I’m Still Here
Posted January 4, 2013
on:If I don’t have any other testimony, I have this…”I’m still here”.
This past year has brought many struggles, much confusion but also revelation. Much of the bad stuff was of my own doing, making poor choices and getting myself in trouble.
Once again God saved me from myself. God’s love for me blows my mind really.
You know the verse that says, “pray for your enemies”? I tried this with my boss. Granted, my boss really isn’t my enemy but sometimes the way he treats me it feels like he is. He can be pretty brutal with his words. And I can have a pretty bad attitude when it comes to someone verbally attacking me, or rather I “perceive” it as an attack. I was becoming pretty miserable and hating going to work every day. I DREADED it when I saw my boss’s car when I pulled up so I would sit in my car for a few minutes before every shift and ask God to help me get through my shift without getting upset, or storming out, or getting a bad attitude, and I would ask God to keep me tough and help me get through it biting my tongue, help me, help me………..
And then one day I got a smack upside the head!! The Holy Spirit said flat out, “Michele, you are praying the wrong prayer”. You should be praying for your boss. So I listened and started praying for my boss. I prayed with sincerity and that’s when things started to change. He wasn’t as rude and nasty to me like he usually was. He wasn’t constantly down my back about stuff. It changed!! or was it me who changed?
All I can say is the Lord is an amazing and wonderful God. He takes my breathe away. In everything I do I want to bring glory to Him. Through my prayers, through my mistakes, through my job, and through my daily life I praise Him.
March 1, 2013 at 1:12 am
This is such a great post because it’s true! Our Financial Manager does not hide the fact that shes racist. She always has it in for me because I’m white and openly says how she doesn’t like the other white employees. Things were getting bad as she was working against me and my Assistant, and one Monday I prayed for her heart and over her office before she came in – you can’t believe the change! She’s even participating in our cookie swop we have organised in the office! God is GREAT!
March 1, 2013 at 8:11 am
That’s wonderful! It’s really amazing how praying for someone that we are not too fond of changes how we feel about them and then we get to watch how our prayer is working on them! God is so good and He cares about every thing, big or small, in our lives. Thank you for commenting and many blessings to you!