Sommer Miner Part 9

Today on **John Dash and Friends**, John sits down with Sommer Miner, This young lady is the true definition of perseverance and determination. As she shares how God reach down and brought her through the battels of life. She's a bright light in this world and her testimony will prove that Gods not done with anyone. For the full Interview go to John Dash and Friends Facebook Site.

Transcript

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from my church where I went to Destiny Outreach at the time, like Kay Cornwell, and you know, they helped she was my evening babysitter.

SPEAKER_01 0:08

Right.

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And you know, God God will give you favor with people you need favor with. And He will use people, you know, if you have a heart and you just give it all to God, He will make you a way of escape out of your situation.

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But I think the key here is you. If you I had a lady, the sister Donna Johnson preach a message at the church one time about a sponge on the side of the sink. How you think it's so clean and you're washing your dishes and when you squeeze it and you see this come out of you think it's not as clean as it is. Or it is as clean as it is cleaner. I think when you're squeezed what really now when you're treated good on a feather pillow that's that's the stuff don't always come out of you.

SPEAKER_01 0:57

Yes.

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But when you're squeezed there's things that come out of you you didn't know were there. And some are good and some are bad. I've had some things in life over me in ministry that there's a time or two I had some things come out in some situations I thought whoo I didn't know that was still there. I thought I had got past that. I thought I was doing better. It don't mean I wasn't still a believer and didn't still love God but I had to deal with that in my life. And then also I've been squeezed sometimes I thought well I'm a better person than I thought I was. Yes. And I think that you know well let me ask you this and I know I really appreciate you staying with me okay I know I I late ladied you that was Lawrence's fault. But he worked in 13 hours so I let him off. Yeah I said uh you ever have people be mean to you and uh you didn't know why they was mean to you oh yes okay all right and so what tell me and then I'll tell you what I think.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

Okay. So I am the type of person and I think God knows what he needs to allow in your life to that you will rise up and be who he put you on this earth to be. And so I'm the type of person that if people don't believe in me that is going to fuel my fire. Like I'm going to prove them wrong. And so every job I've ever worked starting out I have been I mean people over me have been terrible to me.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

Right.

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You know whether it be managers or whatever I mean I had just terrible experiences and even after I got saved you know and then like after I got saved and I was going through my counseling classes that I had to go to for two years um the anger management counselor because I had to take anger management three times starting in middle school. I mean you wouldn't believe that now but I have had court ordered take anger management three times. So I was full of the joy of the Lord you know and he couldn't stand that like but and they thought that it was fake because they saw me before I went to detention when I got saved and then you know I come out and I'm this totally different person.

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Right.

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You know because God really worked on me then and so he would and I I thought he must sit at home and try to come up with things. And so I was smiling one day and he said you're not fooling me you sit over there smiling that I know in the back of your mind you're thinking where can I bury the bodies and then another time he told me you don't fool me I know that years from now I'm going to be sitting at home and turn on the six o'clock news and you're going to be on there because you have a sniper rifle knocking people off as they went in the courthouse. And I said do you sit home on the weekends because I think you still lived with his mom and just try to come up with things to say to me but he would just try to get under my skin and but yeah I think that is something that God uses really to develop character in you also like when I went for my cosmetology uh when I was getting my cosmetology license I had gotten in a program God helped me and I was getting it all paid for everything and I went and the woman over the program she acted like she absolutely hated me. Yeah because when you have the joy of the Lord people that don't are not going to like you. Conviction you know and she acted like she absolutely hated me. I mean I would go to the altar I'd get prayer cloths everything you know but I knew that was where God put me and I knew that God was going to use it and I had to suck it up and go in there every day and still you know walk it out and you know you can't let people like that run you off. But yeah I think that's another thing that really helps to build character that we need.

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And all right so Bible for that I take back Moses when he went to Pharaoh. When God told him said Moses I want you to go to Pharaoh until I'm let my people go this is the deal. And by the way Moses I'm gonna make it where he's not going to listen to you. I'm gonna harden his heart and hear God it's like God saying all right I want you somewhere to go over and testify to Suzy Ann and by the way I'm gonna make her slap you when you get there and not listen to words you say you're gonna say God couldn't you send Brother Barry or somebody else what you want to send me for okay because it's not about Susie it's about you.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Yes.

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And when I think about Moses going to it was about the the children of Israel it wasn't about Pharaoh wasn't about trying to get Pharaoh saved or get no there was no salvation but get pharaoh to to follow God but it was about so when I think about that and I think about in my life the things that I've had some situations raise up and and you can't be mad at the people but what we do is because this is what I've done and I'll just deal a little tighter and we can work with it all right I deal with a lot of ex-husbands and ex-wives that are in a lot better shape now than they were when they were married to someone else and I said if you're in such better shape now why are you still mad at your ex-wife because if she would have been nice to you look where you would have been now for example I had a I got a big old guy friend of mine big old burly man not like me beard sharp cat married to this little round woman she's mean as a snake okay she would beat the fire out of him in the morning before he went to work jump up around him scratch him in the neck do things to him give him nothing pour a box of little Debbie's in a bag for his lunch and give it to him send him out to work okay I mean she was mean real mean finally he left that thing okay and got away from her he's married now to a nice woman got a great business doing so good but I guarantee if I ask him about that little woman he's gonna fuss about her. Another buddy mine got a big big nice farm was married to a woman and they just didn't get along okay I ain't saying they were two bad people but they just didn't get along and but but I I listened to both of them sort of talk about the other one now and they don't really have a kind word to say and I asked him about it one time. I said if she would have been nicer you would have not been in the right place all your life you would have not been in the right place. But see what sometimes we miss that this thing that God has to I say God's got a wrench for every nut. Alright he'll adjust you and he'll do things to you it's like the barbed wire barbed wire is your have you ever climbed through barbed wire no it's terrible okay it will get you in the back there's three strands usually it'll get you in the back or it'll get you in the legs or the growing it's terrible you just think you can get through it but it never works. It tears your shirt and you think it's your enemy but if it's around a rock faced cliff to keep you from going over it your friend. Yeah so there's things in life that God will do to adjust you and put you where you need to be and he'll have people be mean to you that don't want to be mean to you. But we still get mad at them instead of saying look at God's hand working in my