The Beautiful Garden

Every time I read above passage of scripture, I’m reminded of a good friend of mine, Dorsey. When I was growing up, I helped a local farmer and developed some friendships that lasted. Dorsey also worked for this farmer. My daddy, Reverend A. J. Rozier, was their pastor, so they nicknamed me “preacher”. After years spent in U.S. Army, I came back home and renewed my friendship with Dorsey. He had married later on in life, and both he and his wife loved Lord. They especially enjoyed southern gospel singing. In fact, Dorsey was a right good singer himself. I would often visit with them, talk about Lord, and sing a few songs for them. Dorsey’s wife, Amanda, wasn’t in best of health and Dorsey had suffered from disability from wreck he was in while a teenager. One day, Dorsey called me and asked me if I could “lay off” a straight row. You see, he wanted to plant a garden. Well, I said “Sure, I’ll be over soon.” Well, we got his old Allis Chambers tractor hooked up to planters and I commenced to “layoff” first straight row. It was so curvy it resembled a “C”! I told Dorsey that was contour plowing, and we could get more on a “C” row instead of a straight row. Well, ole Dorse crawled on that old orange tractor and planted corn, beans, okra and just about everything else. A few weeks later, he called me and asked me to come over and help him set up tractor so that he could plow his garden. I went on over and took a look at his garden-it was beautiful! He told me that it was best garden he had ever had. As I looked at sweet corn, I noticed that some plants were about 12 inches high while other plants were six to eight inches high. The old planter had skipped, and Dorsey and Amanda thought I had slipped over in night and replanted corn. I said, “No, I haven’t done that.” Then Dorsey said, “It was Lord who has blessed this garden.”

A WARNING WELL RECEIVED

This is story one out of 50 from my book, My Walk with Lord, http://www.selahbooks.com/. 2 Kings 20.1 "In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live." This is a short version...One Tuesday morning, I went to an 11 A.M. prayer meeting at a local church. Names on a list were called out; some were sick, some were in need of salvation. I recognized name of husband of one of women attending prayer meeting. He was a good man, attended church, but had never been born again. As his name was called out, Lord spoke to me and said, "I want you to go see this man after this meeting is over." The command was urgent, so as soon as meeting was over, I drove three miles to see him. I knocked on his door, he came to door, opened it and asked me, "What are you doing here?" I replied, "I came to pray for you." He tried to change subject. Suddenly, anointing of Lord came on me, and I looked directly in his eyes and said, "Get your affairs in order, you are about to die." He looked at me in a shocked manner, and I said, "Now, let me pray for you." He sat down in his easy chair, and I laid my hands on him and began to pray and asked Lord to reveal his love to this man.