The following testimonies are by real people at Grace Fellowship who have been dramatically impacted by the incredible love and transforming power of Jesus. They have been posted anonymously to respect their privacy. If you are a member of Grace and have a testimony you’d like to share, please fill out this simple form. And if you are struggling with deep-seated issues in your life and need to find rest and divine restoration, our prayer ministry would love to help you in your healing process.
Posted on August 19, 2009:
Wow! Today a friend and myself prayed, soaked in His love and then went out in the Larkfield Center with the intention to pray for people and leak His love on others. We went to the coffee shop around the corner from the church. When we were waiting for our coffee, my friend told me she had gotten a headache as we were leaving the church. I told her maybe God was telling us to pray for the girl at the counter……maybe she had a headache…..sometimes He does that! Well, she didn’t have a headache….at least we had the guts to ask….thank you Jesus!!! It is a start! Then we went outside to sit so we could pray for people walking by. We saw a lady that was limping. She went into the market, and we made plans to “get her” when she came back to her car! When she came out, we asked her if she needed prayer. She said, “yes.” She seemed so willing for us to pray for her, almost excited. She told us she had scoliosis, her back was twisted. We prayed….and as we prayed for peace to come to her body and that her body come into alignment with His kingdom, you could see God working on her. She relaxed…we could see/feel her body relax and peace came on her…….and her countenance changed big time. Wow….what an awesome God we serve!!! Lord, thank you for the opportunity!!!!
Posted on July 30, 2009:
Healed from Autism;
Sensory Integration Disfunction and Children with Sensory Integration Disorder (my daughter has this) have problems interpreting things they hear, see, smell, or touch. Sensory Integration Disorder occurs in the brains of children. The nervous system works by interpretting signals sent from the body through the nerves to the brain.
These signals tell the brain to see, hear, smell, or feel. Children with
Sensory Integration Disorder do not process these signals correctly. For
example, they might process sounds very intensely and therefore startle
easily. They may have problems with over sensitivity or under sensitivity
to things they taste, feel, smell, see, or hear. Sensory issues are common
in children with autism or ADHD.
She couldn’t wear clothes without crying all day. She couldn’t sleep at
night. She had difficulty in speech and learning issues.
She would spin without needing to stop. etc.
I would cry with her or be so frustrated, I’d want to pull my hair out.
She would only eat certain foods. Even her mouth/tastebuds were sensitive.
She had no perceptual ability. My sweet baby became handicapped to the
point I couldn’t send her to kindergarten. I’m a homeschool mom.
The good news is, she was healed at the same time I was healed of carpal
tunnel and C-7 nerve damage. 2 weeks after visiting Bethel, I noticed I
was able to sleep through the night. She would tell me how she saw Jesus
at night. She began to preach and tell me about End times through word
pictures. She saw angels and Jesus nightly. She began to prophecy to our
family ever since this encounter with the Lord.
She would lay hands on people at church to pray for their healing. This
all started at the age of 6.
Posted on July 29, 2009:
God Provides…..I am currently unemployed and while I am receiving unemployment benefits, they don’t cover everything. My Aunt sent me a note not knowing I am unemployed. She said, “I know your business is probably slow and maybe your hours have been cut, so here is a check to help out.” This is a relative who I dearly love, but she doesn’t live here and never writes me so this was wonderfully unexpected. It paid the full amount of my rent! I am so thankful for God’s provision. It is very clear to me that every single thing that I have is directly from His hand. Nothing is an accident or coincidence.
Posted on July 24, 2009:
God’s provision;
I had a vision of a red minivan in God’s hands. I had another vision of an angel driving down this red minivan to the local Honda dealer. I had prayed for a car since mine was no longer functioning. As I was driving down the freeway, I get a word to pull off.
I drive off and the Holy Spirit directs me to the Honda dealer. I get there and think…I don’t have money to buy a new car. I knew I had to go in faith. The Lord had been confirming this for 2 weeks…and I didn’t want to miss what He had in store for me.
When I got there, the salesman asked what I was looking for and I told him. I saw a vision of a RED minivan. He looked at the lot. No red minivan. He tells me that his wife also hears the Lord and does “crazy” things like this. He went to look farther back in the lot and found 1 cherry red minivan. I didn’t even want to drive it. I simply said, I’ll take it.
I prayed the whole time…”are you sure God that I can afford this?” YES!
Long story short…we were able to pay the whole amount by a generous gift
within 3 months! THANK YOU LORD!!!!
Posted on July 21, 2009:
Last week my CD of worship music was finally finished. This had involved many musicians, two singers and the sound engineer from our church. Today one of the main singers called on the phone to tell me this story;
Her parents were visiting from New Hampshire and she had given them a CD. Her father shared the CD with people in the hotel lounge, who wanted to hear his daughter’s singing. The CD was played in the lounge and over the hotel speaker system about 5 times. They liked the CD and asked her father for it.
I’m blessed that so many people got to hear the gospel!
Posted on July 8, 2009:
I caught an ordinary common cold and considered following the world’s usual advice of “taking it easy” to get well. Grace Fellowship’s weekly Youth Group was coming up soon, and of course the following crossed my mind:
I don’t want to infect everyone else.
I don’t want to stay up late and get worse.
I’m just not up to it.
But when the evening of Youth Group came, God’s heart won over! These were the following points He made:
Everyone could pray for me to get well.
He can protect everyone else from getting the disease.
He could strengthen me as I go to seek after Him.
I had promised Jared Totemeier the previous Sunday that I would go unless I were dying, and as bad as a common cold is, it is NOT dying by any means!
So I ran after Jesus and went to Youth Group. The moment I walked through the doorway and into the place where the Lord’s Presence was, I stopped feeling sick. I can’t exactly explain that properly — I was still congested and all that, but that heavy, gloomy, miserable feeling you get when you’re sick just immediately lifted. We had a wonderful time of worship, sharing, and hearing the Word. My energy, peace, and excitement all returned in that moment when I gave my heart to God and made that little effort to do something for Him, something as simple as getting out of bed. Yes I still had symptoms, but they went away after a few days — and in the meantime I didn’t feel oppressed anymore. It’s a reminder that God doesn’t only heal big things like broken limbs and leprosy: He can still come to us when we have little things like a cat scratch or a common cold!
Posted on July 7, 2009:
UNOFFENDABLE- This is the word the Lord keeps bringing to mind; over & over again in many situations.
Example # 1) I’ve worked 10 years for a Mortgage Broker in Santa Rosa. I get paid via base salary + bonus dependent on the number of loans that I close each month. When the economy started to fail a year or so ago, my boss informed me he would be cutting my hours back to 6 hours a day & there would be no bonus. The Lord instantly gave me grace to respond in kind. I said, with a big smile on my face- do I look worried? I know God will supply all my needs. The next week, my husband & I left on vacation for 10 days. While I was away, my boss had to sit in the office every day, all day taking all phone calls pertaining to every mortgage transaction (as I do every day). When I returned from vacation, my boss said to me, you are back on full time status, there is no way to get everything done in 6 hours each day. Yea GOD!!!
Example # 2) The economy is still weak in 2009,our office is keeping the doors open by the Favor of God.
My bonus had been cut way back on paper, but in fact, we had 3 new Loan Officers start via Internet, bringing in more business for me. My bonus was even higher in 2009 than in the years when the company was booming. One of our original Loan Officers complained to my boss, that I was making more money than he was (even though this person was on commission & had the potential for greater earnings). Again, my bonus was reduced, because ” It must be kept fair to everyone” ha, ha… I am UNOFFENDABLE because my worth is determined by my Heavenly Father & in fact I received a very nice bonus despite what the enemy had intended.
Example # 3) We are now 1/2 way through 2009, my boss’ daughter just started working as receptionist because “‘she needed a job & he wants me to train her in mortgage loan processing. My boss just informed me there would be no more bonus’ because of greater overhead with another employee, “you know how it is…” UNOFFENDABLE, Yes, I say Yes LORD. Now I can’t wait to see how the Lord will bless me this time.
Posted on July 7, 2009:
I wanted to give you a testimony about reconciliation. Brief background: For my son’s wedding, I ended up without a dress to wear. I really felt God leading me to a woman in the church, so I asked her and she very graciously agreed to make my dress. As we worked together I shared with her my angst about this – it would be the first time in 13 years I had seen my ex-husband’s family, and many of the friends he and I had during our 19 year marriage. She prayed that it would be a time of reconciliation.
It was that and more. In some cases, it was as if 13 years had never passed; my ex-husband’s sisters/brothers-in-law and nieces/nephews could not have been more welcoming. To a person they greeted me with ‘it’s so good to see you’ and ‘we’ve missed you’. . . I hung out with them a lot! I have had hard work to do in the past to make sure that I didn’t carry any grudges or hard feelings forward – and it definitely wasn’t easy at times. The payoff was remarkable – a little bittersweet, because I do miss them – we were family for 19 years, and that’s hard to dismiss.
Bottom line: give it over to God, don’t walk in fear and see how good God is!
Posted on July 2, 2009:
The day before yesterday (Tuesday, June 30th) I was having pain in my left knee all day. I thought perhaps it was God telling me to pray for someone in our congregation that had knee problems, which I did. The pain did not go away, in fact it intensified. I couldn’t walk well and it hurt to touch it. (Note: On our camping trip last week, we did a lot of hiking, which tends to put strain on my knees.)
I had promised to take my son to B & R Icecream Tuesday night. My knee was hurting so much, I was afraid we wouldn’t be able enjoy our time together! As I was driving, I asked him to pray for my knee and immediately the pain went down 50%. I asked him to pray again and the pain left completely! I pressed on the spot that was hurting and it didn’t hurt. I’ve been pain free for two days! Thank you, Jesus! And for the record, he did not use a lot of fancy words, he just said that God can do it because He’s a good God and that He’s so big, He can do anything! That’s it.
Yea, God! Thanks for releasing the healing flow of Jesus!
Posted on June 13, 2009:
When my husband & I bought our home a year ago one thing that seemed like an extra bonus was the strawberry patch. It was big, and soon I was collecting a gallon of berries every day. I gave several plants away at the end of the season, but as strawberries do, the remaining plants put out runners and had “babies” which are now giving me berries. Some are funny shaped now, but they are good!
One problem I have with my strawberry patch is that there are small slugs that like my berries. Recently there were so many slug holes in the berries that I felt like it was a race to see who would get to the strawberries first; me, or the slugs. Last week I wondered about putting down snail bait, but the patch is very large now, and in more than one location. I felt led to pray, so I asked the Lord to bless my strawberries. I had a thought afterwards that said “I will bless your strawberries, and they will not have slugs.” “Is that you, Lord?” I wondered. I knew time would tell.
Today I had a very busy day, helping my husband and my son paint the house. We were done early and I went into my backyard. Seeing many red strawberries, I began picking them. Almost none of them had bite marks in them! And, they were shaped normally too! Could it be . . . ? Yes, God cares about our harvest, and looks over such small things as strawberry patches. We should never hesitate to take things to God in prayer, for He cares for us. Amen.
Posted on June 3, 2009:
A few Sundays ago, a brother in our church did the offering teaching and prayed for jobs and finances. One of the young men in our church has been looking for a job (he’s a great golfer looking to become professional). That same afternoon the young man got a call from the golf course where he had applied. The owner said, ” I heard you are looking for a job. We don’t have a position but will make one for you.” He is working at two golf courses, owned by the same people. Working there will allow him to go to the next level in his golfing career.
Another brother in our church got a $ .50 an hour raise!
And the church youth had the garage sale and made $243.00. Very good considering we didn’t have much stuff.
Posted on May 30, 2009:
I have begun working at a new temp job as a busser. So my first two days on the job went really well, and I arrived there early both days so I could have plenty of time to get inside and clock in without being out of breath. 
I also have to work this Saturday morning. Last night I set my alarm clock for 6:00 in the morning. During the night I had a dream that I was an hour late and panicking to distraction. I woke up soon afterward and thought “Oh good, it was only a dream!!”. I went back to sleep and had the SAME DREAM AGAIN — I was an hour late!!! I was trying to dial my supervisor and tell her I was late, but the phone wasn’t working, and I couldn’t read the number off my address book (you know how dreams are).
When I was about to give up all hope, I woke up for the second time. It was about 5:30. I immediately thought it was best to reset my alarm for fifteen minutes earlier “just in case.” Then, as a reflex motion, I checked the switch to make sure the alarm was ON. It was NOT!! It had been off the whole time. So guess what? If I hadn’t had those dreams — not one, but two — I would not have checked my alarm, it would not have gone off, and I probably would have been an HOUR LATE.
God is so gracious to have sent me those dreams with a word of warning. Thank you Lord for protecting me today! Now I can get to work on time!! Praise Him!!
Posted on May 26, 2009:
In looking through the many paintings that we have painted over the last year, I came across a painting of a fetus being held by God. The name of the painting was “Destiny.” I immediately got the sense that we needed to gift this painting to the Pregnancy Counseling Center. I emailed the artist to ask her to pray about doing that…..this is her response:
I want to thank you for asking me to pray about giving the painting called “Destiny” to the Pregnancy Center”. I took it over last week and met Deb Hook, who was very happy to get the painting. It shows a fetus in the womb, and God’s hand holding it. She will put it in a room where mothers who have decided to keep their pregnancies can see it. Thank you again for following the leading on this.
Posted on May 6, 2009:
Firday morning the Lord gave me a picture of a bicycle. I was standing next to it – just looking at it. He spoke to my heart, “You do not learn to ride the bicycle by standing next to it, by looking at it, or even talking about it. You weren’t made to just longingly watch others ride. You were made to get on the bike and ride.” I was thinking, “But what if I’m scared? What if I fall? What if I can’t learn to ride?”
I remembered how my dad – probably similar to everyone else’s dad – how he held on to the bike and ran alongside of me until I took off. Then I got what the Lord was saying.. Am I content to stand by and watch everyone else ride their bikes, or am I willing to risk falling so I can ride? WILL I TRUST THE LORD TO RUN ALONGSIDE OF ME?
I really felt the Lord’s piercing question, “What are you willing to do for revival? What are you willing to do to live a revivalist lifestyle?” I don’t want to just talk about it. I want to live it. I’m willing to risk falling – perhaps a lot. But I want to be a revivalist – bicycle rider.
I’m also wondering what process other believers have gone through to experience the Lord’s outpouring in their cities. I’ve heard of young adults whose job is to pray 24-7 for revival – perhaps not seeing it – yet. I’m willing to contend and press in for more. I’m also honored to be on the journey with such amazing co-contenders as YOU.
Jesus, take us deeper in our relationship with You. We just want more of You in our lives, in our families, at work, at church, in our neighborhoods, and in our city. Forgive our unbelief. We believe that You are able to do exceedingly above what we could ever ask or think. We also believe that You want to partner with us – run alongside of us!!! Jesus, we get on our bikes today to go on an adventure with You. Would you increase our hunger to pursue revival in Sonoma County. Holy Spirit, bring people in our lives today that need You. We want to release the love of the Father and the healing flow of Jesus, and the substance of heaven into their lives! Amen.
Posted on May 6, 2009:
I attended the Open Heavens conference with no expectation. We had been out of town the week before for spring break, so attending was last minute. But God had plans for me there that I never could have thought possible.
I knew I was in trouble on Friday night when Dan began talking about changing the atmosphere we live in. Not just experiencing the atmosphere of God on Sunday, but talking it with you wherever you go. For some reason that seemed to be a new concept for me that night, even though, Ken has been talking about for some time now. Funny how the Holy Spirit works. So Sat. sessions were awesome and I knew that I wanted to touch God in a new way. I wanted what Dan was talking about, but thought for sure I wasn’t worthy of what he was offering. God has been trying to get me out of this thought process for a while now and on Sat. He ripped me from the mud I was stuck in. Like many others, I stood up for word of knowledge, because I thought, surely, that one is the most impressive. Being able to tell something to someone that only they would know. As I looked around the room, almost everyone else was also standing. So my thoughts went to a bad place. “See who you are standing with, you don’t measure up”. So I sat down with no expectation of receiving anything from the Lord. Dan proceeds down the list of spiritual gifts and gets to the gift of healing and tingly body parts. As he is praying my pinky fingers on both hands begin to tingle and my hands are getting warm. Trying to not think about, Dan asked if anyone was having that feeling? Right at that moment, I knew the Lord was talking to me. Not sure what to do with it, I just sat there! Then Dan asked me to get out of my seat to go and heal. First of all, I never asked for that gift and know you want me to use it? What if it is just a flook? But I checked my spirit and left my seat. I thought, you will never succeed in Christ if you don’t try. So I got up and walked over to a guy and the minute I touched him, a serge of electricity go through me. WHOA!!! Never felt that before. I have seen others jerk around in the spirit, but thought it was manufactured. I stand corrected!!!!!!!!!! Because from that moment on I was wrecked for Jesus!!! Everyone I touched “shocked” me!!!! Not only were my hands on fire but my heart was too!!! I experienced Joy like never before!!! I LAUGHED!!! And Jesus has kept me “LAUGHING” in Him all week!!! I touched several people that night and most experienced some sort of healing or joy that night. YOU GO GOD!!!!
Ok, then I get to church on this past Sunday (May 3rd) and the anointing was so heavy, that worship was off the chain and I couldn’t stop moving my body. I have never “shimmied” for the Lord before, but I was on Sunday. The Holy Spirit fell on me like never before. I WANT MORE!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve tasted, and hunger for more! I want our church to be a JOYFUL, “SHIMMYING”, church. One that touches the Lord on Sunday and carries Him with throughout the week and taps in for more the next Sunday!!! I want the atmosphere of the Lord in my home so that anyone who enters, saved or pre-saved, is touched by His love and joy; then wonders what is sticking to them after they have left. I am ready for a new level of worship too!!! Ready to find my own song from my heart!!! I am ready to express myself in new ways to the Lord!! BRING IT ON!!!!!
I hope I have adequately expressed myself. How do you really write down the things of the Holy Spirit?! My prayer is that someone will read this and be touched or blessed or both!
Posted on May 6, 2009:
At our Open Heavens conference in April, one of the exercises our speaker Dan McCollum had us do was invite the Holy Spirit to advance our giftings into new areas. One woman reported that her hands were tingling and hot – a new feeling for her. Dan immediately asked people in the room who were experiencing pain in their hands to connect with her. I didn’t initially go because I didn’t feel the description of the pain he was calling out matched mine – but then he pointed to the specific area on his hand where I had pain – and he said something about being related to carpal tunnel. I was out of my chair before I knew it! After Melissa held my hands I found the pain was gone – just gone!
Posted on May 6, 2009:
The conference really jump-started me. I was in a low spot with my faith and didn’t really realize it. I saw God in a fresh way and a very relieving way. I had been really down on myself for a long time. That feeling is gone and I am able to see through it now.
My hands also got healed!!! I have had so much flexibility and no swelling in my fingers or joints. I have no abnormal pain and I am still amazed every day that I can open my hands fully without it hurting at all. That is really amazing!!! I needed this refreshing time with God and my church family. It was the best three days I have had in a long time.
Posted on May 6, 2009:
When I requested the gift of healing during the Open Heavens Conference, the intense pain I’ve had in my body for months dropped off my body as though it were a garment and fell on thee floor around my feet. It keeps trying to come back… but I am wearing my armor.
I also have a restoration of the gift of prophesy, and word of knowledge. I’m excited! Jesus is Lord!
Posted on May 6, 2009:
Although we knew a while back that Cindy’s brother was going to get married again, it was not until a week prior to the wedding that we received the actual invitation with another card enclosed asking people to give words of wisdom, encouragements, funny stories, poems etc, etc.
The thought flashed through my mind that I didn’t know him that well, and that I would not know anything to say about him. And I made up my mind that I would not give a speech.
On Saturday morning, as I was getting ready to go to the wedding, I was thinking about Cindy’s brother, and suddenly the word “pearl” came into my mind. A couple of weeks ago I had read an article about pearls.
A pearl starts to grow inside the shell of an oyster or mussel when a foreign object enters or is placed inside that shell. That foreign object causes irritation, pain and suffering for the creature, and in order to protect itself against this pain that little animal starts to produce a fluid that will cover that foreign object. That fluid will harden and form a minuscule layer around that foreign object. So over a period of time multiple layers of this hardened fluid are covering that pain causing object, and the final product of that is what we call the pearl. When the pearl is being harvested the little oyster or mussel dies.
Cindy’s brother and the woman he just married had gone through a lot sorrow, pain and suffering in their lives. Both of them had gone through a divorce, and in my brother-in-law’s case he lost his oldest son to cancer when the boy was 19 years of age. And all of that around the same time. So a double whammy for him. But I have seen my brother-in law hang in there with the Lord in all those years.
What I felt the Lords was saying through this was that both of them were that pearl that had grown inside of that shell. The pain and suffering they had gone through in their lives was not necessarily God’s will, but He allowed it to happen. And because the both of them were hanging in there with God all that time, He allowed these pearls to grow, unbeknown to them, in this dark and cold “shell”.
I felt that the Lord was saying that on that day (Saturday, the wedding day) it was time for those pearls to be harvested, and that they no longer would have to dwell in that place of pain and suffering. That part died and was thrown away, as God removed the pearls to place them side by side on this ring of gold. God is that ring, there is no beginning or end found on a ring, and He placed those two pearls on that ring, just as a jeweler would do to fashion a beautiful piece of jewelery.
Posted on May 6, 2009:
About 1 1/2 years ago the roofing industry collapsed and I cried out to God what I should do. Should I hang it up or hang in there? A few days later the Lord gave me a dream that there would be more than enough work at a future time. I won’t get into the dream. But after a year and half nothing had changed. Our company had not even had a call for a reroof in 6 months. So approximately 3 weeks ago I made the decision to quit roofing and I was going to take the ladder out of my truck.
As I’m going outside to do just that, I get a phone call from someone wanting a roof estimate! I mean, what are the chances of that! Doe’s anybody think that was a ‘coincidence?’ I knew that this was a test. And I new it was for a higher calling in faith and prayer. I remembered all the sermons from Ken Smith regarding declarations.
Two days later, I go to the customers home and give them an estimate. But before I left, I sat in my truck and decided to proclaim that I was going to get the job. That God is good all the time. That He is for me and not against me. That He loves to bless His children. That He is a giver of good things. I stirred my spirit up so much that I had to roar in the truck!
Fear and ‘reality’ tried to creep in, but I recognized it and stopped it. I was tired of living in fear. Yes, circumstances said that there are other roofers out there that because of the economy are putting on roofs for a lot less than I do. Guys that probably don’t have insurance. But I took all these circumstances and put them aside, to claim victory.
Miraculously, a few days later I got the job, even though the homeowners had gotten other estimates. That was favor.
Update: “Learning to Deal with Resistance”
Once I got the contract to do the job, unusual interruptions starting to happen in the roofing process. I won’t get into that. But it seemed all too familiar. This had happened to the last few roofing projects I’ve had. When this happens, it puts a strain between the homeowner and contractor and often it holds up payment for a completed job. I expected to receive grief from the homeowner about the interruptions, etc. Revelation came to me as I drove to the owners home that I got this job by faith, but now it was time to contend for payment. Remember, the enemy comes to steal and destroy what God wants to provide. I then added to my proclaiming Gods goodness, spiritual warfare as well. I bound any hindering spirits and asked for an atmosphere of grace and favor.
When I got to the house, the homeowner just smiled and wrote out the check without asking any questions or any grief. God was teaching me a lesson. He’s teaching US a lesson. This was the full armor of God. First Thanks, then proclaiming Gods nature and goodness then finally spiritual warfare. Then BREAKTHROUGH! Now of course, we have to be careful not to define God as a formula. He is not a formula, but a relationship. This formual might not work next time. Breakthrough will come however, by hearing God’s new revelation in that specific matter and acting on it.
May all your thoughts be prosperous!
Posted on April 19, 2009:
I was missing some jewelry and had been looking for it for some months. Not actively, but just when I had a moment. The value of the jewelry is significant. About three weeks ago I searched my bedroom. (Keep in mind that I live in a very small house.)
I took all the drawers out of my dresser and searched them, I took everything out of my sewing chest, sifted it and replaced it, I removed and replaced books from my bookshelf, I emptied my closet and put it back together. Nothing in the room was untouched. I was off work last week, so I did the same in my kitchen, my living room, and my extra bedroom. Everything had been sifted through except one closet. I had looked in that closet and knew there was nowhere in there for the jewelry to be, but I determined to search anyway because there wasn’t anywhere else to look.
Thursday night in home group, Dianne told her story about losing her drivers license and having it reappear in a very unusual way. She also told us another story of a loss and recovery that happened in Colorado. Listening to her talk I reflected on my position, but thought to myself-this situation is different, what I have lost are “extra” things, not necessary things, so I didn’t say anything.
Saturday morning I was thinking about Dianne’s story and I thought, I really need to pray and just ask for them back (which I did do). As I was reflecting on Dianne’s story I was walking into the extra bedroom to get my checkbook. I thought to myself – “Things like that don’t happen to me.” Immediately I rebuked that thought and said aloud, “I need healing for that!” I pulled open the drawer where I keep my checkbook and there on top of a little basket was my jewelry. As I looked I started laughing because of my last thought! God really does have a sense of humor. He very clearly said to me, “Things like that really do happen to you.”
The drawer where I found the jewelry is one I am constantly in and out of. It is small and was one of the first places I looked when I began my search. I had searched it several times.
Yesterday I was reading a devotional and it highlighted the three parables about loss; the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the prodigal son. I saw in my actions, just the smallest picture of what God does with us. He never lets up in His pursuit of us. He is diligent, and He goes everywhere and uses every situation to win us to Him. (Even though I wasn’t going to find my coins in the kitchen I was determined to pursue every avenue.) God values us so much that He wastes nothing and pursues everything in winning us to Himself.
It brought me great joy to find the things I had lost, but much more so to know that this is one more way He is showing me that I am of value to Him.
Things like that do happen to me. Things that are important to me are important to Him.
