Our Story (Part 1)

  Yesterday, my wonderful husband stood up in front of our Church congregation as a new elder and gave his testimony.   I have never been more proud of him, nor more aware of the target on him in the spiritual realm.  In God's awesome timing, He is ministering to me through the word of Ezekiel and I'm very aware of the prayer covering that I as his wife need to be diligent about.

   As a part of Rusty's testimony yesterday, he mentioned that early in our marriage, he was overcome with the feeling that he would die young. As a matter-of-fact, he felt he would be dead by age 40.  For many years he couldn't shake that feeling.  In his late 20's, he starting have seizures that couldn't be accounted for medically.  Epilepsy and other "normal" known causes were ruled out.  After his second serious seizure in 3 weeks, he was hospitalized for about a month while they ran all kinds of test on him.  Everything came back clear.  He was told then he'd have to be on seizure medicine the rest of his life. This didn't help to alleviate the feeling that he'd die young.

    I want to share the rest of the story he couldn't tell yesterday about how we both surrendered to Christ.  I will break that out in multiple blogs though.  This is because I don't want to skip sharing every detail that God wants me to share for whoever might need to hear it all, but also because the story is not just about his conversion, but also mine.  Although we were "reborn" in our late 30's, Christ's provenient grace started in our lives at a very young age.  He pursued us for many many years and I want to cover some of that. I feel lead to share this portion too because there may be some who sense His tugging at them but not sure its Him, or there may be parents, children, grandparents, who have been praying for their loved ones for many years and have yet to see an answer.  I want to encourage you via this blog. 

 So, this is just Part 1.  Just enough to hopefully whet your appetite for more.  We have an amazing story to tell of God's love, His longsuffering, His passion for us personally!  I will do my best to post a new part each day so as not to keep you waiting too long.

 Rusty is 51 years old now...so obviously he didn't physically die at 40.  But he did die to self  at 39 and how that played out will be told soon :-)

Psalm 107:21-23:   Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind. Let them sacrifice thank offerings and tell of his works with songs of joy.