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- I just wanted to thank you for your daily devotions and insight. They truly help me along in my journey with the Lord. May GOD Bless You. Shelly
- This is so true. In 2013 I lost a job, a home, and my self-esteem. My family, my wife and daughter our little dog and a big cat, had no where to live. I worried about everything. We had a motorhome that everyone told me to get rid of because is was an expense we didn't need - but I refused. Turned out it might have been one of the better decisions I made at the time.
I found this devotional series and every morning I was uplifted by the message Pastor Dion gave. Each time I felt like giving up, I was given His word that was exactly pertinent to the situation. Pastor Dion seemed to be talking to me. God impressed one of our church families to give us a place to park the motorhome and we lived in a fruit orchard at tne end of a row of peaches for 22 months.
He gave my wife a volunteer position in the church with the food pantry and while she helped feed over 100 families a week in the community, God gave us food to eat as well. When unemployment had run out, and I still had not found a job, He gave me a job working in a cemetary. Not my dream job, but just having a job boosted my spirit.
Throughout all of this, I learned the importance of returning to God what is his. Whenever I gave my tithe, as pitiful as it was at times, we received special blessings of food or gasoline or clothing. Things have gotten much better. It was a season of my life that I needed to have - to be humbled - so that I could do what I do now.
God knows what I need. I take what I am given with thanks and I have not been in need since. The two things I learned from that experience are humility and the absolute importance of tithing.
- My husband fell and broke his neck and back and he died as a result of those injuries January 14, 2013. One year later I found your website and I don't start my day without reading your post first. Today your post is helping a woman I used to work with, her husband was murdered six weeks ago. It was your post that kept me close to Christ even though I'm a practicing Catholic. Your prayer today is essential since yesterday she said she would never do it; but she wish that she would just die. On behalf of both of these widows, God bless you for your posts that offer hope, inspiration and wisdom. It helps to get us out of bed and keep us going.