MY GUITAR HERO!

I wanted to take time today to share a story with you, as well offer many thanks to someone that answered my prayer (an angel).

I had been having feelings that God may have been speaking to my heart, about playing the guitar and singing songs for the Lord. I decided to post a request on the electronic corkboard of my church, to see if someone had a guitar they wanted to get rid of. I had informed a friend of mine that I had these thoughts on my heart about playing. A couple of weeks later he asked what I had decided about it all. I told him that because I tend to have a fickle personality at times, and guitars are not cheap, I was going to wait for a bigger message from God that this is from Him and not me. I had made a couple of bad decisions lately by rushing ahead on what I thought was from Him. Being recently burned in this area, I told him that God was going to have to drop a guitar in my lap if it is from Him. I hung up the phone and checked my e-mail filter, that I had not checked in awhile. I was not doing it to look for anything in particular, I just remembered at that time that I had not checked it. One of the e-mails in the filter said guitar. I opened it and this lady had a brand new guitar that was given to her as a gift. She wanted to give it to me for free! My mouth just dropped. I could not believe the timing of finding that e-mail. It had been in my filter for 3 days and of all times, I would see it right after I stated that He needed to drop it into my lap. We met at our church so that she could give it to me. When I opened up the case and looked at the guitar, it was as if the style of the guitar had been custom made for me! Now that night I knew that I would be getting this guitar,but I had no idea what else God had in store for me. There is a singles group that is meeting right now on Thursdays at my church, that a couple of my friends are in. I was talking to them before she arrived at the church. As we were speaking friends of theirs,and other people from that group sat down with us to talk while they were all waiting for the session to start. In the meantime, she came with my guitar. I brought it back over to our group, and one of the ladies asked me some questions about what I knew about guitars, etc. I let her know that I know nothing and need to take lessons. It turns out that the reason she asked, was because the man that is leading the singles group is putting together a guitar bootcamp type of program that he had not started yet. WOW! I could not believe that, what are the odds?!! I was able to give my information to him so that I can join the group! I was so overwhelmed and happy that I cried most of the way home, happy tears of joy. Everything just fell into line! I had always heard when you are in God's will, things just fall into place. While I experienced some of that in the past, it was never as it was this time. I could not be more sure that God is calling me to do this. I am really beginning to see the fruit of relationship and obedience. By this I do not mean free guitars but just an inner peace of knowing that you are on the right path of your purpose. When I went into work the following day, my co-worker had stated WOW, everything just kind of fell into your lap hauh? I smiled and said that is EXACTLY what happened!

Thank you so much Father for Your Grace,Spirit and your discipline, that allowed me to see my need to be obedient to Your Word, which enabled me to hear your voice more clearly. I look forward to all you have in store for me in this new chapter of my life!