Faith Travels From Cindy Black...


                                           
Hi, my name is Cynthia Black, I’m better known as Cindy.  I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about myself. I am a wife, a mom, an intercessor, a prayer warrior, a teacher and a business owner/operator.  I am also on the Board of Directors for Glory Train Ministriesand I am currently head of the Housekeeping Dept. at Voice to the Nations Worship Center in Griffin, GA.  Although I wear many names these days as many women do, the one I am most honored by is the name Daughter of the Most High God!

   I could only find part-time work and at $3.25 an hour; you can only imagine how difficult it was to support three little ones.  I had decided to give them up so that they could be taken care of. To this day, I am so very grateful that my husband’s parents, David and Della agreed to take them in and care for them. I am also so grateful to my Heavenly Father for seeing to it that they had everything that they needed from a loving home (one without constant turmoil) to the toys they played with everyday. 

   That separation lasted three long horrendous years.  Shortly after that initial separation from my children I went into a deep, deep depression and I wanted to die.  I earnestly looked for trees on the side of the road to slam in to hoping to get a little bit of relief from this pit of misery I found myself in. The only reason I didn’t go through with it at the time was because I couldn’t imagine putting my children through any more agony and pain especially if the impact didn’t kill me. After all, I was part of the reason they were already in so much pain from being separated from me and their daddy. 

  You see, there was so much junk and so much baggage that I had been carrying around with me for so long.  I didn’t even know it until one day when I was driving along looking for that perfect tree” that would end it all for me.  As I was driving along that day looking for that perfect tree this song called He Never Left Me came on....it was from a tape that my precious mom had handed me that day right before I left her house.   I don’t even remember putting the tape in or turning it on, but all of a sudden that song began to play and just as I had imagined the impact from the tree would be, the impact from that song hit me right in the chest.  I just broke! I t felt like my heart would explode!  Immediately this storm of emotions started flooding out of me and I couldn’t control it!  You see, God used that very song to get my attention and to let me know that I was not alone in my struggles.  No matter what road I find myself on whether I put myself there or not, I know that He never leaves us!  He is ALWAYS with us and He loves us unconditionally right in the middle of our mess!  Since that time, God has done wonders for me and in me.

  To finish this part of my testimony, after three years my first husband and I decided to try again.  We managed to stay together for a few months, just long enough to be in a position to get our children back. It all fell apart again and in December of 1993 we were divorced.  At this point I had decided that I was never going to marry again. I had made up my mind. Well, don’t ya know that sometimes our plans are not God’s plans.  Amen.

  I have been married to a wonderful man, Billy or Bubba as everybody calls him for 11 years as of April 29, 2005. My three sons are now grown.  My oldest son Justin is married to Melissa and they are anxiously awaiting the birth of their first baby in Aug/Sept of this year.  My middle son Jason is engaged to Denise and they are expecting their first baby in September as well. T alk about being blessed!!! Not only do I get the privilege of being mom to three great sons, I also get the honor of being mom to daughters-in-law as well.

  My youngest son Jeremy, my baby is now 18.  Can you believe how fast they grow up...and I do mean grow up.   He is now 6’2” and he looks like a skyscraper standing next to me.  Jeremy is not yet married, but he plans to one day and he says that he and his wife are going to have 10 kids.....WOW!!!  I am so excited about being a Nanna I can hardly wait!  My husband, (paw paw) says that I can enjoy them all I want until they’re about four or five and then they belong to him...Ha! Ha!  He says that then he can play with them all he wants and not break them.  Ya know, it’s one of those man things.  Anyway, I consider myself totally blessed of God!!!

  Ya know, everybody has a story to tell.  Everybody has a testimony they can share with someone, a testimony that might hold the key to someone’s deliverance, their healing or their peace of mind. I want to encourage you today to share your testimony, your life story with someone.  Don’t be greedy and keep it all to yourself because someone out there needs to hear what you’ve gone through and what you’ve experienced.  If for no other reason but to realize that they are not alone and that they’re not the only one suffering.   They need to hear that there is hope for them and His name is JESUS!!!

  I pray that by hearing my testimony and what God has done for me that you will realize that God is no respecter of persons.  What He does for one He will do for another.  He wants to help you out of your mess, will you let Him?  Please say yes to JESUS today.  Just cry out to Him right where you are and tell Him how much you need and want Him in your life. Repent of your sins (that means to turn away from them and not do them again) and ask JESUS to come into your heart and live there.  He will make you a new creation and help you to become the person that He has called you to be. Just ask.  If you’ve just done that, you are now a new person in Christ!  Get a Bible and start reading it everyday.  Practice what you read everyday and get into a Bible teaching church....and watch what God does in your life and in the lives of those around you.  It will totally blow your mind what God has in store for you!

  I pray that my testimony has been a blessing to you and please feel free to share it with others.  Strive to be an encourager to those around you and God will truly bless you for it!