Encouragement (April 20, 2011.)
by withchangecomesgrowth
When I decided to stop living off yesterday’s miracles I asked God to give me new ones to be encouraged by. In the last two weeks I’ve seen/learned-of LOTS of cool things God is doing. Here’s a few: 1 guy who woke up right before he was declared dead, 1 marriage was restored and pulled off the brink of divorce, 1 man who was paralyzed got prayed for and was up and moving the NEXT day, 1 family transformed by God’s grace (started with their ELEVEN year old daughter,) 1 man decided to face his past and forgive his father after YEARS of abuse, 1 boy with wisdom beyond his years that made choices that I didn’t even have the faith to make, 1 little girl so hungry for God that she walked with me throughout the neighborhood last night telling me about the things she’s learning at church THEN ended up sitting on the curb with me and praying on the side of the road (same eleven year old girl,) another neat thing I learned is that over half my psychology group serves the same God, and I’m being stopped in the halls at school because people are overhearing conversations about God and getting curious. Dang. Get it, satan…
withchangecomesgrowth 
I have found it useful to look a long ways back and try to see how God has carried me through life working my way to present day and i find more little things each time I do it. i find answered prayers that were answered in a way i didn’t expect. times God used me and i didn’t realize it and times when i did, hard times where God helped me respond in a Christ-like manner even though i had every right to lash out in anger. But mainly i find all the times he has kept me safe from harm real or imaginary.
remember “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28”