My Story: God Gave Me a Gift—A Vision of the Future…

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Did you ever feel like your entire world has ended and you cried so hard you couldn’t see or breath and there was no one to comfort you or to lean on? Well…that was me until God showed up…

One day the principal at the high school called me while my son was with him.  He said Chris was there to sign himself out of school (drop out.)

I was devastated!

I cried so hard on the phone with the two of them that I could barely talk.  I pleaded relentlessly with Chris not to drop out of school and I pleaded for the principal to convince him to stay in school.

After much drama, Chris said he would think about it and hesitantly hung up the phone.

I was heart sick!  I was overwhelmed with fear for my son’s future.

I fell to my knees, in my bedroom, and cried out to God in powerful prayer and begged Him to please not let my son drop out of school.

 I cried so hard I couldn’t see anything through the flooding of my tears. 

I have never cried so hard about anything!

In an instant—God gave me a vision…

In this vision—I saw (from above) myself sitting in the high school bleachers watching my son graduate high school…

I was overjoyed and in great awe of this God given gift of seeing my son gradate with his classmates.

I immediately knew this was God comforting me by letting me know my son would graduate…

I cried out to The Lord in overwhelming joy!  I thanked God over and over for reassuring me that my son would graduate high school.

Instantly, my tears of pain turned into tears of joy as I continuously thanked God for hearing my prayer and comforting me.

He was probably thinking…alright, already—enough!

I knew God was speaking to me.  He was telling me that my son would be ok.

This gift of vision grew me closer to God as you can probably imagine.

God taught me to trust Him and depend on Him more…

I began to depend on God for all my needs.

 I no longer relied on my own flesh or other people as much as I used to.

I continue to grow in trust with Jesus for not only my son but for everything in my life.

Isaiah 41:13— “For I am the Lord your God, who upholds your right hand, who says to you, “Do not fear, I will help you.”

By the way…As promised by God, my son did graduate high school that year in 2001.  What a joyful celebration that was between God and me!

Even though great struggles with my son and his addiction have been on-going for 19 years I am forever thankful to Jesus being there for us in our darkest valleys.

Psalm 23:4—(NLT) Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me. Your rod and your staff protect and comfort me.

I am proud of my son—he is on the recovery path while in a long-term, faith-based program for addiction—to heal his soul through Jesus Christ.  I continue to rely each day on trusting God as I gained greater strength from this vision of hope, and I trust my son’s love for Jesus has fueled his desire for recovery.

I’m telling you this story to show you how powerful our prayers are and how God wants us to trust Him and lean on Him for all our needs.  There is hope through Jesus Christ—remain in trust no matter what you are going through and He will bring you through every dark valley and into the light!

Do you remember a time when you cried so hard you couldn’t see straight and God was there to lift you up?