I have shared with you all about my journey to plant cash seeds in faith to see a grave marker placed at the gravesite of the man of God. He served the Lord with passion and shared the gospel with people of many nations; signs and wonders operated in the ministry in the name of Jesus. We all are not perfect and if you think you are, you are not being truthful with yourself. We all sin and fall short of the glory of God and I am most thankful that when we do sin, we can ask forgiveness of Jesus and He covers us with the blood of Jesus that He shed on the cross to redeem us of this sin. Read John 19 and it says it all right before you.
This was an interesting journey in faith in my life. It came to a conclusion one afternoon a few days ago. It was a lovely and sunny afternoon. My mission was that day to go to the Roselawn Cemetery and let them know there was cash in the total amount of 70.00 by the gravesite tucked in the temporary plastic grave marker. Thank God there was Christian music playing in the lobby area that I noticed while waiting to speak with a representative. As I was driving to the cemetery, I began to say to Holy Spirit how in the world am I going to explain this faith I had with them in the form of words. I prayed in tongues and asked Holy Spirit to let me step aside so He could give me the words to speak. I am in the lobby inquiring if the grave marker was ordered and paid for. A representative comes out to speak to me. I tell him I noticed they are playing Christian music and I then began to share my faith story with him in regard to getting a grave marker for a former pastor of mine. I shared how he was an international preacher that led many to the Lord and signs and wonders took place in the name of Jesus and how a grave marker was needed to recognize his life. I know I am not family and so info was not able to be given to me and I totally understand that, and I was only inquiring if it had been ordered and paid for yet (you know, in the works). I know that along the way it has been shared with me in general that there is a shortage of granite out there. Apparently, granite is used to make grave markers is what I am figuring.
I had my little piece of paper where I kept a running tally of cash & change also, I placed at the grave to total 70.00. I shared how I have faith enough to plant those seeds to see a grave marker there one day by his grave. I told him where the money was tucked away, and I could not guarantee that someone did not come along and get some of the money placed there or blown away in the wind but if so, that was fine too because it would be a blessing to the finder of the money. I then shared how I would like to be the first with taking the 70.00 and applying it to the purchase of the grave marker anonymously given. I then left and drove past the grave site area one more time, my work or portion was now completed. Oh, I did share that I was not one of those that would roll all over a grave or anything like that and that I was very respectful of the grave and didn't even walk on it when placing flowers or delivering money.
There is a bigger picture to all of this. I was shown and shared with a friend of mine the other day. There have been preachers and ministers that were used mighty by God and not all of them were perfect in their lives. Some imperfections/indiscretions shared with the people and others maybe not shared with the people. Even they have grave markers recognizing their life here on earth. Maybe you have visited some of these very gravesites or even tried to gather some sort of anointing from their lives into your life as you visited at the grave. I recall doing a cross prayer walk with my former church I attended, we went to Oberlin, Ohio. We were at the gravesite of Charles Finney, and we collectively prayed that day while there. I didn't quite get the full picture at the time because it was a grave. It did cause me to wonder about who was buried there and a couple of times I drove through that cemetery but did not get out of my car to go to the actual grave of Finney. Quite honestly, he was not there he was in heaven and just an empty shell of his body remained in that grave. He died way before I was ever born. But let me tell you that the church in which he ministered at in Oberlin still had the power of his preaching resting in that sanctuary.
The point in all of this is this man of God should have a grave marker and wouldn't you want to have one for yourself if the time came for you to go and be with the Lord? Where you may have questions in your mind, I saw it as an opportunity to maybe be one of the first to plant cash seed offerings into this. Do you think it was easy to have to put this faith act into words with the management of the cemetery. No, it was not easy quite frankly the easy job was visiting the grave and bringing flowers and cash offerings. Guess what, we are not always called to easy faith journeys but some with a slight bit of challenge. The choice is truly yours to follow Holt Spirit nudges or say no because of what you might think others may think. The safest place to be is following Holy Spirit. Where God guides, He provides.
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