Classic Mary Moments: We try...

Thursday, June 3, 2010

We try...

Have you ever noticed that we as humans try SOOOO hard...TO HARD sometimes...to figure life out! I was teaching my bible class last week about trusting in God. As I was teaching and preparing a lesson for them...it was like God literally gave me my own lesson as well. For my lesson I did on object lesson with them about trust. I blindfolded them, then led them around the church as I did my bible lesson. It was kinda dramatic and they were freaked out cause they couldn't see what was going on around them. They were like, "Mary, Mary, MARY!!! We're scared!" And I was like, okaaaaaay there is like NOTHING to be scared of...because I could see and I knew EXACTLEY what was going on around them. They were fine and nothing was gonna happen to them as LONG as they stuck by ME!

Well when I was done with the bible story, I said, Ok girls, now you have a choice, you don't HAVE to follow me anymore, if YOU want you can just try and get back to the class by yourself...but YOU HAVE TO STAY BLINDFOLED!!! They were like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Take us MARY! As kids, they KNEW that it only made sense for them to get back to the classroom by TRUSTING me...the one that could see!!!

Sometimes I try SOOOO hard to figure out my life, and it's like WHY?!?! I really HAVE NO idea what's gonna happen next and YET, I spend SOOOO much time trying to figure it out! But the truth is that on my own, I find myself stumbling around....FRUSTRATED... Cause I'm blinded to the future...We don't always know what's gonna happen next...BUT God can see. He knows the beginning to the end. He knows everything that is gonna happen...we just have TRUST HIM! All those times that we're scared and confused about what is going on around us, GOD CAN SEE!!! It doesn't matter WHAT happens in life, as long as you stick with Jesus...Everything is gonna be alright! We just have to let go of our own will, the unknown wonderings of our lives and LET THE ONE THAT CAN SEE lead us.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart.

Lean not unto thy own understanding.

The Votaws!!!

He has preached all over the US, China, Taiwan, the Philipines, Vietnam and many more Asian countries. He preaches in underground churches in communism countries. He converted a man on death row in prison to Christ and 3 hours before that man died he baptized him in Jesus name. He prayed the first man in Vietnam to kill and americn soldier through to the Holy Ghost and Baptized him in Jesus name. He has converted trinitartin preachers all over to the Oneness doctrine...BUT ABOVE all else...I thank God that I TOO am ONE OF THOSE souls he reached out too...he gave 7 years of his life to New York City!!! I thank God that he answered the call!!! It wasn't until his 6th & final year as pastor there, that our family came into church...we were there for 9 months before we came to AZ and then right after that the Votaws left NYC for the mission fields of Asia...I THANK God that someone had a burden for NYC!!!

Sis. Kathy!!!

This is the woman that invited my Momma to a Pentecostal church!!! She told me that she was actually new in the church herself and that she would see my mom in the front yard of our house playing with us kids and she just wanted so badly for my mom to have what she had just recieved herself. It may have been just one person that she was witnessing to at that time, but that one person has had an affect on her own five children and now its her Grandchildren that are still recieving the blessing of Sis. Kathy's witness. 25 years ago, it wasn't just my mom...I may have only been two at the time, but it was ME she was winning too! I thank God she wasn't afraid to be a witness and that she didn't give up on my mom. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. (Acts 2:39) When you decide to live for God it doesn't just stop with you!