Mike Henderson's Testimony Part 2

When I was 40 years old, I became unemployed. I was miserable and worried. My children were still quite young at the time. John was seven and Elizabeth was only five. My fear and depression were such that I went to a seminar in Montgomery for attorneys suffering with job-related stress. At one of the breaks, an older African American lady, who had seemed very outspoken and brusque during the seminar, walked up to me out of all the people in that large room. Being an attorney, who practiced in Birmingham, I did not know her at all. I had no idea why she would want to talk to me out of the blue. She said, "The Lord has told me to give you a message. You are full of fear. But, the Lord says everything will be all right."

I knew she was right. I was full of fear. I didn't know how to get rid of it.

That following Sunday, I went before the church at Crossbridge. We were meeting at the school back then. I told the church about the lady's message and I confessed I was full of fear, and that I didn't know how to get rid of it. Our church body prayed for me to lose that spirit of fear. Very soon, I experienced a profound sense of peace.

Within a week, I received a call and a job offer. I accepted that job, and have been with the same company for the last eleven years. That is the comforting and providing power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:14, 15

Because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by Him we cry, "Abba, Father."