Hi Donna! Bless you for sharing this. What a blessing it was to me to wake up and read your post this morning. Praise the Lord!!!! Wow!! This is not just encouragement for single parents for anyone and everyone who is living on this earth. Life can be so hard sometimes. People can be so cruel. There can be such darkness. It can be such a difficult journey. But God….Don’t you love that? But God is ever faithful. God is ever present. God is ever leading if we will just look to Him, trust Him and follow Him. Wow!! I love it!

I am SO encouraged to read about how you overcame your circumstances. We are overcomers and more than conquerors aren’t we? YES!!

I have many distinct memories in my mind, but one always comes back to me to remind me that God is faithful concerning our work. It may sound silly, but to me, it means a lot. It was a time I was working a job that required me to haul trash out to a dumpster. I hated doing that. The trash was gross and stinky. It was heavy and hard to pull. Going out to the dumpster was yucky and smelly. I hated the uniform I had to wear. It was one of the most miserable parts of the job. When I made the trip out to the dumpster I would pray. I knew God was with me. I knew He knew how much I suffered with the job. I prayed that He would deliver me and get me out of here so that I no longer had to suffer through this. I believed God would. He gave me strength and endurance to keep on keepin’ on until that day came.

My testimony is that the day came when I was able to leave and go into work I actually enjoyed with NO UNIFORM and NO hauling trash!!! WHOO HOO!! Praise Him!! He gave me a job in ministry which was my hearts desire. I wanted to work with Children and Families but a door opened in Women’s so reluctantly I took it. It was a big blessing! I had never experienced ministry with women and to women in particular, so I learned and quickly grew to love and find my place with women. It was such a blessing!! God is SO good!!

Thank you again, for sharing about your life Donna. I am so happy for you!! What you’ve accomplished is really to be commended. Great job!! Great work!! You’ve done good!! You are strong. You are focused. You are caring. You are determined. We can do ALL things through Christ who gives us strength. You have lived out and are living out that scripture. I’m proud of you! I want people to say the same about me. I have to get to work to make that true. I thought that just yesterday when I read that Anthony Bourdain died. I read posts of what people said about him and thought to myself, I need to get busy and get to work so that when I leave this earth people will have current things to say about me. I’ve got things from the past, but God’s not done with me yet. He has more. He is calling me to follow Him, trust Him and do more. I am trying to follow. I told my friend just last night, I need to be bold and courageous. I feel like I’m neither, but I will press on and keep following Jesus. I just need more faith to do what He’s called me to do.

I will remember what you said about laying on your sofa. You did what you had to do and then you laid down. I will do what I have to do and then I will go to the gym and praise Him while I workout. YES!!! Speaking of the gym…I have to get ready to go now, but I want to pray for you, first.

Father, You are SO good!! I saw Donna’s post last night but didn’t read it because of the title. Thank You for letting me read it today! Thank You for her obedience and willingness to share on this Prayer Wall! It makes me so happy and so excited!! You are faithful and Your love endures forever!! Just as Donna mentioned how she read about Moses and applied the reading to herself, You know I do the same. Just yesterday I did it with King Solomon. I thought I want to be wise like King Solomon. Then I thought about how he wasn’t so wise by sacrificing at the high places, marrying foreign women, marrying Pharaoh’s daughter and forming an alliance with Pharaoh. But thank You for letting Ron point out that Solomon was given wisdom to lead and govern people. I want wisdom to lead my family and to lead others in Your ways through prayer- a prayer ministry. You know. Thank You for Donna. Bless her for being a bright light to me. Bless her in her work and in the relationships with her children. May her children rise up and call her blessed. May they live like Donna and walk with You so that they can be an example to others. May they be disciples of Donna. Wow! What a responsibility we as Mothers have if we see that we are making disciples not just of Jesus but of ourselves. Crazy true that we are whether we recognize it or not, right? Help me follow Jesus so I can say like Paul, follow me as I follow Christ. Yes! Let Donna say the same, too. Thank You for bringing her to DAB. Thank You for DAB and all the DABers. What a blessing!! Make it MORE, Daddy!! It’s great, but I want more!! I know You do, too. You are faithful. Let Donna be extra encouraged today! She is a member of the Hall of Faith!!! WHOO HOO!!! I cheer for her and all the saints who’ve gone before and are going now! LET’S DO THIS!!!! By the power of the Holy Spirit living inside us!! LET’S BE BOLD AND COURAGEOUS PEOPLE!!! LET’S SHINE!!! BRING GLORY TO GOD AND LIFT UP THE NAME OF JESUS!!!! Ha ha ha!! That’s my cheer!! Thank You Father. I bless You today! Thank You for blessing me!! I love You! I pray all this in Jesus’ Name. Amen and Amen!

Shalom,
Janel