My name is Joan Brumble. I am a seventy-two-year-old wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. My husband, Terry, and I live in Dallas, Oregon. During my career, my field of expertise was a...ver maisMy name is Joan Brumble. I am a seventy-two-year-old wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. My husband, Terry, and I live in Dallas, Oregon. During my career, my field of expertise was accounting, and I was a bookkeeper for a CPA and did the books for several of his clients. Never did I imagine that after retirement I would write a book. However, for years I knew God was using me to reach out to others. The concept He laid upon my heart and in my spirit was overpowering until I yielded to God’s call to write and speak. I provide you with a timeline of my life to follow along with in the book, just as God used it, so you can actually become involved in how God works in someone’s life, leading that person to receive His Son, Jesus Christ, as his or her personal savior and the Lord of his or her life in full commitment to Him. The timeline is as follows:
• 1941–67: my birthday to asking why
• 1967–77: acceptance of Jesus as my savior
• 1977–94: recommitment of my life to Jesus, Lord of my life
• 1994–present: a work in process (WIP) growing up in Jesus
Drudging up my past has been a humbling experience for me. God has asked me on several occasions, “Do you now understand that all the trials you went through were not to harm you but to give you victory in the outcome so I can now use you to help others in crisis? You will be My instrument for My use as you dedicate your life to Me as your heavenly Father—the same Father I was to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Nothing has changed. I am the same Father to you, Joan.”ver menos