KimsTestimony

Why you're my HONK-HONK Pastor Lida.....This is part of a private
email I sent to Pastor Lida (I call her Pastor Honk-Honk!!!) after moving away I
wanted to share as a new testimony of my life after losing my husband to a short
fight to advanced lung & bone cancers in April 2006. We had been looking for a
church for so long where there was Christ's love to spare, the Lord's leading &
the Bible's teachings were taught & where real people cared & caring people were
real. Well little did we know that my husband would have a terminal disease not
9 months after we started going there & we would be in for the fight of both of
our lives as well as our son Levi's. Levi & I recently moved from Brandenburg
KY to Palmyra Iowa in June 2007 to be closer to my family & little did I know
but God has been up to something totally different as He sometimes does, but
it's all good.....Here is a revelation God gave me 5 weeks after moving. The
following are portions of a few email!
ls I sent Pastor Lida......Dear Pastor Lida, I know why you're my
HONK-HONK....I love you so very verrrrryyyy much & miss you even more. I know
why you were brought into my life. It was to help God save Michael, yes, which
was a miracle in itself but God made it clear as mud to me on Sunday after
church service at this new church we've been visiting since we moved. You were
also brought into our lives to save me and Levi's life as a result of it too.
God is so good and He knew that with my past abuses & violations from men that
there would be no way I would survive losing my husband & sit under a male
preacher. If He hadn't appointed us to you I don't know where I would be today
& there's no telling where little Levi might be also. I struggled with all
kinds of emotions from depression to suicide after losing Mikey (that's hard for
us Christian folk to admit & some won't let you be real and I wouldn't have left
Levi behind either), but you never gave up on me & neither!
did God. You taught me how to get up, get (God's teachings) it
get on with it and live our LIVES FOR GOD. He laid it on my heart with trying to
recently help my Grandma & having to deal with my Aunt (Mama's only sister) that
she was so bitter after she lost her youngest son to Leukemia & she had a chance
to shine for the Lord & draw nigh unto him but she chose to draw away & shrink
away in retreat. You also had that opportunity when you lost your baby son
Brian to suicide but you chose to draw nigh unto the Lord & He drew near to you
& look at what He can do if we are obedient. The pastor here preached on Prov.
7 & hardening our hearts to sin & likened it to walking near the railroad tracks
to see the train & the next thing we know we're close to sin & blinded saying
I'm on the train track but won't have a head on collision with sin & are blinded
to oncoming train of sin to ruin our lives. Harden our hearts & turn away from
God or submit to the fear of the Lord & gain Wisdom.....two choices with serious
life changing consequences....!
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I know God is good & He revealed how much He loved me that Sunday when He showed
me why he sent us to you & you to us. I could listen to the truth that man
preacher was teaching & get it. With my past with men & not trusting them I
never would have been able to hear truth from a man pastor & receive if I hadn't
learn & trust the teaching YOU have given me. My flesh man would have been
closed & shut down from that & no one can love like a woman does either, be
close like a friend (as women, especially single/widowed women can't & shouldn't
have that bond & connection with a man/pastor/teacher anyway, my own personal
belief) and women are supposed to minister to women. I always knew you had a
heart of love but God knew your beautiful heart & the brokenness you had
experienced in life & how you could help me put mine, Mikey's & Levi's back
together & how much you & your love & your love of the Lord has touched others &
will help save their lives & very souls and the counsel!
ss other people our lives will touch as a direct result of the harvest you're
bringing & preparing for God's glory. God spared me from the enemy's trap for
my soul & once again we cheated him from taking my life too soon before I can
live my life & try to help someone find & follow the One WHO KNOWS THE
WAY......and as a result of your teachings I plan on sharing what I've learned &
put it into practice & just think of how many people that could touch for the
Lord. If God can use my brokenness to help heal me & then use it to minister to
other widows & their families then maybe we can all catch the enemy out to rob
us blind in out pea patch & stand up like Shamah did in 2 Samuel 22 & say not
today devil you're caught red handed, thief, everyone look - thief, now you get
out of here & high tail it down the road..... not on my watch, amen?

I looked at the Pastor Sunday & I didn't compare because to me there is no
comparison but I felt so much love & pride for you as my Shepherd, I wanted to
cry out to the world & share what you've taught us. Lord knew I needed a speed
class, crash course on how to get up, stir yourself up & stay connected to God &
He knew that for this season I was going away from my beloved Shepherd, for this
season I had to have that spiritual survival training course you gave us all
that year in 2006. You're not around me to catch me, get me up & cannot be with
all of us so if we don't take the knowledge you're so desperately trying to
teach us then we will perish if we don't get it and it surely would not be your
fault big sister Honk Honk - two choices....harden our hearts to sin or submit
to the fear of the Lord & gain Wisdom. I have learned a lifetime of teaching
from you in a short time, you also recently taught me about submission & how to
completely surrender & stop living in fear!
of being lead down the wrong path from a Shepherd. You were right there side
by side with me all the way, the good, bad & the ugly & you've never let us
down, never not once. My son & I owe our very lives to you & Brother Nick & our
whole church family. I love you so verrrrrryyyyyy much & miss you even more and
thank you from the bottom of my heart for never leaving me there on the ground
for the enemy to devour & sift with the final lare he set for me with this last
storm in my life. Thank you for being more than a Pastor, a mentor, my Big Sis
& Best Friend..... and thank you for teaching us how to get up again. Our lives
are a gift from God & what we do with that life is a gift back to Him.

Thanks to you Pastor -I'm not bitter like Myra I know how to be happy, to give
back like you gave to me and my family.......Thanks could not say how much we
love you for helping save our whole family and in the future who our lives will
touch because of you. Keep up the great work you do in service of the Lord &
you never know who you might be throwing a lifeline out to. I thought it was
for Mikey but it saved me & Levi too & only God knows who else,
Hallelujah!!!!!!! Thanks for teaching us obedience to the Lord because I would
not have stepped out to make the move I have & leave my life I built there in
Kentucky to move onto start over, but you never start over with the Lord.... He
leads the way if we let Him. I'm up here for a season to be healed emotionally
from all the garbage & pollution I've been subject to from the enemy's attacks
over the years, but he's going to be sorry he tried to do me in cause I'm
learning more on top of the teaching you started in me. Since!
moving up here I've hit the ground running praise God....God is using me in 2
homeless ministries, a widow & children's ministry group, & I'm in a Christ Life
Solution's class to heal emotionally & think I've got a good new church
too....How could God bless us with any more? God's peace & love & many blessings
& protection always to you & Bro. Nick & HONK, HONK, HONK, HONK, HONK, HONK,
HONK from Palmyra Iowa..................PS In case anyone doesn't know the Honk
Honk Message you can get it on CD or just look up in the sky at the Canadian
Geese migrating....they all have a leader & when they fly in formation they
honk honk honk & encourage each other onto right path & when that one in front
is tired they all just keep up the encouragement..honk.honk..honk....Life is one
big journey, wish we had more Pastor Honk Honks to help us find His
way.........God Bless & let us Bless God by letting us give back the gift of our
lives in service to Him...Thy will be done...Thy King!
On come on earth as it is in Heaven....Life is short so share His Love
TODAY....

His Peace & Love Always,
Kim & Levi Rigot