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“You are good all the time and all the time you are good!” I just had to steal a few words from that song to simply illustrate how GOOD God has been in my life. After leaving university I sat at home for weeks moaning and groaning about my state of being a professional home limer. In Barbados, jobs are few and far between. I am sure that many can relate to that. I wrote application after application and built myself up to a whopping 42,  until I just said ”God you’ve gotta do something here, your daughter needs you now!”

I remember I sent out those application letters in May, then in June and then in July, but nothing and I just sat there waiting, anticipating that the next call would be one from a potential employer. But……nothing!! I took this time to get closer to God and to read His Word and here is what stuck with me. “Now unto Him that is able to exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think…” Eph. 3:20 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you…thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” Jer. 29:11  

I began to meditate on these verses and others like these and instead of worrying I started praising and believing, or at least most of the time. This was a 360 degree turn as I had been in a state of despair and fear. But God was always there, comforting me and reassuring me that something great is on the horizon. Have you ever felt something within your spirit that you feel is about to explode, that is what it was like, a great expectancy, you are not too sure what it will be, but you are sure it is coming!!

After 3 months of waiting and some may say that is not long, but for me it was a lifetime as so many other things were happening in my life and had  preceded this long wait for a job. After the 3 months, I got my first job, a substitute officer at a Government Dept. But lets talk about stra-te-gy. At that time I had NO idea what God had in store for me. I remember praying and telling God, Father please do not think me impatient, but I need a job, please can I have it by the middle of August? Some may think this rude, but God has told us to come boldly to Him, to allow our desires to be known to Him and He will supply our needs according to His riches in glory- and I needed this job, desperately. Would you believe me when I tell you that that job came and I was called on Friday, 11 August and told to report to work on Monday, 14 August. Talk about God having a sense of humour!! You do realise that this was as mid August as you could get.

I spent 6 weeks there and as that time to leave approached a type of dread set in as I was not sure what would happen next. What I do remember was that I was called one day by another Government Dept. (which I had written in May I think and which had never responded) and they asked if I was still interested in a position as there was the possibility that a vacancy would be coming up. However, as Sept. 22 approached, the day when I was supposed to leave the first job, there was still no guarantee that I would receive the position as I was told that there are many people who must be considered, who would have been in the civil service for many years and who deserved the opportunity to fill the vacancy. Also, I found that people seemed to frown on my age given that I am 21. Hence, two things were against me, inexperience in the work arena and my age. But….”If God be for us, who can be against us?” Rom. 8:31

 I however ignored those factors and kept praying and claiming “my job” but ofcourse, i still prepared myself for the possibility that I may have been going home to sit and wait it out for another vacancy. However, on the last day of work at my first job, I received a call from the place which had the vacancy and they asked whether I would be available to report for work on the Monday. Is God not amazing, I left one job and went straight into the other and not only that, it is a job, with a much better pay and more perks.

Since being in this job, things have not been easy as persons do not seem to take well to my age, but God has been guiding me as I had a lot to learn in a short time and so far my projects have gone well. Many people have asked me the question “How did you manage to get that job? Who did you talk to?” and some say, “You must have had a godfather who put in a good word for you.” To these snide remarks, I reply “Yes, I do have a God-Father” Ofcourse, many don’t get it, but I go on to explain that God has been GOOD to me and I cannot say that my application got me a job, I can say that GOD has been my refuge, my strength, my peace and my rock.

Also, I want to add that God is always working behind the scences in our lives in some of the most interesting ways. As I explain, look at strategy. The place where I am working now, I had no idea where it was 2 years ago. However, during my “stay” at university, I came into contact with a lecturer who spoke of it constantly and on leaving university I decided to send them an application. However, while at university, i was doing my degree and not quite sure my career path, but as I was there i realised that God kept speaking to me and telling me which courses to choose and I even changed my degree, TWICE, simply because I realised my interests were being pushed in a certain way, so I started with one degree in 2003 and graduated with something totally different in 2006. But what I can say is that God was behind it all. I now realise that if I had not changed my degree, i am more than 99% sure that I would not have had my job and in fact given the fact that I had no idea what i was going to do after university, the degree i changed to and the courses I did prepared me for this job and exposure to this job has given insight into what i want to pursue for the rest  of my life as a career and has birthed wonderful ideas in me. Without God inspiring me to change the degree, without contact with that lecturer, I would not be where I am now w.r.t the job. do you see how God is a MASTER STRATEGIST??? Even when we do not see or understand, God is there looking out for us and putting wonderful plans in place for my future and yours!!!!!!!

This is a long testimony, yes, but the magnitude and depth of God’s love and goodness cannot be expressed shallowly and sometimes not concisely. At times I still do doubt that things will work out in my life, as I have experienced bad things one after the other, but I am trusting God for Whom I have proven Him to be— El Shaddai- GOD, ALL SUFFICIENT. That makes Him all that you need in your life. Keep trusting, keep praying!

Continue to wait on God for whatever it may be and “He shall strengthen thine heart.” (Ps. 27:14)

With love

Nickyv

 

 

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