Phyllis, while we don't really now each other well I feel like I've gotten to know you thru Facebook, of all things. You have made me laugh, cry, but most of all I am in awe of your tremendous faith and courage to follow Gods path. In church this past Sunday -during worship-I was overcome with God telling me to "Help Phyllis" !! now I'm not sure what this looks like but I know I'm suppose to help you with your journey. That's where I need you to tell me How I can obey God. The first thing that came to me was to purchase your plane ticket ........ Beyond that I need you to tell me. I would have called you but I am so overcome with emotion I would sound like a blubbering idiot AND if you know anything about ME I'm a fairly tough cookie :-) and don't typically react this way - All that being said please pray about this (duh, like I even have to say that) and get back with me.
Hope to hear from you soon,
Sharon
MY REPSONSE:
March 1, 2012
1:22AM
I have been waiting to buy my flight b/c the Lord said
wait! He said a buncha NOs, too. This week I doubted that He would
tell me to get my flight. Yesterday, was the first day that the loud
"no" was gone; however, He still didnt tell me to do it. I have gone
on the computer a billion times in the past 2 weeks to get a flight.
Each time I would get to the purchase page, He would be loud for me not
to get a flight. This week, I decided to stop telling pple that I
didnt have a flight. I sounded so foolish "riding on faith" to people--
how could I say I am leaving Monday and I dont have a flight? Housing
is still not set in the DR, but I am leaving Monday. I spoke with the
school and they are working it out. I am not worried about that.
So i read
your email in my friend's kitchen (she isn't Christian). I looked up at
her and screamed about the flight!! She screamed back, "NO WAY!" I tell
her everything, so she has seen this all unfold and it blows her mind.
She knew I was waiting on God. I bet she knew that this was stupid and I
should get a flight already... then you wrote what you wrote. It blew
my mind, too. She told me a week ago when I got frustrated about the
car and the title being a possible problem, "He will provide for you!
He has already done so much" <---I was getting a lesson on faith
from someone that doesnt even claim Christ as her Savior. (Oh, Phyllis,
so soon we forget what He has done!) He worked out the title, by the
way. God has done many things that I have not posted on FB and didnt
say in church. I told Summer tonight at dinner that this was by far
the biggest thing He has done. She seemed shocked. She was like He
has done so many things!! Why this!? It was so hard for me to not
listen to others, el diablo, and myself!! saying that He didnt care
about this, He wasnt going to come through, "I dont know what the heck I
hear in my head", etc etc... I just kept holding out even though I was
a little embarrassed that He may never tell me to buy one. I doubted
Him. Geesh, that just made me cry. Uh.
My
faith JUMPED when you sent the email. This will be a story that I will
cling to when I am in the DR alone and am counting on the Lord for
guidance and direction..."just wait until He is clear...dont move until
He is. He came through with the flight like He kept telling me."
People kept saying, "it's just a flight, buy one. It doesnt matter."
I knew it did. I knew there was a process and purpose to wait on Him.
I never thought that I would get on the wrong flight. I knew it was THIS SAME FLIGHT for weeks. What I knew was that ...I would
miss out on seeing Him provide for me and growing.
So, yes, I believe this is part of the plan. Wooo Hooo, I'm getting a flight!
I
know it is late, I just wanted to say this real quick-- it turned out
longer than I meant. Ha! Give me a call when you get a minute. I
dont know if you work tomorrow, you can catch me anytime.
Love, Phyll(I just reread this 5/3/12 as I am loading all my emails into this blog and got teary-eyed reading it again! Man, God is awesome!!)
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