Discovering the New Covenant by Greg Taylor - exAdventist Outreach

AFTER ADVENTISM
That was a secret place between God and me. Joy filled my
heart!
We started to attend a little church in town. On our first
Sunday a woman came up to us all excited. First, she asked
me if I remembered her. I told her that I did not. She
proceeded to tell me that she had attended my church some
time before and that she had met me briefly after the service.
Soon after that she had been impressed that she should pray
for me. She had sensed God telling her, “Pray for this man.
He will obey Me.” She proceeded to pray for Paula and me
every day. She told me that for two years she had been
praying intensely for us and that God would wake her up,
sometimes at 2:00 in the morning to pray for us! Wow! All
that time I had felt alone in this struggle to follow and listen
to God, I was not alone. Our family was not alone. God had
sent a prayer warrior to stand with us who we did not even
know. What an awesome God!
During the first few days after we resigned, we learned
that our severance package, which should have been for six
and one third months’ salary, was reduced to two and one
half months’ salary. We had no resources to fall back on.
Paula had been working only part-time since we had chosen
for her to be a stay-at-home mom. What were we to do? I left
with no job prospects. At first we thought we should take
legal action to get the rest of the money, but we both felt,
after praying about it, that we should rather wait on the Lord
for His provision. We did not want to do anything that might
jeopardize our witness to Seventh-day Adventists in the
future. Very soon after we made that decision we received a
call from a friend out west. He had been talking about our
resignation with some of his friends. One of them, whom we
had never met, was sending us a check for more than a
month’s salary!
During the seven and one half months without work
God did a powerful work in us. We saw the hand of God’s
provision in such miraculous ways that our faith grew to a
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