Small Gift
  Beverly, my better half. Had always been a very smart woman. So when she decieded to become a nurse and go thru nursing school, i backed her up 100 percent.
In her journey thru this hard schooling she had numerous tests, before everyone she would call me and nervously ask me to pray for her to pass each test as she was fearfull of failing. smart as she was, she lacked a confidence in herself. i was at the time a christain but my prayer life had just taken hold of me just a few months before she started school, and i was still very much an ignorant, stubborn, baby christain, and me being as such, never prayed for any of her tests, even as i told her i would.
well as time passed her schooling was coming to an end, and she was coming to the point where she was having to take a state regulated test. this one realy had her stomach churning failing this test twice, meant retaking an entire semester of school, no matter what your grades were, and the passing grade for this test was 80 not 70.
we went thru our normal routine of her calling me and asking me to pray for her and i told her i would just as i always did, and had never planned to even give it a second thought just as i always did, telling myself aww she is a smart woman, she'll do just fine. When about half way thru my work day i felt, what i can only explain as an incredible overwhelming compelling to drop to my knees and pray for beverly to pass this test, so with tears in my eyes i did just that, thankfully i have my own office so i was able to do so with outprying eyes, although at that time i do not believe it would have mattered.
the next day beverly called me and told me, "sonny, i faild the test, ive already rescheduled though, ill have my retake next month" i expressed my sorrow for her loss to her, but strangly enough she was no where near as upset as she and i thought she would have been.
the next day, again i felt the strong compelling to pray for beverly to pass her test, which i thought was odd for, because she had already taken her test and failed, so i took it as god telling me to pray for her next test, and as i was kneeling praying for her next test, god stopped me and said no! pray for this test, meaning the one she had already taken. again i was taken back and thrown off by such a strange request, but again i obeyed, still on my knees, i changed my prayer to the test that had already been taken to be passed.
about half that work day had gone by when beverly calls me and tells me, "SONNY YOUR NEVER GONNA GUES WHAT JUST HAPPEND, I GOT A CALL FROM THE SCHOOL, THEY MADE A MISTAKE ON THE GRADING SYSTEM, AND I PASSED SONNY, I PASSED!!) i was soo happy for her. later that day i was making a run for material and god spoke to me again, he said "I DID THAT FOR YOU" i had been so happy for beverly and so cought up in my work that i had forgotten that it was god that had asked me to pray for her, as he said it again tears came rolling in my eyes "I DID THAT FOR YOU" and in the midst of my crying, rejocying and telling god just how awsome he was he sent me a truth "NOTHING MATTERS TO ME... NOTHING MATTERS TO ME... I CAN CHANGE ANYTHING... GIVE IT TO ME, AND I CAN CHANGE IT !" it was then that i realized that not time, not any kind of circumstance that you can think of is beyond gods abilities. the bible says GODS WORD IS NOT BOUND. that means that we are the ones who limit god, it is thru our sins and our unbeliefe and our wavering faith, that we limit the things he can do thru us! i realize that changing a grade was a simple thing for god to do, but to do it after the test was taken and 2 days after it had been graded, it wasnt the act that took me, it was the truth that he gave me. NOTHING MATTERS TO ME, GIVE IT TO ME AND I CAN CHANGE IT !