I'm On A Mission: I Am Has Sent Me
Once I arrived in Hagerstown, Maryland, a spirit of giving came upon me. I actually wanted to give my money away wherever I saw a need. This had to be God. I remember the Sunday morning in church there, when I had just three one dollar bills left. As the offering plate was being passed, I put my last bit of money in. It was the first time in my life I was without any resources. That Sunday evening the pastor was preaching and stopped in mid-stream. He said,
"There is someone here who has left everything to follow Jesus. The Lord wants you to know that He is going to meet your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus!"
A bolt of electricity surged all through my being as it did right now writing this. The lion was roaring loud and clear. From that moment on I began to see the Lord's provision for my life. I have learned that when God calls a man or woman, He calls for everything, including the wallet and purse, before He can trust us with true spiritual riches. I can tell you why I had to leave everything: So I could find my future wife, and I did. She was where God was
leading me to the whole time.
After a year and a half of getting to know each other, we set a wedding date. I had no money. Neither did she. But the Lord had been preparing both of us for years to live by faith. We had no furniture or housekeeping supplies of our own, but we knew the Lord was bringing us together for marriage. I was living in an apartment at the time and volunteering for a prison ministry. The Lord was providing in unusual ways to pay the rent and daily needs.
Two months before our wedding date, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah roared the loudest I had ever heard Him up to that time. I was singing in a little country church, and a friend was preaching a revival there. A man came up after the service and asked my friend if he knew of anyone who could use a bedroom suite. They had it in the paper to sell, but it didn't sell so they felt led to bless someone by giving it away. My preacher friend explained that I was
getting married in a couple of months and I was believing the Lord to provide what we would need. The man delivered it to my apartment. It was a three piece cherry bedroom suite!
A week later the man called and invited me and my future wife, Dagmar, to their home in Winchester, Virginia. They began sharing their testimony with us. They said, "God is calling us to go to Bible school out west. And we are unable to take everything with us. He is showing us that He is going to take care of us as we go. And besides that, He has told us to give you everything in our house! I looked at Dagmar and said, "If this is a dream, don't wake me!"
Everything from their furniture, washer and dryer, down to the cereal boxes in their cupboards! It was worth far more than what I had tried to save in my measly bank account. Our apartment couldn't hold it all. We had to give certain things away.
I said, "Lord, why are You going overboard in blessing us like this?" He said, "Son, when you were willing to lay down your nets and follow Me and die to your dream by giving your bank account away, My Word promises: "Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom..." (Luke 6:38)
Don't Apologize For The Call Of God On Your Life
We have been married forty-two years and have three children and two grandchildren. I have been young and I am getting older but I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor their seed begging bread. I have heard my children cry out to God at times, but they have never begged for bread.
For many years I had doubted the call of God on my life until the day an apostle spoke over me, "Bill, it's not your fault that you're a prophetic minister. But you have to walk in it."
Don't apologize for the call of God on your life either. Walk in it, and let the Lion roar!
