TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!! Born in 1956, I’ve always loved celebrating the day I was born! And this is what God says about me:
Psalm 139:13-16
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
NOTE: as I write this Joy Story, please don’t think this is written to lift only myself up! I want everything good from God, yes: and I absolutely want the same for you; each and every one of you!
Selah and amen!
And now, being sixty-eight this day in April, I have decided; “I’m going to be a marvelous old woman!” Actually, in November this thought came to me: and I loved it! You see beloved, I have decided to be old when I’m eighty. Before that I will simply be older than many… Now please keep in mind that the rapture and the tribulation may start long before twelve more years are over. However, our LORD God tells us to occupy and continue to fight the good fight; never forgetting to work out our salvation with fear and trembling.
I make plans.
Growing up in a home without the love for God, an invalid father, heavy financial hardships, and tremendous (sometimes dangerous) discord is always difficult. Add on to that extreme shyness, a feeling of inferiority, and some may think this girl was rejected. But God’s hand was on her and His heart was for her. Today, Ann Marie Turner has performed many great services in Jesus’ name for the love of God and man; and for herself! She has ministered in the male correctional for over ten years. Along with this website, Ann is the author of Joy Stories, Volume One and The Free Incarcerated Man. Writing about the joy of the Lord and the victory that is available for a willing soul is one of Ann’s now greatest joys! Ann’s prayer for you is to overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony. Celebrate the God of the Bible and your personal victories in Christ unceasingly! Revelation 12:11 They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.