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E 262: What Happens When You Praise God in the Men's Room of a Restaurant?

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Welcome to One Day Closer with Mark and Dave, where we are TESTIFYING TODAY that God DOES rekindle a spirit of Hope and Truth when we make our requests know to Him.

Today’s show was inspired AND is a true story of both heartache and victory, shared with my wife and I from some very close friends of ours. As is our custom here at One Day Closer, I asked if I could share their story with our audience, as I thought it was a story many would be able to identify with and draw peace from. I promised them both that I would protect the names and identities of both the innocent and the not so innocent characters of the story. I even sketched this dialogue out and ran it by them both to make sure I captured their story as accurately as possible… and with that, I received permission to share their story.

A story full of drama, the duties and challenges of caring for our aging parents, interacting with previous estranged siblings, tough decisions about when to step aside or not, how to execute the right next best decision, etc. Tough stuff that we can all identify with, or that we will eventually be faced with.

Here’s the net out or take away from pondering this testimony for over a week. Sometimes you have to ignore or disregard, the negative thoughts seeded by negative naysayers, and just trust God to show up and deliver the peace we all seek.

You have to trust that God WILL move on your behalf…once you take a few a steps to do the right thing…in faith…AND when you experience a blessing from God…that’s always worthy of sharing…either alone to the urinal or with a total stranger…don’t miss the opportunity to share the story forward. God can bless that exchange as well…AND He can put a cherry on top of that sweet moment just for fun.

Here’s what I mean. After the plates were cleared from a wonderful dinner-story with Glen and Barb, and we all pass on the dessert menu, Glen finishes their story with this.

“Dave this is the best part. So while Barb was still visiting with her mom for the second time…somewhere around the hour and a-half mark, I was thanking God for a second successful visit between my wife and her mother…I told God that the only thing that would make this trip better was to move mom to want to see me…the devil…even if it was just for a moment. An hour later…that is exactly what happened. When Barb exited the building she waved me out of the car. Mom then came out of the doorway, gave me a smile and I gave her a hug. I thanked her for seeing her daughter and she thanked me for bringing her down to visit. BAMM! Dave this trip was all about Barb and her mother…but God gave me something special as well.”

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Welcome to One Day Closer with Mark and Dave, where we are TESTIFYING TODAY that God DOES rekindle a spirit of Hope and Truth when we make our requests know to Him.

Today’s show was inspired AND is a true story of both heartache and victory, shared with my wife and I from some very close friends of ours. As is our custom here at One Day Closer, I asked if I could share their story with our audience, as I thought it was a story many would be able to identify with and draw peace from. I promised them both that I would protect the names and identities of both the innocent and the not so innocent characters of the story. I even sketched this dialogue out and ran it by them both to make sure I captured their story as accurately as possible… and with that, I received permission to share their story.

A story full of drama, the duties and challenges of caring for our aging parents, interacting with previous estranged siblings, tough decisions about when to step aside or not, how to execute the right next best decision, etc. Tough stuff that we can all identify with, or that we will eventually be faced with.

Here’s the net out or take away from pondering this testimony for over a week. Sometimes you have to ignore or disregard, the negative thoughts seeded by negative naysayers, and just trust God to show up and deliver the peace we all seek.

You have to trust that God WILL move on your behalf…once you take a few a steps to do the right thing…in faith…AND when you experience a blessing from God…that’s always worthy of sharing…either alone to the urinal or with a total stranger…don’t miss the opportunity to share the story forward. God can bless that exchange as well…AND He can put a cherry on top of that sweet moment just for fun.

Here’s what I mean. After the plates were cleared from a wonderful dinner-story with Glen and Barb, and we all pass on the dessert menu, Glen finishes their story with this.

“Dave this is the best part. So while Barb was still visiting with her mom for the second time…somewhere around the hour and a-half mark, I was thanking God for a second successful visit between my wife and her mother…I told God that the only thing that would make this trip better was to move mom to want to see me…the devil…even if it was just for a moment. An hour later…that is exactly what happened. When Barb exited the building she waved me out of the car. Mom then came out of the doorway, gave me a smile and I gave her a hug. I thanked her for seeing her daughter and she thanked me for bringing her down to visit. BAMM! Dave this trip was all about Barb and her mother…but God gave me something special as well.”

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