When I first became a Christian, I wanted to go away to Christian college, and I prayed in March that by the time I went to school in August one person in my family would come to the Lord.  When I left in August, my whole family–my three brothers, my mom and my dad had come to the Lord.  I learned that sometimes God’s Yes is much bigger than my Please.

We have a friend named Barney, who David used to work with.  We’ve known he and his family for many years and prayed for their salvation from the time we met.  We even wrote his name on the prayer wall during a church service at Sunridge.

Praise the Lord!  He and his wife, Jamie, accepted Christ this past fall, and let David know about it.  We are so blessed to see what God is doing in their lives.

Back in 1994 Theresa and I were married and we had a group of people who were in Theresa’s sister’s Life Group at Sunridge praying for us, not for our well being but our salvation, for the next two and a half years they prayed for us and our kids that came along the way. They prayed each and every week they met. We were so far from God, situations arose in those two years that made us needing Him, our marriage was on the rocks, we were financially ruined, there wasn’t much love for each other.

Theresa brother-in-law John was giving us verses, never writing them out, just the book and verse, with the hope that we would open the Bible and never close it. On a day where Theresa found herself weeping in our bedroom at my parents house we were living with them, she heard a knock on the door and it was my dad carrying my mom’s Bible, she had passed away earlier that year and he just said that he would leave something on the table.Theresa came out of the bedroom and found the Bible and looked for the verses that John had given her, Phil 4:4- 8.

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