Testimony Timez: A Bill ain’t never scared God
Welcome to the first-ever Testimony Timez or T- time 🫖for short. It has been an idea I had for a while to begin making posts about the goodness of God, I have so many testimonies about the Lord and it only makes sense to share them to encourage someone else. Today’s testimony is being yanked out of my journal, this happened about two weeks ago. This is more about the power of God than it is about my finances, this is more about the encounter I had with God that built up my faith that I am truly His and that I can trust Him with my life, trust him in the process, and trust His promises are true. Let us begin.
So I went down to visit my family back home for Thanksgiving and months prior my father told me to set up appointments to get my teeth cleaned. I was aware of two cavities that needed to be filled and an overdue cleaning that needed to be done. I want my body to be in the best shape possible, though I may be young I am no longer a kid so I can’t get away with certain things as much as before. I set up the appointments and was good to go, so I thought. The first thing I would like to testify to is that my father said he would cover my expenses. He mentioned it many times, just so willingly without even me needing to ask. That itself is a testimony. However a turn ended up coming, I had partnered up with the dental clinic to get their in-house insurance to discount my fees, but truth be told- it suck. Imagine paying $240 for one cavity! Imagine paying $199 to clean your teeth and getting this terrible insurance. However, I needed the insurance at the moment and was instructed by my father to get it and I wanted to be respectful since it was his money. So I had set up two appointments, one on a Monday, the other on a Tuesday for a cleaning and a cavity fill. Praise the Lord because I did not know what expenses needed to be paid until I called a couple of hours before to ask. Everyone in my household at the time was shocked when I told them what I was told on the phone. My father thought it would be $60 to get my teeth cleaned not almost $200! (insurance included but still). They had me scheduled to get both cavities filled in for $460 and I told them just one, knowing that I was lying cause I was about to cancel that appointment (I had to repent of that). My father was able to bless me with $200 to move forward and I’m grateful to God for that, words can’t explain but I will continue to be in awe and thank the Lord for it. You see I’ve been in a season where God is having me trust people to cover me, destiny helpers, I haven’t had a job in almost 2 years, and it’s been very humbling because I have had to learn how to be okay with me not having “it” and some else providing it. I did get a thought during this time that I needed to start making my own money so that people don’t have to keep covering me (not to be “burdensome”), but then I was reminded that God is having people cover me in this specific season in my life and I’m not going to lie, it’s been killing the pride that I had developed from the distrust I had for people. I thank God for the people He has placed in my life to dismantle the ways of thinking that kept me from receiving help.
So later that night before the next day came for the cavity fill, I had to pray to God and ask for His help. I said something along the lines of “God you know my name, Esther, you favor me, you gave me this name, I pray for favor and that you make a way.” I thanked Him in faith that I received what I asked for though it may not have felt like it. I prayed this according to the revelation God had given to me about my name and my existence. The next day came and I had this appointment in the bright early morning at 8:00 AM. Now I’m not going to lie, during my prayer I was pitching ideas to God, asking him for the dental staff to show favor and give me one fill-in for free as we pay for the other one, I just needed something to happen lol. The next day came and my dad was still upset at the fees and wanted someone to go with me, to do an “investigation”, really talk with staff to discuss why everything was so expensive (yes despite me being in my early twenties lol). So my older sister went with me and after the discussion, she asked me what I wanted to do, I said I would proceed with it because it was needed for the health of my teeth. Sure enough, the same woman at the front desk we were talking to showed me grace and told me to pay only $200 instead of $240 not knowing that my father was only able to give me $220 and my sister was going to pay the rest. Not only did God decrease it, but he blessed me to return $20 to my father. He allowed me to leave with what I was meant to give away. This is the God who covers His children. He knows my needs and as long as I am right standing with him, he will cover me every step of the way. It may not look like a blessing to the carnal eye because we are told to be successful to cover ourselves but there is a greater reality of glory when God says everything you go through in me, I am responsible for. Something I want us to focus on, something God is highlighting to me is "the prayers of the righteous availeth much”. Though it was a simple prayer I was praying and didn’t even know what I was doing when I prayed it, I came to God like His little daughter needing my father, and because Jesus has made me the righteousness of God, I try my best to live that every day, God hears and answers my prayers.
So my encouragement to you is that God hears your prayers and He will answer them. Have faith and keep thanking Him for it. It is not about how much you do sin or how much good you do, it’s about if you try to live your life intentionally with the Lord Jesus and allow Him to make His work perfect in you. The Bible tells us in James 5 verse 17 that the prophet Elijah was a man who got angry like we do, yet his prayers availed to the point he was able to pray for it to stop raining for 3 years and prayed for it to rain again. Why was he able to to that? Because he was a righteous man living a life led by God and not a sinful man living a life led by sin. The truth is we sin every day even when we do not know it and no matter how much good we do it will never be good enough to bring us out of sin, only the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ can do that. So I condemned every lie of the devil right now that says you are not or can never be the righteousness of God in the mighty and matchless name of Jesus Christ! Repent if you have to and stay repented. Jesus bore your sins so that you could be the righteousness of God! Don’t stop praying, don’t stop walking with the Lord, and don’t stop seeking holiness because it is working and that is why the kingdom of darkness tries so much to discourage you by thinking it is not. There is no matter too foolish for God not to handle, He has the solution for it all go to Him to settle it.
Scriptures:
James 5: 16 and 17 KJV - Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
Matthew 6:33 KJV - But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV - "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him"
Thank you so much for joining me in the very first Testimony Timez blog post. I trust that the Lord has blessed you through this and will continue to do so. I love you with the love of Christ 😘
Also, If you would like to accept the love of God and His son, Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, or even if you have backslidden and want to return to the Lord, Here’s a prayer to guide you.
“ God almighty, I come before you to accept your love, to no longer reject you and what you have done for me. I choose to stop running from you and to finally stop rejecting myself of your love. Thank you for dying for me Lord Jesus, thank you for taking on my sins and shame. Thank you Lord that you became a curse for me so that I would no longer be bound by them but set free by your blood that was shed for me. Thank You for making yourself available to me, as friend, father, Lord, God, helper, comforter, savior, and all the good things I need in my life. Jesus I love you and ask you to help me keep loving you like how you want me to. I accept you completely as my Lord and savior, not what this world and demons have presented to me. Now I declare in the both spiritual and physical realm, that I not longer belong to Satan nor his Kingdom but according to Colossians 1:13, God has delivered me from the kingdom of darkness and has placed me in the Kingdom of light, where Jesus Christ is, I declare I belong to Jesus Christ and I now seat with Him In heavenly places. I rebuke all demonic retaliation in me making this decision and come into agreement with a sound mind in Jesus name. I repent, renounce, denounce, and divorce myself from all the sins I’ve committed (list what you can remember) and break the evil covenants associated with them, and I declare once again I am a part of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. In Jesus name I pray and seal this prayer in His blood, Amen.”
Hallelujah! Congratulations if you made this decision. I pray that you prevail in your walk in the Lord, that forces of darkness continue to fail concerning you, and that the forces of light continue to persevere and propel you in the name of Jesus.
And if you have not yet, get you a Bible. Please, it’s a lot of ghetto foolishness concerning Christianity and religion. The Bible is the only way to protect you from it and will show you how to be a Christian and have a real relationship with Jesus Christ.
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