300 Dollars and 3 Suitcases: What's Next?

By Dwayne Thomas

This was my journey leaving home at age twenty-three up until this current time at age sixty-one, writing this book. All that I could bring to California was my faith in God, a few dollars, my clothes, and a deeper calling in my life! How could I walk away and leave everyone behind in Connecticut like Abraham did? Was I right or wrong? Could I make it, or would I fail? My book will challenge you to see further than the natural things that you can imagine.

Little should not be determined as not enough in your hands but revealed as sufficient, to begin with as I learned to steward it well, to grow exponentially into much more in my life for his glory! My story tells of the traps of the enemy, jumping over hurdles, healing, restoration, and victories in God if we just obey his Word and apply it to our lives. This is not "a step as easy as one, two, and three, I'm all better now" book. You must have and need the Holy Spirit to guide you into all truth (John 16:13-15). I believe in my heart that your life will be challenged and changed. I'm being transparent so that you or someone you may know can walk in the greater person of your calling without the fear and reservation of what the world thinks about your epistle life versus what God has mandated us to do!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 29, 2023
• ISBN: 9798890437372

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300 Dollars and 3 Suitcases

What's Next?

Dwayne Thomas

ISBN 979-8-89043-736-5 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-89043-737-2 (digital)

Copyright © 2023 by Dwayne Thomas

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

The Wilderness Begins

Chapter 2

Let the Purging Continue

Chapter 3

Her Name Is Andrea

Chapter 4

The Connection at the Church

Chapter 5

Where Did She Come From?

Chapter 6

It's Been Over Two-Plus Years of Courting; What's the Problem?

Chapter 7

The Wedding Day Is Here; I am Now Walking in the Now…

Author's Note

About the Author

Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

—KJV

Iwant to dedicate this book to my wife, Andrea; my daughter, Essence; and my parents, David and Celeste Thomas.

Jude 1:24 reminds me of this:

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.

(This is my testimony.)

My journey started on July 1, 1985, in Bakersfield, California. The weather was a tad above 99 percent. To me, it was considered an extreme heat wave on that special day with joy in my heart. Flying in from New Haven, Connecticut, my hometown living off the East Coast of the