Result of Prayer!

[CarlA]

I'm a drunk. Sober since 1989. Saved in 1985.

I have two children. My wife and I were not married when we had them. I was not raised in a Christian home, but my parents were old school, and believed that marriage was permanent. After I sobered up thanks to AA we split up. That lasted from 1991 thru 2002. I can't find the documentation now cause we have stuff all put away for move. BUT somewhere in the later 90s my son and I agreed to pray a prayer from the Bible for mom every day for a month. We did this for the agreed month and then quit praying after that. Meanwhile mom would go out with the pastor's wife once in a while. One day they came back and parked in the driveway. The Pastor's wife started talking to mom and praying for her. Shortly after our prayers and her talking with the pastor's wife, my wife gave her heart to Jesus!! We were married shortly after that. And were husband and wife until she went to be with the Lord in April 2022 while I was reading to her from the Bible.

Thank You Jesus.

 

[mattfivefour]

What a beautiful testimony, Carl! God truly answers the prayers of His children. I am so sorry to hear that your wife passed on in 2022. The last time we spoke (in fact the last time we saw each other) she was still alive. What a comfort in the midst of grief, though, to know where she is and the joy she is experiencing, and that in God's timing you will be joining her. In the meantime, He clearly has a purpose for you. Being open to being used by Him will bless you beyond measure, my brother.

 

[CarlA]

And I am firmly getting to the point that our personal TESTIMONY is one of our really valuable witnessing tools.

 

[Everlasting Life]

CarlA, did your wife pass from bladder cancer?

I'm wondering if you're the same Carl from another forum.

 

[mattfivefour]

And I am firmly getting to the point that our personal TESTIMONY is one of our really valuable witnessing tools.

In fact it is our most valuable tool, Carl. It is our testimony that gives evidence to the truth of the Gospel.

 

[CarlA]

Yes I am Carl from Rapture Forum. It was my wife that died from bladder cancer in April 2022.

 

[CarlA]

What a beautiful testimony, Carl! God truly answers the prayers of His children. I am so sorry to hear that your wife passed on in 2022. The last time we spoke (in fact the last time we saw each other) she was still alive. What a comfort in the midst of grief, though, to know where she is and the joy she is experiencing, and that in God's timing you will be joining her. In the meantime, He clearly has a purpose for you. Being open to being used by Him will bless you beyond measure, my brother.

I was never broken up with her leaving. We had discussed what happens when a Christian dies many times. So in my heart I just KNEW that she was in Heaven with Jesus. We had talked about her recurring cancers breast and bladder cancer. When she found out that her cancer had returned she made the decision to "no extensive efforts to cure it". Then she was put in a home because I could no longer take care of her by myself. I would visit almost every day. Some times she was awake and sometimes she just slept.

So we held hands and we prayed and talked until the end. Last day she was half awake. I read to her from the Bible and when I was done reading I noticed that she had gone to sleep for the last time. So I will see her again when I get to Heaven!

 

[mattfivefour]

Praise God for His great comfort!

 

[Margery]

Carl thank you for that reassurance about giving our testimonies. I often avoid it, because mine has a lot of negative stuff in it, that I know God used to bring me out of into great blessing. I shouldn't do that. It's only in the last few years here and a little bit at RF that I'd open up about my past.

When I've given it in person at various church ladies groups people sometimes don't like that God took me thru one valley after another (it's also long) and don't understand that it's in the valleys that I gained such blessing.

-I used to be part of a church infected with the prosperity health and wealth gospel so that was part of the response- but even in the Baptist church I went to after that my experience was so far removed from theirs that it was a shock to the ladies there.

It was weird because they loved it when I taught the Bible- but I was teaching them the stuff I learned the hard way. I would try to get it across that the valleys weren't something to fear- they don't "feel good" at the time but a lot of the time even in that Baptist church they were infected by the idea that if God loves us, we don't have to face trials.

In my experience it's the trials, the storms, the waves of grief, the sure knowledge that I CAN'T do this and that GOD has to do it thru me because I have no strength or ability to face this---

---that's when God moves and I get to know Him more, His word comes alive.

 

[Kem]

In my experience it's the trials, the storms, the waves of grief, the sure knowledge that I CAN'T do this and that GOD has to do it thru me because I have no strength or ability to face this---

---that's when God moves and I get to know Him more, His word comes alive.

Amen and Amen!!!

 

[CarlA]

If more Christians would tell about there experience (there story/testimony) giving wouldn't be such a shock to other Christians.

I had mentioned earlier in a post that I quit going to my church because one of the members hurt me. We had both been interested in wood working. He had some shop tools and would show me some of his finished projects. Then he walked out on me on the wheel chair ramp that I was building because he didn't like the woman's criticism. So because I didn't want to teach him any longer I quit the church.

Not many days go by that I don't think about that.

 

[CarlA]

{{In my experience it's the trials, the storms, the waves of grief, the sure knowledge that I CAN'T do this and that GOD has to do it thru me because I have no strength or ability to face this--- from Margery 12/24/24 2:25 PM }}

It just isn't going to be a vacation down here! If more people would talk about their HARD times down here people would spend more time talking to God and even thanking Him for some of the bad times we live through!

 

[Ronnie]

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments (deliverances, help), and his ways past finding out! Romans 11:33