Testimony Time

I remember vividly January 2016
I was sitting in a goal setting seminar organised by my church
With a workbook where we were asked to write our short term and long term goals.
I scribbled quickly and then I stared at what I had written,
It wasn’t a question of if God could do the things I desired or when He would do it...
It was more a question of if I believed he could.

See,I was believing and trusting God for progression in my career,But, I looked down at my growing bulging miracle and a certain
Doubt came upon me.
When I found out I was expecting,I had mixed feelings of joy laced with worry(read through past blog posts😊)
I took a moment to sit still and come to terms with the reality of a baby 🍼 being on the way
And I had settled with the thought that well,career would have to wait.
But as I sat in that inspiring seminar listening to all that was possible to me only if I believed
I began to pray and ask God to do what only He could do.

Few weeks before I was to start my maternity leave,A career mentor called and said she had seen a role advertised in her hospital and immediately she thought of me and called to ask that I apply.
I laughed, I am almost due I said...I was (33 weeks pregnant)
She insisted I apply since that was what  I desired:progression. I looked at my Protruding bump and imagined myself turning up for interviews and seeing the expression on the faces of the panellist
Was I that desperate? did I want progress so bad? wouldn’t they think I was crazy.I could always apply later I thought to myself,afterall  I was already in a senior role where I was.I thought of a million and one reasons why No one would hire a pregnant woman.

And then I was reminded of a testimony I heard in church few weeks before I found out I was pregnant 🤰

A dear lady shared of how she was offered a job shortly before she was to go on maternity leave and the company were happy to wait till she had the baby and was ready to resume back to work.I remember receiving And claiming it but yeah right I though silently.

I wrestled with the thought and eventually applied for the role and I noticed that quite a few hospitals were advertising for the same post,so I humoured myself and sent my CV to 4 different hospitals.
2 weeks later,I was invited for 3 interviews
I grumbled,oh no...Why did I apply,How am I going to drag myself  to the interview venues,should I cancel...etc
I was so bothered about the inconvenience but my dear Husband kept insisting that I push myself and go for all of them,so I did.
As I entered the hospital for my 3 and final interview at 37weeks pregnant.
It just felt right...I knew that was where I was meant to be;I began praying 🙏for mercy and favour as I waited to be called in.I squared my shoulders,walked in with a smile and sold my capabilities and prayed that it would be enough to warrant them hiring a pregnant mammy

  

To the glory of God,I was offered the job and they were happy and willing to wait till I had my baby and was ready to return to work.I was in shock,could this be real.

This Our God is too good o.

That same God that did it for her did it for me,

And I started My new job in April 2017,

Doing that which I had scribbled in my workbook in January ,2016 That role that I felt was going to be delayed.I had it all,baby,career with nothing sacrificed to the glory of God.

I remember a conversation I had a few months ago with my colleague

She was the one who received me when I came for my interview a year ago and 

She said “Stella,I wrote you off,I thought you were crazy,I looked at you and said to myself there is
no chance of you getting the job” I laughed.
My boss said” When I saw you I thought to myself,there is a first time for everything “as she had
never interviewed a pregnant lady so far gone before.

See it doesn’t matter who has written you off,or who thinks you are out of your mind

As long as you step out in faith..

God would back you.

Even if we step out reluctantly 

All we need do is step out

And He would honour it.

You know when I was on maternity leave,I kept getting updates on Job search engines 

But there was not one advert in the field and area of specialty I was interested in,

So if I had missed that window of opportunity to apply back then,I would have had to go back to a job role I didn’t want and would have had to wait till God knows how long,

Thank God for a Destiny helper(my career Mentor) who God used.

Thank God for the testimony shared in church,we do overcome by the words of our testimonies 

It sowed a seed of faith in me.

So why Am I sharing this now,I shared My testimony in church a while back and last week someone approached me to say His wife heard my testimony and was inspired and she too got a job before she delivered her baby,Alleluia.

What a harvest of testimonies.If he did it for sister A,He would do it for you,just as He did for me.

2017 is almost over,what are you believing God for..

What have you been asking for..

Don’t give up now,take a step of faith

Apply for the job,Start that business,take that course,

Do a property search,

What testimony are you laying claim to.

If He did it for Him/her he would do it for you.

Be Encouraged.

Share share share,

Write in the comment below what testimony you are laying claim to or what you are believing God for and encourage someone else.

TWOF