God Is Right On Time!

      This summer has been trying on my patience. It has been one financial snag after another. In the mist of this, I have been trying to find a new apartment. It seemed like no matter what I did no door would open up. Actually, I had someone keep me from getting a new place to live- God bless them. My whole life was just one big bag of confusion. I know that the Lord is not the author of confusion so I just stopped striving trying to fix things on my own. It was like I was running up against a big wall.  I decided to just move home to West Virginia for a while and put my stuff in storage. During this time I just waited. Joel O'steen always says you should follow your peace. I just didn't peace about anything. I didn't know whether to move home or stay in Tennessee. I really had a hard time leaving my apartment because I loved living at Allandale but I had to go.
      One thing I knew for sure is that I would have to go back as a full-time student so that I would be able to afford rent in the Fall because I could not get into a low income apartment. But first I packed up  and went  to West Virginia, I was flat broke, I had spent all my money trying to move myself into storage and feed myself. I was bankrupt. While at my mother's house, I decided to work on adding classes to my schedule for school. Still I didn't know what I was going to do about an apartment in Kingport because everything I had was riding on me having a residence in Tennessee before school started. As I was adding my new classes, a new screen popped up showing me that I had an additional 1300.00 coming to me this year in grant money.  It was a blessed surprise. God knows what we have need of and he said he would never see his seed wanting and begging for bread. The only glitch was that  my extra money would not come until two weeks after school  had started but that little boost gave me some hope.
     After about 8 days of laying on my mother's big brown couch, I drug myself to the computer and looked at the classifieds online in the Kingsport Times Newspaper. I looked at every rental but it seemed like all the apartment listings wanted what I didn't have.  I didn't have a deposit or a full months rent. On top of that I had a bank note payment due in days with no money in the bank. I was about to go to a pawn shop and get rid of my computer and printer.(Later, I actually tried to pawn a few things but no luck.) One apartment complex caught my eye called Crosscreek. They were offering a free months rent and the apartment complex was owned by the same company of the apartments I just left.I am just glad that I left the apartment in decent shape. I talked with management at Crosscreek Apartments and they showed my an apartment when I came down to Kingsport a couple of days later. It was small but it was nice. Another bonus was that if I had good credit that I would not have to pay the adminstration fee. I didn't have it so anyway so I paid the $25 dollar application fee and left. They told me they would contact me that evening or early the next day if I qualified.  I went home to West Virginia that day and waited for the call -it didn't come. Early the next day, I picked up my phone to call to call Crosscreek Apartments.. As I was dialing, the phone rang in my hand and I answered. It was Crosscreek Apartment managers. I didn:t qualify for the deposit to be waived so I had to pay the two hundred dollars. I prayed about it and God said my mother would help me. Without me asking her she gave me $300.00 dollars to help with moving and the deposit. I will get 100.00 off my 2nd month's rent in September.  They also said I could move in at any time. God did a complete turn around in less than two weeks. I am so happy to be moving in on August 1st. It has been nothing but God's grace. Without His Grace I don't know where I would be.

Small Straws In A Soft Wind by Marsha Burns

SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by MARSHA BURNS

Breakthrough is the order of the day.  Circumstances that have seemed resistant to conclusion will now give way to resolution.  This time of bringing things to completion will seem like a sweet and refreshing rain that breaks the drought or dryness that comes with stagnation.  It will be like the breaking of a dam that frees the movement of a river to flow to its designed destination.  Rejoice, says the Lord.  Let the flow of My Spirit carry you to destiny. 
John 7:38 "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."

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Small Straws In A Soft Wind by Marsha Burns

Faith Tabernacle July 13, 2012

SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by MARSHA BURNS:   I speak to multitudes when I tell you that your quest for attention and recognition is simply selfish ambition as you seek to express yourself in unique ways.  But, My purpose for you is that you become a vessel through whom the expression of My Spirit can flow, unhindered by your flesh.  You do not have to clamor and strive for position or compare yourself with others.  Simply be what I have created you to be and surrender completely to My purposes in and through you.  Even if you happen to acquire the attention you think you need, it is still empty and vain.  Establish yourself in secret communion with Me, says the Lord. John 7:4a "For no one does anything in secret while he himself seeks to be known openly."

Praise/Prayer Report

Marlena, my teacher, did not call my school. The Lord worked out my problem out without her. I got credits from old college which now makes me a junior....hurray. Pray for all of my family and friends in West Virginia. Everyone is without power there and some are still without water. There was a huge storm system that passed through the East Coast of United States which caused major damage to power lines and water lines and now there is a heat wave. Much prayer for my fellow West Virginians. I left a day before the storm hit but the enemy hit me with a blown out tire on the way home. Praise the Lord, I was going at a low speed and there was no accident. I am also praising God that my family is safe with no major disasters to their property or their lives.

On another note, I am in the process of moving or getting a roommate. I am not sure which one is going to happen but I need my finances to change. I cannot afford to continue to live here without help. Please keep me in your prayers.

Move Mountain

Faith Tabernacle June 28, 2012  SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by MARSHA BURNS: Rise up in the realm of the spirit and speak to your mountain, that mountain that looms large before you that you do not know how to get around or over.  I have given you the authority to move it out of your way so that you can progress unhindered.  There are things that are beyond your ability to deal with in the natural realm, but all things are possible with Me, says the Lord.  Speak to this mountain in My name. Mark 11:23 "For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says."

Wow, what a lesson!

       Ok, I talked to my friend who was my teacher.She didn't have anything to do with it the mess with my grades and I believe her. I feel so bad for thinking that she possibly could have done me wrong. She will try to clear things up for me tomorrow. To be honest, it is my fault. I listened to Betty Mask who is over disability department. She told me just to start over and not get my real grades. I knew I had a debt out there and it should have been paid when I got my back time but in the back of my mind I thought no one will ever find out. Well, someone found out. Luckily, I have borrowed the money to pay the majority of the debt. Finally, I am having to pay to get the real grades from Concord College. This is the last of my really big debt. It will take a year to pay it off but I am glad to see it go. It is a 17 year old debt. This will release me to go to the other college. Lesson  well learned. Lying in anyway doesn't pay off no matter how much you reason it out in your head. I am praying that the Lord allows me go back to school period.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 
Romans 8:27-29

Wow, I can't believe that it has been a month since I have wrote anything. A lot has happened since I last wrote anything. I was given a word of prophesy two weeks ago that I would be writing a book of some kind. I am hoping that this is it because I don't have the patience to do it on paper.

Here are some updates on my current situations:

I am having problems with money. I am currently moving to a smaller apartment. It will be closer to church and school and $300.00 dollars  a month cheaper than my current space and it is near a huge city pool.

I tried to go to summer school it was not the best idea. I dropped out after 4 days and went home to West Virginia for a week vacation. When I went home, I found out that I had to get some transcripts from two former schools. I found out that I was charged $7000.00 for an education that they have no record of. I think it is going under investigation. Someone I know could possibly lose their teacher's liscense or/and could be fined. Keep this person in your prayers because the teacher is christian from my old church.