I wanted to take just a minute and give you some affirmation that God answers prayers and directs our paths, even when we don't realize it! As many of you know, I am quite ADD and have to write things down or they don't exist. A few months ago, I was asked to speak about OCC at the Latonia Business Association. I wrote it in my book. He sent me a letter. We were good to go. Only problem was, I wrote it on the wrong day! Thankfully, God used a series of circumstances and a friend to let me know the night before the CORRECT day that I was wrong!
No worries, I threw some notes together and was ready to go. The meeting was a short one as the venue needed the LBA out by a certain time, so I only had a few minutes and spoke very quickly. Have you ever heard an announcer at the end of a car commercial give all the legal disclaimers? It was something between that and Minnie Mouse! Afterwards a lady came up to me and said their church had done shoeboxes in the past but had heard some disturbing things out of the UK about OCC and Franklin Graham, so they quit doing boxes. Now you and I all know that satan works against Christians and organizations that promote Christ all the time, which I believe is what happened here!
I assured the lady that what she had heard was far from the truth and thankfully I had information to back me up! So, she took my card and said she'd like to schedule a time to sit down with me and discuss the ministry and the possibility of mending things to the point where they would begin to do boxes again! I was thrilled with the opportunity.
The next day I received a phone call from her. I assumed it was to schedule a time to visit, but instead she said she'd spoken to their senior pastor and he wanted to do boxes! She wanted 200 of everything as soon as possible! What?? Wow, God moved fast!
A long story, I know, but think of the lessons for us ... what if God had not used circumstances to have my friend attend this meeting and moved her to check in with me? What if I had missed the meeting because of my clerical error? God had an appointment for me for that particular day. He moved behind the scenes all over the place for something rather simple that now has great Kingdom impact! Now there will be 200 more children who will hear of His hope, His blessings, His love because of this almost missed moment in time!
God is good. We may not know where He's working, but He is. We may not be able to see what He is doing, but He is blessing our efforts and as long as we keep HIM as our focus, He will show us great things!!
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