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Margaret Stanfield's Story
(August 2007)
 My name is Margaret Stanfield and I live in Nairn in Scotland. Married to Alan for twenty eight years and we have three lovely children Sarah, Neil and Karen.
Sixteen years ago while living and working in Manitoba in Canada my life took a major shift when I became a Christian. These words come tripping off so easily, but actually it felt more like God my Father simply came one day and helped himself to my life! I have never recovered. Thank God for that!
Nairn harbour
It was a day that I'll never forget. I had been at a Bible study in the local church - I still can't tell you why I went! It was not something I had ever done before. There the Pastor spoke about this man called Job, how he had lost everything family and fortune, health and friends and yet he still believed in God!
Job's story really awakened something in me. I realized that my life seemed to be controlled by my emotions and the circumstances that I found myself in. Even although I was happily married with three lovely children I was struggling to make sense of everything that life seemed to be about.
It seemed to me that there had to be a purpose to life that was greater than being born, living for a while and then dying.
In reading this story I came to understand that Job had a foundation to his life that I knew nothing about and I also knew that deep down inside it was a foundation that I desperately needed. I was completely overwhelmed by all that I was reading and for the first time in my life I prayed.
All I said was 'if you're there Lord, I'll believe'.
That day God my Father revealed to me that He most definitely was there and that moment my life was changed forever. As He came and filled me with His love I knew that everything that I'd ever done wrong in my life was completely washed away. I had been forgiven as He filled me with a joy and peace that I'd never known before.
Sixteen years later I can so well remember every detail. Awesome! He completely changed me from the inside out. And every day I am being changed more and more as I yield to my Heavenly Father.
The Bible says (2 Cor. 3:16-18): 'Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.'
Since that day I've travelled through many different situations both good and not so good. God has been faithful in every day ...drawing me close to His heart as I learn to yield to Him. There is a wonderful passage in Romans that tells us that nothing can ever separate us from His love.
In the book of Romans 8:38,39 is says: 'For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principaliteies nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, not height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'
Over the years God has shown me in many ways how He delights to listen to and answer our prayers. I know deep within that He hears every one and that He loves to bless His children. Psalm 37:4 - 'Delight yourself also in The Lord, And he shall give you the desires of your heart'.
So that's really where this site has come from. A joy in knowing Jesus as my saviour, comfort and guidance from His Holy Spirit and immense delight in knowing that God is my Father in heaven and He is always available to us every minute of the day and night. He never turns us away.
AND HE HEARS US WHEN WE PRAY.
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Margaret Stanfield, 30/08/2007 |
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