God Blessed Lives

We received this abbreviated life story from David in New Zealand. Hopefully, you will find it encouraging because as he puts it, “there have been some very significant non-normal occurrences amongst it all”

It is valuable and encouraging to be reminded that Jesus wants to be Lord of our lives and He often does that by taking the ordinary and making it extraordinary!

GOD BLESSED LIVES

Introduction

Expressing the depth of God’s blessing over the past forty five years is like trying to explain colours to a blind man.  Words don’t hack it.  But I know for certain that if anyone is bold enough to entrust their life to the Lord Jesus Christ then He will show them colours!

Brief Resume

I gave my life to the Lord Jesus when I was nine.  It was a simple prayer “Lord Jesus please come into my heart”.  He did!  Since then life has given the appearance of “normality”.  I grew up, left home, got educated, was married, had children, bought a house, and held a job as a teacher.  I now have grandchildren, and am still teaching.  But in reality there have been some very significant non-normal occurrences amongst it all.  Here is an attempt to categorize some of those blessings.

1.   Spiritual

a. In my late teens I suffered inner turmoil caused by a relationship that had ended unhappily.  Two years later I prayed for God’s help to deal with the issue.  In response he filled me with the Holy Spirit (lots of people were experiencing this at that point in time, but I had no idea what it was all about.)  The inner peace and tranquility was unbelievable, and it went on and on.  READ MORE…