God is Good, even when we are not!!
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Grace
He has done for me what I could have never done for myself.
I want to praise God for His goodness towards me. I don’t deserve His love, yet He pours it out into my heart everyday.
I am 24 years old and I have been walking with Jesus since I was 22. I used to use cocaine, marijuana, alcohol and men. Out of faith, I asked God if He was real, if He would show me that He was for real.
I was walking to the airport in Sitka and I didn’t have any money, any place to stay (I had burned every bridge that I had) and no ride from the airport when I reached Fairbanks. When I got to the Anchorage airport I ran right into my Uncle Wally and he handed me some money, then he handed me his old apartment keys. “So, ok, this is working out”, I said to myself. Then when I got to Fairbanks I ran into a childhood friend. She gave me a ride to my uncle’s old apartment. I STARTED believing that God was real after all of that happened.
Growing up I knew that there was a God but I thought He was mean. NO!!!! What a LIE from the pit of hell. I lost my 2 oldest kids to Tribal Custody and God knows that I LOVE being a mom. I now have my beautiful baby girl Gigi. God has answered so many of my prayers and saved me when I backslid.
When I backslid I was seeing a man intimately and it ended kind of bad. It’s like in the Book of Hosea.......He took me back even though I had committed adultery. See......I put a ring on my ring finger to signify that I am married to Jesus and after this guy and I called it quits, I took the ring off. I went to church and God spoke to me......He said, “I have forgiven you but you have forgiven yourself.” Then He told me to put my ring back on....when I did, unspeakable joy filled me heart. I was smiling like a cat with a coat hanger in my mouth.
God is so faithful, so gracious, so tender with his mercy, so loving, so kind and forgiving. I love my God and my Jesus. He has done for me what I could have never done for myself. If the going gets tough, run into the arms of Jesus, let Him take the load and carry you while He takes care of business.
“When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, they will not overflow you. And, when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flames consume you.” This is my scripture for my life. Sometimes it is hard to remember it but God always reminds me that I am His and that He will take care of me. God Bless, Cara
When something is taken from us, with which we are deeply and wonderfully bound, much of ourselves is also taken away. It is God’s will, however, that we find ourselves again, richer, despite all our loss, multiplied, despite unending pain.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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