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led by God to take his wife and two sons to Colorado. God said He would take care of them,
and they went without any money on hand, needing to see God come through for them
immediately. They stayed in Colorado for four months, and God would not allow Richard
to work. Richard was a bundle of fears, yet God had taken care of them faithfully and at the
end of four months he brought them back to Georgia. Richard and I talked about the great
challenges of such a walk of faith, but also the rich benefits of a greater fellowship and
intimacy with God as the desperation of the circumstances would drive the individual to
press into the presence of God daily.
With all of this preparation God had been doing in our midst, I had hoped that the
other ministers would be supportive when I shared with them what God was leading me to
do. They had been witnesses of Josiah’s healing, and they had seen God take care of our
family’s health, even healing me of diabetes, when I had been led to cancel our health
insurance. What God was requiring now was just one more step in this process of leading
us forward into greater realms of faith. The church was even named Living Faith, so I had
hopes that the ministers would understand what God was doing.
I should have realized that one man’s faith does not translate over to another man
unless they also have a desire and a willingness to walk in faith. During one of our
ministers’ meetings, I shared how God had confirmed His leading to me, and I informed
them that I was going to leave my employment in the computer field and trust God for our
provision. As a minister there was much precedence for this, and Paul even devoted the
majority of I Corinthians chapter 9 to this topic.
I asked my wife before we went to the meeting what she was going to share, and she
told me that the Lord had spoken to her, telling her she was not to say anything. After I
shared, the elders and their wives asked Tony what she thought about the matter. Tony
changed her mind about being silent. She became very emotional and expressed all of her
fears and said she did not agree with this thing I was doing. The elders and their wives,
moved by Tony’s emotions and fears, then expressed their opinion to me that I should not
do this thing since my wife did not agree with me. They told me that I was prohibited by
God from taking such a step if my wife was not in agreement.
It is not my desire to get into a discussion of headship, and the governmental order
of God, in this book, for I have already addressed these topics at length in other writings.
If any should have a desire to read further on this topic I would refer them to the book
Sarah’s Children, which can be read, or downloaded freely, from the Heart4God website.
It is necessary, however, to mention the struggle that was present in our home that further
things which will be shared should be understood.
Tony truly had not heard God speak that her husband was in error, nor had the Spirit
told her that she was to resist my leadership and advocate that we go another way. In fact,
God had spoken something to her that was quite the opposite. A few months prior to these
events a couple from another town attended a Sunday morning gathering of saints at Living
Faith, and it was known that the woman was a prophetess. Toward the end of the meeting
Richard asked this woman, whose name is Judith, if she had a word for the body. She
responded affirmatively, but added that the word was for the leadership and she would like
to share with the ministers after the service ended.
When the ministers had gathered together, and a couple of their wives, Judith said
that the Lord had given her a message for the ministers, and then added that it was
specifically for one of us. She pointed straight at me, and said “God says promotion is
coming to you.” I was stunned to have been so singled out among the ministers, and I