Although I have a professional blog, I somehow feel more comfortable placing this testimony here.
I was finally given more than a day's worth of work last week to cover a teacher who has been off with stress. It was at a faith based school but it was quite a trek from dropping off MC. When I arrived at the school I was told that the classes will be quite challenging due to the fact that the children have not had a consistent specialist teacher for many months.
I did my usual thing which was to declare the Blood of Jesus over each and every part of the classroom prior to the classes arriving. I sensed as though something had been 'spoken' over the classroom (when I arrived home after the first day my BP was elevated for the first time since 2016). So for the few days that I was at the school I would pray over the classroom and the classes went without incident.
The members in the dept had hinted at the prospect of me joining their team permanently in September as they were not confident that the person would return and they were surprised that the classes with me seemed to settle quite quickly. On the face of it, the school and dept were quite nice and this could work. However, as I drove home on Friday I had a long chat with the Lord. I handed over to God the fact that I needed to begin to have a regular income now, as my funds were getting depleted and so this job might fill the gap and allow me to transfer my mortgage later this year. But I also acknowledged before Abba the fact that I am still not yet in a position to take on today's level of teaching roles (50+ hr work week) with MC still being as young as he is - thus making me ill again. I asked for guidance from the Lord as to what I should do.
What came back was a feeling/a strong urge to pray for the absent teacher with the following instruction - if I declared healing over her to break the bondage of anxiety and stress linked to teaching, to pray for the Holy Spirit to strengthen her, to break any curses spoken over her to make her fail at the school and she returned to work today (thus I would not be called out today), then I will get my answer as to whether this was the school for me. I also felt that if she did return back to work, this will not be the school for me and the Lord would still find me work, we will not have to do without.
Earlier this morning I got up and MC was poorly and so I lost a day's pay as I had to stay home with him. Even in spite of all the blessings I've had, I found my mood dipping as the day went by. By late afternoon, I get a call from the agency with work for tomorrow at a different school. The woman returned back to the other school today.
So whilst I didn't get any work today, the Lord has come through yet again to hit home to me that in all and through all things, I need to come to Him first and only Him. I must not lean on my own understanding!
I was finally given more than a day's worth of work last week to cover a teacher who has been off with stress. It was at a faith based school but it was quite a trek from dropping off MC. When I arrived at the school I was told that the classes will be quite challenging due to the fact that the children have not had a consistent specialist teacher for many months.
I did my usual thing which was to declare the Blood of Jesus over each and every part of the classroom prior to the classes arriving. I sensed as though something had been 'spoken' over the classroom (when I arrived home after the first day my BP was elevated for the first time since 2016). So for the few days that I was at the school I would pray over the classroom and the classes went without incident.
The members in the dept had hinted at the prospect of me joining their team permanently in September as they were not confident that the person would return and they were surprised that the classes with me seemed to settle quite quickly. On the face of it, the school and dept were quite nice and this could work. However, as I drove home on Friday I had a long chat with the Lord. I handed over to God the fact that I needed to begin to have a regular income now, as my funds were getting depleted and so this job might fill the gap and allow me to transfer my mortgage later this year. But I also acknowledged before Abba the fact that I am still not yet in a position to take on today's level of teaching roles (50+ hr work week) with MC still being as young as he is - thus making me ill again. I asked for guidance from the Lord as to what I should do.
What came back was a feeling/a strong urge to pray for the absent teacher with the following instruction - if I declared healing over her to break the bondage of anxiety and stress linked to teaching, to pray for the Holy Spirit to strengthen her, to break any curses spoken over her to make her fail at the school and she returned to work today (thus I would not be called out today), then I will get my answer as to whether this was the school for me. I also felt that if she did return back to work, this will not be the school for me and the Lord would still find me work, we will not have to do without.
Earlier this morning I got up and MC was poorly and so I lost a day's pay as I had to stay home with him. Even in spite of all the blessings I've had, I found my mood dipping as the day went by. By late afternoon, I get a call from the agency with work for tomorrow at a different school. The woman returned back to the other school today.
So whilst I didn't get any work today, the Lord has come through yet again to hit home to me that in all and through all things, I need to come to Him first and only Him. I must not lean on my own understanding!
