Susan and Larry Randolph

First of all, we love the Word of God Community because it gave us the Life in the Spirit Seminars, valuable foundational teachings, and hours of experiencing union with God in the Spirit of praise and worship at the many gatherings we attended. Larry felt drawn by the Lord into the life and work at Christ the King Catholic Church and so we ended our association with the WOG but only because of time and energy conflict not for any other reason. As to the question, "What has the Lord done for you?" He has been completely faithful - even when we were not faithful. He has loved us and blessed us beyond measure and to such a degree that we couldn't help but love Him in return. He so inclined Himself to us to lift us up from the attachments of this world. Slowly but surely He is setting us free - so bountiful is His grace!!

"How has God transformed our lives?" I wish I could say that He has so transformed our lives that we now look and act completely like Jesus, but that is not the case. We do, however, desire and pray for daily conversion and have come to find out that God loves that prayer and will daily send ways to bring that about. It usually and almost always comes in the form of relationships and a deep call to surrender to the unconditional love of God to be poured out first in our marriage toward each other and then to every single person God brings to us. It is a supernatural work that we have finally come to see only God can accomplish if we but ask and say yes!! By God's grace we will continue to daily ask and say yes . "What has God done in our lives?".We have received many miracles of healing from burned fingers that were blistered to pure skin in a matter of minutes to an eye poked with a stick being healed in seconds. There have been so many of those kind of healings with our grandchildren that I am ashamed to say that I think we experience them so frequently we see them as a common occurance that we don't give them the kind of notoriety that they deserve, but when we fall into bed at night we thank God from the bottom of our hearts for His constant faithfulness and mercy. You see, the Lord has blessed us with 17 grandchildren and He has daily taught us and continues to teach us that we are not in control, but that He is. That requires our constant dependence upon Him. We see one of our primary duties in life is prayer and penance for the salvation of these little hearts for Him. And more than salvation we pray that they will be laborers for the building up of the His Kingdom. God is teaching us dependence. That actually is right up there with the miracles because both Larry and I are by nature extremely independent. Larry has also heard the Lord call him to become a deacon in the Catholic Church, so he is undergoing that process right now.

I believe that the Spirit is doing something great and powerful on this 40th year! I have been hearing, almost daily, in some form or fashion, "This is the year of freedom for God's people". I am excited to be living in these days of great grace!!!! Larry and I are very much looking forward to celebrating with our brothers and sisters in the Word of God!! In His Love,

Susan Randolph