Interesting week of Seeing God glorified!

All I have to say is WOW! What an AWESOME GOD we serve!!!
In this week alone, I have seen God glorified more than I can ever have hoped for in a long time...and let me say it again, WHAT AN AWESOME GOD WE SERVE!!!

Get this, when you serve God Almighty, you have the PRIVILEGE to communicate and fellowship with THE CREATOR...the one who made the BEAUTIFUL SKIES we see, and more than anything, the one who loves us enough that he sent His one and only SON to die for us....WOW!

But this post is mainly about praising God, because it's much overdue in my blog...GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD!!! This week, He has provided me with a job and Erik with a job interview for his store! Did you hear me?? GOD provided me with a job!!!

I LOVE THIS STORY because when you look at it, GOD IS GLORIFIED! Allow me to share...it's been a year and a half since I graduated college with my teaching degree. And in that year and a half, i have been working hard to find ANY teaching job...seriously, ANYTHING other than substitute teaching was okay by me...

This job search was given to God a whole year ago...you see, my church, my absolutely wonderful church home prayed over me. We prayed together, believing in faith that ONLY ONE door would be open to me. And that door would be the ONE DOOR that God wanted me to walk through for my job...and EVERY OTHER job would be closed to me.

Well, last year, as a new Spirit-filled believer, I had a difficult time living with the fact that I kept hearing the same rejection call from EVERY interview---and if you remember, most of those interviews, I spent hours crying after the rejection call. It was rough. So, this past school year, I began as a substitute teacher, and God did give me grace and favor :)

Then, in November, God opened the first door for me. I got a call from one of the BEST elementary schools in my district, and the assistant principal offered me a job as a math tutor--no interview, it was mine if I wanted it. HECK YEAH! I totally wanted it...it paid more than substitute teaching, would get my foot in the door for elementary schools, and this would SURELY be the avenue to get me a permanent teaching job...RIGHT? Well, that was my plan, but not GOD'S plan...we make our plans and God laughs at them. And you know what, as harsh as that sounds, looking back on things, I REJOICE in that verse!!! Because God's way is SOOOO MUCH BETTER than my way!!!

Well, recently I wrote about my frustrations in the job hunt. I had interviewed with a few elementary schools, and was continuing to get rejected. FINALLY, after crying to God, it just didn't seem like i was supposed to be a CLASSROOM TEACHER this year. SO, I convinced my husband that it would be in my best interest to seek a job as a classroom teacher's aide and just continue doing the work I've been told I'm anointed for, and that's working with small groups of kids...

SO, i took out my resume paper and sold myself for an aide. Then, I set out on my job hunt again. I LOVE HOW GOD WORKS! You see, there were THREE schools that i had prepared to go talk to. Two of them were middle schools, and one was an elementary school. Now, one middle school had truly captured my interest (although at the time I didn't realize which one it was...who cared, right? The objective was to get a job!) But the one that had captured my interest online was the one that said "strong math background preferred." In the back of my head, THAT was the job I wanted---because I LOVE tutoring math, and working with kids in math---It's what I did last year, and I wanted to continue in that avenue.

But look at how God works. It's AMAZING to me!!! The first middle school I went to was actually the middle school my FLESH would have picked because my kids from last year would be attending, and it would really seem like I was continuing with what I started last year. But listen to this experience.

I parked in what seemed like a rather deserted parking lot, got out of my car, and began to look for where the front entrance was. And the whole time I'm looking for this, I'm thinking "this is a really really really tall school, and it doesn't look very inviting..." I COULD NOT shake that feeling the ENTIRE TIME that i searched for the entrance to the building. To top the experience off, all the doors had signs on them that said "do not enter." It seemed forbidden and creepy. Realizing that I was going to have no success getting in the school that day, I resolved to come back the next day and talk with them. I said a quick prayer, and asked for help as I continued the job hunt. I was mainly praying for PEOPLE to actually get to talk to because it's a long drive to get to these schools, and you guys know how much gas costs!!!

Anyway, God's hand was COMPLETELY on this job search. The next school that I went to seemed SOOOO much more inviting. It looked nice, well kept up, no forbidding entrance signs on the doors... so far so good. I went inside the building and requested to speak to the principal. I was almost immediately taken to the assistant principal. He told me that they were planning to interview for the position the next week. However, as he started to talk to me (they call this a pre-interview), he realized that i had a lot of math background, and his tune changed to "how about we call you today for an interview tomorrow? We'll work around your schedule!" PRAISE GOD PRAISE GOD PRAISE GOD!!!

I was very excited when I left this middle school. I was so excited in fact, that I no longer felt the need to visit the third school. I just left it up to God, and praised Him for the fact that I'd have two interviews the next day (the other interview was for a daycare job that I did not get).

Well, long story short- I got the job!!! I found out Tuesday from Central office, and my orientation was on Wednesday. God really worked in ALL OF THIS because He has blessed my finances. Due to God placing the right people in the right places at the right times, I ended up working with my former principal. She did something incredible (all praise to God), and without giving full details, God is just going to bless Erik and I this year, and WE WILL SEE AN END TO OUR DEBT---praise God!!!

Now, looking back on it, this is the awesome thing! I want you to think about this, because it just was like one of my "whoa wow whoa" moments where the work of the Holy Spirit is just SOOOOO evident!!

I spent a year and a half job searching. In ALL of my attempts to get a job at an elementary school as a classroom teacher, I was rejected. THE SECOND i let go of that, was willing to do something outside of my comfort zone (middle school), I got the job!!! God has been steering me in a different direction for a year and a half, and my stubbornness kept me from it!

BUT PRAISE GOD that He softens our hard hearts---because I now have a job that I am very much so looking forward to!

Thank you for sharing in my excitement!

By the way, special thanks to Sean for helping me realize how to get a PINK font color for my blog entries. Thanks Sean!