Walking With God For Over 50 Years

Walking With God for Over Fifty Years

Georgia Davenport McCain

Published by Ron McCain at Smashwords

Copyright 2017 Ron McCain

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Photo of the author on the right of front cover, taken by The Alexandria Daily Town Talk, Alexandria, La. Used by permisssion.

Photo of author on left, was taken in 1949

Originally Printed 2002 by: Allegheny Publications, Salem, OH 44460

Dedication

Lovingly dedicated to my family: my husband, Carl; my sons,Ronald, Danny, Kenny, Randy, and Barry; my daughters, Donna and Jackie. My sons-in-law, Ken and Dan. My daughters-in-law, Dolores, Mary, Angie, and Tina. My grandchildren, Allison, Ryan, Carmen, Daniel, Laura, Kimberly, Bryan, Victoria, Jeffrey, Jessica, Jason, Chris, Kyle, Katie, Lindzee, Hayes, Lauren, Ashley, and Emily. To the memory of Nathaniel McCain.

Also, to a host of friends and relatives who are very dear to me but too numerous to mention.

Preface

Approximately thirty or more years ago, I wrote a book entitled Trials and Triumphs, which is now out of print. It contained many of my personal experiences with God, some wonderful answers to prayer. Requests have been made for me to have it reprinted. In considering it, I have decided to revise it instead, under another title, and add more of my personal answers to prayer, some taken from two of my other books, plus others that have never been recorded. This, too, upon request.

In writing and compiling what God has done for this unworthy servant, I will be enabled to leave a legacy for my children, grandchildren, and a host of friends and relatives. Knowing God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, they can be confident that just as He has been with me down through the years in my many trials and tests, and brought me through with victory, so He can be with them if they will yield their lives umeservedly into his keeping and trust where they cannot understand.

All who pray, know that prayer is not an easy task. Listen to what David said in Psalms 22: I and 2, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, -2- 0 my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not: and in the night season, and am not silent.

Sometimes, it seems our prayers are futile, that God is not hearing us at all. What do we do in a case like that? Do as David did -- keep praying. Read verses 22-24 of the same chapter. I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; – glorify him; and fear him – for he hath not despised – the affliction of the afflicted: neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him; he heard. Praise God! Though it seemed as though God did not hear

David, he didn't give up. He decided to believe anyway and praise Him, in spite of feeling God had forsaken him. It has been said, When we can't pray our way through, sometimes we can praise our way through. Try it. It works. Amen!

I have discovered that when night is darkest, the battle is waging the fiercest, the devil is fighting the hardest, all hope is seemingly gone, and it looks like we will go down in defeat in spite of all we can do, that is then time to put on the whole armor of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:11-12. Verse 16 of the same chapter tells us, above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. Praying always -- in the Spirit Verse 18. Claiming victory through the precious blood of Christ. I remember just such a time as this when it seemed I was sinking beneath the waves. Everything seemed utterly hopeless, but I picked up the faithful Word of God and read these words from Romans 15:13: And the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost. To me, it seemed that hope was gone, but my faithful Saviour announced to me that bleak day that He is the God of hope and that He still had power to fill me with joy and peace in believing. Believing what? That He was still on the throne, that He still had control of my situation, that He still had power over the devil and all the imps of hell. The remainder of the verse informed me that I could abound in hope, not just skim by and barely keep my head above water, but have a vast supply of hope. How? Through the power of the Holy Ghost. No, not in my own puny strength but in His all-sufficient power. Praise God! How the precious Word of God lifted me out of the depths of despair and up to the heights of glory that Sunday afternoon. I turned a page in the Bible and read these words, And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly --" Romans 16:20. Within a few weeks I, literally, saw this promise fulfilled, the stronghold of the enemy destroyed. Amen! Our God is still the God of the impossible.

Sometimes in praying, we have to pray many long hours before the answer comes. Other times, the answer comes immediately. I remember such a time as this. I was driving down the road, and an awful storm came up. A burden settled down upon me for my parents' protection and I prayed, Lord, protect my parents in this terrible storm. Later as I visited them, my mother told me, When that storm came up today, I ran into the washroom to unplug my washer, and just as I pulled out the plug and stepped back, lightning struck where my hand was. How I rejoiced that God had burdened my heart and answered prayer for my precious mother. He is a loving and merciful God.

In answering our prayers, God does not do it because we're so special or worthy, but because our hearts are right with Him and we pray in faith, believing Him to do what we can't do. Personally, I feel like a weak worm of the dust, as I call on God, unworthy that God should even look down on one such as I, and hear my feeble prayers. Many times as I try to pray, Satan has a way to point out my many faults and failures, but as I search my heart and know I haven't willingly sinned against God, I resist the devil's suggestions and keep praying. Thank God! He does answer and has answered many, many times in my life. By God's grace and help, I want to record some of these wonderful answers, trusting it will encourage others to keep trusting and believing God as the end-time approaches. Other people's answers to prayer have encouraged me to keep believing. The enemy would love to defeat us. He is making his final bid for God's children. He comes at us sometimes as an angel of light, II Corinthians 11:14, and does his best to deceive us and overthrow us. At other times, The enemy shall come in like a flood, but the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. Isaiah 59:19. Then the Bible tells us in I Peter 5:8 that he comes as a roaring lion sometimes, walking about, seeking whom he may devour. Verse 9 tells us to resist him in the faith. Thank God! There's victory for God's children. Let us keep resisting Satan and believing God. Keep praying in faith. God still answers prayer in these last days. Praise His Name!

Table of Contents

Searching for God

Walking in the Light

A Deeper Need Revealed

God's Lesson on the Doing of Little Things

God’s Leadership in Getting our Children into Christian Schools

God Promises Protection in our Travels.

Our Little Nathaniel.

God's Call to Minister to Rest Home Residents

On the Humorous Side

God's Leadership in Writing Books

God's Healing Touch

God's Mysterious Ways

The Joy of Giving

God's Messages through Dreams

Faith in God's Promises

Seeking to Win the Lost for Jesus

Letters from the Readers of my Books

Poems, Memorials, and More

About The Author

Books by Georgia Davenport McCain

Searching for God

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:for they shall befilled. Matthew 5:6

What an exciting evening for the little Davenport girls: Our parents were taking us to church. A revival was being conducted in our small community and our dad helped us to crawl up on his old flatbed truck that he used to make a living, and off to church we went. We attended several nights of the revival that week. This was the first (and sad to say, the last) time that I can remember our entire family attending church together. But as far back as I can remember, there was a void in my heart – an emptiness that only God, Himself, could fill.

I remember as a little girl, with much effort, climbing up onto the shelf of an old armoire, a chest-type piece of furniture, and reaching for a large family-sized Bible, which was kept on the top shelf. Inch by inch, I pulled it toward the edge until I could get a good hold on it, and then I eased myself back to the floor with my precious treasure. I remember flipping through the pages searching for something to satisfy my hungry soul but was unable to understand what I read, so I left the big book and went back to my play. But looking down from Heaven was a loving Heavenly Father who saw the hungering and thirsting of my heart for something to satisfy my longing soul. Placing His kind and loving hand upon me that day, He began to lead me in the way I was to go. Praise His wonderful and precious Name forever! Though it was years later that the need of my life was met, yet it was the day I took the big book down (which I still have as a treasured possession today) that the search for something to satisfy my soul began.

No one ever spoke to me about my soul, and if anyone ever prayed for me, I was unaware of it. Sometimes my sisters and I would attend the little church in our community, and once while yet a little girl, I joined the church, but sad to say, that deep longing of the soul was not satisfied, though I thought I had gotten saved. I listened to radio preachers, memorized Scripture verses from the Bible, and continued to attend the little church, the only one I knew anything about.

After graduating from high school, I left home and secured a job as a telephone operator. As long as I had lived at home, I had lived a more or less sheltered life, but after leaving, I began to try my wings, so to speak, and get a taste of life's pleasures. Needless to say, the yearning after God began to wane. I stopped attending church altogether and spent my Sundays working or in pleasure.

At the age of nineteen, I met a young guy (Carl McCain) who was later to become my husband. Because of my experience a few years back when I joined a church, I told him I was a Christian. He would not accept my Christian witness because I was committing the same sins he was. It would make me furious that he wouldn't believe I was a Christian. Later, in spite of our religious disagreement, we were united in marriage. With all the expense of getting started in married life, our money was very scarce, and as a result, we were unable to attend all the worldly places we had once enjoyed. As I stopped my worldly pursuits, once again I felt that deep yearning after God that had never been satisfied. I purchased a Bible, and at night I would read it to my husband. I was so ignorant concerning the things of God, but oh, so hungry for something to satisfy my longing soul.

In December 1947, one year and a half after we were married, our first son, Ronald Carl, was born, and for a while it seemed my life was complete. Oh, how that precious baby filled my life. It seemed I almost worshipped him, and as a result, my affections were so set on him that I had no desire for anything else.

For a long period of time, when our first baby was small, my husband worked out of town all week and was home only on the weekends. I would entertain myself at night by listening to the radio. One night, in God's divine order, I tuned in to a radio preacher. I had never heard preaching like this in my life. He wasn't beating around the bush, so to speak, but was telling very plainly what it would take to get to Heaven. Night after night, I listened as indescribable conviction seized my eternity-bound soul. The devil, no doubt, realized he was about to lose one of his deceived servants, for he moved in with all the powers of hell to fight any move I might make toward God. I became so mean and hateful that I could hardly stand myself. My husband would come home on the weekend, eager to be with his family, but he wouldn't be there long until we were arguing and fuming and fussing. I was always glad when he left, but once he was gone, I would feel so terrible and would purpose that things would be better the next weekend. But if any change were made at all, it would be worse. This kept up for weeks while the devil battled for my eternity-bound soul.

Oh, how he hated to turn me loose! But after many weeks of awful conviction, not even realizing what was wrong with me, I came to the end of myself. It seemed as if God just bared my poor old sinful heart to me, revealing that I was a lost and needy soul on the march to the judgment bar of God, that I had never been saved as I professed. Oh, what a day it was when I saw myself as God saw me. How it humbled my heart before God. I knew absolutely nothing about praying or confessing my sins to God, but I was willing to do anything to find peace. With a heavy and contrite heart, broken before God, I went into my bathroom, and though I had never been on my knees before to pray, I fell on my knees to God, for the radio preacher said we should get on our knees. I was speechless, I had no idea how to pray, but God had shown me that I needed to get