Part 8 - This Present Life
If you have read this far, I thank you! Perhaps my story seems to you to have had a lot of heartache and disappointment in it. Yet, I am blessed. While the disappointments may have been big ones, there have also been big joys. I have a beautiful, large family, and we are all close. We all have a roof over our heads. Many of us are gifted in the arts, or in technology, or music. We live in a beautiful country. So we really don't have much to complain about.
After my second marriage ended, I found a church group that I really identified with. When I was with my husband, it was a challenge to find a church to settle in, as he liked a more structured approach, and I preferred a less structured one, where Holy Spirit was allowed to move spontaneously. Being the afore-mentioned emotional wreck after our final separation, I was looking in the local paper, and saw an ad for a church with a big headline "EMOTIONAL HEALING". That's what I need, I thought! So I went along. That very night, someone gave a testimony about marriage, and then an invitation was given for anyone that wanted prayer regarding their marriage. I promptly burst into tears and said, yep, I do. I refused to give them details, as I really needed to know the Lord was speaking through these people. The leader of the church has the gift of "word of knowledge", and without knowing a thing about me, he spoke about 10-12 things about my situation, that were accurate. The last thing he said was, "I see you kind of going in the same direction, but on separate paths" - and then stopped abruptly. That wasn't exactly what I wanted to hear, but we certainly did end up on separate paths. I found in this church group a loving, human, ordinary, yet God-seeking bunch of people who have become like family to a great degree. It is a church where people REALLY want to know God, to hear from Him, to seek Him, to know Him, to do His will, and they encourage each other in that. Jesus is worshiped there. As time went on, I began to heal again. I eventually became involved in music ministry at this church, along with some other things. Once again, life is happy.
The Bible says that in the future, things in the world will get tough for many people on the earth. But overriding everything, is knowing my life belongs to Jesus. My name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Knowing that a powerful Being, much more powerful than anything or anyone to be found on this earth, likes me and has me in His care. This short life is but a breath in eternity, and when this life is over, I will be with loved ones forever, never to be separated again, never to have to be affected by evil again. Only love, peace, fun and togetherness. What a wonderful hope!
While I have shared a chronological account of what has generally happened in my life, there has been much, much more in my spiritual life. So I now invite you, if you haven't already, to explore the other links on this site. I have had many wonderful answers to prayer - these other pages will be populated soon! Also the dreams, the supernatural encounters - and - why Jesus? Why all the fuss about Jesus? Why can eternal life only come through Him? Invite you to read that page if this is a question you have.
My prayer is that all who live on the earth will come to know Jesus, and will come to realize the reality of the spiritual realm that we exist in. As Peter the apostle said, to Whom else would we go? Jesus has the words to eternal life. Even so, my life on earth is apparently not over yet. May the story continue ...