YOU MATTER TO GOD

You may be sitting in a hairdresser’s chair or sitting in a seat on a plane next to someone with a breaking heart. You don’t know what is going on in the heart of any person. We all pass people by on a daily basis that are hurting, in despair, searching for hope and answers, to some who are contemplating suicide.

While we all have full plates with life—we must each take time to connect with people. Guess what? People matter to God and they must to each of us as well. 

I recently received a call, actually four of them, while about to do a short video for a website. The first three calls were from the same number with no answer. I knew the person and figured she was dialing me by accident or either in a remote area. The next call came from a number I did not have in my phone. I answered and I could hear my friend’s voice saying, “Don’t hang up..don’t hangup—someone wants to talk to you.”

I stopped what I was doing and listened to this stranger’s words. As he began to talk, I remembered when my friend called me some 15 years ago telling me she gave this man a book I had given her because he asked to read it. 

This person began to share his heart with me—how he had anger in his heart over something someone had done to him that turned to hate—then it turned to murder. He shared how he asked my friend if he could read the book. He began to pour out his heart with story after story of God’s amazing redemption and how the message in the book had gripped his heart to forgive the person who wronged him.

Anger is a weight too heavy for anyone to bear. Release anger to the Lord. Choose to forgive and watch God avenge and make all things right. He sees every detail. He knows the whole truth in every situation. Without Jesus, nothing works properly. 

The man who read the book also told me how he had been referring to me as the lady with a book ministry everywhere he went—from a country club, to his business for many years. Then he said that he saw my signature in the book just a couple weeks earlier. The lady (my friend) hadn’t been in his business in over three years—but came in that day. 

I had asked the Lord something specific in prayer earlier that morning, and God used that phone call—right in the middle of what I was doing—to answer my prayer. You see, it matters that we obey God. It matters that we keep on doing what God has put in our hearts to do with Him. Souls matter for all eternity. People matter to God and they must to you.

Never stop doing what God has called you to do. Keep moving forward. Keep looking up. Even if you don’t see the end results, when we all walk through heaven’s gate—we will see the people we have touched, unaware. Obedience is like a key that opens doors, saves lives, turns people around just in the nick of time, and unlocks destiny. Your obedience may stop someone from committing suicide or something even worse. Your life is a book that touches hearts. 

One of my favorite movies: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE…is a great movie that also shows how our lives touch others around us…sometimes unaware. 

Dare to do all God has put in your heart to do with Him today. You are an ambassador for Jesus Christ. 

You can do it…

You matter to God! GOD loves you so much.

HIS love and mine,

Deborah 

Resources for Spiritual Growth:

GOD’S PRICELESS TREASURE (How To Overcome Challenges, Be Transformed and Know Your Purpose)

A LEAP OF FAITH (25 Days at the Mercy Seat)

THE MIDNIGHT HOUR (Will America Turn Back To God?)

All available on-line: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, xulon.com bookstore, etc.

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