Learning to Lean on the Lamb

By G. H. Majors

Joy can be experienced, even during our trials. Come take a journey with a woman who is learning the truths of Scripture. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord will deliver him out of them all (Psalm 34:19).

Discover the joy and peace that can be an integral part of living. Learn the true value of Learning to Lean on the Lamb, a process we experience as we develop in our relationship and fellowship with Jesus Christ.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Nov 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781490811499

G. H. Majors

G.H. Majors is currently retired and lives in a small town in Arkansas. Before her retirement, she was employed for twenty years in telecommunications as a customer representative supervisor. She was later employed as the director of Christian education in a Baptist church, and subsequently became a co-owner/administrator in a Christian school. She has been married for forty-five years, and has three children, ten grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Learning, a Vital Part of Christian Living

Chapter 1  Dying From Stress

Stress Tests

Desire or Destiny

Chapter 2  God Does the Miraculous

Divine Appointment No. 1

Divine Appointment No. 2

Divine Appointment No. 3

Divine Appointment No. 4

A Living Testimony

Chapter 3  Praying the Prayer of Jabez

A Life Changing Gift

My Prayer Journal

Chapter 4  Dreams Visions or Imaginations

Dreams, Are They Valid?

Vision Matters

Chapter 5  Adversities’ Lesson in Leaning

Mistakes Identified

Released From a Snare

Blessed To Rest

A New Year’s Prayer

Chapter 6  The End of a Dream

Horror of Horrors!

Comfort In the Midst of a Storm

Deliverance Obtained

From One Dilemma into Another

Set Up For Disappointment

Judgment Day

Transported to Tranquility

Chapter 7  Moving Orders

Bankruptcy, a Difficult Choice

Walking by Faith

Chapter 8  New Beginnings in a New Place

The Long Journey Home

The Practice of Leaning

Gainfully Employed

Chapter 9  God Is Restoring the Years that the Canker-Worm has Taken

Back to the Basics

Lessons in Giving

Restoration has Finally Come

Chapter 10  Jesus as the Lamb of God

Bibliography

Back Cover

About the Author

Acknowledgments

I give thanks to God, for his abundant grace. He has allowed me to complete this book, being led by His Holy Spirit.

My husband’s support and encouragement in his belief that I could accomplish this endeavor is greatly appreciated.

The efforts and advice of Lindsey Hart, Catherine Williams and Mary Jarrett were priceless. They each encouraged me to expand my ideas, to reveal a lesson learned, and seek to empower and inspire readers to take actions in their own lives. I am hopeful that these goals have been accomplished.

Introduction

A s she sat down at the desk to compose her notes, a sense of amazement and wonder assail her. She contemplates the many stressful days, and worrisome nights she has endured. Tears began to fill her eyes as she remembers the heartbreaking trials of the past few years. Years that were fraught with pain and stress. An acronym used by some for the word stress is, Satan’s Tactics Result in Enticing Saints to Sin. Worry and doubt are two causes of mental and emotional stress. These factors are subtle forms of disobedience to God’s word, which is, in fact sin. What many don’t know, is that stress is also physically destructive to the human body. The physical and spiritual well-being of each person depends upon their trust in God. As faith in God increases, worry decreases. Where there is worry, trust is lacking and where there is trust worry is absent. The life of the woman you are about to read is characterized by her internalization of the trials and tribulations of living. An appearance of outward calm cloaked inner strife and turmoil. Her failure to cast her cares upon God results in a pheocromocytoma a sure killer if gone undetected. This momentous occurrence sets her on a path of learning to lean on the Lamb.

When we learn in our secular lives, we gain understanding, knowledge and skills through study and experience. The same is true of our Christian lives. We learn through the study of God’s word, and the experiences that trials and tribulations bring. These are the prerequisites for entering the class of learning to lean on the Lamb. We must be willing to relinquish control of our lives to Him. This is not an easy task. It takes the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit working in our lives. Then, and only then will we be able to let go and let God rule in our individual lives day by day. He is willing to keep us safe in His arms. The Bible says, "The Eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms… (Deuteronomy 33:27.) Learning to lean on the Lamb is the beginning of a journey into blessing. In a fallen world where trials and tribulations are on-going. It is imperative in our Christian walk that we understand God’s unwavering love and care for us. He desires to guide us in our day to day living. When we do this, we gain fellowship with Him, which promotes, the peace of God which surpasses all understanding" (Phil. 6:7 NKJV)

A key word in the title of this book is learning. Do we ever learn to completely trust God in every situation? The answer to this question is elusive for many of us. But as the Apostle Paul states in Philippians 3:14, we must press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Chapter One

Dying From Stress

T he following paragraphs are excerpts of written reports from two doctors in an emergency room.

February 1, 1999. A 52-year-old black female who has been apparently relatively healthy was presented to the emergency room with nausea, vomiting, epigastric pain, weakness, and clamminess. I cannot get any other history from the patient since she is now intubated. Shortly after admission the patient was found to have severe metabolic derangement, prompting this consultation. In addition, despite lasix she is always oliguric. (An abnormally small production of urine.) On presentation, she was found to have initially a blood pressure of 180/144 but this rose to over 240 and tridil and nipride were initiated. In addition, she was found to be in respiratory failure and intubated. An initial chemistry stick was 444 prompting institution of an insulin drip. This resulted in a drop in blood sugar to 150. Intensive Care admission is anticipated. This patient is critically ill and hypoxia (a lack of adequate oxygen.) along with chest pain and hypertensive crisis and acute pulmonary edema. She is diabetic with a history of hypertension. There is chest pain and possible ischemia (A decrease in blood supply to a bodily organ, tissue or part caused by constriction or obstruction of the blood vessels.) and possible heart attack. I have explained to the family that she is very ill and that she may not survive this episode.

How did she end up here? Is it a heart attack? What is causing her blood pressure and blood sugar levels to rise so drastically? Can it be stress? Can stress really kill you? Webster’s dictionary defines stress as Pressure, strain; a factor that induces bodily or mental tension, Could this be why God cautions us in His word to avoid anxiety? The scriptures found in Philippians 4:6-7 states:

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Stress Tests

As a child, she was a very adored little girl. This was due to her being the first girl born to her mom and dad. Her family members all call her Sister. Her older brothers were protective of her, and a brother two years younger than she was her playmate. She has vivid memories of playing outside on cold winter days. They would put on their jackets, go outside to play happily on the sunny side of the house, making mud cakes, riding their tricycles and pulling each other in their little red wagon.

She learned to love Jesus early in life. Her mom was faithful in taking them to Sunday school, Church services and BTU (Baptist Training Union) each Sunday. She accepted the Lord Jesus as her Savior at the age of twelve. She wonders, pondering her childhood years, when and where did her stress begin? At what age and in what way did her body become subjected to pressure and strain to the point of causing her to be near death?

These questions began to cause reflection upon some of the cares, concerns, anxious thoughts and dark days from the past. What were some major factors in her life that planted the seedlings of stress? Was it at the tender age of nine when a playmate announced to her your mom has cancer! Cancer, it is a very frightening word with a detrimental reality. This was awful news for her young mind to digest, causing her heart to sink, and her stomach to clinch in fear. She didn’t divulge her knowledge of this catastrophic news to anyone. Perhaps it was at the difficult age of thirteen, when a young girl is becoming a woman. For this is when her mom loses her battle with cancer at the early age of forty-seven. Her mother fought this debilitating disease four long years, her body wasting away to mere skin and bones. In agony, with a broken heart and spirit she asked God the question, Why did you take my mom? The death of her mother leaves seven children motherless. Her father has been left to raise four of the seven still living at home alone.

Their home was located in a densely wooded, remote rural area where houses were sparsely placed. Her dad worked long hours late into the evenings as a logger. This concerned her aunt, her mother’s sister, and prompted a request to have her, a seven year old sister and four year old brother to move up the road to her and Uncle Ted’s home. Her aunt is a very strong, God fearing woman. She had cared for her sister and other siblings throughout long drawn out illnesses, and watched each of them die. Yet she never displayed a lack of faith and trust in God.

Auntie, as she is affectionately called by all of her nieces and nephew, has no children of her own. She readily takes on the role of a mother in their lives. The move to her aunt’s home relieved her of the responsibility of doing many of the household chores. Cleaning, washing and a limited amount of cooking had become her responsibility when an older brother departs to attend college. He