Isn't God Funny

I look back on my relationship with God and my friends. He is so funny. I had been absolutely petrified of my new Christian friends. I could not talk when I was with them, I felt they were so far beyond me with their relationship. I didn't feel I could ever hold up to them. My heart pounded, I just listened and I froze. Well dear God thank you for letting me share that as now I have very good and caring friends. I thank you so much. This past week we started a miracle prayer group at my church. There was a long list of people to pray for. That night when I went to bed, I slept until 1:15am. God woke me up and for some reason, I continued to pray for the people in the prayer session. When I reached one person, God told me to stop. Huh? Stop? Why? God then said "He has been healed, he needs to claim it and then move to the spiritual head of his family." Whoa! What do I do with this? The next day, I told my pastor and asked her if I should tell him. She said yes, God gave the message to you. Hummmm......so I found him and told him. I've never done that before. He smiled and said, "that is what I have been waiting to hear."
Yesterday I asked him if he had claimed it and that God asked me to keep pushing him. He said what I said had been on his mind all day long. He told me to keep pushing him until he could say yes I claim it. I am cured and my relationship with God is restored. So I guess I will do that. He is healed, he does need to take the lead in his family. I will keep reminding him. He is torn between two religions. Christianity and Christian Science. There is a real struggle there. I pray God will show him the way.

Bless Me for Mission Work

Well, today God I am asking you to bless me with the funds for two mission trips. One for me and one for a friend. I have to go serve the children from another country. I have to serve the poor. Everyone is asking me when will I go. The cost is between $4,000-$5,000 per person. I will go when God provides the money. I am asking you to provide the money. That is a lot of money.........I am not doing this as a vacation, it is hard work and long hours. I am asking for your help and support. I am thanking you for your help and support. Thank you God.

Scared Beyond Belief

For over six months, I have been absolutely scared to death. Although I had never been scared before even while speaking with Alma Powell (Colin's wife), Lee Iacocca, David Battey, Margarite Kondrake, Lois Marie Gibbs, Lynn Sherr, Eleanor Cliff, and many more important people.........I froze when it came to speaking with my most ....cherished friends. I froze when it came to speaking with my Christian friends. I could not speak up. I just sat. The skills I had become so comfortable with just did not work. I had asked God to humble me but to completely take away my voice? I finally asked my cousin and my son, what should I do? They both told me to share that information with my friends. I prayed to be normal and then went out to New Years eve dinner with my friends. I finally told them I did not know why but they made me absolutely nervous. Their response "we know" and they laughed. They weren't sure why. I never felt I could ever be as brave or religious as they were. I never felt that God could ever accept me the same as he did them. One friend was a Messianic Jew and had gone against her families religion because she was so in love with Jesus. One had walked many blocks by herself as a 5 year old child in an inner city to reach the place that people talked about Jesus although her family did not attend and one was an attorney that had given up her career to become my pastor. I knew Jesus did not judge these things but I knew I was just a person, nothing more. So...........where does this take me?

I have asked God to keep me humble but to let me share. I sent them all a letter explaining me and I sent my first email..........inviting one of them to a monthly lunch at a certain place, a certain time and then added how assertive it was. I got back a response that "yes it was assertive and that I was cute" Cute? I guess I will accept Cute.

OH GOD HAS CREATED THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MIRACLE YOU MIGHT EVER WANT TO SEE. WITHIN FIVE AND A HALF WEEKS WE HAVE EARNED ENOUGH MONEY FOR SIX WATER WELLS FOR UGANDA.

Well Mischief

God is full of mischief. Several weeks ago, our church secretary and I met our pastor as she entered the door. She hates to have people meet her when she enters the door. She wants to get her coat off and get settled. We told her we needed to pray about the wells. She looked at our faces and said, is something wrong. I said yes, we are in a recession and only $2,400 came into the wells last Sunday. She thought that was good. In cooperation she proceeded into a fairly long prayer as we both bowed our heads and listened. Then I added, thank you God for the $2,400 in the wells but bless you for the $8,000 in the collection plate. You now have $17,700 for the wells. She looked up, she looked so startled and just couldn't believe it.
That was a Tuesday.

Thursday.....I received an email from Mary, asking if I would meet her fifteen minutes early on Saturday. She needed to ask me a question, get a response but it was not serious. For two days, I thought oh my what have I done now. I met her and we walked into Walgreens. She said there had been two letters that came to the office. She said not everyone was in support of the wells. One letter was for her and the other for me. I probably should read the letter before tomorrow as I might meet the person at church. Oh my....we have a few people from the community that felt we should support local agencies not international ones. So I told her that not everyone would go along with this and that was ok. I was given the letter, I read the letter and said, well that is ok, then I read it again. It said ask your pastor about how much money came in as she is standing right next to you. She held up a sign of $28,080. Almost 3 wells. I just screamed. Not only had we earned the well money but she had really gotten me back, right in a public place. Since that day God keeps providing and enough money for four wells has been accumulated.

I had a prayer followed by a vision.............I was in a body and looking out. I couldn't tell if the body was mine but there were Uganda people all around the body. Nothing more. About a week later, I asked God if we should send someone to Uganda and please show me the face. I was wide awake. I climbed into bed and immediately I had a vision. The face of Jesus showed up bright and clear. Yes we would be sending Jesus. Whoever goes will have Jesus inside of him so much the Ugandan's will know that and if no one goes Jesus will be so present they will fill him.

Money is pouring forth. God has his own plan and he is managing the project. Two and a half weeks into the water well project God had provided enough money for three wells, a half a week later, he had provided money for three and a half wells, AELC has just received enough money for four wells. This God stuff is amazing.

Deep Water Wells.............God's Gift

I am so in awe of what God is accomplishing. It is now the end of November and our church has just started the campaign to raise money for the two deep water wells for Uganda. Within one week he has helped inspire many people to make donations. Within one week $7,200 has been contributed to the fund making one well 2/3 of the way built.

Last week the Courier came over to the church to cover the article. The article appeared on the front page of the newspaper on Sunday. What a gift. The following day there were several critical responses from the community asking why the church did not help the local people. WE DO! But God had asked for this gift. The day after a large number of positive articles appeared again.

It is Thanksgiving weekend, I pray God will finish off the first wells funds. I have handed the project over to him. I will help.

God Bless You, CLC