He was quick to respond. "Sure," he said. "Come tonight! We'll work you in." So that evening I gathered up my old guitar and we went over there. My guitar, by the way, had been giving me some problems. Most particularly, one of the strings was fairly dead at times, even after putting new ones on. I'd been praying about this problem, even asking for a new guitar.

We sang three songs at the revival and were received very well. It is always fun to sing our songs to people who have not heard our songs before and this rally was a wonderful opportunity for us. After the revival that night, I talked with David, the pastor putting this on, and he asked me if we wanted to sing again sometime, throughout this two-week long event. I said we'd be glad to sing again. He pulled out a schedule and I noticed he had no special music Tuesday, the next day, so the little gears in my brain began to work, as I pondered how I could pull it off. Tuesday is the day we sing at two assisted living centers. I would have to cancel them in order to sing at the revival. It would be for a nice 20 or 30 minute set, too, which would be exciting.

Another pastor, Pastor Jane, gave us a clear message. Be sure to pray about this, before thinking of dropping a commitment we already had. I took coin in hand and stepped aside to give it over to the Lord and ask His guidance about whether we should cancel our routine assisted living center singing for this unique opportunity. The answer was No, we were to sing, as usual at the two assisted living centers. A twinge of disappointment came over me. But, we always submit to the Lord's will and I knew His hand was upon that coin and my flip.

The next day we went to the two assisted living centers. At the first place, we asked the group to join us in prayer for my guitar as it was showing the effects of its age. One lady got up to leave the group, but I didn't think too much about that. Moments later she came back with her relatively new guitar (with hard shell case) and said the Lord had asked her to give this to me. I was shocked, speechless. It needed new strings, but was in wonderful shape. Later I heard her tell another resident that as she was sitting there, the Lord was telling her to give her guitar to me. Although she loved her guitar, her arthritis and palsy made it impossible to play it anymore. She knew that I would use it to bless many people. The new strings I put on it later, made it sound rich and beautiful. I will make good use of it both in the writing of inspired songs as well as in sharing them with all the people God leads us to.

Nature of God: I had no idea what God was planning to have happen at the first assisted living center we were to sing at the next day. When Pastor David said that the next day's special music was still needed, I felt sure we were to be the ones to do the job. I LOVED the fact that the Lord had that as a test to see if I was going to follow my own will and cancel the assisted living centers for the next day. This would have been my "natural man's" response. I was thinking that singing at this revival would have been for the Lord PLUS I could satisfy my natural man's desire to sing for a new crowd. God had a dear pastor friend, Jane, warn us, however, to pray before committing to do this.

Despite all logic, we were told No when I asked if we could change our plans and sing for the revival (which apparently needed us the next day). We made the right decision to pray about it and ask God about it. He rewarded me with a nice answer to my prayers—a new guitar. In addition, I found out God DID send someone else to provide the special music the next day, and we were given several opportunities to play throughout the revival.

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