"Can we trust really trust God?" talk for Munday

I was asked to speak tonight by my grandmother months ago. At the time I didn’t know what to talk about, but those who know me know well that I always have something to say. So I have been praying and asking God what I am supposed to share and I believe I am here to share a story for the purpose of encouragement.

My question for us tonight is: Can we really count on God?

About 10 years ago God sent me to the Fort Worth area for a season in my life. I had recently become a true believer in Jesus. I know that I walked the isle and was baptized when I was 8, but it didn’t really get to my core until I was 23. You could say that I sort of wrote God a hot check and didn’t let him cash it until 15 years later.

While I was teaching at Spring Town High School I got involved with a church in Peaster Texas. It was a kind of greenhouse for my spiritual growth. I grew very strong in the Lord in a very short while. Meanwhile, I was searching as all nearly 24 year old old maids do, for my husband. Funny thing, in my church there were no single guys my age.
I thought that surely my man had to be in the Metroplex. But through a crazy turn of events including an engagement to a Mr. Wrong, I wound up in Munday again. I had every intention of going straight back to Fort Worth as soon as I was married. However, in God’s sovereign plan for me, I would not return to Peaster. In fact, I would see that relationship fall apart leaving me stranded in Munday. I was living with my parents, feeling like a failure and wondering “what next, God?” Could I count on God for direction and provision? Was this the end of the road?...

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