The God of Justice

2009 was a very difficult year for me. I was fired (wrongfully terminated) from my job on January 5th 2009, a day before my birthday. I was devastated for there was no cause of action for my termination. The whole situation took me by complete surprise. In addition to being fired, unemployment denied my claim siding with my employer not believing a word I said although I spoke the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth. This denial added injury to my already wounded heart. I felt like Job in a small way- One catastrophe after another.

Despite this wrong, however, I always believed that God would vindicate me. I didn’t know when or how but I knew it was only a matter of time before He gave a judgment in my favor. Why did I believe this? Because I believed He was and is the God of justice and He would be on the side of those who are right. And I knew I was right in this matter. Nonetheless, that matter of time (the four months it took me to have my appeal) was emotionally, mentally and spiritually exhausting and trying. During that time, I cried many tears of worry, anger and hate about my present state and future and about those who had did me wrong. Did I mention I’m single with 2 kids (one in college who depends financially on me) and not only unemployed but with without unemployment or steady income. During those trying months, I didn’t know how I would make it. I had never been in a financially situation like this before and I was scared. I actually compiled a list of the people I would stay with if I was to become homeless. I cried out to God for my son who was finacially struggling as well. I could no longer afford to pay his rent. Despite the long restless nights, however, I had an innate knowing that God would vindicate me. But I had to go and make it through this test. I had been married for majority of my adult life and I had my husband to take care of me all of those 10 years. Now, single 5 years I knew the time would come when I would have to prove my dependence on God. Would I fall and crumble during the test? Or would I fight for my faith and trust God that He would not only meet all my needs but He would give me the victory I worked for and deserved. Now it’s the long awaited day of my appeal in May 2009. Before I left my home I prayed. My last request from The God of Justice was “Lord, let the judge do something he has never done or rarely does”. I was referring to the judge giving me a judgment after my hearing. I had waited 4 long months and I didn’t want to wait a day longer for a verdict. So I had my say in court and now my attorney, witness proceed to leave the room. Oh did I mention my employer didn’t attend the hearing. Oh and did I mention they were shut down by the county 1 month after I was fired. You see God don’t like ugly. The God of Justice shut them down (amongst other reasons) to prevent them from coming to the appeal with lies and this was no coincidence. Anyway, as we proceeded to leave my free legal aid attorney (contact one in your area if you need them) asked the judge how long it would be before I got a verdict. He went on to say how he couldn’t give specifics, he has a lot of cases but his last words were: I TELL YOU THIS, I’M GOING TO FIX THIS. I broke down in tears when I heard these words. Aren’t these the words of a righteous king vindicating the afflicted, troubled, and wronged? His words rang true indeed. One month later I received about 9 checks from unemployment. Yes, The Department of Employment had to overturn the false counts against me. Yes, they retroactively paid me for all the months I should’ve received unemployment. No, I didn't loose my house! No, I didn't loose my credit rating! No, I didn't loose my mind! No, I didn't loose my faithfulness to God. This testimony is true. I do not lie. Not only did God prove to be the God of Justice and vindicate but He showed me He was with me even till the end by answering my prayer when the judge did something he never did before and gave me a verdict with his words “I’M GOING TO FIX THIS”. Selah, pause and think on this. For any of you who have been wronged whether from an employer, neighbor, friend, family member, spouse or church – remember that God is the God of Justice and HE WILL FIX IT.

Getting through to unemployment is a nightmare. I found this code on the internet which enables me to get through to a live operator with a high success rate. But you must follow these instructions for this code doesn't work with all EDD telephone numbers. The steps are as follows:

1. Call 1800-300-5616. Edd has new telephone numbers but they don't work with this code.

2. Wait for the automated voice that says "Welcome to the Employment Development Department". Their is another automated voice but you must enter the code with the welcome voice. You may have to call several times before you get the welcome message but once again this message is crucial.

3. Enter 1, 3, 0 when you hear the welcome. Your wait time will be about 5 minutes. One of two things will happen depending on how busy they are. You will talk to an operator who will give you specifics about your claim or an operator will take your information and pass it along to correct person who will call you back. Either way, you talk to someone.


If you have won an appeal I have fax numbers where you can fax your awards letter directly to EDD. I called EDD to inquire about my check (after several weeks after receiving my award) and was given a fax number where i could fax my awards letter because they hadn't got my award letter from the appeals board. I learned that the appeals board mail their award notices to EDD about once a month. My checks were mailed out within 5 days after faxing over my award letter. If you want to expedite your claim send me a message and I will give you the fax numbers.

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What is Faith

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Heb 11:1).

Faith is simply the word of God. Faith comes from the hearing of the word of God. If God didn’t speak we would have no faith. We would have no conviction or knowing of His existence. Faith is God’s word.
God framed the world with His word. He has framed your world with His word as well. God spoke and the earth was. God spoke and your world will be too. Sun, stars, joy and blessings made up God’s world. What has He spoken to make up your world? Your faith can’t reach full maturation without God’s specific word about you. Not His word about your mama, brother, sister, spouse or friend but his word about you. What has God spoken about you? Your Faith is the substance of God’s word spoken about you. His word entails and embodies your future. The fulfillment of His word relies and is contingent upon your belief, obedience, reliance, fidelity, dependence and trust in Him about the promises He prepared for you before you or your world was.
God’s word is bond, sure, collateral it’s your bail. Your faith is the title deed that transforms His word from substance to reality. Your faith is the assurance, confidence, right, entitlement the insurance policy that you can have the desires of your heart (which are the things he has prepared for you) if you believe He is who He say He is and is a rewarder of the man or woman who seek Him.

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God cares about our daily affairs

I was headed to Michael’s but while in route I realized I didn’t have my receipt for the new Cricut cartridges (Sweet heart and Kitchen) I purchased several days before. I became paranoid as I looked through my purse (at a stop light) and still couldn’t find the receipt. I thought it was strange because I had my other Michael’s receipt for other items purchased at the same time I purchased the cartridges. As soon as I got home from Michael’s, ( I went anyway to return a 18 by 18 Martha Steward album) I shuffled through a purse I used earlier, old receipts and finally the garbage can as I had thrown away some receipts before I left to go to Michaels. While looking through the garbage can I stumbled across a piece of mail I had told my daughter to place in the mail box a day earlier. Suddenly, I realized God had devised the present events just so I could find this letter and mail it off for this piece of mail was my son’s rent. I began to thank God immediately for His mysterious working power at the same time thinking of a way to punish my daughter for not doing what she was told. Anyway, I had a peace knowing I would find my receipt after I realized God has ordered my steps and these events so I didn’t worry. I then remembered I had some coupons (the ones Michael’s print out on their receipts) in the door of my car so I went outside to check it out. After sorting through several coupon receipts the last receipt was my receipt for the Cricut cartridges. I praised God in amazement for blessing me not only to find this receipts but blessing me to find something I didn’t even know was missing – my son’s rent check. During the process, my anger towards my daughter subsided for I knew without a doubt this incident was a blessing from the Lord and was not meant for punish and discipline (although I will verbally admonish her). More so than both of these blessings, however, God blessed me once again by manifesting His mysterious working power in my day to day life. What would I do without the Holy Spirit who expresses his concern for my affairs (whether small or great) in such ways as He did today.
Thank you Jesus!

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Peachy Keen Love Clock Card Okay, this is my first challenge ever and I'm a little nervous. I absolutely adore the laughy taffy faces and have conjured up a gazillion ways to use them. The love clock project is the one I'm feeling and sharing today. I started off using regular rubber stamps clocks but wasn't really feelin the Roman numbers so I decided to make my own clocks using my Pazzles cutter and Gel pens using hearts and XO's instead of numbers. [Photo]I didn't desire a overly girly card so I decided against the lovey doby patterned papers keeping it simple and straight to the point giving it a masculine feel with plain cardstock and black mats/leather type paper ribbon. Of course since the card is flirtatious I had to add some lace.... Give this card to your crush and if he don't know what time it is well he just can't tell time!