Seed Time Harvest

~Seed~Time~Harvest~
Why didn't I hear this when I first came into the Freedom House?? Maybe I did, and it just didn't sink in... Following Christ is the best thing I've done in life.
When I felt the calling to be a missionary, a trillion doubts entered my mind. Of course I was sitting in the 3rd worst prison in Ohio on a drug charge. The good Lord saved me once again from self-destructing, THANK YOU JESUS!!
A few of these doubts were, there was no way I was going to learn what I needed to learn to do this. Another was, obviously, my faith. I was a realist, I had to see it to believe it!! I was worried what others would think, I mean I had worked so hard on this so-called street credibility. Out there earning my stripes, worried about respect and all the bad fruits that come with that.
It's not until I learned that it's not about me, and never was. Until I learned to surrender myself to God, and realized I had to stop putting everything before Jesus Christ, stop goin' against the grain.
I can honestly look back and put some of the pieces together, I can see where GOD can use me, my past situations that I was Blessed to survive. I'm tryin' to tell ya, there was no luck in surviving "gun play". No luck in surviving "cooking." No luck in surviving working for the Devil(as I have heard it called). This was a GOD thing. Past experiences that the Lord had me encounter. For example, is it by chance that I was introduced to indirect sales at a very young age, which called me to travel all over the U.S., I been told I have a wondering soul, Can the Lord use this for the purpose of the advancement of his Kingdom?? Sure He can!! Being able to adapt to many different climates. Learning how to roll my sleeves up build and work hard for little to nothing. I can sit here and think back on multiple things, we all can.
All of us have been Blessed to have certain areas in our past that we were challenged with, Allot of terrible things, that the Lord wants to use for the Kingdom, to me, it seems like those things were the 'slimy pit, mud, & mire' that Psalm 40 speaks of, and now He has or wants to lift us out and set our feet on a rock.AMEN?
....'Amidst the challenges and trials, God is working'.......

Philippians 1:6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.