Funny Family Devos

May 27, 2009

I meant to post this sooner, but just got around to it.

The other night, we were reading our nightly Scripture, and the story had a lot of really funny names, and for some reason I asked the kids, “Who is the smallest man in the Bible?” Of course, for all you trivia buffs out there, I’m sure you already knew this, it’s Bildad the Shuhite. Well Micah found that to be pretty hilarious. By the time he had finished, he said, “I could be Micah the He-hite, Ellie is Ellie the She-hite, and Anna is Anna the Knee-Hite.”


The way God works

May 5, 2009

Today I scheduled an appointment with B & B Builders to get a quote on pouring a patio. But, apparently, God had something more planned that I didn’t realize.

I got home a few minutes later than I planned, and the guy from B&B was waiting on me. As soon as I got home, I apologized to him and we walked around back to look at the site. We chatted for a few minutes about what I had in mind. He asked me if I was going to build a deck extension on my own or hire it out, and I said something like, “That’s what’s so remarkable about bringing you guys out here to quote this project. I really prefer to do everything myself.” Then he said, “Actually this is remarkable.” And I didn’t really know what he meant.

Then he told me that one day he was driving past NewSpring church and he saw on the sign that we had a website, so he went home and pulled it up and watched a whole service. He said that what he saw really caught his attention because it wasn’t like any church he had ever seen before. He went on to tell me that he has watched every week or every other week since then, but he’s never visited. He doesn’t like organized religion. :-)

He said that lately his life has been pretty difficult, and just last night he prayed and asked God to show him that He’s there and what he needs to do. He said, “I wish you could feel what I felt when I saw you get out of your car and walk toward me and I recognized who you were. And I saw your NewSpring shirt.” It obviously rocked his world quite a bit.

We talked about the project some more, and he said, “Now I feel an obligation…” I said, “For what?” He said that he would fear the wrath of God if he didn’t come and see us at church after God answered his prayer that clearly.

Anyway, I thought that was pretty amazing. Only God could orchestrate something like that! Unbelievable.


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