Chaptor 8: Adolescence
ROSEWOOD: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
While I was still ministering at the chapel property, my mother would daily pass a vacant plot of land. She was regularly told by God that this was the land that He had chosen for me. However, when my parents investigated that property, they found that it was not possible financially for them to purchase at that time.
Meanwhile, there occurred a great downturn in the national economy that effected the housing market. God led my father to a large home in DeLand that was being sold for a fraction of its value and seemed to be in an ideal location for this part of my life.
My parents purchased this home, and I moved there just as I was starting my adolescent years. As it often is in adolescence, this was a turbulent time in my life. Discovering one's destiny has many twists and turns.
Since the house was close to Stetson University in DeLand, it seemed that God had placed me there to minister to the university community. However, despite my great efforts to engage the students and faculty that door never opened.
God instead used this time in my life to develop both ministry experience and skill in a variety of ways through life experiences of success and failure. I was introduced to several transformation ministry tools, and I met several significant people who would be used of God to lead me into the next phase of my life and destiny. Earlier in my life, God had given me several books that he called me to write. It was in this time period that He began to direct me to complete and publish them. Toward the end, there was a mandate from God to produce a course based on one of these books. In all of this, God was leading me into my destiny in Him. There were some difficult lessons as well, but we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to his purpose for them. (Rom. 8:28)


As I continue my story, you will see what God did next.
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