I want to share to the world - my readers- how God has recently encouraged me.
A couple of years ago I had the huge privilege of helping out at a Rescue Mission. I wrote a blog-post about it (Give Him your future and He will use your past), which just shows God's amazing sovereignty and mastermind! If you haven't read the first post, it tells about a couple of the times I went to the Rescue Mission and specific encounters I had with two brothers and their family.
For some reason out of everyone I met there, out of all the people I met throughout furlough, that family always was on my heart. When I started my prayer cards (motivated by them, actually) they were first on my list.
I lost that prayer card. I haven't been back to the rescue mission for two years. I haven't heard from, or even about them, since that January in 2012. And yet God has never let me forget. I prayed for them both by name. But even as I prayed, I always assumed I would never know if God was answering my prayers.
A couple weeks ago Mr. D from the Grace Missions board came out to visit. He is very much involved at the Rescue Mission and he actually provided ways for me to be a part of it. In telling news about the Rescue Mission he said that a couple of the guys, who have already been through the 9 month program, were actually attending our home church now, and one of them was considering membership there.... And just you try and guess who he was talking about!
YES! The very same family God had put in my heart. Out of all the guys at the Mission, the very two I had been praying for were the ones God placed in our home-church, and who Mr. D had seen grow and develop in Christ.
You can not imagine how encouraged that made me- not only was God answering my prayers, but He was inspiring them, too!
Of course I know that God would have fortified and strengthened those brothers even if I had stayed quiet...but that fact that God allowed me to be a part of this wonderful story, just blew me away. And, oh, how gracious He was to show me what He had planned all along.
As I ended my other blog-post:
Praise be to Him, hallelujah!
