Parking Lot Faith

By Charlie Roberts

Maybe YOU find the title of this book intriguing and YOU are wondering if this is
something worth YOUR time to read? The fact YOU are reading the back of this book tells me, there’s a hunger in your spirit for more faith, more of a relationship and more of God in every aspect of YOUR life!

There are times in all of our lives when our interest is peaked and we are drawn to a song, a story, or a book title. Where we feel the prompting of the Holy Spirit, has led us by our hunger to the discovery. And we sense God’s still small voice telling us, this is going to be a “faith” connection point! A propelling moment, from our ordinary thinking into the extraordinary mindset God has awaiting us!

“Parking Lot Faith” is a powerful point of contact for YOUR faith, to help strengthen, grow and realize the enormous power that lies within YOU! How every Impossible situation has to bow down to the “ONE TRUE GOD” of everything possible!

“Parking Lot Faith” is a powerhouse of knowledge to be shared and experienced with the masses! Because it conveys to the reader what is truly possible, when a Loving God cares enough to get this “faith word” to whosoever is willing to accept and pursue, the God given extravagant destiny awaiting them!

Isn’t it about time for Bible history, to record YOUR name into the hallowed faith chapters, yet to be written? NOW is YOUR time to trust “God’s Prompting” and dance with YOUR destiny, until YOUR destiny becomes YOUR way of life!

The music is playing, I know YOU can hear it, what are YOU waiting for?
“Parking Lot Faith” is YOUR great adventure!

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Charlie Roberts
• Release date: Feb 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463821732

Book preview

PARKING LOT FAITH!

By Charlie Roberts

Copyright 2020 Charlie Roberts

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Forward:

Many events in life are to be considered life changing. Turning 16 and getting your license, graduation from both high school and college. Getting married, buying your first house and having children. Anniversaries, empty nesting, grandkids and how could we ever forget a mid life crises.

So many events, so many good times, so many ups and yes a few downs along the way. But there is no event and no greater moment in a persons life, than when they realize their God given measure of faith they have been blessed with! What their faith will accomplish in life, through their relationship with God is indispensable.

Most everyone shares similar life experiences. When young we’re full of energy and ideas, ready to take on the world! The older we become, we realize how impossible life is to do alone. Truly, how grateful we all are for the help, we have received along the way.

Though these words would be scarce to find in the younger generation. Almost everyone is thankful for the faith and grace, God supplies for the journey through life’s adventure.

As you read on you will hear stories of love, laughter, great triumphs and accomplishments. All of great faith and trust! You’ll learn different and maybe even a few new ways to activate, maintain and increase your measure of faith, God has given to you!

What are your aspirations, what are the dreams you’ve yet to accomplish? Whatever they are, God would have me tell you it’s not too late! With God involved in the details, it’s never to late for anything!

My hope is your faith will be challenged, strengthened and encouraged to realize these are the good ole days and your best days are the days ahead of you, not behind you!

Table of Contents

1. Hey, that’s my parking spot

2. Keep your tank filled up

3. Always expect God’s best

4. Be ready to dance given the chance

5. When the music stops keep on dancing

6. It’s not everyone else

7. Stop retaking the same test

8. Level up and grow

9. Ask for strategies

10. What’s next?

Chapter 1. Hey...that’s my parking spot

Being the youngest of five children, naturally I learned a lot of things quicker than my siblings did when they were born. For example, I learned you had to speak up at a very young age to garner your piece of the pie. Because if you didn’t speak up, when the pie finally made its way around to you there might not be any left.

One lesson I learned quickly observed was, If you wanted anything you had to make your claim for your sense of entitlement and your right to it, the moment the prize became available!

You didn’t have to be qualified for your right to obtain the prize, because you were born qualified! Being a private in the ranking order was an insignificant consequence and had no bearing whatsoever! Whatever of value came into the household, you were entitled too!

The fact I was seventh in the line of command, had nothing to do with my right or desire to receive! This especially held true when the opportunity of riding in the car presented itself. To receive the highly coveted honor, one had to call shotgun and fight for the right of sitting in the front seat of the car, the moment the words we’re leaving were spoken.

The same holds true in our relationship with God and our walk of faith with God. When opportunities arise from the preordained moments God has set up for us to walk right into. Walking right into those moments, is what God expects us to do!

God wants us to be bold and declare our right, to own the moment and act like the opportunity was created especially for us! Because of our limited understanding of time, that’s exactly what it is!

Some have called those moments, a God wink. What those preordained moments of connection are, is God’s Amazing Favor realized in real time! I say real time, because that’s our dimensional understanding of time.

However God is not bound by our limited understanding of time. God wants you to know, realize and act like His Favor is available all the time! Because it is!

Romans 8:28 TLB 28 And we know that all that happens to us is working for our good if we love God and are fitting into his plans.

Every circumstance we meet in life, everything we come up against without exception, good bad or indifferent, God works together for our best possible outcome!

It’s in those amazing God Favored moments, the impossible becomes possible! Because of God’s willingness, along with His amazing capabilities working for our welfare, in every situation!

The next thing I would like to do is ask you a question. Knowing what we just read of God’s concern for us and if we truly believe God’s ability matches His concern, for our welfare.

If the One True God told you that you could move a mountain, do you think you could? Both excited yet somewhat reserved you might say, Okay, I think I could! Only to be followed with the very next breathe! How in the world, am I ever going to move a mountain?

God would have me tell you while moving a mountain might seem impossible! Moving a mountain is not as difficult as you might perceive, if you are willing to trust God with the details and results!

Really? Are you serious...a mountain? And how might this be accomplished you ask, with a lot of mountain moving faith? That’s what human nature might think I would say. The faith part would be right, but surprisingly not with a large amount of faith!

Here’s why! God says you can accomplish any kind of impossible feat, with only a small amount of faith. In fact, God’s word repeatedly says only a mustard seed sized amount, is required to move a mountain!

Matthew 17:20 Voice

20 Because you have so little faith. I tell you this: if you had even a faint spark of faith, even faith as tiny as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and because of your faith, the mountain would move. If you had just a sliver of faith, you would find nothing impossible.

Illus. by David Swinney

One day a woman was rushing home from a doctor’s appointment. The doctor had been somewhat delayed at the hospital, and the lab work took a little longer than usual so by the time she left the clinic she was running quite a bit behind schedule. She still had to pick up her prescription, pick up the children from the baby-sitter, and get home and make supper, all in time to make it to the prayer meeting at her church that evening. As she began to circle the busy Wal-Mart parking lot, looking for a space, the windows of heaven were opened, as it says in Genesis, and a downpour began. While she wasn’t usually the type to bother God with small problems, she began to pray as she turned down the row closest to the front door. "Lord, you know what kind of a day I’ve had, and there’s still an awful lot to do. Could