A Christian Hunter's Devotions and Studies

[Guest bexar_county89]

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here I found a pretty good one:

READ THIS. LET IT REALLY SINK IN. THEN CHOOSE.

John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood

and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how

he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

He was a natural motivator.

If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the

employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and

asked him, "I don't get it!

You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"

He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two

choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or . you can choose

to be in a bad mood.

I choose to be in a good mood."

Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I

can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.

Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept

their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I

choose the positive side of life.

"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.

"Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away

all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to

situations. You choose how people affect your mood.

You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's

your choice how you live your life."

I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry

to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him

when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious

accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released

from the hospital with rods placed in his back.

I saw him about six months after the accident.

When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be

twins Wanna see my scars?"

I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through

his mind as the accident took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my

soon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I

remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could

choose to die. I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.

He continued, "..the paramedics were great.

They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me

into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and

nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man.' I

knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said

John.

"She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes, I replied.' The doctors

and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep

breath and yelled, 'Gravity.'"

Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on

me as if I am alive, not dead."

He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his

amazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have the choice

to live fully.

Attitude, after all, is everything.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about

itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34.

After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

You have two choices now:

01. Delete this.

02. Forward it to the people you care about.

You know the choice I made.

God Bless, and smile, it could be contagious

[HarvDog]

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That's awesome and a lesson to us all about our attitudes. Thanks for sharing.

[AaronS]

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Another email I received..........

Dancing With God

When I meditated on the word Guidance, I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing. When two people try to lead, nothing feels right. The movement doesn't flow with the music, and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky. When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead, both bodies begin to flow with the music. One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back or by pressing Lightly in one direction or another. It's as if two become one body, moving beautifully. The dance takes surrender, willingness, and attentiveness from one person and gentle guidance and skill from the other. My eyes drew back to the word Guidance.

When I saw "G: I thought of God, followed by "u" and "i". "God, "u" and "i" dance." God, you, and I dance. As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust that I would get guidance about my life. Once again, I became willing to let God lead.

My prayer for you today is that God's blessings and mercies be upon you on this day and everyday. May you abide in God as God abides in you. Dance together with God, trusting God to lead and to guide you through each season of your life. This prayer is powerful and there is nothing attached.

If God has done anything for you in your life, please share this message with someone else, for prayer is one of the best gifts we can receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards; so let's continue to pray for one another...........And I Hope You Dance.

[HarvDog]

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Great post. I'm passing this along.

[billygoat]

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Great post, forwarded!

[Guest bexar_county89]

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Awesome!!

[bfletch7441]

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WOW! What a fantastic thread. I had tears, chills, and smiles the whole time while reading through some of these posts. Here's my story.

I was raised in the First Methodist Church in Sapulpa Oklahoma. My parents would get me and my brothers up every Sunday and off we'd go. About the time I was 14, they stopped. I don't know why, and I've never asked, but that was all the room the devil needed to slip into my life. I quickly got in with the wrong crowd. The guidance wasn't there. It was like my parents had given up, or thought they weren't needed anymore. When I was younger a smart remark was alway's answered with discipline, anymore smart mouthedness, cussing, and liquor on my breath was met with a shake of the head and an "I wish you wouldn't do that." Eventually drugs were introduced. At first it was a joint every now and then, that led to a nightly meeting with the boy's to get stoned and drink a few beers out by the pond. When I started college, the flood gates opened up. Speed, Crank, Acid, Mushrooms, and just about anything else someone would put in front of me. After college, the only thing I could get regularly was grass, so that was what I did. I would go to work and smoke a joint on the way home. I didn't care about anything or anyone, and hadn't for 10 years. I had a decent job that paid enough money to pay the bills, keep the pipe full of weed, and the fridge full of beer. What more did I need?

That's when it happened. I never even saw it coming! One night when I got home from work I saw an old friend visiting her friend who lived two houses down. We talked for 10-15 minutes, catching up, and she invited me to come out to her birthday dinner with several other people I hadn't seen in a while. We had a good time and decided that we needed to keep in touch. We talked for a couple of weeks on the phone and would stop by each others houses to visit. One day I went by while I was stoned, and she knew I was. She didn't know about my lifestyle until right now, and she let me know that she didn't like it. Like the angel she is, she didn't run me off, but offered help. I stayed there most of the night talking about my life and the choices I had made. She never once looked down upon me or chastized me. She showed me the love I wanted and so desperately needed. The love only someone that truly cares can give you. Honest Christian love! I hadn't been to church in 12 years, but I went with her the following Sunday. Within two months I had accepted Jesus Christ as my savior again, after having strayed from the flock more than 12 years before. I haven't touched a drug since that night, and I have JaLynn to thank for it. It didn't take long and we were inseperable. A year to the day later, I asked JaLynn to marry me and make me the luckiest man on earth. She accepted and we were married Sept. 20, 2003, it will be two years next Tuesday. Three months after we were married I came home to JaLynn telling me she was pregnant. The good Lord blessed our lives with Lillie Catherine on Oct. 20, 2004, she will be 1 year old in a little over a month.

It didn't take much, a chance meeting with an old friend, was actually a planned meeting with my own personal angel of salvation. I thank God every day for putting JaLynn and Lillie in my life. More importantly, I thank him for the gift of his son Jesus Christ, and that sacrifice he made on that cruel cross at Calvary. I try to live my life as a testimony to his grace. Sometimes I fail, but I know he will forgive me.

Thanks to everyone here for their inspirational words in this forum. It's nice to know there are people like you all in this world. Thanks also for the opportunity to share my story. If you have ever wondered what angel's look like...

[AaronS]

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Great witness bfletch! Thanks for sharing.

[AaronS]

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The $20 bill

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?"

Hands started going up.

He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you

but first, let me do this.

He proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill.

He then asked, "Who still wants it?"

Still the hands were up in the air.

Well, he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.

He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.

"Now, who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air.

My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.

We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who DO LOVE you.

The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO WE ARE.

You are special- Don't EVER forget it."

Count your blessings, not your problems.

[HarvDog]

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Good one. Thanks for sharing.

[bfletch7441]

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My words exactly Harv! Thanks Bowhunter.

Ben

[Guest bexar_county89]

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Awesome post!!!

[TreeWalker]

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Bfletch....that is one eye opening and near tear jerking witness......If you don't mind I'd like for some of our youth group to read it ??

Some are feeling they need to date...some are getting ready to head to college next year......I think it would be awesome for them to read about the trials that may await them if they stray, and the plan God does have for them.....especially in the lifelong mate we are all intended to have.......

If it wasn't for God introducing me to my wife, I probably would still be pounding down cold ones and sinning one after the other.....who am i kidding, i may very well have been dead by now......

Glory be to God.....his glory and grace are evident every day.

[bfletch7441]

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If you think it could help someone, by all mean's, let them read it.

Ben

[AaronS]

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A little email humor.

One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all the rascally behavior that was going. So he called one of His angels and sent the angel to earth for a time.

When the Angel returned he told God, "Yes, it is bad on Earth; 95% are misbehaving and only 5% are not"..

God thought for a moment and said,

"Maybe I had better send down a second angel to get another opinion."

So God called another angel and sent him to Earth for a time too.

When the angel returned he went to God and said "Yes, it's true the Earth is in a bad way; 95% are misbehaving, but 5% are being good."

God was not pleased. So He decided to E-mail the 5% who were good, because He wanted to encourage them. Give them a little something to help them keep doing good.

Do you know what the E-mail said?

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Just wondering.................. I didn't get one either.

Have a good day anyway.

[AaronS]

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The Tablecloth

The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to reopen a church in suburban Brooklyn, arrived in early October excited about their opportunities. When they saw their church, it was very run down and needed much work. They set a goal to have everything done in time to have their first service on Christmas Eve.

They worked hard, repairing pews, plastering walls, painting, etc., and on December 18 were ahead of schedule and just about finished.

On December 19 a terrible tempest - a driving rainstorm hit the area and lasted for two days.

On the 21st, the pastor went over to the church. His heart sank when he saw that the roof had leaked, causing a large area of plaster about 20 feet by 8 feet to fall off the front wall of the sanctuary just behind the pulpit, beginning about head high.

The pastor cleaned up the mess on the floor, and not knowing what else to do but postpone the Christmas Eve service, headed home.

On the way he noticed that a local business was having a flea market type sale for charity so he stopped in. One of the items was a beautiful, handmade, ivory colored, crocheted tablecloth with exquisite work, fine colors and a Cross embroidered right in the center. It was just the right size to cover up the hole in the front wall. He bought it and headed back to the church.

By this time it had started to snow. An older woman running from the opposite direction was trying to catch the bus.. She missed it. The pastor invited her to wait in the warm church for the next bus 45 minutes later.

She sat in a pew and paid no attention to the pastor while he got a ladder, hangers, etc., to put up the tablecloth as a wall tapestry. The pastor could hardly believe how beautiful it looked and it covered up the entire problem area.

Then he noticed the woman walking down the center aisle. Her face was like a sheet.. "Pastor," she asked, "where did you get that tablecloth?"

The pastor explained. The woman asked him to check the lower right corner to see if the initials, EBG were crocheted into it there. They were.

These were the initials of the woman, and she had made this tablecloth 35 years before, in Austria.

The woman could hardly believe it as the pastor told how he had just gotten the Tablecloth. The woman explained that before the war she and her husband were well-to-do people in Austria. When the Nazis came, she was forced to leave. Her husband was going to follow her the next week. He was captured, sent to prison and never saw her

husband or her home again.

The pastor wanted to give her the tablecloth; but she made the pastor keep it for the church. The pastor insisted on driving her home, that was the least he could do. She lived on the other side of Staten Island and was only in Brooklyn for the day for a housecleaning job.

What a wonderful service they had on Christmas Eve. The church was almost full. The music and the spirit were great. At the end of the service, the pastor and his wife greeted everyone at the door and many said that they would return.

One older man, whom the pastor recognized from the neighborhood continued to sit in one of the pews and stare, and the pastor wondered why he wasn't leaving.

The man asked him where he got the tablecloth on the front wall because it was identical to one that his wife had made years ago when they lived in Austria before the war and how could there be two tablecloths so much alike.

He told the pastor how the Nazis came, how he forced his wife to flee for her safety and he was supposed to follow her, but he was arrested and put in a prison.. He never saw his wife or his home again all the 35 years in between.

The pastor asked him if he would allow him to take him for a little ride. They drove to Staten Island and to the same house where the pastor had taken the woman three days earlier.

He helped the man climb the three flights of stairs to the woman's apartment, knocked on the door and he saw the greatest Christmas reunion he could ever imagine.

True Story - submitted by Pastor Rob Reid

Who says God does not work in mysterious ways.

I asked the Lord to bless you as I prayed for you today, to guide you and protect you as you go along your way. His love is always with you, His promises are true, and when we give Him all our cares you know He will see us through.

So when the road you're traveling on seems difficult at best.. Just remember I'm here praying and God will do the rest. Pass this on to those you want God to bless and don't forget to send it back to the one who asked God to bless you first.

When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need. Take 60 seconds and give this a shot! All you do is simply say the following small prayer for the person who sent you this.

Father, God, bless all my friends and family in what ever it is that You know they may be needing this day! May their life be full of your peace, prosperity and power as he/she seeks to have a closer relationship with you. Amen.

Then send it on to five other people, including the one who sent it to you. Within hours five people have prayed for you and you caused a multitude of people to pray for other people. Then sit back and watch the power of God work in your life.

P. S. Five is good, but more is better.

[AaronS]

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Being a Christian is like being a pumpkin. God lifts you up, takes you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. He opens you up, touches you deep inside and scoops out all the yucky stuff-- including the seeds of doubt, hate, greed. Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside you to shine for all the world to see. This was passed on to me by another pumpkin and I liked it enough to send it to all the pumpkins in my patch.

[bfletch7441]

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That's pretty good. Maybe my light will shine on someone and do them some good.

Ben

[christsavedme]

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Bfletch......man what a testimony! Thanks for sharing with us.

Seems you have your head on straight now. I know what you mean about angels...God blessed me with a loving Christian wife. That is the only reason I am where I am today....there is no doubt in my mind about that.

Thanks for sharing and I look forward to getting to know you better!

God Bless,

Josh

[bfletch7441]

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It was a long time coming Josh, but you're right. It's on straight now, and it's all due to the faith I put in the good Lord above. He has delivered me from darkness and protected me from the evil's in this world. It's scary to think where I would've been without JaLynn. I'm glad to know that you have the same comfort and joy in your wife that I have.

Ben

[AaronS]

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Another email I received:

Years ago, I was enthralled as I listened to a pastor who for several years had faithfully served the church. His executive responsibilities had taken him all over this country. As he concluded his message, he told of one of the most frightening, yet thought-provoking, experiences of his life.

He had been on a long flight from one place to another. The first warning of the approaching problems came when the sign on the airplane flashed on: Fasten your seat belts. Then, after a while, a calm voice said, "We shall not be serving the beverages at this time as we are expecting a little turbulence. Please be sure your seat belt is fastened."

As he looked around the aircraft, it became obvious that many of the passengers were becoming apprehensive. Later, the voice of the announcer said, "We are so sorry that we are unable to serve the meal at this time. The turbulence is still ahead of us."

Then the storm broke. The ominous cracks of thunder could be heard even above the roar of the engines. Lightening lit up the darkening skies, and within moments that great plane was like a cork tossed around on a celestial ocean. One moment the airplane was lifted on terrific currents of air; the next, it dropped as if it were about to crash.

The pastor confessed that he shared the discomfort and fear of those around him. He said, "As I looked around the plane, I could see that nearly all the passengers were upset and alarmed. Some were praying. The future seemed ominous and many were wondering if they would make it through the storm.

Then, I suddenly saw a little girl. Apparently the storm meant nothing to her. She had tucked her feet beneath her as she sat on her seat; she was reading a book and every thing within her small world was calm and orderly. Sometimes she closed her eyes, then she would read again; then she would straighten her legs, but worry and fear were not in her world. When the plane was being buffeted by the terrible storm when it lurched this way and that, as it rose and fell with frightening severity, when all the adults were scared half to death, that marvelous child was completely composed and unafraid." The minister could hardly believe his eyes.

It was not surprising therefore, that when the plane finally reached its destination and all the passengers were hurrying to disembark, our pastor lingered to speak to the girl whom he had watched for such a long time. Having commented about the storm and behavior of the plane, he asked why she had not been afraid.

The child replied, "'Cause my Daddy's the pilot, and he's taking me home."

There are many kinds of storms that buffet us:

* Physical,

* Mental,

* Financial,

* Domestic, and...

Many other storms can easily and quickly darken our skies and throw our plane into apparently uncontrollable movement. We have all known such times, and let us be honest and confess, it is much easier to be at rest when our feet are on the ground than when we are being tossed about a darkened sky.

Let us remember... Our Father is the Pilot. He is in control and taking us home... so Don't Worry.

[TreeWalker]

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Well guys......I haven't been in for a while....so i figured I'd stop in and let you knwo how things are going.......

I'm still in the progress of starting my own business....basicly to showcase the gifts God has blessed me with.....I have a knack of making things and drawing some too.......I've wanted to do something along the lines of home interior, etc.....but just never did.......I mean I always make things for home and stuff, and I've always got a ton of ideas running through my head........so I thought it was time to do something with it, and to Glorify God at the same time.........

And I'm quite sure that the Good Lord has been speaking to me about it also......seems everything in the past several months is associated with trees, and the thought of Jesus dying on the cross for our sins..............then the thought came to me like a brick along side of the head............it was the name for my business, and a picture of what the logo should be like......

The business will either be called THE HEALING TREE...or HEALING TREE OUTDOORS....and here is one of the logos I photo shopped together........

I think this is to be my ministry of sorts......an outreach and a witness to others, that I normally wouldn't come across in day to day life.........I'm pretty excited about it all as it is coming together.....

[Reloader]

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I just read this post cover to cover so to speak. I had never been in this section of the forum before popgun started his humor page. Each time he posted a story over the past few weeks, I came in here to read it and looked at this post title and then moved on without ever actually clicking on it. I am at a rough point in my life right now and this has been a real boost to my faith. Each of the testimonies from guys in here has touched me and even some of what I often call "canned" devotions has been quite relevant. I have never really liked devotion books because the topics rarely line up with where I am in my walk with God. So I was impressed by how many of the ones posted by CSM and HarvDog actually hit home.

I feel compelled to share my testimony here though I am not even sure why and don't even know what point I am trying to make with, it if any...This is gonna get LONG…sorry..though I hope at least some of you will have the time to read it. Again Im not sure why I am doing this, but here it goes...

I grew up in a Christian home and accepted Christ at a very young age. (I had to stand on a pile of bricks in the baptismal so I could see the congregation.) I had a mildly rough childhood being small and always talking before I thought. I was easy to tease and didn't know how to respond to it so I ended up being the but of most of the jokes at school. In 5th grade a group of kids actually waited for me to ride my bike past their house on my way home and pelted me with baseball rocks. (The school couldn't do anything about it because they had gone home first and were therefore not under the school's authority.) By High school I found a niche in Theatre in my church and began to actually gain some social skills. I finally got a core group of friends though I was never truly popular. I always went to church because that was what I was supposed to do but it rarely meant something to me unless I was doing a presentation, skit or play. Life wasn't great but it was going "good enough". There were many instances where I strayed from Gods path for my life though none were all that dramatic in the grand scheme of things. In college I met my future wife and she convinced me to go to church with her. Unfortunately the church we found literally preached every sermon for the 2 months we went on a different story of a person selling all their possessions and giving it to the church and starting over and then being blessed by God. The church was in the middle of a building project and was hungry for money and it was obvious. At that point I simply wanted to stop going to church. I was still a Christian but church was pointless to me. My wife convinced me to keep going to different churches until we found one with life. That we finally did and I began to actively pursue intimacy with God rather than acquaintance and familiarity. This is where I discovered a simple truth within myself about many of today’s "Christian" youth. We have been given a low dose of God our entire lives and have ceased to feel its impact. We have been inoculated, so to speak, against getting on fire for God. Nothing changes overnight and I continued a lot of my complacent attitude towards life. God gave me a great mind for information and I rested on that to coast through my Masters degree in counseling. I learned a lot, don't get me wrong, I am considered by most of my colleagues to be a good, effective and very knowledgeable counselor, but I did not really learn to push myself on a long haul. One instance that sums up my attitude towards school was a couple papers I had due that I had procrastinated on to the last minute. I spent several days on the first one due and got it in just under the wire, but the next one was due the same day and I had no time to do it. I heard that the Professor was going to be out of town that day and until just after lunch the next and he would not know if it was late as long as I got it in by noon the next day. I set an early alarm and wrote the 15 page research paper in about 4 hours including the minimum 12 cited sources and got it on his desk at noon. As predicted he did not count it late even though I left it with his aid, who could have told him it was late. I did well on that paper and the coasting continued. After graduation I accepted a job doing court ordered Domestic Abuse counseling with convicted abusers. The caseload was considerably heavier than I had been told in the interviews but I managed to keep my head above water for the first 6 months. However, in March of 04 I logged nearly 25% more client hours than full load and suddenly couldn't keep up with my paperwork requirements. I began letting any paperwork not specifically reviewed by my supervisor slide by. After a few months of this I went to my supervisor for help and was told to just keep working and I would figure it out. I did get better but was still not keeping my head above the paper line. I finally got the hang of it all in November of 04 and began to catch up. Shortly after this my supervisor’s supervisor decided to audit all the charts in my office. When my supervisor began finding all the problems she immediately told everyone I was hiding them from her since she should have been checking all my paperwork the entire time. The company gave me 2 months to catch up or else. Of course at that point I began to get sick from the stress and my body began to literally fall apart. I got an ulcer in my throat and blew out an eardrum from an undiagnosed ear infection. I was making significant progress but was not on target for the 2 month deadline due to the sickness and the fact that my current case load continued at its normal pace including a flood of post holiday convictions and therefore referrals. 2 weeks before the deadline, on Feb 16 2005, I was called into a VP's office and informed that my employment was terminated immediately and I was to turn in my keys and clear out my office. They gave me no opportunity to stay on even long enough to clear my caseload and complete the paperwork. They further informed me that they would be sending a letter to the Mental Health Licensure Board complaining that I had refused to complete required documentation during my employment. I was crushed, however, my ulcer that had not responded to treatment healed within 3 days and despite the stress of having no job I began to inexplicably feel better than ever. During my first weeks of unemployment I found this site while looking for hunting stories to pass the time. The people on this site did a lot to encourage me just by being the crazy and wonderful people they are.

At the same time, I was praying about this whole situation and God gave me a verse from Psalms 37:5-7(NLT) “Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him and he will help you. He will make your innocence as clear as the dawn, and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun. Be still in the presence of the Lord and wait patiently for him to act.”

God has fulfilled this verse for me so far as I was able to obtain a new job after explaining the circumstances of the termination from my last job. The interviewer, who is my new supervisor, stated that he felt the error lay with my previous supervisor ignoring my paperwork reviews and allowing me to go that long without intervention, which turned what should have been a minor correction into a major problem. However, I needed to have a renewing of faith this past week as the Licensure Board just informed me last weekend that the complaint filed in March is now under investigation. I believe that by recognizing my own error and allowing the errors made by my supervisors to be self evident rather than attempting to blame them, I am following Gods admonition to “Trust” and “Be still” for him to act. The licensure board did state that they do not see the complaint as serious enough to restrict my practice in any way pending the investigation. The likely outcome is a corrective rather than disciplinary action. (i.e. a paperwork or time management class with no blemish on my professional record.)

I am not sure why I am even posting this and may delete the recent stuff from it in a few days…any encouragement, especially Biblical, you all may have is greatly appreciated though.

[AaronS]

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Great witness Reloader, thanks for taking the time to post it. While you may not know why you did it, it may help someone out there in ways you'll never know.

[jaret]

Re: A Christian Hunter\'s Devotions and Studies

Hey guys how's it been going? It's been going so-so here.

Well, I haven't been in here in a few months. I've been super busy with the recording studio I just purchased in August. Part of me wishes I knew what I was thinking at the time lol, but the other part of me is glad I purchased it. Business has been slow, but I put my trust in Him that he'll take care of me. It's not my only job, I do have one I go to early in the mornings and then do the studio in the afternoons. But hopefully it'll get better. My hunting this year is practically over unless I go hunting with a friend in December, but hopefully next year I'll get a chance.

Reloader- Man, that is an awesome testimony! The only verse that comes along to me is Romans 8:28 "And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." It may not happen the way you want, but it will happen for your good.

As for the rest of you guys, I hope everything's going great here. We ought to set up something where we can ask each other for prayers concerning things. One of my biggest prayers if I can ask for anyone is that business will go well. Each month I have to pay $1,500 for a lease and utilities of the building the studio is in. As we all know Christmas is coming up, so I'd just like some prayer in that the bills will be paid so I can spend some money on the family. But if you guys need prayer for anything, go ahead and lay it out. I'd love to pray for any of you and I'm sure there are others here that would as well.

Alright guys, stay strong in Him and God bless!

-J