A few months ago I had been running into some trouble trying to get Sundays off at work so I could serve and be a part of the ministry at Granger Community Church. It is very important for me to be there every week and serve those kids and God. But due to a new position at Meijer (one that overall helped my family as it gave me full time) turned serving into a fight. A fight that started to wear me out. So it got to the point where one day I told my wife that I wanted a Monday - Friday job that would take away this scheduling conflict. I also began to pray and ask God for a different job to come my way so that I could better serve him. Well, ask you shall receive.
7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
(Matthew 7:7-8 NIV)
A few days later I was at church and I was talking with another person and kind of venting to them about what I have said in the above paragraph. When I finished my sentence I looked up and I saw another volunteer motioning at me to come her way. So I did. When I got over to her I sat down and the first words out of her mouth, no joke, were...
"Do you want a job??"
I said "Really?!"
She replied "Oh, yes. I have a job for you if you want it."
"I don't know." I said. "I have had people offer me jobs in the past and they don't always
work out for me. I wind up not being able to do the job."
"Oh, you can do this job." She said.
"Really, you think so." I said back.
"Why don't you send me your resume and we will go from there?"
"Ok."
So I sent her my resume later that week and a week or so later I received a phone call from a lady that worked at River Crest hospital in medical records. I went a few days later for the interview and started a few weeks later on April 9th. No experience or anything. I just got the job.
I was also praying for something else at the same time and the new job that God gave me to better serve him and provide for my family just flung open another door.
But that is for next time...
