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WISdOm FOR PUSHING yOU TO THE FRONT
“You go home and rest,” she said, kindly. “Doctors are not God,” she
whispered in my ear so that the doctor who had returned could not hear.
The doctor made sure I got no help at all as I walked out of the room.
As I walked down that long corridor by myself, I felt the warmth of
the heavily oozing blood and remembering what the doctor said, “you
could walk out into that hallway and drop dead.”
Yet I chose to dwell on the fact that I knew that I had heard God speak
to me, and I was giving my baby the chance to “live” – to “push to the
front” and for me to “push to the front,” and not “lose” this precious gift.
It was a long, long drive home from the hospital that night. As my
husband and I drove along the dark winding, lonely streets of Prince
George’s County, my body feeling the effects of the amount of blood
I had lost yet we held hands declaring the faithfulness of God. I held
back the hot, stinging tears that welled up and demanded to be released.
My mind began to race with thoughts of the words that doctor, the “expert”
had spewed out of his mouth, “You are putting your life in jeopardy
if you walk out of here without this procedure!” I felt my husband’s
hand grasp mine even tighter and again decreed, “God is faithful. God
is worthy to be praised.” I washed the words that had been spoken by
that doctor out of my heart with God’s word. I reflected on the Friday
Night Praise Service we attended the night before. I thought about the
tithe and the offering I had given during the Service. “I gave my tithe,
Lord,” I said, “I gave an offering to you, Jesus.” It was my custom to
give my tithes and offerings at our Sunday Worship Services. At our
Services during the week, I would give an offering however the tithe I
presented to my Heavenly Father on Sundays. This Friday service was
different. I was impressed to give my tithes that Friday night at church
service. Even though I did not understand why, I believed that it was
the Holy Spirit leading me – and the Holy Spirit leads and guides in all
truth and wisdom – I obeyed that leading.
As I reflected on the paying of my tithe, the many promises about the
tithe and the power of the tithe filled my mind and heart.
“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in
my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I
will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much
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