More Than Conquers

[Godskid247]

PRELUDE

We are human. We live our lives from day to day comfortably. Until...adversity strikes. All of a sudden our world crumbles. There are some, who shriek in fear. While others, stand strong and face thier problems with thier heads held high. These great ones are known as Conquers.

**Shalom, This is Godskid247. I come here often and talk on the chatbox. I originally thought about writing this story based on my life. Well, I'm gonna do something a little different. Today, I will introduce the main Character. The story may get deeper. It may be a little confusing at times so please bear with me. A lot of people go through life and mess up. Society puts labels them as a failure. Not so with God! May this story minister to you. **

 

[Godskid247]

"Mr. Johnson, you've done so much" "You're what every man dreams of being" I chuckle slightly. "You've got a nice job, a beautiful wife, lovely kids" How did you do it"??

"Well...."

This man says this NOW...but my life wasn't always this way.

**PAST, 21 YEARS EARLIER**
*Setting: Chicago IL, 10:48 pm, Wednesday

Characters:
Michael Johnson
Renee Johnson
Doctor Franklin
Various Nurses

"Boy, that was a good church service wasn't it Michael" "Yeah" He chuckles. It always is," he says with a smile. Renee's smile fades as she looks outside the window. "Honey"? she asks. "Yeah"? "What are we going to do about our house"? "Trust God" he says. "But, we're getting all these bills and the house is falling apart and everything" "Still...trust God" Michael says as he looks over to her. He drives past several cars. "Look, I know sometimes its hard to do. "At my job, I have to tell myself constantly that God's gonna change this.

Renee continues to look out at the window. Michael says with a voice full of care, "We just have to trust Him". Renee perks up and smiles at him. She chuckles and says "Now this is the man I married". Michael loved his wife. She always knew how to get into a happy mood rather quickly. She then yelp lightly in pain. "R...Renee is something wrong??" M...Michael!" She was crying now. "The baby...its....time!!" Michael looked around for a hospital and found one. "Rush" he thought. "Thank You Lord" he thought again to himself. Michael gently touched her hand and said "Its going to be alright honey"!

Michael parks close to the entrance. He ran so fast, he accidentally bumps into a nurse that was carrying a plate of food to a senior citizen. "Sorry!" He says looking back. Michael rushes up to the front desk as the receptionist looks at him in a strange manner. "Something you need son??" "Yes!" he says, both pain and fear in his eyes. "My wife needs help" He manages to get out in between pants. "She's Pregnant". "Oh my" the receptionist says. A hand taps Michael on the shoulder. "Come on, we've taken her into Delivery. Michael follows the doctor into the room and sees his wife. "Renee!" Michael says, hugging her gently". "How far apart are the contractions". the doctor says "A minute maybe..." she says.

"Hmm, looks like she may deliver tonight".

Doctor Miller then calls for nurses to come into the Emergency room. Renee smiles slightly but then shrieks out in pain. "Okay, it looks like she's about to deliver ahead of schedule." Michael runs out of the room. He paces around the waiting room and hears his wife screaming out in pain. He then starts to weep. Michael then runs into the bathroom and closes the door. He collapses on the floor and starts to pray.

"Dear God, PLEASE allow our child to live". "I promise Lord, that He WILL know you". "In Jesus name, Amen". Michael prays in tongues. The Holy Spirit speaks to his heart "Go to your wife". He immediately gets up and goes back to the emergency room. He immediately hears his wife screaming in labor. Amidst the commotion, he says to everyone "Lets pray."

He immediately grabs hands with his wife and everyone else in the room as the pray. "Okay, Push!!!" Renee screams with all her might as she hears a little infant crying. "Okay, we got him!!" Doctor Franklin said, wiping the sweat off his face. Michael looks at his son, tears of joy streaming down his face. He gently kisses his wife whispering in her ear "This little one is going to change the world".

**Shalom all! I hope that you are enjoying this. I noticed that people are coming and reading this. So, what I'm going to do is make a thread that you guys can post your replies. Shalom all!

 

[Godskid247]

**Hey all! I just wanted to thank you all for reading my stuff here. Trust me, It WILL get better than this," "Oh, the child's name is Alex. Its a boy! -Godskid247

Setting: Rush Memorial Hospital
Time: 12:46 am Thursday. July 18,1987.

Characters:
Michael Johnson
Renee Johnson
Doctor Franklin
Nurse Robinson

Back at the hospital, Michael and Renee laughed as the doctor told them hilarious stories of delivering babies. "Man, you should've seen his face."! "His wife would've thrown him across the room". "AND, Everyone was just having a good old time! "Oh man!" Michael says as he sqiurms around. He rushes over to his wife, who grabs his hand. "Listen, I've got to get to the restroom"!
"Okay" "And Don't fall like you did last time!" Renee says. "Hey, that only happened once!" Michael says with a smirk. "Doctor, when he comes back, can we leave"? "Yes, but you're going to have to sign these release forms. I can't discharge you without them". Doctor Franklin said. Renee nodded as she held her baby close to her. "Safe in my arms, you will always be" she whispered.

Michael goes to the restroom. He noticed that Renee seemed a bit more tired than normal. "Well, she has been through alot". He thought to himself. Michael comes back and finds the bed empty. Renee's voice is heard from another room. "Mike, there are some things that you have to sign too". Renee says.

"She's changing her clothes in the private bathroom." Nurse Robinson said. "Oh," Michael then exists the room and waits outside. He then notices the door cracked slightly and the nurse handing him the papers. "Oh, Thank you". He says. He signs them and waits. After a couple minutes, the nurse comes out and says "Okay sir, you may come in". He walks in and notices his wife standing up and saying "We can leave now".

Michael and Renee laugh all the way out of the hospital. They were being treated like they were movie stars! The family gets into the car and hits the road. Michael turns to his wife and says "You've done good today, you're going to be a great mother." "Thanks". Michael continues driving and notices some light snoring. He chuckles to himself. "Boy, she must be really tired."

Michael then prays: "Lord, bless this family that you've given to me" "I thank you for it.' He finally reaches home. As soon, as the motor is turned off, his wife wakes up. "Are we there yet"? Renee manages to say, not really focused on anything. Michael shakes his head and laughs. They get the baby who happens to be sleeping as well. Michael walks up the stairs and says "You, get some sleep, I'll put Alex to bed." "Okay".

Michael heads up to the baby room and puts Alex in the crib. Alex stirs gently. "Shalom Alex"! He kisses Alex's cheek and puts a cover around him. Michael leaves the room and hears an old western TV show being played. He looks to his wife who smiles micheviously. "You and your westerns". "Hey, John Wayne is cool!".

"Besides" Renee adds on. "You and your Charlie Brown cartoons". Michael laughs and says "Yeah, and I STILL watch cartoons!!" "But you're a grown man though hun!" "Sweetie, you're never to old to watch cartoons". They both laugh together. Michael goes into another room and changes into his evening robe. They turn off the lights and go to sleep.

** Hey! Now, this chapter is more funny than the last one. The next one will introduce Michael's job. I don't know if you noticed but the child's name is Alex. Alex means "Protector of Mankind". I don't know what his nickname will be. Thanks for reading!

 

[Godskid247]

**HEY!!! Hey all!! This is the next chapter. Its been long I know. I'm gonna be on CF updating this thing. About the six chapter, I'll give a summary of whats happening.

Since I haven't written in a long time, I'll summarize:

Renee Johnson, just had her son Alex. They live in Chicago IL. The year is 1987. I'll be speeding it up, since the story's mostly about Alex. The year will be around 2005.**

Characters:
Renee Johnson
Michael Johnson
Alex Johnson
Joe Miller
Cleveland Peck
Doctor Franklin

Renee wakes up and reaches for her husband but doesn't find him. She opens her eyes to find him dressed in casual wear. Goin' to construction again honey?? "Yeah, I'm also are gonna be with Joe and Clevland for lunch today" "I also think, the boss may lay some of us off". Renee was actually up now. She put a hand to his shoulder and says "God'll provide a way".

"Yeah," he sighed. "Well, I'm gonna get out of here." Michael leaned over and kissed her cheek gently and walked out. He checked on little Alex who was still sleeping. He touched his forhead and noticed him having a slight fever.

"Honey, Alex has a fever". Michael said from the baby's room. "Thats strange, we covered him up as best we could. she said coming over to him. "How could that be"? "Look, I'll deal with this, you've got work." She said this with a serious look on her face. "But I.." "Michael, go, don't worry about things here. "

Michael nods and heads out. He gets into his car and gets on the road. He prays over the little one. He tried to concentrate on the road but his mind kept drifting back to his son. He began to pray "Dear God, I ask of you to heal my son". "You promised us that by your stripes, we are healed" "I'm not gonna worry about this anymore, I cast this over to you". Thanks. Amen

He was driving on the street when he heard "We Don't Care" being played loudly by the car next to him. A smirk formed on Michael's face as he thought ""I can get Loud too!!" He plays "Again I Say Rejoice", loud right when the guitar solo comes on. The guy next to him in the passenger seat smiles at him. "You tryin' to challenge us"?? "You'd lose anyway" Michael says chuckling as he drives off.

He arrives in front of the construction site. He gets out. The site was an old warehouse that was in front of another building. You could never really see it, passing buy. Michael walks passed "Geno's" to head to the back. He could hear the clanking of machinery and various shouts of the workers. He noticed his friend Joe Miller walking up to him. "Hey man," Joe said.

Michael replied with a low "Hey" and a nod as they began to walk. "I've heard that the boss is gonna let some people go...inflation he says" Joe says. "No, its those bills, I mean have you seen how much it takes to run the business!" "See, thats what happens when God isn't in you." Joe gives Michael a serious look, indicating that he didn't want to hear anything about God. "Alright, alright". "Yeah," Joe said. "So how your wife, has she had the baby yet"?? "Yeah, she has, thats where I was all night." "I'm just here to see if the boss has anything for me to do." Joe nods. "Where's Cleveland"?? Michael asks. "He said he'd be here". "Okay" he says. "I'm gonna go and see what the boss wants".

Michael leaves Joe and goes to the far back. He walks into one of the old warehouses. He knocks on a door. "Boss"?? he starts to yell. He walks around to the back room and notices some stairs leading up. Michael walks up the stairs. He gets to the top and noticed no one there. "Hmm...wonder where he is"?

He then ran downstairs and went to the front desk to sign in. "I might as well sign in, just to let him know that I was here" he thought. He then approached the door as his cell phone rang. "Hello"?? "Honey"?? Renee's voice came in sadly. "Sweetie, whats wrong"? "There is something wrong with the baby." "What's wrong"?? "I'll tell you at the hospital, just get here" "I'm on my way." Michael said. He rushed out the room and to his car. He was stopped by Joe. "Listen, I REALLY need to go right now, somethings wrong with my son" "Okay, I'll be around" "Thanks Joe" Michael said.

He speeds over to Rush Memorial. He bursts through the doors looking for his wife. His wife was standing there looking at her frail son. Michael pulled his wife into a comforting embrace as she wept in his arms. He looked at his son and whispered to both his wife and to himself, ""You WILL Live"

**Here's Chapter 2. I hope you guys enjoy it!

 

[Godskid247]

**Hey! To all my readers, I'm sorry for keeping you all waiting. My computer's been having issues. I'm believing God that we can get another one before school starts. Again, I apologize for my lateness. What I think I may do, is write half of a chapter, leave, and then finish it instead of trying to do a whole chapter in a day, summer is drawing to a close and I REALLY want to keep you guys intrested.

Okay, I was planning on saving this for the next chapter. I think I'm gonna speed things up a little in terms of the timeline.

:Summary: Okay, BAsically, not a lot of stuff happened. Little Alex is very sick. And it appears, Michael is having some Job issues.

CHAPTER 3

CHARACTERS:

Michael Johnson
Renee Johnson
Alex Johnson (2 days old)
Doctor Franklin
Joe
Cleveland

Time: 11:45
Place:
Michael gently holds his wife. "Oh, There you are" Doctor Franklin says, running over to them. "Listen, your son seems to be very sick." "We're gonna keep your son overnight and give him some medicine." As he spoke, Michael looked at his child as fear gripped his heart.

"Listen, we're gonna provide him with the best care. You guys just need to trust God okay?" Michael nodded. His wife however, was a little bit skeptic. Renee was raised in a Christian home but, sometimes when things got really tough, she wasn't sure if God would pull through.

Renee kept silent in the car. It was an awkward silence that lasted for most of the ride. Finally Renee spoke up, "So....are you doing anything today" "Yeah, I've got to pick up Cleveland and Joe for lunch today."