A Wife Called for Such a Time as This: Was It a Blessing or a Curse?

By Dorothy Fay Williams

We are all called for an assignment, yet sometimes it hurts you want never to forgive. Yet we must!

I would wake many times a night between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m., hearing, "Tell them. It was not about those who betrayed you or those who left you. It is about a work I need to do in them, you, and others."

It was ironic that day. I did not feel hurt. I did not feel pain. I felt numbness, yet not a numbness that paralyzed me. For I wanted to respond in some way. I became so angry, not angry at those who betrayed me or those who I loved and said they loved me yet walked away from me. For I know that they still loved me. They were not trying to hurt me; it was never their intention to hurt me. They were struggling as well. I was angry at Satan because he used people I love in a way to hurt me, hurt God, our church, my husband, our families, and others who love us. So what I learned to do and did was displace that anger on Satan, and not on them. And I thank God because he opened my eyes. When I read the scripture, which I have read before, "Jesus wept," I now realize why He was weeping. Jesus was weeping because He was angry at what Satan had done to His friend, to me, to some of you.

So when this attack came, I knew I had to prepare for a battle. I had to put on my war clothes because, now, the attack was going to come not only from within but also from without.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781639035939

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A Wife Called for Such a Time as This

Was It a Blessing or a Curse?

Dorothy Fay Williams

ISBN 978-1-63903-592-2 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63903-593-9 (digital)

Copyright © 2022 by Dorothy Fay Williams

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Scripture taken from THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION ®. Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™. Used by permission of Zondervan.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1

Beginning

Chapter 2

Connected through Christian Family Ties

Chapter 3

Marriages

Chapter 4

The Doorbell

Chapter 5

Deliverance

Chapter 6

Forgiveness

Enclosures

Letters

About the Author

To my family, whom I love dearly. To those of you who did not understand me yet stayed by my side. To those of you who were and still are angry with me and walked away. And to the women of God, my sisters in support (SIS) who had never met me, yet you sought me out and communicated that you were praying for me.

You may not understand my ways, yet God begins his plans for me before I was formed in my mother's womb and is revealing it through every experience I live through.

Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) reminds me, ‘For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'

Lovingly dedicated to my mother, Doris Galberth, who passed May 2021. She was my inspiration since childhood. She would tell me that I could achieve anything I set my heart and mind to. And she was my greatest example of showing and sharing unconditional love. And Dr. Bill Sudduth, who expired in 2020, three years after introducing me the ministry of deliverance.

I will bless them and the places surrounding my hill. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessings.

—Ezekiel 34:26

Our detours might be the only way to our destinations.

—Dorothy F. Williams

Preface

First and foremost, I would like to thank God who dwells in my spirit, in my holy of holiest place to keep me safe. Thank God and amen. Father, where to begin (FWTB)?

We are winning the battle round by round. I thought spending twenty-eight years in the military and serving in two war zones would have prepared me to fight battles, yet I have come to realize they prepared me to fight worldly battles, not spiritual ones. It would be by faith that I am reminded I would have to dress for this battle, dawning my greatest offensive weapons as my ultimate defense.

The Word, prayer, putting on the full armor of God, and knowing whose and who I am.

I have often wondered since childhood, What God was preparing me for? Yet no matter what occurred in my life, the highs, lows, loneliness, disappointments, hurts, insecurities, and even anxiousness, I never questioned why (yet I did wonder). For something in me knew I had to travel those roads and on most occasions alone. Yet I am blessed and grateful that I learned and believed by faith as a child and still as an adult that God would never leave me or forsake me.

I now thank God that I did not listen to anyone's voice other than His spiritually and that of those who love me. And not even to my own negative thoughts at times.

Yet always to His (I am).

Introduction

I come to tell you a love story, not about the love I have for someone, but the love that God our Father has for us.

Wednesday, May 16, 4:00 p.m.

The day began as every other day in our life, or so I thought. We had just returned from a funeral of a family member and a beloved friend of my husband in North Carolina. The trip went well, yet there was something in my spirit that seemed to be uneasy, something that was there today and had been there for almost a year. Each time I felt it, I would think it is just me. And I would let it go and press on. Yet today, I would come to find out what it was, and our lives would change; and our faith, love, and family would be tested and changed forever. One can be devastated after a fall, or one can armor up and battle another day.

Chapter 1

Beginning

Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you before you were born, I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.

—Jeremiah 1:5 NIV

My belief and relief are knowing that from the moment I became a fertilized seed in my mother's womb, God began nursing and nurturing me for His use. God launched a plan for my life. And I now realize that Satan had launched one too and would lie in and wait until he was afforded a time to attack. For you see, I was born into generational sin that occurred through fornication (sin). Ironically, my mom was married, yet I was conceived from another who was not her husband.

You see, my mother and her husband were separated, for if they had not been estranged, I might (hear this again) have been born in wedlock instead of out of wedlock (sin—Satan setting a plan for my future from conception). Yet I was so loved by my family. I never knew I was born into sin. As I searched and look back over my life, I now realize that the love of family and having that spiritual covering of a praying grandmother protected my innocence as a child.

My first recall of attending church was when I was about six years old. I loved the church, and my mother would send us even when she would not go. Ironically, I do not remember my siblings going, yet I am sure they went. I just recall myself going and enjoying it. It is ironic that I can recall going to church at age six and receiving a head injury when I first started walking. Now I know that while God was developing His plan for my life journey, Satan was doing the same.

I recall the Sunday school lessons