I've been kind of selfish by not sharing my testimony - well months back prior to graduation - like three days priors I got an email saying that "...unfortunately you won't be able to graduate" and the amount of sadness that flooded my system was unreal. I had no tears to cry b/c I was numb. I just sat there frantically searching my brain for an answer. It was about 3 am when I checked my email. I had just made it home from hanging with two of my friends after work. Sooo, I emailed the lady back asking if I could talk with her the next day and I tweeted a little - asking that if anybody would just pray with me - wherever they were..I had a few responses but it wasnt enough. I had one friend in mind and I called him and I asked him if he could get in prayer with me - - - because in Matthew, (paraphrasing) Jesus exclaimed that if two people agree on anything He'll do it. Well that friend talked to me a for a WHILE and calmed me all the way down and then we prayed. I couldn't sleep for jack though. I think I literally slept for 15-30 minutes maybe and I was up getting ready to be at her office first thing in the morning.
As I got dressed, I prayed....when I finished getting dressed I prayed. I remembered scriptures where God promised to never leave nor forsake us and I also prayed that His will be done. The scary thing about praying that God's will be done is that anything goes. When I finally made it to school and talked to the lady it was sort of like an in and out ordeal. She was like - - - well there's nothing that I can do but I'll talk to one of the dean's whenever he gets here and we'll see what goes from there. I kind of felt defeated. I walked out of the office trying to hold back the tears and drove home. Initially, I was just going to get in bed and go to sleep but I couldn't. I remembered a few years back after Hurricane Katrina when I was having problems with financial aid I contacted Dr. Brumfield in academic affairs and he helped me out tremendously....so I called him again - told him my situation and he gave me a few things to do and instructed me to keep him posted. So at this point - I'm calm. I pray again...I finally just really let go and gave it to God - it was out of my hands...
Within 20 - 30 minutes after getting off the phone and laying in bed the lady from the College called and told me that I would be graduating! The only thing I could do was give glory to God - because it was Him...nobody but Him. There's so much power in prayer and sometimes we forget. The first person I called was my mom and told her - she didn't know anything about the situation until after it got situated. I was too stoked !!! There is REAL POWER in PRAYER! I found so many scriptures of promise and everything.
Wellll this is just my lil testimony. :)
ain't God good,
april.
