The tough get to praying...
I was going to post in the "rant" thread so I could use colorful metaphors to enhance my point. And then I remembered there's a scripture somewhere about not letting foul words cross your lips, or something like that...
Anyway, here goes. I'm not feeling sorry for myself, or throwing a pity party. I am using this as a testimony.
For the last three years or so, Shari and I have faced one pitfall after another, after another, etc....
It's just been a non-stop onslaught by the enemy, and that dude is relentless. We started out great. Had our "emergency fund" established, paid off all our credit cards, and were just about to start investing. Well, fast forward two years...a project started in March 2016 that was supposed to be a net gain for us of around 70-80k profit. Well, after phase 1 was complete, they threw us under the bus because it wasn't working like it was supposed to. It was the corporate engineer's lack of research and planning that failed, NOT what we did. We built EXACTLY what we were told to. Anyway, I barely broke even on that project. THEN, my brother e-mails me about buying his part of dad's estate. $20k. Not a phenomenal amount of money, but more than what we had saved, so I had to borrow money, hustle work, and sell a BUNCH of stuff, but we did it. And juuusssttt as I'm about to start recovering from all that, my Worker's Compensation underwriter hits me with a huge bill for last year's audit. And work slows down...WAAAYYY down. And Jamey's situation is getting worse. We need $30k CASH before UNC will schedule the surgery to amputate his foot. (By the way, he's been denied Medicaid twice, and was told...off the record, of course... if he wasn't white, it would have been approved the first time...[emoji35]) Meanwhile, the muscles in his calf are beginning to atrophy, which means the longer we wait, the more of his leg could be taken, which means a more expensive prosthetic. And he is slowly becoming more depressed. And one my trucks is getting repo'd, and work is creeping along. I am just frikkin' barely making payroll and insurance, and the other truck payment. Shari makes around $2k per month, but Jamey can't work (no one will hire him because he's a liability and/or he will be missing work after surgery...he's been told this several times), so Shari's pay is paying Jamey's bills.
I have cried, screamed, cursed, prayed, and stressed more in the last 6 months than any time in my life.
When the bible mentions "longsuffering", I now understand.
But God is GREAT!! I know He will deliver us from this. His timing is perfect. I've got an AWESOME wife who loves the Lord like I do, and we know that God is in control, so we keep praying and persevere.
I'd appreciate any prayers y'all can send up for us, and agree with us that financial blessings are coming!! Jesus said "ask anything in My name, and it will be done".
In Jesus' name, I CLAIM THIS!! The flood gates of financial abundance are about to swing wide open!!
Can I get an AMEN?!
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I was going to post in the "rant" thread so I could use colorful metaphors to enhance my point. And then I remembered there's a scripture somewhere about not letting foul words cross your lips, or something like that...
Anyway, here goes. I'm not feeling sorry for myself, or throwing a pity party. I am using this as a testimony.
For the last three years or so, Shari and I have faced one pitfall after another, after another, etc....
It's just been a non-stop onslaught by the enemy, and that dude is relentless. We started out great. Had our "emergency fund" established, paid off all our credit cards, and were just about to start investing. Well, fast forward two years...a project started in March 2016 that was supposed to be a net gain for us of around 70-80k profit. Well, after phase 1 was complete, they threw us under the bus because it wasn't working like it was supposed to. It was the corporate engineer's lack of research and planning that failed, NOT what we did. We built EXACTLY what we were told to. Anyway, I barely broke even on that project. THEN, my brother e-mails me about buying his part of dad's estate. $20k. Not a phenomenal amount of money, but more than what we had saved, so I had to borrow money, hustle work, and sell a BUNCH of stuff, but we did it. And juuusssttt as I'm about to start recovering from all that, my Worker's Compensation underwriter hits me with a huge bill for last year's audit. And work slows down...WAAAYYY down. And Jamey's situation is getting worse. We need $30k CASH before UNC will schedule the surgery to amputate his foot. (By the way, he's been denied Medicaid twice, and was told...off the record, of course... if he wasn't white, it would have been approved the first time...[emoji35]) Meanwhile, the muscles in his calf are beginning to atrophy, which means the longer we wait, the more of his leg could be taken, which means a more expensive prosthetic. And he is slowly becoming more depressed. And one my trucks is getting repo'd, and work is creeping along. I am just frikkin' barely making payroll and insurance, and the other truck payment. Shari makes around $2k per month, but Jamey can't work (no one will hire him because he's a liability and/or he will be missing work after surgery...he's been told this several times), so Shari's pay is paying Jamey's bills.
I have cried, screamed, cursed, prayed, and stressed more in the last 6 months than any time in my life.
When the bible mentions "longsuffering", I now understand.
But God is GREAT!! I know He will deliver us from this. His timing is perfect. I've got an AWESOME wife who loves the Lord like I do, and we know that God is in control, so we keep praying and persevere.
I'd appreciate any prayers y'all can send up for us, and agree with us that financial blessings are coming!! Jesus said "ask anything in My name, and it will be done".
In Jesus' name, I CLAIM THIS!! The flood gates of financial abundance are about to swing wide open!!
Can I get an AMEN?!
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