Trials and Tribulations

[Dean Woods]

When God called us into the ministry He confirmed to us in many ways that it was His voice we were following. Satan has come at us and tried to destroy us. We have angered Satan and we don't care. God is our first love and His work is our only concern. We want to see people give their lives to God. We don't regret a moment we've worked for Him and we will continue to do His work. I remind myself daily, the harder the battle the sweeter the victory.

We have had our good times in this ministry but we have fought some hard battles. This applies to everyone that does the will of God. Satan fights us with pure desperation when he sees people doing work for God. Satan does not realize he has already lost.

We are solely dependant up on God for our survival. As the disciples in Jesus' time, we laid down everything to pick up our cross and follow Him. It has not been easy but God has always been there for us. As humans, we sometimes get saddened and afraid but God has not and WILL not let us down. He never said it would be easy but did promise to be there with us always...and He has.

God has sent us angels to help us on our way. Once we ran out of gas coming home from church and two saints brought us enough gas to get to a station, filled our gas tank up ($90) and gave us money to buy us something to eat on. We love to go to church and sometimes it is almost impossible to make it but God gives us the gas in our tank to make it. We ran out of propane and God sent someone our way that gave us enough money for propane and gas for the truck. Our car insurance was due and there was even enough money to pay that.

God knows our needs before we ask. He loves us and takes care of us. We are independant and always worked for what we have and it is hard having to learn to depend on God. In ourselves we have even looked for work but it isn't God's will for us to go to work on public jobs. I recently spoke to someone about a church. We are praying about it as we didn't feel led to pastor a church but to evangelize, but if I could get the church it would be doing God's work, just in a stationary place instead of all over. If it's God's will, I willl get the church.

Please help me pray for God's will to be done and for doors to open for us.