

...and it becomes clear to me at that moment. The Lord made it light! Of course I had invited the Lord to go with me to work, I always do! The Lord heard my thoughts in my heart. He knew I was about to give up. He knew my heart was in it, but it wasn't working. So without me asking, He showed me some grace, and the customer too! And suddenly I was done. It stayed lit, it cycled fine. The customer was happy, He paid cash. My boss was happy...Everybody won.

That blew my mind! I raved praise on the way home! It was absolutely obvious that the Lord helped with this. Me and the customer had both tried repeatedly to light it. Matches, newspaper, paper towels...it would not light. And then it was lit. When I was about to quit! Hahaha!! I have learned that the Lord confirms everything He does for us, and even this time. I asked Him on the way home, Lord, that was you that helped, right?!
and such a feeling of peace came upon me, that let me know, yes it was. I already knew it though but, I hadn't eve asked for His help this time...but there He was!

It pays to invite the Lord to work with you.

 

[Edward]

I pictured it all happening as I read your words. We have an amazing God.

We sure do! He is soo good to us!

 

[Edward]

I just got home from work again. I am on call this week, from Friday March 29th to next Friday morning April 5th when normal business hours resume then someone else will be on from that Friday until the next Friday. I was out quite a bit today...and...I just seen a pretty big miracle let me tell you!. I actually did not see anything supernatural but the Lord helped me in a big way. I consider it a very big miracle!, I did something very very stupid, and the Lord helped me in a big way and saved my butt, so to speak!


There I was driving along, I had been sent to Navarre Ohio to fix a boiler that was not working so it was out in the country a bit. I was on my way to the shop where I work to see if the correct part for her boiler system was in stock there because I did not have one on my truck, I used it. The older lady customer was very nice and even wanted to know if rather than come back with the part (The gas control for the burners) tonight would I come back tomorrow morning some time? I told her that it would be the same price tomorrow as tonight, and I didn't mind coming back tonight to get her heat back on. That's what I do. But she was trying to be nice to me because it was pretty late. And that's nice of her, God bless her for having a sympathetic heart.

Well the customer really had nothing to do with what happened next. I was driving along this country road, and I was talking to the Lord in my truck. Many of you Brothers and Sisters know that I am prone to inviting the Lord to go with me to work, or any time that I leave my house to go out into the world. So the Lord was there, and....Edward did one of what I consider to be one of the stupidest things in my entire life! ...I...can't really share with you all what exactly it was that I did...it's just too embarrassing to me.

It wasn't a close call almost wrecked or anything like that, (it was even worse than that! But not in a way that I was in danger of harm or anything. The Lord let me realize what I had did when I drove into the shop parking lot. And I felt so stupid! So I began speaking/praying to the Lord about fixing this stupidness that I had done. and...He did not, right away, he was silent. He let me experience the full effect of the realization of the stupidness that I had done, and it was....bad for me. But I had to still search the shop for this part for the Customer so that I would already have it in my hand tonight so I can get out there real early tomorrow and fix her furnace for her. My blunder had nothing to do with the customer in any way. but I had to be about taking care of business even though I had a lot upon me at that time. I think the Lord may have just let me stew upon this thing for a short while to...teach me something or show me something, I dunno yet. I just wanted to hurry and go home. It was late, I felt like crap in my spirit for making such a serious blunder. and then, after I found her gas valve, and a few other parts (it's supposed to be cold tomorrow) I headed to the truck, and the Lord let me see that He had fixed this thing for me! It was an absolute magical moment! What a weight was lifted from me!

The Lord knows that it was an innocent blunder that I made, and so...He had my back and instantly it was over and no problem any more! Ohhh, He is a very good God! I was talking to Him, and I believe He helped me because He enjoys the conversation. Closer than a Brother!

There was no confusion. I know that I did a very bad thing, and when the Lord fixed it suddenly...it was very supernatural what He did. Not like parting the Red Sea supernatural, but still...correcting a bad thing. It was huge! Thank you Lord!!! SO much!!

 

[ezra]

interesting perhaps i will give testimony later on from darkness to the glorious light

 

[ezra]

my testimony is being transformed to the light and what led to it.
i was raised in a good family raised in the Methodist church . in high school i started smoking weed .it progressed to trying other drugs.i tried meth few times did acid few times. my main thing was drink few beers smoke weed. i loved smoking weed .

i had people i knew that i could get a buzz going on with. i kept many connections open where to buy someone who knew someone. you might say a friend who had a friend .
i sold some marijuana when i lived at home. enough to support my habit.

i got married in 1983 quit for a while picked it back up. decided to hook up with a person and grow some.. we put plants out on federal Forrest land . the feds put things together it was took before a federal grand jury .. we was indited 30 plants on government land .
needless to say federal court has no sense of humor. i faced jail time . went to court my sentence was 500.00 fine 2 years probation a year of drug classes. this was a God thing to get my attention. the arresting officer with the forest service . was a christian man i did not know this at the time. i am fairly certain he talked with the assistant u.s attorney .
i cut a plea bargain it cost me my old way of life. the church my wife attended was having a revival. i did go the first week one night .did not go the 2nd week. i had enough church...so i thought she comes in and tells me the church extended the revival another two weeks.. i was not happy we fought .i ended up going the 3rd week.
mind you i said 2 years probation this 3rd week service was the last week of my probation ( OVER LOOK THE TYPOS AND GRAMMAR ) on a Friday night the last night of my probation in these 2 years i seldom went to church . i would not use the church while on probation .. back the friday night the preacher preached covered every thing i had ever did and some i didn't lol. he gave the altar call he said i am going to walk down the isle and back up the isle. if you dont want to go by your self take my hand and we will go together. as he came back up i heard God say its NOW or never..i chose the now.

i soon became sunday school superintendent . taught the young adult class for a while.. 5 years later God called me to preach .. going on 20 years i been preaching. pastored few churches . had my ups downs, i wish i could say i had not strayed but i have a few times.. just not very far He left the 99 and come looking for me .

that is bases of my testimony .i have been in some God ANOINTED services. did youth ministry for a while.. helped preach 2018 new years eve watch service.. had a young lady come to the altar and stayed praying good 30 mins or longer .the church was moving the spirit was directing . we had a young girl grade school age saved sitting in a pew with great g ma .

i have seen many miracles happen in church . i am a bit radical in my ministry i have no time for petty church doctrines.. my question is r u saved ? do you got Jesus .. heaven is sweet hell is hot.. if you sin make things right with Him before going to bed.. that is my story

 

[Tessa]

Wow that's some testimony Ezra. Thank you for sharing. Praise be to God
He works.nighty wonders if we listen to the Spirit like you did - and still do.

 

[for_his_glory]

my testimony is being transformed to the light and what led to it.
i was raised in a good family raised in the Methodist church . in high school i started smoking weed .it progressed to trying other drugs.i tried meth few times did acid few times. my main thing was drink few beers smoke weed. i loved smoking weed .

i had people i knew that i could get a buzz going on with. i kept many connections open where to buy someone who knew someone. you might say a friend who had a friend .
i sold some marijuana when i lived at home. enough to support my habit.

i got married in 1983 quit for a while picked it back up. decided to hook up with a person and grow some.. we put plants out on federal Forrest land . the feds put things together it was took before a federal grand jury .. we was indited 30 plants on government land .
needless to say federal court has no sense of humor. i faced jail time . went to court my sentence was 500.00 fine 2 years probation a year of drug classes. this was a God thing to get my attention. the arresting officer with the forest service . was a christian man i did not know this at the time. i am fairly certain he talked with the assistant u.s attorney .
i cut a plea bargain it cost me my old way of life. the church my wife attended was having a revival. i did go the first week one night .did not go the 2nd week. i had enough church...so i thought she comes in and tells me the church extended the revival another two weeks.. i was not happy we fought .i ended up going the 3rd week.
mind you i said 2 years probation this 3rd week service was the last week of my probation ( OVER LOOK THE TYPOS AND GRAMMAR ) on a Friday night the last night of my probation in these 2 years i seldom went to church . i would not use the church while on probation .. back the friday night the preacher preached covered every thing i had ever did and some i didn't lol. he gave the altar call he said i am going to walk down the isle and back up the isle. if you dont want to go by your self take my hand and we will go together. as he came back up i heard God say its NOW or never..i chose the now.

i soon became sunday school superintendent . taught the young adult class for a while.. 5 years later God called me to preach .. going on 20 years i been preaching. pastored few churches . had my ups downs, i wish i could say i had not strayed but i have a few times.. just not very far He left the 99 and come looking for me .

that is bases of my testimony .i have been in some God ANOINTED services. did youth ministry for a while.. helped preach 2018 new years eve watch service.. had a young lady come to the altar and stayed praying good 30 mins or longer .the church was moving the spirit was directing . we had a young girl grade school age saved sitting in a pew with great g ma .

i have seen many miracles happen in church . i am a bit radical in my ministry i have no time for petty church doctrines.. my question is r u saved ? do you got Jesus .. heaven is sweet hell is hot.. if you sin make things right with Him before going to bed.. that is my story

Great testimony as we do come out of darkness to His wonderful light. Thank you for sharing.

 

[ezra]

it was a long journey many had gave up on me. i have seen a lot of my old crew i hung with. still trying to be the party animal.. on the other hand a guy i use party with lot wilder testimony saved pastor of a church all by God amazing grace