Hey 🙂
Just sitting here thinking again about last night and how very sweet it was for God to talk to us, especially young people. Part of what you said last night was just what Amy and I were talking about on Friday coming back from my doctor appointment. We were talking about how God put us here and loved us so much to do so, and to arrange everything in our lives perfectly to get us here. Everything we go through has been planned out and is for our good! Why would He go through all that arranging to bring us somewhere that doesn’t matter? Or to give us/teach us a life that would not be pleasing to Him? I am very thankful!
From time to time I think about what Amy and I spoke of…the fact that God arranged it so that I would be born to Darren Prater on April 10, 1985. And that later, that man would have a heart for Him and have a talent that he wasn’t sure what to do with, but he knew he wanted it to be for good. During that time, I was in a family that moved every 3 years and got used to different people, cultures, places, etc. I was formed with the personality I needed, the education I needed, the situations I needed, the mom and dad I needed, all for my future as a child of God and a wife to a person who was being formed perfectly for me! Then to live with my mom all my life and have a very close connection with her, but to have my dad find the truth because of the desire God was putting in his heart…and me end up here because that is how God wanted it! Wow 🙂
Meanwhile, in Australia, there was a boy growing up with all of those things he needed as well to prepare him to be a child of God and a husband to a person who was being formed perfectly for him! 🙂 For him to have a mother and father who went their separate ways, only for his mother to find her perfect match who would eventually lead them to the truth…is amazing! Then, God takes away the boy’s earthly father so his only option was to live with his mother and a man…whom God has already planned would be his best chance! THEN…they come to us in NC and God continues His plan of knitting families together, until here we all are….happy and thankful!
It is an amazing story and I am so glad I wanted what God wanted for me all those years. He does everything so perfectly, even if you don’t think so at the time 🙂 It is worth everything to listen to the Spirit and don’t move before He moves! Last night before bed, I asked the Lord, “How do I respond?” The answer I got was (to paraphrase) to obey the Spirit… it will tell you what to do, or how to feel, or what to think. Its not enough to feel or think things, unless something comes of it.
Anyway, thank you for delivering that message you got last night. It was very special 🙂
Leah
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