It shall Accomplish

so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:11.
I was encouraged by the testimony of a friend. He did not grow up in a Christian home.  He remembers twice when he was in Sunday School as a child. Today he is a part of American Family Radio. He spoke about how just simple words that he heard in his early years stuck with him. HE had a Greek Orthodox mother and a Catholic father and they could not decide how they wanted their children to be raised, in which religion so most of the time they did nothing. Yet that word that was planted early in his life bore fruit. The word of God is powerful and it will succeed in the thing that God sent it for. So I think of my childhood and the dysfunctional home that I was raised in. The word that I heard even as a child as brought forth fruit in my life. I have really come to realize how dysfunctional so many homes are.  But God intervenes, he has purpose for each of us. Our hair on our head are numbered and even before we were born, he saw us today and what we have become.   God never takes away free will. But God can also make that word we heard so long ago stick with us and bare fruit.  He molds and shapes us all through life. I sometimes think of my dysfunctional father and how I saw a change in the last six months of his life. God changed him. I remember in earlier years when even a judge told him he was a hypocrite. But God never gave up on him and in his last days there was a change in his heart. God's word will accomplish the purpose for which it was sent. I think of my time as a young man and the struggles of life I faced and for a time I even walked away from God. But God was not finished with me and is still not finished with me to this day. He will accomplish his purpose for me. I can still remember being Gleaners as a child and the rub a dub dub song we would sing. I remember the days of youth when we had a twenty eight club and we were encouraged to read four chapters in the Bible a day. Some imperfect people spoke a word in my life and God has been at work ever since. It has been a long journey, many a bump in the road. Many times the enemy of my soul tried to turn me aside, but God continued to work in my life. From a time of prosperity in my life when I turned aside and thought I didn't need him, to times of poverty when I lived with out running water and electricity, God has been at work in my life. I thank God for the day when he knocked  on my hearts door and I let him in. He has worked on me ever since.  It was a Sunday night in January of 1984. I have been through much since that night. Four times divorced and yet I stand with many a memory of answered prayer. Many a struggle with sin in my life and God continued to wash me with the water of his word. God's word has been active in my life. I am so grateful. God bless, LVZ.