wld said:
Hello guys,
Sorry for our absence from the forum for a while. By the time you check out the signature below, you'll understand why.
Praise God, we finally got our visas on January 23, 07 at about 4p.m after waiting for almost three hours at the embassy!
Perhaps people like Modest will now believe that the whole DV process is true afterall.
Pickup time was supposed to be 2p.m and I thought it was going to be quick. Was surprised to meet close to a 100 people there and I was there in the waiting room till we were three people left. You can imagine how fast my heart was beating and all the thoughts going through my head when the minutes were ticking by and I still wasn't called.
Anyway, I finally collected the 4 visas at about 4p.m and immediately set out to buy tickets in Ikeja. Purchased tickets at about 5p.m and believe it or not, I left Nigeria with my family on the following day 24th! Point of entry was Atlanta via Amsterdam. Quite a long flight but we went through customs quite easily and we saw the difference between non-immigrants and immigrants because our own queue was so short while others were long.
God has been so faithful, before we left and even after we arrived. It's like that verse of the bible that says "when the Lord turned around the captivity of Zion, they were like them that dreamed".
While we were trying to put money together for economy tickets, a friend volunteered to sponsor the trip and insisted we came via business class tickets. He sent money for business class tickets for the whole family and thank God for those tickets 'cos the journey was long especially for the children. Amsterdam to Atlanta alone was 9hrs.
Same person gave my wife a job since April last year (though we didn't tender that at the embassy) and she starts work tomorrow. She had a deadline to resume on Monday and so we had to take the risk of selling our property even without the visas, praying fervently that there would be no change in collection date from the embassy. Now you understand how my heart was panting as the names were being called at the embassy on the collection date. We had put everything on the line for us to travel immediately.
Please I do not and neither does the embassy advise you to do that if you're not led by God. We took the risk and thank God it paid off.
Guys, God is faithful. Just as He has surprised us and is still surprising us, He will surprise you too! We cannot begin to enumerate the various surprises that we had waiting for us here when we arrived.
We wish you all the best and we will try to keep in touch.
Love you all and keep trusting Him.
WLD
In the name of Jesus, our father our God, we thank you for the life of these our people, you said in your word that you will neither leave us nor forsake us, you are the lilly of the valley, the rose of sharon, the i am that i am, the begining and the ending, you are omnipotent, you are omnipresence, you are the help in time of our needs, you are our God we say to the whole world that you are true and that's why the bible says let our God be true and all men liars, we thank you for what you have done for this family, we are not surprised because you are always there for us from the time of old, we appreciate you, we love you, we celebrate you, thank you for the success of their case, thank you for the money to see it thru, thank you for the time of their flight no airplane crash, no accident in the air, they arrived safely you are indeed our God, thank you for their arrival in the states, thank you for the Job given to the wife, thank you for everything because i know you will not leave them nor allow shame to come upon them. thank you! thank you!!thank you!!! thank you!!!! thank you!!!!! thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!what else can we say than to thank you. And as for the rest of us that are still waiting for a time like this, i say in the mighty name of Jesus it will come to past, and we shall all celebrate. we know you are good, you are kind, you are wonderful, ours shall be of good testimony too in Jesus name amen. Thank you for answering this prayer thru Christ our saviour your son we pray Amen. Than you daddy.
WLD, if you read through all my contributions in this forum so far, i have never think negative, nor to talk of saying negative, i have read so many books on the power of positive thinking and today am gainning it for real, i told you he is able; more than able to make us be what he wants us to be,
From the bottom of my heart i say a big congratulations to you and your family, stay cool in America till we join you, and most importantly don't forget him that has brought you this far, remember only him can help you even in America; and you shall succeed, once again i say congratulations.
And to all of us, pls pls pls let us go right now into our various dictionaries and delete, tear, erase the word NEGATIVE, either in your computer at home in the office wherever, remember many of the miracles perfomed by our lord Jesus Christ in the Bible were based on Faith; for example he will say go your faith has made you whole, let it be according to your faith..... etc. so pls.
I pray for everyone in this forum, Our Daddy let your power of believe come upon everyone of us in Jesus name, let us know that you are our God, you showed the children of isreal in the midst of Red sea that you are their God, you showed Daniel in the lion's den that you are his God, you showed Elijah in the presence of the prophets of Baal that you are his God, Show us in the prensence of all the Consular General that will interview us at the time of our various interviews that you are indeed OUR GOD. Let you name alone be glorified, let us all in this forum stay together happily in Jesus name as we will continue to share good and complete testimony. You will empower us financially, intelectually, morally that we will be the very best in all we do in Jesus Name. Thank you because each time we remember that you are there for us we are always happy and have a successful story to tell, thank you our everlasting father.
Quote me any time that i said let God be true and all men liars,
WE in this forum will all have a successful story to tell. God bless us all.