Come Go with Me: An Adventure of Prayer-Focused True Stories.

By Kathy Carpenter

God is about people, and this has been the case since the beginning of time when God created man and woman in the beautiful Garden of Eden. He established from the very beginning that he wanted fellowship with us, so what better way for us to know God than to know him through the Holy Bible, prayer, and fellowship prayer with Gods people?

In Come Go with Me, author Kathy Carpenter offers us a way to discover fellowship with believers through their own personal and inspiring true stories of experiencing God in their daily lives. From Southern Georgia and Colorado to Africa, Israel, and Hawaii, these stories will speak to real and breathtaking encounters with God and his Holy Spirit. The stories will bring the inspiration for an adventure of a lifetimebecause when God shows up, your life is changed forever!

Prayer is about getting close to God and realizing that when you know our blessed Father, you will have the comfort of the Holy Spirit now and forever. If you seek God for comfort from sickness, a troubled marriage, and death, or if you look to him for guidance in supernatural and joyous moments, then Come Go with Meall aboard the spiritual soul train!

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Sep 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781973600886

Kathy Carpenter

Kathy Carpenter lives with her husband on a thoroughbred horse farm in Georgia, and she is a Christian author, local artist, and Bible study leader in her home church. Kathy is passionate about her time with her beloved family and her service as a caregiver for her “great nine”—retired thoroughbred racehorses—and for her dogs and the other wildlife at her farm. She believes that time spent with church family and friends is a blessing.

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WestBow Press rev. date: 09/27/2017

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

By the Lake

Prayer Thoughts—Rev. Stacey Hanson

The Exercise Group—Stopping to Pray

Prayer Life of the Farrier—Work Is God

Time Lost

Spending the Night in the Tomb of Jesus—Amazing and Beautiful Experience This Side of Heaven

Ellie Hears God Calling—The Stones Ignite Her

Finding Her Way Back from Divorce—Prayer on the Island of Maui

The Colorful Lady Has a Supernatural Experience Where Jesus Was Baptized

Awaiting News about Your Child

The Loss of Your Child

Magnificent Words—Christina Semeria

The Tiny Little Prayer—The Tiny Little Bird, Joan of Arc

The Women’s Prayer Chain

When Women Pray

She Wrote Her a Poem

A Heavenly View

The Treasure He Gave Her

She Sends Out Daily Love

The Music Pastor

Conclusion

Notes

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dedicate Come Go with Me to my beloved husband and all of my family members. I love them with great passion. I also dedicate this book to my friend, Dr. Laura Duvall Molony (vet. for my horses) and for the women in my life connected by the women’s prayer chain: Gloria Stadler, Charlotte Dodson, Jennifer Lindsley, Leslie Harrison, Leslie Greindl, Rachel Willis, Erika de Bedout, Gale Swanson, Doris Penn, Woody Markert, Ellis Griffis, and Sherry Shaw. I love sharing with you my prayers, Bible study, and my life. I thank God every day for you.

In loving memory of those who have joined Jesus:

Christina Semeria

Scott Manley

Other friends who have lost loved ones

Acknowledgments

I wish to thank my friend Jennie Martin for helping me edit Come Go with Me. Jennie has a busy life working at my home church. Jennie also helped in the editing of my first book, Spiritual Soul Train Ride. I am certain that you will see her name in my future books.

I sincerely appreciate those of you who shared stories for Come Go with Me. You have blessed me, and you will bless others as your hearts were shared in such truth and depth.

Rev. Stacey Hanson, your thoughts are well explained on prayer life, from where it should start to where it should end. The threads you wove will serve many because there are many seeking direction and fulfillment. All of us have needed guidance sometime in our prayer lives.

Pastor Steve Smith, your sharing thoughts on praise worship, and bringing the congregation along to give worship service time a fully complete time and to inspire all ages to be satisfied at worship through music, prayer, and message, is deeply appreciated.

Introduction

I am excited to invite you to Come Go with Me on a most heart-captivating journey as the spiritual soul train is once again on the move. Come Go with Me is a sequel to Spiritual Soul Train Ride, which is a yearly daily devotional. Come Go with Me will focus on true prayer stories and remarkable and supernatural