I did not come by chance into the awareness to assist others in the hearing of faith. No, it has been over three decades in the making, and I will share the assist to me from the Godhead that got me off and learning. I was working and living in New Orleans, LA back in the mid-80’s, and it was the location of the first job that I could get right out of college. It makes sense when I look back that New Orleans was the place where the learning of this awareness began. You see, New Orleans was a place not seen, heard, or thought of by me as a place to start working right after college. How does the scripture say it? 1 Corinthians 2:9, “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” I had been searching for work for three or four months after college with no success as of yet, or should I say with out having made it to the plan that God had for me as of yet. So I was in the interview with the Regional manager of this company, and he says, I do have an opening in another state if you would be interested in moving to New Orleans. I said yes to his surprise, and off into a plan of God in which he would show me. As we know, faith comes by hearing, and I was now off to learn in what I heard with the thing (job) I hoped for in hand.
So seven years had passed since I first come to New Orleans, and I had worked two of those seven years out of state after the company that I was working for closed down it’s New Orleans office. I had now been back working in New Orleans for a couple of years enjoying the life that I loved. I was sent to Orlando, FL for a week to attend a training conference that went really well. My mom lived in Cincinnati, Oh and while I was at the conference, she and my wife had been on the phone talking. My mom had been talking with this Pastor in Cincinnati of whom I had never met. The Pastor had given her reasons why my wife and I should leave New Orleans and come to Cincinnati, Oh. When we heard the reasons, we both had no hesitation, and we made the decision to move. I don’t know if it took me away from Katrina because that devastation was still about 17 years out, or was it more learning for me on how to receive the faith that comes by hearing. I had just purchased a new car two weeks earlier from a dealer in New Orleans, and the dealer wouldn’t take the car back when I tried to return it. I had no job waiting for me, so I didn’t want to take a new car note with me to Ohio. I was talking to a friend of mind, and I was telling her about the unplanned and upcoming move to Ohio. Then it just came to me to mention to her that the car dealership would not take the new car back that I purchased two weeks ago. She said to me, let me talk to my uncle, and see what he says. She called me back after talking with her uncle, and he wanted all the particulars concerning the dealership and the car. I didn’t know that her uncle was a big-time attorney in New Orleans, and he called me back with instructions that included taking the car back to the dealership. I did not ever meet my friend’s uncle, and neither did he and I ever talk again. When I arrived at the dealership, I signed the documents as he had directed, and I gave the dealership the key. I don’t have a clue what he said to the dealership, but I did not owe them anything. That was the last time in which I talked with the dealership. This was again another move of faith not planned, but it came to me by hearing, and I stepped right into it.
This was definitely the assist that I received from the Godhead that got me started in my learning in how to walk by faith that comes by hearing. I would also begin to learn that I was gifted with power faith so that I could step into whatever faith I heard according to his Will, and bring it to pass. Well, I am off to Ohio to see what God has for me. I will tell you a peek into the future reporting of my upcoming assists from that day back in 1989. There is a whole lot of faith going on from that day forward.
The Fulness of God,
Adopted son.