The Gift of Experience: Hope Prevails

It Works

I like to take God at His word.

I heard some things recently said about me that were not kind. It was a sort of breaking point for me. Well, the first of two equally distressing breaking points. A breaking point plateau, if you will. I made a decision to study the Word a little more deeply. Since I have been doing that, for the past two months, I have learned a lot about myself, about how I should be, and about spiritual warfare. A lot of bad things have been happening. Well, after those things were said, (very mean-spirited, negative statements about me), I began to cry. Those people don't know me. They don't know what I do when I leave this apartment, which is usually help someone. They have no idea what kind of person I am, or who I am becoming. And they also do not know where I've been. They do not know my story. I've gone from homeless to home, car-less to car, son-less to son, Godless to God, emotionless to love. And I could go on. But those women did not know that about me. They don't know my growth. So I began to state, out loud, the promises of God found in the Bible. "I am MORE than a CONQUEROR. I have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of me. I am the head and not the tail. I focus on what's above and not beneath," and etc.. And it gave me STRENGTH. No longer did I feel like crying. No longer did my stomach feel knotty. It works... Prayer works.