For Such a Time as This...

When I was first asked to start teaching classes at my gym, I thought NO WAY!  First, I don't have time. Second, I didn't know the first thing about teaching an aerobic class.  So why on earth would I start doing something that had two strikes against it already.

This was back in July of 2011.  While I still don't have time and still feel like I have SO much to learn, I have been watching His plan unfold before my eyes.

There are MANY days I think, this takes way too much preparation.  I spend way too much time building classes.  I could just as easily work out on my own, work my other part time job and homeschool without teaching at the gym.  I think to my self there are many more noble causes that I could be investing my energy into in this life.

God however, in his perfect timing reminded me again tonight why I am teaching.  I had an Esther moment at the gym.  I went to teach my spin class.  The class before it had 11 students.  The class after spin had that many or more.  But my class didn't make.  I only had one student.  Weird.  Or was it?

The one woman and I stayed and chatted.  She was so disappointed that the class didn't make and really wanted to take it.  She made a special trip up there just for spin.  So I began to share my story with her.  How my life had changed over the last year and half.  As I told my story, she let her guard down.  She began to tell her story.

Please understand, that my story is not anything I have done.  It is only a testimony to what the power of prayer can do to a person.  How when His faithful servants pray for others, change can happen.  So it is hard to tell my story without giving all the praise to God.  Why would I?  It's really HIS story.

As she told me about her struggle, God laid it on my heart to pray for her right there...while she sat on the spin bike, while I held my green water bottle I had been sipping on as we chatted.  God's power and presence were there in that aerobic room.

She was so grateful.  She hadn't just told her story to anyone.  She trusted me.  God in His soverienty emptied a room so that we could call out to Him.  His name is power and I am so captivated by Him.

I am thankful for Him using me.  Little ole me that knows not to much about teaching a class but knows a Great God that is powerful to save and to heal.  So for tonight, I was there for such a time as this!