So in awe of God right now
I can't even begin to explain how awesome God is. I am so amazed by Him daily.
So here I was, lifting weights at the gym, when I got the desire to pray and ask God to help me make an impact on every person's life that I come in contact with at the gym. I want them to see something different about me. I want to be salt and light. I want them to see God in me and I want to prove that eating what God created in the purest form (at least as pure and natural as we can get in this day and age) has the power to heal the body (or the body has the power to heal itself if you feed it what it needs) and the raw natural food lifestyle will not leave you weak but it will strengthen and energize the body. When I mean prove, I don't mean convict, critize or preach to others of about what's wrong with their lifestyle unless God leads me to do so. I'm not perfect in any shape or form, and I'm just doing what I feel led to do. What God leds me to do can be totally different than what He wants someone to do. I'm just going to go on living my life striving to do the will of God, and if I do something the enlightens someone else in the process, awesome.
It was about 5 minutes after I prayed that prayer, while I was resting in between sets, when this man came up to me and said with a smile, "Dang, where do you get all your energy.......because there's a lot of you" or something along the lines of that. I was in so awe of the moment and surprise by his honestly about my weight that the only thing that came out of my mouth was "yah", with a big smile. I almost proceed to say that the cool thing about the energy is that my body is being powered by raw fruits, vegetables and nuts (and God of course). But I hesitated, and the opportunity lasted only but a few seconds. I didn't feel hurt by his comment about my body. I not afraid to tell people I'm 5' 8.5" tall and weigh 160lbs. I know that God gives me my beauty and I'm beautiful no matter what others think is beautiful. He is doing some major work on my body and it all starts on the inside and it slowly works itself to the outside. Many people can't see it now, but just wait.... Even though I wasn't able to answer the man this time, I have faith that God will give me many more opportunities to share with others.
It was about an hour later when I was in the sauna room when I got another opportunity to share with others about my Lord and Savior. I'm so amazed by the way He works. I was getting ready to get out of the sauna, and once again, God changes my plans. There were two other people in the room with me, a women and a man and they didn't know each other. I'm guessing they were probably both in their 50's. Anyway, they were talking about language. Both were Hispanic, the man talked mostly Spanish and knows enough English to get by. The woman used to be fluent in Spanish because of her parents, but since she has been away from them, she has forgot most of it and talks English. They were talking amongst themselves but right before I was about to get up and leave, they included me in their conversation.
The man asked me what language(s) I spoke. Then he asked me how long I lived here. I said I moved here about 4 1/2 months from Oklahoma. She asked me what brought me here and I was able to share with them about how I felt like I was called by God to come here. There were both amazed about the situation and the major change. I highly stressed that the only way I was able to do such a thing was because God enabled and strengthened me every step of the way. They asked me about where I work and that amazed them also. They both think that the store is crazy and hectic and she said I must have a lot of patience. Once again I gave God the glory and said that there would be no way possible that I could do such a thing without His help.
It was an awesome conversation and we talked about so many things and I can't remember every thing we talked about. I was given the opportunity to share with them about a couple of ways of how God has changed me. Some how the conversation led her to ask me if I was single and then she started talking about her 2 sons. One is 19, the other is 25. She talked about their personalities and how they are Christians. We talked about dating and she talked about some of her sons dating experiences he has dealt with. She then asked if I would be interested in her giving me her oldest son's number or if I would want him to come meet me at work. I preferably don't like people setting me up but I figured what the heck, it can't hurt and I could gain a friend by it. I didn't get the number and said he can come by work and see me. It's kinda crazy because he will know who I am before I know who he is. Oh well. It was a pleasure meeting Kathy and I hope it's also I pleasure meeting her son.
After those 2 experiences, I am so on fire for God. It's a wonderful, supernatural high to know that God approves of me and He is helping me become a vessel He can work through. I came home and prayed an amazing prayer and I gave God so much glory. It was probably one of my most powerful prayers. I have faith that He heard every word and that it be manifested. The devil better just watch out!!!!!!
So here I was, lifting weights at the gym, when I got the desire to pray and ask God to help me make an impact on every person's life that I come in contact with at the gym. I want them to see something different about me. I want to be salt and light. I want them to see God in me and I want to prove that eating what God created in the purest form (at least as pure and natural as we can get in this day and age) has the power to heal the body (or the body has the power to heal itself if you feed it what it needs) and the raw natural food lifestyle will not leave you weak but it will strengthen and energize the body. When I mean prove, I don't mean convict, critize or preach to others of about what's wrong with their lifestyle unless God leads me to do so. I'm not perfect in any shape or form, and I'm just doing what I feel led to do. What God leds me to do can be totally different than what He wants someone to do. I'm just going to go on living my life striving to do the will of God, and if I do something the enlightens someone else in the process, awesome.
It was about 5 minutes after I prayed that prayer, while I was resting in between sets, when this man came up to me and said with a smile, "Dang, where do you get all your energy.......because there's a lot of you" or something along the lines of that. I was in so awe of the moment and surprise by his honestly about my weight that the only thing that came out of my mouth was "yah", with a big smile. I almost proceed to say that the cool thing about the energy is that my body is being powered by raw fruits, vegetables and nuts (and God of course). But I hesitated, and the opportunity lasted only but a few seconds. I didn't feel hurt by his comment about my body. I not afraid to tell people I'm 5' 8.5" tall and weigh 160lbs. I know that God gives me my beauty and I'm beautiful no matter what others think is beautiful. He is doing some major work on my body and it all starts on the inside and it slowly works itself to the outside. Many people can't see it now, but just wait.... Even though I wasn't able to answer the man this time, I have faith that God will give me many more opportunities to share with others.
It was about an hour later when I was in the sauna room when I got another opportunity to share with others about my Lord and Savior. I'm so amazed by the way He works. I was getting ready to get out of the sauna, and once again, God changes my plans. There were two other people in the room with me, a women and a man and they didn't know each other. I'm guessing they were probably both in their 50's. Anyway, they were talking about language. Both were Hispanic, the man talked mostly Spanish and knows enough English to get by. The woman used to be fluent in Spanish because of her parents, but since she has been away from them, she has forgot most of it and talks English. They were talking amongst themselves but right before I was about to get up and leave, they included me in their conversation.
The man asked me what language(s) I spoke. Then he asked me how long I lived here. I said I moved here about 4 1/2 months from Oklahoma. She asked me what brought me here and I was able to share with them about how I felt like I was called by God to come here. There were both amazed about the situation and the major change. I highly stressed that the only way I was able to do such a thing was because God enabled and strengthened me every step of the way. They asked me about where I work and that amazed them also. They both think that the store is crazy and hectic and she said I must have a lot of patience. Once again I gave God the glory and said that there would be no way possible that I could do such a thing without His help.
It was an awesome conversation and we talked about so many things and I can't remember every thing we talked about. I was given the opportunity to share with them about a couple of ways of how God has changed me. Some how the conversation led her to ask me if I was single and then she started talking about her 2 sons. One is 19, the other is 25. She talked about their personalities and how they are Christians. We talked about dating and she talked about some of her sons dating experiences he has dealt with. She then asked if I would be interested in her giving me her oldest son's number or if I would want him to come meet me at work. I preferably don't like people setting me up but I figured what the heck, it can't hurt and I could gain a friend by it. I didn't get the number and said he can come by work and see me. It's kinda crazy because he will know who I am before I know who he is. Oh well. It was a pleasure meeting Kathy and I hope it's also I pleasure meeting her son.
After those 2 experiences, I am so on fire for God. It's a wonderful, supernatural high to know that God approves of me and He is helping me become a vessel He can work through. I came home and prayed an amazing prayer and I gave God so much glory. It was probably one of my most powerful prayers. I have faith that He heard every word and that it be manifested. The devil better just watch out!!!!!!
posted by ENS at 1:38 AM
2 Comments:
you rock!
Ah, thank you. You are pretty awesome yourself! :-)
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