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Voice of Truth Stories
MEET NITA TIN FROM FAYETTEVILLE, GA
I found myself kneeling on the soft rug beside the French sofa in my living room, tears pouring down my cheeks as I cried out, “Lord, when are you taking me home?”
It would have been our 56th wedding anniversary. I had watched my husband, the dearest person on earth to me who had walked for 60 years beside me, take his last breath and meet His Savior face to face, and my first silent cry was, “No, it can’t be happening. We have so much to do together”. But my broken heart knew then that the Lord had to take his child home.
I could not bear the pain of cancer, my loss, my sorrow, and my heartache. “Lord, please hold me.” I had come to the end of myself, and my faithful God carried me and became my Hiding Place. He showed me in the lonely months that followed that there was purpose in my pain. He had emptied me of me, that I might be filled with Him so that rivers of living waters might flow in and through me to reach others in their pain. Like a nightingale with a broken wing, I had been filled with the sweetest songs.
My eyes fell on the beautiful cover of the magazine Voice of Truth. The lovely illustration of the butterfly and the words I Am Making Everything New (Revelation 21:5) filled my heart with sudden peace. I picked up the magazine where I had poured over the article “El Roi…The God Who Sees Me.” What was God trying to tell me?
Just a month earlier, Lisa Arnold, a well-known film producer, director, and dear friend had connected me to Kimberly Hobbs and Julie Jenkins of Women World Leaders. All three of us recognized God’s hand in this connection. An amazing interview, followed by a podcast, led to an agreement for my book Heartbeat of a Survivor to be published through World Publishing and Productions. All this took place in the space of a couple of weeks.
In that second of being in a God-moment, my cell phone rang. “Hi Nita, we have chosen you for the Lydia Award for 2023 because you are a Christian businesswoman of great honor.” While I stood there crying, unable to take it all in, a message from Lisa Arnold flashed across my screen. Nita, our film script, “Love Without Borders,” has won the award at the Christian World View Festival.
Voice of Truth in hand, I realized that God had not finished with me yet. El Roi had seen my tears and was whispering, I still have plans for you.
