sneak peak...

 interviewing Amy's amazing provision story...this is getting real, folks! 

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Vernice

TESTIMONY

I was not saved at the time. Went to church. Knew of the Lord, but had no relationship.

I was divorced and had 2 boys to care for. You know that boys eat more than girls.

Any way it was beginning of the month and I had just received my pay check. Paid the rent, put gas in the car and paid some other bill and then went to the Pathmark
Grocery Store. I then realized that I only had $10.00 left.  Oh the store was crowded with lots of people with loaded carts. Mostly food stamp shoppers. I was in panic. I bought (4) items, milk, bread, bananas and hamburger meat. The ten was done. Looking at the carts loaded with junk foods, I had tears in my eyes, the hopelessness.  What am I  going to feed my boys for the next 2 weeks.

Anyhow I took my 4 items and walked out to my car and to my surprise, at the door of my car was a $50.00.  WOWW!! Oh yeah, I went back and shopped for my boys.

Now see how the story continues.  I have told this testimony many times of God’s goodness, and it had become a boring story to my boys.

Well, my oldest son had gotten saved for about a year and we had a death in the family in Florida. He and his friend were coming back from Florida, and he assumed that his direct deposit from his job was in his bank account, but lo and behold he  stopped to get gas and there was no money in his account.

Between him and his friend, they only had $8.00. That was not enough to get back to Atlanta. He went into the bathroom and reminded God how he let me find $50.00 to give them food and he asked God for a miracle.

He went back and opened the car door and there was $20.00 on floor which was just enough to buy gas to come to Atlanta.

See when God gives us a testimony, don’t ever be deterred to talk about, you don’t know who will use it.

Love you, Vernice

Amy

I often use one safety clip for making ribbons an such for my job. So I don't need a box of them, just one. So I usually will just ask my mom or a friend that has many for just one instead of purchasing a whole box. Anyway, I had been using this one paperclip for a while for my crafts and I lost it, couldn't find it anywhere. Without it I couldn't be productive in my craft/bow making. So the next day I had a Dr. appt., and that morning I was riding with my mom to go to Dr. and I was telling her that I had lost the paperclip and needed to get one from her after the appt. so I could go back to work. I just happened to say, "unless God decides to drop one from the sky for me before then"! So we enter the Dr. office and we had to wait for an elevator to take us up a floor, and as the elevator door opened and we went to go in, there on the floor in the very center of the elevator lay one single paper clip!! Me and Mom both smiled because we knew God placed it in our path to show us that whatever we need, even the smallest of things, he can provide...

Allison

• I work for a non profit medical and dental clinic. We had a patient recently that I thought had a familiar name and it turned out I knew his sister.
• Five years before I was on staff with her at another ministry. We had been best friends. We had been invited to join a well known minister on a trip to South Africa and were raising support. I came up with all of my funds and she had hers pledged. We had to buy our tickets by a certain deadline and I had the money in hand so we agreed that I would loan her the money for the ticket and when her support came in she would just pay me back. We got the tickets and all of a sudden everything changed. She just stopped talking to me overnight. Deleted me from facebook. Would not speak to me at work. We did not go on the trip and the money for the tickets was lost. Because the dynamic had shifted so much and I was already in a season of transition I left that ministry and the old friend behind with more questions than answers but I tried to harbor no bitterness in my heart. 

  That was the second week of school.

  So I got married on November 9. On Thursday Oct 31 I found out that I was short $2200 for my wedding photographer. I thought I would have help from some family and ended up having to pay for it myself. I had four days to come up with the balance and asked a few people to partner with me for a breakthru. Friday November 1 I got a text from my old friend asking for my email address. I responded with the email address thinking she was going to send me a letter or something. Within 5 minutes I had an email from paypal telling me that she had sent me money. The money from the plane tickets to Africa from over 5 years before. I was able to pay my photographer and then on the day of the wedding my wedding coordinator who did everything including my flowers would not allow me to pay her. She said she was supposed to sow into my husband and I. It would have been another $1000. Also, my wedding was the most low budget diy thing and it seriously was so perfect and Holy Spirit. People thought we spent a fortune.
• From time to time I would have to actively choose to forgive her. Fast forward to her brother coming into the clinic. Something shifted in my heart and I wanted to reconcile the relationship. I wanted to invite her to my wedding. I asked the brother to get me her address so I could do just that. Within a few minutes she text me and basically said that she had been sharing my testimony that very week and the Lord had me on her heart. She did not want to reconnect our relationship but appreciated me reaching out to her. That night in third year I lead an activity on forgiveness and felt a huge shift and knew something had tangibly happened.