Turning to God

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding”.

Proverbs 3:5

Prayer

Lord, today we come to you with a broken heart.  God we mourn for those who chose not to turn you when things get tough.  But we also celebrate with everyone who chooses to turn to you.  God, we pray that you would help us to have the right words with us to comfort others. And we also pray that you would help those who are grieving or going through a tough time to turn to you.  Lord, you are amazing and can do anything. We know that you are in control of everything. God, you are amazing and we know it.  God, we pray that you help us to turn to you for everything.  Even if it’s hard, harder than anything that we have ever experienced before helping us to turn to you for everything.

We ask all these things in your precious son’s name

 

Amen

A Little More

I remember back to when I first came closer to God. 

I was about 26 and working for the county as an equipment operator.

They had me watering roads for a blade hand. To say the least, we didn’t get along.

If I could have said that I had a mortal enemy it would have been her. Looking back, it wasn’t that bad.

After working directly with her for about 6 months. It was getting harder and harder. And she was making my life miserable.

Or at least I thought so.

Anyways…..

I couldn’t do anything right and she kept turning me into the boss for stuff that I wasn’t actually responsible for. 

Looking back again, it was a blessing. But at the time it was hard.

I remember before this I was cussing like a sailor. Every other word was a cuss word.

Then this one day I finally started listening to Jenna. She had been telling me to dive into the bible. But I didn’t believe that God could help me.  (what a rookie, right)

Then finally I took my bible to work and started reading it in my downtime. 

I would pray, then open the bible and start reading wherever God took me.

To begin with I was a skeptic, to say the least.

But then something happened. I woke up one morning and stopped cursing. I didn’t try, I didn’t even really want to stop cursing. But it was no longer an issue.

And still to this day I rarely curse.

But there was more that happened. As I read the stories throughout the bible I learned that God is in full control.  I started praying more and more.

And then I truly forgave her from the bottom of my heart.  It took me several weeks to really truly forgive her.

Then all of a sudden this crazy thing happened. The gal that was causing me soooo much trouble lost all of her credit with everyone!

Overnight my problems were solved.

To me it was a miracle.

And all it took was turning to God and trusting him to make sure that everything would work out.

I know what you’re thinking, Dan this story is great.

But……

Just because you turned to God doesn’t really mean that your problem was solved.

Here is the icing on the cake.

A few years later I went to work for another company and our safety meeting was at the same place where she was a bartender.

The night before my new boss (of about 2 weeks) was hanging out at the bar with his assistant.

She served them and struck up a conversation with them. And she brought me up and started running my name into the dirt.

The next day, my boss came over to me and said, “do you know the lady who bartends here?”

I took a wild guess and it was her.

Then my boss asked me this crazy question, “did she want to sleep with you and you turned her down? Because she came up to me and started talking about you.”

I didn’t get upset at all, instead I laughed!

You see God protected me yet again.

My boss had the option to listen to her, but instead God made it seem like I was the knight in shining armor.

So here’s to turning to God when things get tough.

Will you pray with us?

Mankind throughout the world throughout our current situation

All Law enforcement and emergency response personnel

For all military personal serving our country and their families

Those in Leadership positions throughout the world