I have a heart for the homeless and for addicts. I was unfairly shut out of a county-wide ministry named "Living Water Ministries."
The women that shut me out were very cruel in their way of doing it. I will not go into detail here as in their methods, but let me just say I was lied about and my family was slandered.
Now I am no longer in jail ministry because of these ladies and I am no longer allowed to participate in their plans to open a shelter/halfway house for prison inmates who get out of jail and have no place to go and get dry of drugs and alcohol.
I did nothing wrong at the jail ministry. Only a private meeting where we were discussing pastors, and which pastors should be on our board for the new halfway house, did I say something that offended them.
They proceeded to slander me and pull the rug from under my feet completely within 2 months, even though I had repeatedly apologized for saying that their pastor was uncaring toward the homeless (He is uncaring toward the homeless.)
God has given me a new ministry where I help a shelter already in place. This makes those ladies at Living Water very angry, because they said I couldn't be in ministry any more. They basically cut my wings off, or so they thought.
Lol, they don't know God very well. God puts fortitude and strength in His children and He doesn't tell them to stop just when things start to get exciting.
After they kicked me out, about 1 month later I was walking outside with my toddler in his stroller. The Lord spoke to me ever-so-clearly: He said: "You will be over the NEW jail ministry and the NEW Halfway house. Then all those that laughed at you will stop laughing. They will no longer ridicule you for saying that I called you.
Also," He added, "They will no longer laugh at Me."
I asked Him, "Lord, when did they laugh at YOU?"
He said, "When they laughed at you, my child, they laughed at Me, for I chose you."
10 minutes after he spoke to me, I saw two other mothers strolling their children in strollers too. I waved at them; they waved at me, I thought nothing of it.
but when I got to my house, I said to my little boy: "Let's go around the block again. I want to walk some more."
The second time around the block, the 2 ladies were walking toward me again. They stopped me and started testifying of the Lord's grace. The Lord told me to tell them what He had said to me about the jail ministry and halfway house.
I didn't want to do it; I was embarrassed, I didn't even know these ladies.
But I did it.
The blond headed lady said, "My husband and I are pastors, can you come to our bible study at the shelter in _______?"
And that's when I started volunteering at that shelter.
I am learning now and need to finish school, but I will start up a shelter here in my own hometown, when the right time comes, when God speaks and moves.
And that's my story in a general way.