Our God Is AWESOME!

God arranges things in a phenomenal way and orchestrates life intersections of which only He is capable!
Today was one of those days.  I cannot divulge the names of the participants because I only know 2 of them, but would want to protect their privacy anyway.

      Today is Sanctity of Life Sunday.  If you have read my story, you know that day is a bitter sweet day for me.  Pastor gave  a great sermon and although he spoke about the evil of abortion, he also spoke of the freedom from condemnation and the cleansing forgiveness that Christ offers to:those who have done the deed (doctors), those who have demanded that it be done (Parents, grandparents, boyfriend, husband), and the ladies who have had the abortion, but have trusted Him as Savior and Lord.
     Usually I sit in the middle of our huge worship center with a group of Liberty students.  Today, I sat in the second row right up front. At the end of the service a young lady (I'll call her Sandy) came and collapsed on the altar.  God nudged me go and pray with her.  This is not the norm, folks.  I had no idea what she had gone forward, but as I prayed for her, I sensed she had had an abortion as well.  I asked that God would show her forgiveness and she would know that He refuses to remember our sins anymore.  I also thanked him that the babies that have been aborted were in Heaven with Him and would never suffer the hurts of this world.  As I prayed, she sobbed uncontrollably.  I finished my prayer and realized there was a second woman (I'll call her Hannah) who had come to pray for her as well.
      Sandy told me that she had just come out of rehabilitation where she had trusted Christ as Savior and Lord, and yes, at age 15, her mom had forced he to have an abortion.  I told her she was going to have to forgive her mom.  She said she could not.  I explained that just as she had been forgiven, Christ demands that we forgive others.  I warned her not to let the root of bitterness grow anymore.  She agreed to forgive her.  She said she wanted to join our church.  I took her to Pastor and explained the situation and he connected her with one of the other pastors.
      As Hannah and I sat there beside her, Hannah asked me if I knew Sandy.  I told her that at that point I did not even know her name, but God had prodded me to go pray with her.  Hannah said that she had been sitting behind Sandy and had felt the same nudge.
      While standing with Sandy at the front of the church while folks came to welcome her, a young teen (I'll call her Ashley) came running up and threw her arms around Sandy's neck and they both started crying.  Ashley said, "I have missed you so much!".  After they stopped crying, Sandy introduced Ashley to me as her step daughter!  She said that she and her husband (Ashley's father) had been separated for three months.  At the next moment, Hannah came to our little group and told us she is Ashley's foster mom who had been caring for her for the past three months!  Because the teens all sit together, she and Hannah had not been sitting together behind Sandy so Hannah did not know the connection.
      WOW!  Lord, YOU are an amazing God!  You orchestrated a lot of lives to be in the same place at the same time, to hear (and give) the same message, and to touch the same hearts for YOUR glory!  As Sandy heals and grows, I pray that Hannah and I can minister to her and to Ashley.  I pray that as a church, we can help to restore their marriage and You, Lord, can restore what has been stolen by the Enemy.