Classic Mary Moments: God is Good!!!

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

God is Good!!!

Late at night last week I got a phone call from a close friend. I listened as my friend told me that their father had died. My heart was soooo saddened to hear this news. I could hear my friend's voice begin to tremble as they began to express their sorrow. The brokeness in their heart as they told me that their father was not saved. "I'm never going to see my father again," they said. I listened as my friend continued to talk and then in the midst of everything they said, "But God is still good!" It really stirred me when my friend said that. Here my friend was, praising God in the middle of hopeless despair. In the middle of knowing that the would NEVER see their father again. My friend went on to quote some scripture to me and continued worshipping God. My friends words have continuousley been with me. "But God is still good!"

THATS WHAT I'M talking about!!! You know why my friend could say that in the midst of their heartache?! BECAUSE THEY HAVN'T FORGOTTEN!!! Because they STILL know what God has done for them. My friend still remembers back to several years ago when God filled them with the Holy Ghost. They remember the hopelesness they felt and how God brought them out of this world of sin. I think that sometimes in our humanity we get stuck in a rut about the goodness of God. We think that the goodness of God is based on our cirucumstances, but it is not. God is eternal and he was good BEFORE we that are finite were even created. His goodness is ALL THE TIME because he is eternal.
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It doesn't matter what your going through...If God saved your soul, and HE DID, from a burning hell than he is GOOD!!! Think about it, JESUS DIED FOR OUR SINS!!! HE IS GOOD!!! HE IS GOOD!!! HE IS GOOD!!! The song says, "No matter what tomorrow brings, or what it has in store, I know that I will praise The Lord!!!" It is my desire to be able to say in my life, no matter the circumstance, "God is STILL GOOD!!!" As my friend quoted to be from Job 1:21 ...

"...the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away;

blessed be the name of the LORD."

The Votaws!!!

He has preached all over the US, China, Taiwan, the Philipines, Vietnam and many more Asian countries. He preaches in underground churches in communism countries. He converted a man on death row in prison to Christ and 3 hours before that man died he baptized him in Jesus name. He prayed the first man in Vietnam to kill and americn soldier through to the Holy Ghost and Baptized him in Jesus name. He has converted trinitartin preachers all over to the Oneness doctrine...BUT ABOVE all else...I thank God that I TOO am ONE OF THOSE souls he reached out too...he gave 7 years of his life to New York City!!! I thank God that he answered the call!!! It wasn't until his 6th & final year as pastor there, that our family came into church...we were there for 9 months before we came to AZ and then right after that the Votaws left NYC for the mission fields of Asia...I THANK God that someone had a burden for NYC!!!

Sis. Kathy!!!

This is the woman that invited my Momma to a Pentecostal church!!! She told me that she was actually new in the church herself and that she would see my mom in the front yard of our house playing with us kids and she just wanted so badly for my mom to have what she had just recieved herself. It may have been just one person that she was witnessing to at that time, but that one person has had an affect on her own five children and now its her Grandchildren that are still recieving the blessing of Sis. Kathy's witness. 25 years ago, it wasn't just my mom...I may have only been two at the time, but it was ME she was winning too! I thank God she wasn't afraid to be a witness and that she didn't give up on my mom. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. (Acts 2:39) When you decide to live for God it doesn't just stop with you!