257: A Series of Events Which Magnifies God

By Paul A Bryan

God has something special in store for you. God has promises in store for your family, your children, and your soul. Paul Bryan presents scriptures and shares his testimony on how faith and sacrifice can and will be rewarded. There is an unlimited amount of blessings for those who trust, pray, and stay obedient to God’s Word.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Nov 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9781973643616

Paul A Bryan

Paul A Bryan is one of nine children. He has had the privilege to have traveled throughout South America and Europe. Besides the knowledge of his own family and culture, he has learned that most people have the same needs and wants.

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Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

ISBN: 978-1-9736-4362-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9736-4361-6 (e)

WestBow Press rev. date: 10/26/2018

Contents

Not Yet

Take Your Own Advice

Cashew Fruit with the Nut

Not Yet Reveled

Stranger in the Middle of the Street

Two Modes of Transportation, Both Busted

If You Have It to Give, Then Give It

First Death and Resurrection Your Car Was Stolen?

So, It Is Dead Hua?

A Three Day Fast

7 Day Fast

As Bees Stinging My Lips

Second Death and Resurrection Wednesday the 6th Not Friday the 8th

6th Closing which I thought was the 8th

The In-Between with Me on My Knees

The Big 8th

Saturday and Sunday

A Mistake & A Bad Decision

The IRS Office

Something Else

Third Death and Resection|

I Am the Buyer and the Buyer’s Agent

Going to the Title Company

Don’t Compromise

Was God in The Wind?

The Buyer’s Agent

Closing Day

Loss of $8.00

Meeting Cut Short

Something was missing

The Twin Set

The Patio Table Set

The Significance of the 4 Instructions

Visit an Elderly man

Stay with My Mother

Stay at the Job and Love it

Mom on My Auto Insurance

Not Yet

God, I cried. God I have never asked you before as I am asking you now to take me out of this job. I was being real with God. I was talking to him as a son speaks to his father with respect, but with a bit of frustration. God responded to me with two words and with a firm voice as a stern dad would. He simply said Not Yet I have learned by now to know God’s voice when He speaks. I have also learned that when He responds to me in such a manner, I need to listen, not ask questions, but just do as I am told.

I responded, Ok God, thank you. I got up from my knees and my entire countenance changed. I know that God has His reasons and I had stopped asking why a while ago when He had given me the answer to my question, WHY? What was His answer, to that question, you may be asking? His answer was For My Glory I had opened the Bible, during one of my worst tribulations and I had asked God WHY? Why is this happening to me, even though I have been a good person and I have always worshipped, served and feared Him. I opened the Word to Isaiah 48:11 where He answered, For My glory. My eyes went directly to these words and they had seemed to be the only words on the page when I read it. Thereafter, I stopped asking God, Why, to a certain degree.

With these words, Not Yet in mind, I went to work the next morning with a renewed enthusiasm to be at my job. I was working at a telemarketing job. I was thankful for the job, don’t get me wrong. The issue was the way in which the company was conducted and the uncertainty of one’s position or even if you had a job from one day to the next.

I was getting tired of seeing people hurt, mostly mentally and emotionally. There were quite a few Christ followers and some of us were able to form little bonds and I would like to think that we were the only light of Christ that a lot of our co-workers would ever see or experience. Therefore, I tried to thank God the entire time that I was there even though I didn’t know all the reasons why He had me at the job. I prayed that He would use me to be the light that others needed to see. I decided to give it all to God and let Him do the work which needed to be done. I thought and prayed: Your will be done.

I recalled and read often Proverbs 3:11+12 which reads: 11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:¹² For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Knowing that God knows best and that he has something better in place for me and that life always turns out better when I listened, I decided to put on a happy face and mean it from the heart and move forward. As the apostle Paul said in Acts when he was talking to King Agrippa. Acts 26:2I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:

Take Your Own Advice

It so happens that I was just starting out with my real estate business and I was in the process of showing a few clients properties. I had been showing properties as often as I could when I was not working my regular job. I was trying to supplement my income and eventually get away from the telemarketing job. It seems that I