The Woman Doing It God's Way: Real Life Experiences

By Gladys Hyman

Gladys Hyman is a loving mother of three, grandmother of eight, and new mother of four children placed in her care, all while being a pastor at Harvest One Way Ministries for twenty-four years. Gladys was one of thirteen children, and just like her mother, she puts her heart out for any and everything she can do for a child. She has always put the needs of others first even when she didn’t have for herself because she knew that God would provide! This is truly a woman who sits at the feet of the Master to show herself approved. The Woman Doing It God’s Way is the first of many books that are in the making. Gladys is finally fulfilling her dreams of becoming a renowned author and will not let anything get in her way. Her trials have caused her to triumph in knowing who she really is! Watch out and watch God because this woman is going to continue to do it in God’s way and fulfill her calling in life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9781685173777

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The Woman Doing It God's Way

Real Life Experiences

Gladys Hyman

ISBN 978-1-68517-376-0 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-68517-377-7 (digital)

Copyright © 2023 by Gladys Hyman

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Table of Contents

Finding Myself

Not My Will but Thy Will Be Done

God, Help Me!

A Hurt like No Other

And They Grew

Can I Just Throw in the Towel?

A Little Talk with Jesus

An in Spite of Press!

A Shift in the Atmosphere

Lost and Found

Solution: Lifelong Working

My Life Be Like…

The Move into the Supernatural Power of God

My Posse

My Family

My Church Family

Finding Myself

Don't deliberately take a back seat to your anointing. You may be wondering what I mean by this. This means exchanging it for someone else's thought of how you should run it because of their belief or reason. How should it benefit them? Why is the Lord still bringing them to a place of acknowledgment? It's for His glory, not yours! Let's not get it twisted! Let me take you back to the beginning for a moment.

I remember when the Lord calling me very vividly, and so it began. He started to deal with my spirit to where the anointing would fall on my heart when I least expected. It just hit. It troubled me. There were times Jesus just wouldn't move His hand. I felt the pressure throughout the day. It kept me in the knowledge of his calling, yet I didn't surrender for it was new.

How many of you know that the new became old very fast? Too fast! He would have me to fast and sustain for weeks at a time. The detox began. So out with the old and in with the new! Now according to Hebrew 12:1-2, the writer (Paul) is telling us don't quit and don't fail all throughout the whole book of Hebrews. This encourages us to obtain the power to endure faith journeys. In the voice of Kathryn Kuhlmn, who once said, God knows no limit to His power, The only limit lies within you. We limit God in our lack of faith. Our mental attitude defines our life. Life is a journey to endure, the assignment is to endure! First and foremost, training is necessary, before endurance. We have ups and downs, stormy days, and days in which you just want to quit. Quit on jobs, marriages, and even on family when they mistreat you. You have to encourage yourself to endure mistreatment. It is all a part of the journey; we just need to persevere. I refused to conform to their sinful ways, but with applause, power up, to endure!! I refuse any longer to allow little truths to stop me. Romans 5: 3-5 gives us strength to endure. It says to rejoice in our suffering, knowing that suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint. All of this is because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. God uses hard things to make us into loving people and give us the capability to love. God gave me the strength to endure!

Leaning back to the teachings of Hebrew, will allow your whole mind to be changed, and change the direction of how you normally operate, to how you should operate. All of this is in honor of Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith. Paul the Apostle's writings to the Hebrews tells us, to pretty much lay aside any rituals and any weights. Looking to Jesus, mirrors another dimension, so run the race that's set before us!

Now consider Matthew 10:22, this scripture reminds us that you will be hated by all for My Name's sake. Therefore, he who stands firm to the end will be saved. All of my trials, tribulations, and the hard places that were meant to knock me off, are causing me to endure!! Like Paul, I try and die to myself daily, to fight the good fight in every area of my life. So, God stood me up to stand! I tell you the impact of what has helped me to endure in God, is the love of His people, which has helped me impact my destiny to endure and persevere with challenges. But He is God almighty and there is nothing nor anything too hard for God! I have vowed to trust Him, which formed me into the woman doing it God's way!! Here the journey begins.

The hand of God was upon me so strong that I felt his spirit undeniable. I continued to say, Yes, Lord! throughout the whole prayer, and at the same time, I wasn't sure why. Yes, it was the anointing power of God. Tongues controlled my language! When I tried to control it, it was just there that I came to know I wasn't in control at all. I was learning to surrender my all, trembling in fear! As I was learning His touch in the way I began earlier in my converted walk with God, which is not playing games with God! I was thinking He would let up for me. You can't trick God! When I thought I may have gotten away, He would knock in the midnight hour. I learned once again God is in control. Period!

Humility was upon me, and I was learning to submit, and I was beginning to spend a lot of time alone. When I wasn't spending time alone, I was with my family whom I love dearly. I would leave out of town sometimes, but the Holy Spirit was leading me to go back and focus on a deliverance ministry. God was dealing with me about it. Wow! He showed me many things about how the enemy would present himself. (prep). This is how you deal with this. God showed me great and mighty things. I began to recognize spirits within my own home and had to deal with them. He's awesome and wonderful. My God You are powerful! It is Your anointing and power to be acknowledged and how I was a vessel that you called.

Not My Will but Thy Will Be Done

I've always desired strongly for thirty-five years to go to the army. I had a recruiter come to my family home as I was about fifteen or sixteen years old. My dad set that up for me. It was another journey I look back on in my life. But, God, I wanted to go to the army to be all I could be. God had another plan. I entertained that thought for up to thirty-five years. Well, it's canceled now that I'm thirty-five years old and with a son. In no way could I ever leave! He was my heartbeat and still is. It beats differently or waiting to exhale, normalized.

Though they slay me, I will trust Him. This was my reference to what I was going through presently. This I would refer from the book of Job in the Bible. Why? For my loved ones as their mother, wife, and grandmother, not to mention their pastor. Yet I upheld them without anger, fearing of what the Lord would do. I made it all right. It wasn't a lot of conversation, but it was well in my soul. I had to check myself afterward to assure I was all right with God. I must say this was one of the loneliest times in my life, but I wanted to do this God's way! I had to stand and really wait God out.

There were many times I just stood, for that was all I could do. I wasn't sure of my directions. I couldn't trust my directions, and my prayer life at this time was not in line with scripture. I couldn't focus. I've been in this dying state for some years now. I have been fighting, not getting very far but standing on this foundation that I knew was of God. I shall not be moved is what I recited daily. Can I say most of the time I existed upon it? I made it all right. I had faith in God, and I wasn't steering away from that. That's all I had. I've never wanted to disappoint my Father as before, when I didn't have a relationship with Him, realizing that rejection hurt me the most.

I promised I'd never deliberately hurt you again, Jesus. I'd previously had encounters or visits—visions from the Lord. That showed me His awesomeness in power. I was convinced then, so at this time I remember and reflect. It helped me to hold on even when I was tired. I chose not to give up. It would have been easier for me to just let go. His spirit held me up as I held on to it. Thank You, Father.

God, Help Me!

I would constantly reflect on many things I went through, such as my daughter becoming very ill at the very tender age of eleven. That journey was devastating, draining questioning of one's faith. But God made a way out of no way!

I remember in the year of her illness that suddenly came upon her and affected the family mentally with fear. Everyone was looking up to me. I had no one right there for me. My husband and I were going through difficult times that progress even more. We, at one point, decided to separate. He didn't understand why I had to stay with our daughter day and night. He had never been big on communication, so it really wasn't any surprise. I suffered because of this. For I am one who communicates everything that's needed so you will never have to guess with me. I was always open.

My husband and I had a lot of issues. I was the one to stand in relying on God's Word, so if we fell, we can get back up again and resume a better position in God through His Word. My husband believes if you just submit and do as I say, our marriage will be better. I must remind you that he was taught in the southern Carolina home way. He was firm and unmoved on this. He wasn't about to change. His thing was just submitting to him as a man.

I remember on several occasions I asked him, What do you want me to submit to?

He replied, As a man.

My next question was, What do you want me to do?

He never gave specifics. He told me to ask the women