Good morning friends and family.  There have been questions rolling around concerning “Faith”.  We all have faith in something or someone.  If your existence is depending on another person then your faith is in that person.  If your existence is depending on a religion then your faith is in that religion.  If your existence is depending on a church then your faith is in that church.  If your existence is depending on yourself then you only have faith in yourself.  May I share a story, a true story, of excerpts of one person’s journey of faith?

I was in about 3^rd or 4^th grade at Terry Consolidated School.  My father was a sharecropper and my Mother had recently begun working in a pants factory or shirt factory (I cannot remember which) in Crystal Springs.  The winters were cold and icy, snow, and wind.  Ugggh!  I remember well being so cold.  I slept with siblings in a big bed in front of the main fireplace and Mother warmed bricks and Daddy placed them at the foot of that bed to keep us warm.  We could not move because the quilts were piled high and they were heavy.  Mother and Daddy slept in the room next to us.  There was not heat in that room and I vividly remember Mother’s flannel gown and Daddy sleeping in his long johns. At night he would kneel beside that old bed and pray aloud.  I heard him ask God to prosper us and meet specific needs that we had and as a child this was a really big deal for me.  I watched as God answered those prayers.  There was no internet and no way of spreading that need in a large prayer circle.  It was just a sharecropper in the middle of winter with seven children to feed and rent to pay.  God answered those prayers over and over and over again.

Advance forward to an older woman who had the rug I stood on literally jerked out from under me without any warning. The depth of heart pain and hurt that followed that is impossible for me to describe.  I was homeless and during the course of being rescued, loved, and once again housed I hit a major low point.  My faith was totally dependent on God or I would have just ended my miserable life.  Only satan can bring a person to that low depth and only Faith In God, our creator and our Savior, and our ever present help in times of need, can sustain a person in that low depth.

I have no idea what you need to sustain the life style that God placed you in, nor do you know what I need.  God does and He, and He alone, will find the way or ways of providing these needs when my faith is in Him alone.  Faith?????

During these days of pain and despair God brought a group of strong, faith in God prayer warriors into my life.  He is bringing my family back to him one person at a time at this point.  How absolutely amazing is that kind of FAITH!!!!!!!!!

Now. With all of this said, I praise Him and Him alone and sometimes I will tell you another one or two faith stories.  My life has been amazing and if I tried to understand it I would be forever baffled.  God knows and my faith is in Him.

It is not about me and it is not about you.  It is about having faith that God will redeem people from sin and provide all of the prosperity they need to spread his love and care.

I can still see in my minds camera, my Mother standing in the kitchen with a paring knife in one hand and a potato in the other and looking me in the eye as she says, “Young lady, if you keep your own doorstep swept clean, you will not have time to worry about your neighbor’s doorstep.”

Regardless of your situation, ALWAYS KEEP YOUR FAITH IN OUR FATHER GOD, for He never sleeps and He always listens for as long as you want to talk to Him.