DAY ONE:                                                    

             Seven years ago this fall I went to visit my daughter in LaGrange, GA, I had just been voted in as pastor of Faith Tabernacle Church in Medon, TN.

            My daughter was so proud of her mother, she wanted everyone to know about it, that day at work she wanted to tell everyone she worked with at the bank about her Mom, and she came in contact with a lot of people.  She was so attacked with different ones in different denominations not believing in women preachers, she was so hurt and as a Mother you can take a lot but it is hard to see your children hurt.

            Just think how God must have felt when He sent His son to save the world and the ones He sent Him for hurt Him so much that they even led him to a cross and crucified Him.

            As I went to sleep that night on my daughter’s couch just about as low as I could get I started talking to God and told Him he had the wrong girl, I’m just not qualified to do this, God doesn’t call the qualified, he qualifies the called.  There is one thing I know God had called me, even though there was a long road before I ever completely surrendered to His will and way.

            That night I had a dream that has never left my mind.  I was in this big old white house, there was a big woman very mean, and she was in my face with her finger pointing at me.  I started calling out to God please God help me out of this house, I could see the door and I kept trying to edge myself there with her hovering over me screaming and fusing , I really couldn’t tell you what she was saying but I finally reached the door, the minute I opened it I was swept up to heaven I was flying, no soaring it was the greatest feeling I have every known there is no way to describe it.  It is the best ride I have ever had, just turned up and down and around every which way.  I loved it, was just soaring like an eagle.

            One of my very favorite verses in the bible is, “You see what I did to the Egyptians I brought you to myself on the wings of Eagles.”  I know what it feels like to soar like an eagle because that’s what I was doing.

            God has ministered to me many times about eagles, our baptistery at the church has a mural of an eagle soaring.

            As I was soaring I said God if they could just see me now, and I looked down and she was standing in the door watching me.  God said oh they see you.  I realized they don’t like that God is using me, there is hatred and jealously with a Jezebel spirit to control and that spirit has come against me so man times but I will never forget the words God said.  “I will lift you so high no one can touch you.  That is exactly what he has done, he has taken me places in building this church that only came from God.  He is my strength my mighty tower on Him I do depend.

            Remember God doesn’t ask you to go anywhere that He doesn’t go with you.

     Pastor Marcie Hendrick