Part 10:
Well now, let me back up, I've gotten ahead of myself as I tell my prayer experiences. When Danny and Joe were small, we were busy helping take care of my mom, whose cancer had returned after 10 years or so. I had suddenly gotten sick, and found out one of my ovaries was hemorrhaging and I would have to have emergency surgery to have it removed. I remember telling Dr. Spring not to take everything, because I wasn't through having my family. He winked and said, "Okay, I'll leave the "girl" side!"
My mother died on Joe's 5th birthday. Our days of caring for her were over and about a year later, another prayer was answered and our little girl was born. We had not asked the Lord for a little girl especially, but you know the Lord says, "You shall have life and have it more abundantly." The Lord had blessed our life with two fine boys, who were 9 and 6, so what could be more abundant than giving us a daughter?
When I came out of the delivery room back into my room, Curtis came in just beaming. We felt we should thank the Lord right then and there, so we held hands and prayed with tears of joy streaming down our faces, and we gave her to the Lord that very first hour of her life.
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| Carolyn Kay |
I had such a closeness with the Lord as I went home and rocked my baby and sang "prayers" to the Lord for her lullabies. I prayed selfishly one prayer--that I would be the one to bring her to the Lord in salvation experience.
That prayer was answered about nine years later. One night in a revival meeting she was sitting with Debbie and Mildred Burton, and I was on the other side of the church. I could not find her as I searched the church with my eyes. I felt the Holy Spirit so strong that night and I knew He must be dealing with Carolyn. I said, "Oh Lord, please don't let her go forward until I've had a chance to talk to her. You know I've asked You to let me be the one to lead her."
The invitation time closed and we went home. Curtis had some kind of meeting that night and didn't come home with us. As I went in to tuck Carolyn in for the night, I leaned down to kiss her, and she put her arms around my neck and said, "Oh, Mama, I know I'm a sinner 'cause I've told stories and done so many things I shouldn't." I said, "That's wonderful!" She had a surprised look on her face because she thought I would be mad that she had told lies and done things she shouldn't. I continued, "You've already completed the first step to being saved --- you've realized you're a sinner and have admitted it. Now Jesus says if we believe in Him and confess our sins He will forgive us. So if you want to, you can just kneel down by your bed and ask Him to forgive you and to come into your heart." She jumped out of bed and knelt, and prayed the sweetest prayer I've ever heard -- asking God to forgive her and asking Jesus to come in. Then she jumped up and threw her arms around my neck and said, "Oh, Mama, I feel so much better! I feel like a load has been lifted off me!"
We went in to tell her big brothers and they rejoiced and we waited up to tell Daddy. It was one of the sweetest family times we ever had as the boys recalled when Carolyn was born and how excited they were when they got up on Sunday morning to have Daddy call and say they had a new baby sister.
She's always been our "Sunday child." She's always liked to go to church. She has felt the Lord dealing with her many times since she has become a teenager. She is 16 now and sings, "He Touched Me" and you know He has as it makes cold chills every time she sings it.
Read the next entry in my prayer journey - "Surprise Blessing"
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