Pam Padgett ... Member of Body of Christ
I lost my purse a few weeks ago.
Such a terrible feeling!
I had gone to the grocery store to pick up a prescription for my neighbor, Jim, and to buy a few groceries. I got the prescription first and put it in my purse after paying for it. Then I got my groceries and paid for them.
There were only a couple bags of groceries, so I left the shopping cart at the front of the store and carried the bags to my car. When I got to my car I reached to get my keys from my purse, but didn't have my purse!
I knew I must have left it in the cart at the front of the store and ran back there in a panic only to find that the cart was not where I left it.
As I frantically looked around for where the cart ... and hopefully my purse ... might be, a young man who works at the store saw me. I can only imagine how upset I must have looked because he asked if I was looking for my purse and said he had found it and taken it to the customer service desk. What a relief! I thanked him whole-heartedly.
When I got to the customer service desk the man working there had just opened my purse to find out who it belonged to and was holding Jim's prescription. I told him it was my purse, but he wanted to make sure. He asked my name while he looked at the name on the prescription. I told him my name and also told him that he'd find Jim's name on the prescription. Having Jim's prescription made it a little confusing for the man at first, but it didn't take long to convince him that the purse belonged to me.
I was in such a panic when I realized my purse was gone that I don't remember if I asked God to help me. But when I think of how easily someone could have walked off with my purse, I'm so grateful to God for the way this all worked out.
I had gone to the grocery store to pick up a prescription for my neighbor, Jim, and to buy a few groceries. I got the prescription first and put it in my purse after paying for it. Then I got my groceries and paid for them.
There were only a couple bags of groceries, so I left the shopping cart at the front of the store and carried the bags to my car. When I got to my car I reached to get my keys from my purse, but didn't have my purse!
I knew I must have left it in the cart at the front of the store and ran back there in a panic only to find that the cart was not where I left it.
As I frantically looked around for where the cart ... and hopefully my purse ... might be, a young man who works at the store saw me. I can only imagine how upset I must have looked because he asked if I was looking for my purse and said he had found it and taken it to the customer service desk. What a relief! I thanked him whole-heartedly.
When I got to the customer service desk the man working there had just opened my purse to find out who it belonged to and was holding Jim's prescription. I told him it was my purse, but he wanted to make sure. He asked my name while he looked at the name on the prescription. I told him my name and also told him that he'd find Jim's name on the prescription. Having Jim's prescription made it a little confusing for the man at first, but it didn't take long to convince him that the purse belonged to me.
I was in such a panic when I realized my purse was gone that I don't remember if I asked God to help me. But when I think of how easily someone could have walked off with my purse, I'm so grateful to God for the way this all worked out.
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Cathy Varner ... Member of the body of Christ
Pam's report sounds so similar to what happened to me about a year ago.
I’d shopped at Walmart, then drove to a nearby shoe store. When I went to get my purse, it wasn’t there. I knew I had it to pay for groceries so I must have left it in the cart in parking lot. I prayed it hadn’t been stolen.
When I went to shopping cart area, the carts weren’t there.
When I went to shopping cart area, the carts weren’t there.
I was panicked!
I went inside and talked to a couple employees but they couldn’t help.
I kept praying.
The line at customer service was extremely long, so I didn’t want to wait there.
Then I saw an employee coming out of a room and decided to ask him for help. Amazingly, this was the man who had taken the carts inside. He saw my purse and had tried to get my attention, but I was already driving away. He’d set it aside. Everything was there.
I was so relieved and thankful, and have also realized what a blessing it was that I hadn’t driven all the way home (about a 20 minute drive) before discovering that my purse was missing.
I was so relieved and thankful, and have also realized what a blessing it was that I hadn’t driven all the way home (about a 20 minute drive) before discovering that my purse was missing.
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Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
In my kitchen, under my sink, I have a set of large, plastic mixing bowls. I currently have these bowls stacked and have Idaho potatoes in the top bowl.
Every time I need to get another mixing bowl, I end up hurting my hand as I lift the bowl that has the potatoes in it.
I was wondering where I could put another single, empty mixing bowl and was thinking of my cabinet space when the following idea (which I believe was from God) came to my mind.
"Take one of the empty bowls and turn it upside down and put it like a lid on top of the bowl with the potatoes."
I believe God brought me this idea for I had no concept of what to try.
Several years ago ... I had something happen similar to this.
My mother and I would go to cafe daily and get our food ... At that time it always cost $5.30 cents. I would leave my purse in car with my mother and I would take a $5 bill and a quarter and nickel in with me.
One day, I looked in my coin purse and couldn't find a quarter and a nickel.
As I kept hunting through the coins, I heard:
"Three dimes will work."
That's right! I excitedly responded.
I had several dimes in the coin purse.
It was like God was watching over my shoulder as I was hunting through my coins and HE made it easy for me by giving me these simple instructions.
One thing I've always noticed about God's ideas when HE gives me an idea: It is always so simple.
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Pam Padgett ... Member of the body of Christ
Yesterday evening when I began preparing a new blog for crock pot recipes, I prayed asking God to help me do this the best way.
Having never created a "private" blog before, I was a little concerned, but after praying the blog went together very easily.
But there was one small thing I was not able to get like I thought it should be ... between each recipe is a bar that had a date and something that looked like a pencil. I thought it would be nice to have that bar cleared, without anything on it. Although I tried several things to remove the date and pencil, nothing worked.
Today Joan and I were talking about the recipe blog and she mentioned how much she likes the pencil because it allows her to edit the recipes very easily, saving several steps.
But there was one small thing I was not able to get like I thought it should be ... between each recipe is a bar that had a date and something that looked like a pencil. I thought it would be nice to have that bar cleared, without anything on it. Although I tried several things to remove the date and pencil, nothing worked.
Today Joan and I were talking about the recipe blog and she mentioned how much she likes the pencil because it allows her to edit the recipes very easily, saving several steps.
I started laughing and told her how hard I had tried to remove that pencil last night but hadn't been able to do it.
A little later I was looking for how to make the recipe names, titles, stay blue in color. (they had been turning black when clicked).
A little later I was looking for how to make the recipe names, titles, stay blue in color. (they had been turning black when clicked).
One of the first things I came across was how to clear the date and pencil from the bar between the recipes!
Very easy to do, and its amazing that I had been kept from finding this when trying to clear that bar last night.
So many times we don't know what is best, even when we think we do.
So many times we don't know what is best, even when we think we do.
I rejoice that God knows what is truly best in each situation and is able to guide us in that way ... and that I was kept from removing the pencil from the recipe blog!
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Barbara Preston ... Member of the body of Christ
Yesterday we had high winds with gusts up to about 60 mph.
I had planned on doing a slow cooker recipe which would be cooking for several hours.
As I was preparing the ingredients, I thought about the high winds and the possibility of a power outage as we have a lot of trees around here with power lines running close to them. (I hadn’t thought about this until then.)
I asked God if He would please keep us from losing power while the food was cooking so the meat wouldn’t end up raw or half raw.
And He answered my prayer.
I had planned on doing a slow cooker recipe which would be cooking for several hours.
As I was preparing the ingredients, I thought about the high winds and the possibility of a power outage as we have a lot of trees around here with power lines running close to them. (I hadn’t thought about this until then.)
I asked God if He would please keep us from losing power while the food was cooking so the meat wouldn’t end up raw or half raw.
And He answered my prayer.
One time yesterday we got the little beeping sound that frequently precedes an outage.
But we did not lose power yesterday. A few clocks had to be reset and when I checked on the crockpot right after this occurred, I saw that the light on it was blinking and I re-tapped the “low” button and there was no further problem.
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But we did not lose power yesterday. A few clocks had to be reset and when I checked on the crockpot right after this occurred, I saw that the light on it was blinking and I re-tapped the “low” button and there was no further problem.
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