Lesson Learned

Charles and I had an eye opening experience this weekend.
I would like to share it with you and I hope that it will be a blessing and help to you.



IT KEPT COMING TO ME FOR WKS TO GET CHARLES BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND I KEPT IGNORING THE THOUGHT. IT WOULD COME TO ME AGAIN AND I WOULD PASS IT OFF TO TAKE CARE OF IT LATER.



CHARLES WENT TO GET HIS LICENSE RENEWED ON AUGUST 28 AT THE DMV. WE THOUGHT HE HAD THE MONTH OF AUGUST TO HAVE IT DONE. COME FIND OUT IT EXPIRED ON HIS BIRTHDAY AUGUST 1. HE WAS TOLD BY DMV THAT HE HAD TO SHOW HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE BEFORE THEY COULD RENEW THE LICENSE.



WE SEARCHED THE HOUSE OVER. CLEANED OUT CLOSETS, CABINETS AND DRAWERS. WE LOOKED THE HOUSE OVER FOR 2 DAYS AND COULD NOT FIND THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE. I PRAYED AND CRIED OUT TO GOD TO PLEASE SHOW AND DIRECT US TO WHERE IT IS, CHARLES JOB DEPENDS ON THIS. WE WENT OVER THE HOUSE WITH A FINE TOOTH COMB.



IF YOU WOULD HAVE CAME IN OUR HOUSE YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT A TORNADO HAD HIT. WE PULLED EVERYTHING IN THE CLOSETS OUT AND JUST THROWED THEM IN THE FLOOR. WE LOOKED IN EVERY PHOTO ALBUM; YOU NAME IT WE LOOKED IN IT. WE FOUND THINGS WE HAD FORGET ABOUT SINCE WE MOVED IN THE HOUSE 30 YEARS AGO.



WE BAGGED UP EVERYTHING THAT WE HADN’T USED IN YEARS AND EITHER TRASHED IT OR PUT IT ASIDE FOR YARD SALE. CHARLES BURNED OLD PAPERWORK AND DOCUMENTS FROM YEARS PAST ALL DAY SATURDAY.



ALL THE TIME I KEPT PRAYING “PLEASE GOD” IT CAME TO A POINT THAT I WENT OUT ON THE PORCH AT MIDNIGHT, EXHAUSTED AND FRUSTRATED BECAUSE WE COULDN’T FIND IT. I SIT AND CRIED AND WAS REALLY ANGRY AT GOD BECAUSE I DIDN’T THINK THAT HE LISTENING TO MY PRAYER OR EVEN WANTED TO HELP US.



TO BE HONEST I GOT MAD AT GOD. I WENT INSIDE AND TOLD CHARLES THAT I WAS REALLY DISAPPOINTED AT GOD. IF HE COULDN’T HELP US / OR WANT TO HELP US FIND SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS A BIRTH CERTIFICATE, THEN HOW COULD WE TRUST THAT HE WILL HELP US WITH THE BIG THINGS IN LIFE.



I GOT UP THE NEXT MORNING STILL HURT AND LET DOWN BY GOD. I WENT INTO WORK IN A REALLY BAD MOOD AND JUST FRUSTED WITH EVERYTHING. I FELT I WAS WEIGHED DOWN WITH A HEAVY LOAD AND JUST WANTED TO GIVE UP.



ABOUT 9:00 GOD SPOKE TO ME. THIS IS WHAT HE TOLD ME:



“DON’T BLAME ME” I HAVE GIVEN YOU WARNING AFTER WARNING FOR YOU TO LOOK FOR THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND YOU KEPT PUTTING IT OFF AND IGNORING THE WARNING. SO IT IS NOT MY FAULT YOU

DIDN’T LISTEN. I TRIED TO TAKE CARE OF YOU. I TRIED TO PREPARE YOU FOR THIS MOMENT.



YOU NEED TO GET YOUR PHYSICAL HOUSE (LIFE) CLEANED OUT AND IN ORDER. GET RID OF THE THINGS

THAT IS NOT NECESSARY. THROW AWAY ANTHING THAT IS NOT OF USE OR BENEFIT TO YOU. CLUTTER

AND TRASH IN UNFRUITFUL. GET ORGANIZED.



JUST AS YOUR SPIRTUAL LIFE, YOU NEED TO GET ANYTHING OUT THAT IS NOT NECESSARY AND NOT FRUITFUL AND I WILL POUR MY BLESSING OUT ON YOU EVEN MORE BUT I CAN’T WORK IN A HOUSE THAT IS CLUTTERED WITH JUNK AND UNNECESSARY ITEMS.

IF THESE THINGS ARE THERE, THERE IS NO ROOM FOR ME.



CLEAN OUT / GET THINGS IN ORDER AND WATCH WHAT I WILL COME IN AND DO”









THIS SITUATION HAS BEEN A REAL EYE OPENER FOR BOTH CHARLES AND I.



BECAUSE OF MY PUTTING OFF SOMETHING THAT THE LORD KEPT DEALING WITH ME TO DO, I NOT ONLY SUFFERED FROM IT BUT CHARLES SUFFERED AND ALSO THE COMPANY CHARLES WORKS FOR WILL SUFFER.

BECAUSE CHARLES LICENSE HAS EXPIRED HE CAN’T WORK AND THAT MEANS NO WAGES FOR SEVERAL DAYS.

I HAD TO CALL RICHMOND TO GET A COPY OF HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND PAID EXTRA MONEY TO HAVE SHIPPED FASTER, BUT STILL IT CAN TAKE 3-5 BUSINESS DAYS.

WHEN GOD DEALS WITH OUR HEART WE DON’T NEED TO PUT IT OFF. WE NEED TO DO IT RIGHT NOW. BECAUSE PUTTING OFF WILL CAUSE HEARTACHE TO YOU AND THOSE AROUND YOU.

WE HAVE LEARNED THRU THIS, TO BE SENSITIVE TO WHAT GOD IS TRYING TO TELL US. HE LOVES US AND GIVES US CHANCES TO GET THINGS RIGHT AND IN ORDER. HE PREPARES US FOR THE FUTURE, BUT DON’T BE LIKE ME AND IGNORE HIS VOICE AND THEN HAVE TO SUFFER BECAUSE SOMETHING HE WANTED TO HELP ME WITH.

SO ONCE AGAIN, IT WAS NOT GOD’S FAULT. IT WAS MY FAULT AND THE ENTIRE SITUATION COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED IF I HAD ONLY LISTED TO HIS WARNING.

THE GOOD SIDE OF THIS SITUATION IS…WE HAVE A CLEANED OUT OUR HOUSE. NO MORE JUNK OR CLUTTER

ANYMORE IN THE DeBORD HOUSE. THIS APPLIES TO PHYSICAL AND SPIRTUAL.



GOD BLESS YOU

Karen DeBord

Giants.....they fall

So through all the battles that I feel like I have been going through lately I have came across a song that has really ministered to me. It is one of my uncles Charles favorite songs it’s called “Giants” and I love listening to that song because it lets me know that even though I am going through these trials those “Giants” the bigger they are the harder they are going to fall under the power of God.

I know that in life it may seem so easy to just feel like when things come our way that we can’t handle to just give up and run away. That’s where I have to come to realize lately that I don’t need to run away. I need to just cast my burdens at the feet of Jesus. I need to hide myself in the cross. I need to open my eyes and realize that the “giants” that are in front of me are nothing compared to the Christ I serve who is protecting me!

I love the scripture in Romans that says, What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can be against us? It is true with God being for us we have no one that can be against us. No “giant” is big enough to defeat our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. No “giant” is a “giant” at all with God on our side.

I think about David versus Goliath – Goliath yes he was gigantic but David had the Lord on his side so one tiny smooth stone in his hands was far greater than any weapon that Goliath could have potentially had. That’s why I think of it this way – no matter what trial or test I go through I know that if I stand on God’s Holy Word and if I maintain an open line of communication through prayer and reading God’s Word, that no weapon formed against me is going to prosper and I AM more than a conqueror. (Can I get a witness!)

So I must say if you are going through a battle, struggling through a trial, rest in knowing that no weapon formed against you shall prosper and soon those Giants are going to come down and remember that the bigger they are the harder they will fall.

Be Blessed

Trish D.