My Testimony part 2

This is the second part to my testimony. It was so long I just wanted to break it up. 

Not long after to moving to SC I met my future husband. We had a rocky road to begin with because neither of us were at that place yet but it posed a big problem for my family. My biological father told me he wasn't okay to date outside of your race. I thought he was joking when he talked about this before because he would say it in a joking manner about how upset he would be if I brought home a "Mexican" or a "black" man. Well I found out he wasn't playing the minute he found out I was dating a brown man . My father wanted me out of the house. It was not okay with him by any means and tried to tell me that the BIBLE says we aren't supposed to date outside of our race but yet he couldn't find any scripture about it. Shortly after my step brother got married I was kicked out. All of my belongings I had brought to SC were thrown out on his porch and I was told I had 2 days to get them or they were going to Goodwill!!! I had never expected this kind of treatment from my brother!! Maybe my father but not my brother.  I was able to move into a friends house from work even though it was cramped she had 2 teenagers and herself plus me in 3 bedrooms. But it was a home that God provided for me. I went to my brothers house and managed to stuff Hannah's little Hyundai with everything I could and started to cry when it wouldn't fit because I didn't want to leave anything and because I never wanted to see my brother again or have to come back to his house. But that’s when I think God started to take over and said its okay these things don't matter leave them. I might have left something's there that day but what God gave me in return was so much greater!  God blessed me with a way out of the situation I had gotten myself into. He saved me yet again. I will never ever be able to thank Hannah or God enough for what they did for me that day.

About 3 ½ years ago Abba came to me in a dream. At this point in my life I was 27 and really really searching for God and his direction for my life and what he wanted to do. I had been praying every night and reading the Bible from time to time. In my very first dream that I can remember from God I was trying to build a house and was trying to use a ladder. Well no matter how hard I tried and now matter what I used I couldn't get anything to stick or stay it would all fall down. Then I heard the words from God "Your foundation isn't strong enough". I woke up in tears and said yes Abba I hear you. From that day forward I begun reading my bible as much as possible I went and bought a few devotionals. I also read "My Bangs looks good and other lies I tell myself" Which is an amazing book for any Christian woman out there! 

I thought the dream about foundation may have been the only dream I was going to get from Abba but around October of 2010 I had my first prophetic dream from God.  I had a dream of Las Vegas. I was in a hotel room over looking the strip when a massive earthquake hit. The hotel started shaking and the ground started shaking. A huge crack in the ground appeared almost right in the center of the strip and hotels started to crumble and fall into the crack. I began to get scared because I thought my hotel would go too but it was at that moment God picked me up and let me know he was there and he had things to show me. I was all the hotels including the one I had been fall into the massive cracks that were opening up all over. There was so much dust. So this being my first dream I took it as a warning to not go to Vegas because my husband and I were considering to go to Vegas to elope. But I also prayed about it and googled everything I saw in the dream and then I pushed it to the back of mind. I was like oh well it was just a dream. God doesn't want me to do anything about it. Well I was wrong because a few months later was when the Tsunami dreams started happening.  At first I just pushed those to the back of my mind. They were so spread out and I had people telling me at first oh it means your under stress. The wave is your emotions. But that's when God was telling me its not just dreams I am warning you.  I live on the East Coast 2 miles from ocean God was telling me to get out and telling me to share with everyone what I was seeing.

I guess the next biggest thing I can write about was 2 years ago when I was 28. I became unemployed for the first time since moving to South Carolina. My husband and I had wedding plans made for October and I was let go when my position was eliminated in May. So we were forced to cancel the plans we had made and just do something for us. We chose to just do a short 5 day cruise for a combo wedding/honeymoon. But it was hard because my family wasn't there and I didn't have the big wedding dress. It was hard but God brought us through and God provided. I have to say also that up until a few weeks ago I still had no job but the offers and interviews have been pouring in. I have had 3 job offers and many more calls for interviews. So I went from having no job for 2 years to having 3 jobs almost overnight. Want to know how? PRAYER!!! And because GODS AMAZING!!

One of the bigger challenges for me in my adult life came to me in September of this past year.  I had a friend who I was very close to. She was one of the first people I met when I moved here and we bonded right away. She knew every single issue I have had to deal with in any shape or form since I moved here 7 years ago. She knew all there was about me and I knew all there was about her. We both had a crazy sense of humor; one that I haven't found with anyone else and truly believe it was a blessing to find someone like Lisa who liked a lot of the same things I liked and who got me as well as she got me. I think it went both ways as I was also able to get her too.  When I was let go from Litchfield 1 ½ ago I was upset about being let go then I was in nursing school and my life kind of went in another direction so I wasn't able to speak to Lisa 24/7 like I used too. I was either pulling an all-nighter learning some pharmacology terms or trying to study for some big test, which in nursing school EVERY test is a big test! I was in class or clinical during the day and studied all night. I seriously had no life. In nursing it really is hard to have an outside life!!! So I kind of lost touch with Lisa. I felt guilty about it and when she got sick, I really felt guilty about it. Lisa became very ill and became septic. She was septic and her kidneys stopped functioning. Her body could not take the amount of toxins her in blood. At this point she was in a medically induced coma. I visited her all the time. I would read the bible to her and just talk to her. She was in a coma for 4 weeks. Maybe less, it’s all a big blur. I know I never got any response from Lisa when I would pray for her or read to her, except one night. I told her how much I LOVED HER. I told her how much her family LOVED her, and I told her how much GOD loved her. I told her I would be back soon and I said "okay ?" just like I was speaking to someone who could respond and Lisa actually shook her head yes like she knew what I was talking about!!!! I started crying because for me that was the first real sign that she was going to be okay. A week later, she was off the vent and out of the coma, her kidneys were starting to come back around and she was healing. She had a long long road to recovery but I was just happy to have her back. I went to see her the day they took the vent out and I asked her about being the coma. She didn't remember my experience but she did have memories of different things. She also said she didn’t realize how truly sick she was and how close she came to dying. She started crying and saying she wanted to see Kelly & Christian grow up among other things. She kept crying and said God was watching over me. It was the very first time I had ever heard her say something like that. She never really talked about God much and if she did, it was asking why God took her husband away from her and others she loved. So to hear her speaking positive about God was amazing!! I prayed for her and her mother and kept praying for her. She was eventually moved from an ICU unit to a rehab unit. I was so happy and so excited. I kept saying it was a miracle and that God was looking out for her. She agreed!! After being in a rehab unit for maybe  1 ½ weeks the unthinkable happened. Lisa passed away.  Lisa died from a pulmonary embolism. I was worried about something like that, but she was on blood thinners, which should have prevented that from happening. Nevertheless, if God says it's your time then it's your time. I struggled for her death for a long time and it's still hard today. I was so angry with God because I didn't understand how he could help someone get better only to take them away a few weeks later. It made absolutely NO sense to me and it was frustrating, upsetting, and everything all in one. My best friend was just gone like that in a matter of minutes. I blamed myself because I was a nursing student and I had just studied that topic and I should have been able to tell something was wrong. I blamed God constantly asked him WHY, WHY. How could you do that? She was better and she was being healed!!! The response I got from God was that it was a miracle she made it to begin with. He brought her back to say goodbye and I think to really and truly accept God finally. I believe with all my heart that she came back so she could spend eternity in heaven. I think she needed to come back to accept God before she could go. I find comfort in knowing that for a short time, she came back, and she knew who Jesus was and had accepted him in her heart.

Well that is my testimony! I left out a few parts but I shared 99% of it!!! I am not sharing any of this to get pity or have anyone feel sorry for me. I am sharing this so people can truly see the awesome power of God. God has protected me, saved me, picked me up, supported me, encouraged me, and brought me out of so many things. God is amazing and God can and will move in your life in the same ways! No this is not the complete story of my life and there were other pretty amazing moments in my life, it wasn't all bad!! But this is just to highlight some of the major rough areas that God was very visually present in my life!