My Testimony

One of the many weekly activities that goes on at NCF Church is the Thursday night prayer meeting. After I moved into the house Lucille often would ask me if I would like to come with her. I always would reply no thanks. I usually find that I enjoy the quietness of the house for those 2 hours, and decline the offer. But two weeks ago I decided to go since I needed to speak to someone.
The prayer meetings last about 1 hr, and the first 1/2 hr is spent singing worship songs and the other 1/2 hr is spent praying for prayer requests. What I have found in this church is when they pray, they say their own prayers aloud together at the same time. So the room gets very noise with every bodies prayers. That night the leader for the night was asking for people to come to the front to share an experience of how they have seen or experienced God in their lives. Some people came forward and shared stories about God providing them new transportation after their car was stolen, witnessing children accepting God into their lives and there was a man that came up and share his experience of being diagnosed with diabetes and then becoming cured of it. For some reason I also felt called to share that night, so I stepped onto the stage with the mic in hand and shared one of my experiences of God that I had back in September.
Around the 23 of September, I had decided to walk the 1 hr walk home from work to my reps home. I hadn't yet moved into Destiny House yet. A couple blocks into my walk there is a street(West St) with a very steep hill that I walk down, at the bottom of the hill there is a street that crosses through it named Prince Alfred St. . I had just only half crossed Prince Alfred when all of a sudden a short bed truck came racing down the hill and made a very quick right turn onto Prince Alfred St. right behind me. On the bed of the truck were 2 wrapped bundles of bricks and a third partial bundle of bricks and when he made that quick turn those bricks from the partial bundle went flying. I stood there for in moment of shock, digesting what was happening as these bricks came flying at me. A few bricks landed in front of me, behind me and a large path of bricks to my right trailing behind the truck. Not one brick hit me! And right then and there I knew God was there protecting me. He had wrapped his loving and protecting arms around me and I knew right then and there I am here for a reason, God's plan. Another realization that came to me right away was that he also answers prayers. A couple weeks earlier I had made a prayer request back home, requesting for safe travels as I travel around this country, and again right then and there I knew that my prayer request had been answered.
After sharing this experience I got such wonderful support and encouragement from the many people I had made. They were all so impressed that I shared a testimony.
Well I thought that I would also share this one testimony of how I am experincing God here. There have been a few other's but this one will always stick out.
Last Thursday I attended the Prayer meeting again, not sure if I'll continue every week, but I'll see. The group size that attends is probably between 100 - 200 people, which is a small group compared to that meets Sunday night for services. And here at this church I am finding myself at home, but I do miss my traditional style of church service back home. NCF is very different but good. I have come to know some of these people at the church well that will be live long friends I'm pretty sure.

Signing off...