God Turned Around for Good, What the devil Meant for Evil

By Cynthia Ann Mays

God, what a wonderful Father, who loves us unconditionally. Only God could bring me through my storm. How many people in the world could keep their sanity and their smile while fighting to keep their home, battling sickness, and carrying a large tumor in their body, plus having three car accidents in less than six years, which caused much physic

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Nov 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9781640884304

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Copyright © 2019 by Cynthia Mays

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Preface

Once upon a time, Cynthia Ann Mays had a normal life until she decided to step out on faith. It wasn’t easy doing this since her life was almost perfect. Well, more normal than perfect. It was a life that most people dream about and wish they had. Why do something out of the norm, especially when everything was going along fine? Why listen to man or woman, when the Bible says put not your trust in man?

All I could see was success, and most of all, dollar signs. This is what the devil wanted me to see, and I saw it. I was making more than enough money between both of my jobs, and I just got greedy. And in my greed, it took me down a long road that I wish I had not taken at the time. I would be lying if I said that God didn’t send signs to stop this storm, but I chose to ignore the signs. Praise and glory to God for giving mercy and grace and taking me through the storm that I should have avoided. Money can just buy things, and those things decay within time. Wanting nice things or better things for Von and I, I should have just been content. I say all this, but what I went through was not all in vain, and the one lesson I learned was you can always depend on God. It was just me and God in this storm through most of it. He sent people to help me and to pray for me, and I was grateful for them.

During this time in my life, I had also lost my mother only six months before God showed me the storm. That was a very hard season in my life, and that loss may have had a lot to do with the course my life was headed in. I guess when you lose someone who is dear to your heart, you do things that you normally don’t do. When you live in a half-way happy home (no home is perfect) and someone is suddenly gone, it hurts really, really bad. I thought I would have my mom for many more years and was not expecting to lose her. Maybe I was in denial about it too. This is also when the devil strikes, when you are at your lowest, and losing my mom was a low point in my life.

The devil was also trying to kill me with my mom’s death as well. I remember being at home by myself after she died and being scared to stay by myself, but I had no choice. I fell asleep one night, and in my dream, my mom was laying in a casket. Someone (the devil) was saying, She is going to get up. She is going to get up. I saw her in the casket twice that night, and I remember being scared. Then all of a sudden, I saw my mom and the funeral home director standing and praying. I guess they were praying for me. When I woke up, my heart was beating so fast that it felt like it was going to jump out of my chest. Once again, the devil lost. The devil has tried to kill me several times in my life. I must be a threat to his kingdom; otherwise he would have given up by now.

My mom and I were so close, and we never argued about anything. I just wanted to make sure that she was happy, and I was going to make sure that this happened. With my normal life, I was working at transit and also delivering newspapers at 2:00 a.m., seven days a week. I must say this was a part of my normal life that I didn’t mind doing. But over time, I was burning out from delivering those newspapers and having to get up so early every morning. I began dreaming about a business that would put an end to me getting up at 2:00 a.m. every morning. Again, sometimes you should just be content.

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