Every Time!

Too many You's to mention by name,

but to each one of you I say the same!
My reader's who encourage me along my way, 
fellow sisters and brothers I met throughout each day. 
To my family and my life-long friends: 

Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God!

- Philippians 1:3 (NLT)

He called me out two years ago to share my story.

While scared to death, I wrote it for His glory.
Praying for direction and more territory

I want to spread the message He gave me for you

By reading my story you'll realize it is true:

"You ARE Worthy Too!"

Listen Now!

Dear Reader,

First I want to take this opportunity to thank you for
purchasing my book! This is the beginning of my story. The first full sixteen
years of them are in this volume. I have also included two bonus chapters from
upcoming titles!

All my life I dreamt of being a writer. I wanted my
books to fill people with hope. As I grew up, I continued to write off and on
but I had long given up on ever publishing anything to encourage others or
brighten their days.

As I approached my 40s, I began questioning life and
relationships. Then a life event of my own caused me to fall to my knees. I had
finally come to the end of my own strength and determination. It was in giving
everything to God, He gave me the desires of my heart.

I truly hope you enjoy this first book full of true
chapters from my life.

When God convicted me, He showed me how He had been
there all along. You get some insights as you are shown things through the
rear-view mirror!

There is much the Lord is leading me to share. I hope
you stick around as I continue to share my life story as well as other titles.
Look for all the details on You Are Worthy Too Website! The link to take you
there is on my connect with me page at the end of the book.

Had someone asked me a year ago if I thought my life
was worthy of publishing I would have laughed and quickly said, “No”.

God thought otherwise. He called me out to share my
story over a year ago. While full of fear, I stepped out in Faith.

I pray my story leaves you inspired, encouraged and
full of faith. I am humbled by your purchase. Be blessed and be a blessing!

Love, Wendy Glidden

© Wendy Glidden 2014 

Dear Reader

Dear Reader,

Today is March 18, 2014. That would make it Totally Terrific Testimonial Tell All Tuesday! This is my tell all:  It was my belief that the third book God put on my heart to publish would be out before the end of this month. So many obstacles have occurred since the editing process for book two in February that I am not sure You Are Worthy Too: Angels, Answers, Signs & Wonders will be available before months end. I do know the evil one does not want this one to hit the shelves.

An element I had wondered how I would write is what I have written this morning. In each book, I include a Dear Reader letter. I feel it lets the reader know I truly have heart in the game. It is a more personal call out to them than the true life events I share. To me they are truly a very important element of my books if not the most important one.

With this book I was not sure what I was meant to say in my dear reader letter. I knew of one thing that needed to be a part of my letter, but how to take that and stretch it into a letter when it was simply a single truth, well that was an entirely different matter. That brings me to today:

This morning I knew God wanted me up early. Funny enough, a dream I had just prior was so real I was able to share a point of view with Mike because of it without him getting bitter or offensive.

When Mike woke me up at 5:15 AM to ask if I had seen his gloves, I went to look for them. I asked him where he last saw them and he insisted he had left them in his helmet and now they were gone! I wasn't angry at all that he'd woken me up because I already knew in my heart God wanted me up. In my sleepiness and honestly disobedience I was trying to deny what I felt to be the case.

When Mike decided we had looked everywhere that the children may have hidden his gloves, he apologized for getting me up so early. I confessed that God wanted me up anyway so he had done me a favor as I was being disobedient. I was pretty sure Mike had been used to force me to get up. He kind of laughed me off until he went to leave. When he went to put his helmet on his head, he found his gloves inside. He looked at me astonished and said, "God really did want you up."

Everything about this morning makes me smile. It is God that took away the pain that made me dread each morning. That in itself is a wonder. I still hurt a little ~ perhaps a gentle reminder of how life used to be.

I marvel at God and His ways. We all often complain about how God works and his timing, but do not see how weak willed we truly are. In all Honestly, God has been extremely patient with me. All awful moments in my life were never the end of the world. They were just awful moments. I also have many moments I treasure. Some of them, the ones I feel called to share in this volume God put on my heart to share, are within this book.

My next book coming out will be entitled 'In the Midst of Spiritual Warfare'. I thought it would be my second book but it has become my fourth. That just may be so that I am more prepared to write what God wants in it than I was prior to writing my second book and starting my third!

I have been under the craziest attacks since I began piecing this book together. In every way I have been under assault. It has been eye opening amazing to watch God come through for me in all aspects. Each time I have found myself no worse off and perhaps even a step ahead, just in another way, as I have continually walked faithfully in the Spirit come what may. I find myself instantly praying as I have felt myself pulled away from the fruit of the Spirit. I quickly call upon God to carry me through. Refusing to fret and worry as I am bombarded with fiery arrows by being on alert and picking up my sword. By recognizing the enemy at work and being dressed for battle, I go into the fight calling out, "My Lord help me."

I pray as you read this book what you walk away with is an unshakeable faith. A faith that anytime anything in your life begins to take place that your heart frets, you panic, any form of fear or distress weigh in upon you, you find yourself on your knees. You do not always have to be on your knees in a physical sense but that is your posture in a heartfelt sense. You will recognize that force of fear upon you deeply and you will pray in a way that you speak from your heart and He will answer.

If you have read my first two books you know I am NO 'angel'. Yet, when I was at the end, knowing on my own I was not going to make it, I called upon the Lord from my knees. I was desperate but seeking. I wanted help but did not realize quite yet that I was forgiven. It took me a bunch of reading and listening to have that light come on. In all honesty, it was three years down the road before I was able to believe and KNOW I was forgiven. As if I heard Jesus himself say that it was done.

I was at a weekend event called the Great Banquet. I see how God put me there right when I was meant to be there. I was asked to write down anything I felt kept me from the Lord and I wrote it all down. I said them all out loud. I knew in my heart I had repented for all of them. Until that day, I was still convinced that I was unworthy of forgiveness.

When I took that paper with me into the next room, there were 3 crosses on the ground. I went to the one in the middle, picked up my hammer and with three blasts drove that 16 right into that post nailing it all on the cross that Jesus was nailed to as a sacrifice for all sinners. As a carpenters daughter one thing I know is how to drive a nail. It was as if I broke every chain Satan had on me as I drove that nail deeper and deeper. With my final blow I knew I was free and belonged to Christ. I wear my ring and my cross to this day. They remind me of the vow I made; to spend the rest of my life sharing the good news.

We have a way out of this place many truthfully call hell. I get why so many refuse to believe that God is in Heaven cheering them on. I too believed I had fallen too far to ever be picked back up let alone though of. That is a lie! If you seek, you will find but you truly have to seek. You have to give God the best of you every day. You have to rely on Him when trouble hits. As you do these things you allow Him to show Himself to you. We are blind to the heavenly realm. It is beyond our understanding. It just is. I have been blessed to have seen both a person and my Winnebago shrouded in indescribable lights. As if surrounded in a ceiling of diamonds. I wish that mental image did due justice but it truthfully doesn't. More Beautiful than you can imagine. Those two stories as well as how God got me jogging, bending and jumping again as well as strong enough to pick up my littlest one are all shared in my next book.

I leave you with a smile on my face this morning for I have fretted about what I was going to put in my dear reader letter. It is, after all, a very important component of all my books. I want you to know I am truly interested in helping you find your unwavering faith. It is a vital part of your armor and in my opinion one of the coolest elements of your suit!

As you read my book you will see that I have had run ins with angels. As a word of caution, do not get caught up in the angels themselves. Remember that it is God that created them. Should you find yourself amazed or curious about them be more amazed and curious about their Maker. He is the one that sends the angels to you.

I pray this book finds you building your own relationship with the Lord. As a child I talked His ear off and asked many questions. It was when I mistrusted Him that I cut myself off. I truly was that teenager with the worst attitude toward my loving Father for a decade. Then for two more decades I was convinced I had to find a way to work my way to forgiveness and worthiness. I was so lost. The truth was hidden from me by my own misunderstanding and lack of effort. Don't repeat my behavior then, repeat my behavior now. For as boldly as I talked to God as a child, I talk to Him today. As much as I depended on Him then, I depend on Him now. He is my Lord and Savior and He loves me. Should I be weak, I call upon Him for strength. When I feel myself becoming who I was through anger or frustration, I quickly realize I am in the flesh, and I do not like how it feels at all. I give my situation to God and let it go. Often I walk away for a moment and quickly call out to God to help me with my tongue. I pray you get here too, because here is where life becomes amazing.

With that, I leave you with this final statement; Be blessed AND BE A BLESSING

Wendy, Walks with God,
Mom of Many

© WendyGlidden, You Are Worthy Too: Angels, Answers, Signs and Wonders 2014

My Title to This Blog Stands

Fabulous!!! It is Fantastically Fun-Filled Family Friday!! Can I get a whoop whoop!

 Last week at this time I was attacked by a fellow believer in Jesus. I began a blog last December not of my own will but of God's. If you have read my blog, you would realize most would not willingly tell so much about their life. Honestly, if I hadn't lived the life I have lived, I'm not sure I would be blogging out all my skeletons. Regardless, when you pray for a sign and have a billboard land in your path, well, you stand back and recognize. This was the case for me. I was informed by this person that my blog title was offensive. (I Am Worthy) it bothered me so much I asked for others opinions in every group I am in. The feedback was this. "We love the title. We know Jesus is the reason we can go to the throne with boldness. No explanation needed." My all-time favorite reply came from Nakilah Shannon, she runs the ministry group called Hagar’s Fountain of Hope, here is the link to her ministry page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HagarsFoH?ref=ts&fref=ts . 

She said in a gist, “Wendy, if God had a problem with your blog, HE would have convicted you. I know you have no problem hearing Him." So, with that in mind, my title is going back to the original "I AM WORTHY" without the tag line that I had added due to my Fear of being mis-understood. After all, Nakilah is right, God put that title in my head for a purpose. Who am I to deny Him that? If you have never read even one of my blogs, what are you waiting for?

This last week has been so crazy. I have been up until midnight every night this week and somehow I still have so much work left undone.  I have not written one blog this week. My study bible has vanished and I have allowed that to drive me insane. I did recognize the silver lining this morning on my way to work. My car is clean, my home is Organized. In my search I cleaned and straightened every corner of my home.  I have resolved to go to the Christian store and purchase another one. I am sure once I do this the original will suddenly appear like a snake ready to strike!

** Update regarding my study bible! It has been found. It would seem someone, while cleaning the car, found my bible too big to belong inside the car! It was placed in the trunk in a box to keep it safe of all places. Shaking my head. Husbands! It would be nice if you remembered what you did when you "cleaned up"! I am so happy to have it back. A regular bible just is not the same!! Plus this one is a lap bible so I can curl up and read. I am amazed at how I see the story unfolding in my head. I can almost hear Paul at times. How incredible it must have been to actually see this man talking about the Glory of God. He must have lit up as bright as the North star!!

I recently figured out how to add you tube videos to my blog. Soon I will know how to make my own! How far I have come!! Anyway, the first time I heard this song it left me in tears. It hit so close to home. I hope you take a moment to listen. It ties in perfectly with this particular blog. I know this is why God gave me this title. The evil one told me I was unworthy for years. You know that if you read my story from the beginning. Enjoy! This won the K-Love song of the year award!

I would like to encourage anyone who has landed on this particular blog to flip your view so that you can see all of the titles of my previous blogs. Over half of these blogs are true life accounts. As I mentioned, God called me to openly share my travels with the world. Some of my blogs are about hot topics like gun control, welfare, bullying just to name a few. A couple posts are just poems or about something I did with my family recently. I suggest you pick a couple titles that catch your interest. If you enjoy them and would like to know my full story, I suggest you start back at the first blog. Ironically titled “In the Beginning” Our Father!! He has an awesome sense of humor. I hope you catch that through my story! Stay blessed. Stay Focused in the Word. We are in a battle my friends! Gather your gear and join me in this fight!!

Today I pray for all who are taunted by the evil one. I pray we recognize Satan’s voice and mute it every time he, The Lord of Air, begins to whisper false truths. I pray for those who remain in doubt regarding Satan and Jesus. May their eyes be opened to the truth, I pray they are struck with curiosity so much so that they begin to read Your Word Father. I pray it speaks volumes to them. I pray for those who spread the good news Father may they do so boldly bringing only Glory to your name. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Wendy, Mom of Many

© Wendy Glidden 2012-2013

Have a Tremendous Thankful Thoughtful Thursday!

Good morning my friends! I hope the day has found you smiling and drinking in the beauty of life itself. What a blessing we have been given! on my ride to work, I was listening to Moody Radio. I was in the midst of reflecting on my last 24 hours and talking with Our Father on what I was to do today when this song came on. I think the title is "One Thing Remains" . . . I found it by typing in the words 'his love never fails never gives up never runs out on me' into You tube. Love seemed to be the continual theme for the past 24 hours.
You see, yesterday I had taken a picture of a gift I had won the night before. It's a little plate with a verse out of the Bible on it. The Book quoted is First Corinthians and the quote itself is from Chapter 13 verse 13:

But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

I love my MacArthur Study Bible. My footnote goes on to explain: The objects of faith and hope will be fulfilled and perfectly realized in heaven, but love, the God-like virtue, is everlasting (cf.1st John 4:8) Heaven will be the place for the expression of nothing but perfect love toward God and each other. 

You know I cannot go on without taking a look at what the Book 1st John, Chapter 4 Verse 8 has to say:

The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

So there you have it! God is Love. Love is God.

As often happens, when I am going where I am led by the Holy Spirit I am led to expand on the reading. My MacArthur Study Bible in the notes regarding Chapter 13, it shares this: Spiritual gifts were present in Corinth (1:7); right doctrine was even in place (11:2) but love was absent. This led to the quarrels and exhibitions of selfishness and pride that plagued the church - notably in the area of spiritual gifts. Instead of selfishly and jealously desiring showy gifts of which they don't have, believers should pursue the greatest thing of all - love for each other. This chapter is considered by many the greatest literary passage ever penned by Paul. It is central to his earnestly dealing with spiritual gifts (chapters 12 - 14), because after discussing the endowment of gifts (chapter 12) and before presenting the function of gifts (chapter 14) he addresses the attitude necessary in all ministry in the church (chapter 13).

With that insight, I say let's dive into Chapter 13 completely. I am quoting out of my MacArthur Study Bible.  Many of you have most likely heard or seen some of this content:

The Excellence of Love

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love it profits me nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. 

I think that pretty much sums up Love. I don't know what one could possibly add to that to make it a larger statement! With the title of the day being "Tremendous Thankful Thoughtful Thursday" I guess I should end with one of those. Today I am thankful that when God leads me I am aware enough to listen and follow. 

May you take a moment today to bask in Our Father's Love for you. Open yourself up to the fact that you can do nothing to lose his love. We all have done wrong in our life. Our Father has already forgiven your trespasses . . . isn't it time you forgave yourself? You Too ARE Worthy. You just need to believe. I pray that you begin to feel God's love for you. I pray you begin to seek his Word. Romans is a great Book. I pray you  make the effort to what it says about you and who you are in Christ. I don't know where you are at in life or what you are struggling with but I pray you begin reading the bible. I pray you take the time to look up the topic that best deals with whatever is currently troubling you. Amen.

Have a Tremendous Thankful Thoughtful Thursday,

Wendy, Mom of Many



Copyright © 2013 Wendy L Glidden. All Rights Reserved.

I Will NEVER!

Me and My Oh So Righteous Self . . . or not!

Be careful when you exclaim you will Never do something! More than I care to admit I have found myself doing the exact thing I was so righteously convinced I would NEVER do!

Just off the top of  head:

1. Spite God
2. Have an abortion
3. Give a baby up for adoption
4. Smoke
5. Drink
6. Do drugs
7. Be one of those girls who was the show at bachelor parties
8. Stay in an abusive relationship

Impressive list don't you think! Oh you know I have to address each and everyone of these because in all honesty I have done all of them and we all know there are many more lurking out there in the background . . . I'm sure the evil one will try to taunt me with any that remain! I'm amazed as I see the ink on the paper . . . am I really going to share all of this . . . I know the answer . . . Yes. I am. For you see it is all of my sins that I have committed that make it that much more amazing that God has called me to share my story. I pray for guidance and protection as I proceed. It is my focus to show you that all of us ARE WORTHY of God's grace.

I want you to realize I did all these things AFTER receiving the knowledge I received when I was young. Can you for one minute imagine being told you would be a mother to many when your own mother was the saddest darkest most negative person you knew on a daily basis? I wanted nothing to do with her life's path. I was told my first child would be a girl and I was informed that I would be young when I had her. I cried for I don't know how long. I wrote in my journal of what I was told and I began an outline of what kind of parent I would be. How I wish I had that journal to this day. I long to know what all I wrote down about that experience but my journal perished in a fire in the 15th year of my life. Regardless . . . sin number 1 was accomplished the year I met my first love. With his help I was going to outsmart God! I laugh about it now . . . but trust me when I say my sifting was just getting started! 

I must publish this before I lose my nerve . . . I hope you figure out how to find my posts . . . I am not the most brilliant with all of this tech stuff . . . I see that there is a share button and I trust I will get that education as I continue . . . as I have come to believe ~ God will give me all I need as I need it! Again, may your day be blessed.

Wendy, mom of many 

In the beginning . . .

My name is Wendy. I have been pregnant 12 times in my life! I have / am raising 9 of those children. One child I gave up for adoption when I was in my 20s and the one prior to her and the one after her I chose to not have at all. That decision along with a few more allowed me to believe that I was NOT worthy of God's love.

My life has been eventful to say the least and God has called me to become what he told me I would be as a child. A Mom of MANY! A mom is simply someone who nurtures . . . not someone who gives birth to a human being. While it is true I do have many children . . . we must remember God is a humorous God and in giving me all of these children . . . well he has taught me to be humorous myself!

I really am unsure of how to start this blog and how to proceed with the ministry he has put in my heart and I am relying on the Holy Spirit to lead me. I have always believed in honesty yet I have lived hiding my biggest sins in the closet. I promise you this my friend by doing that I allowed the evil one to keep me from my work.

It was just this year that I captured the negative thoughts that the evil one has been whispering to me daily. Among them were phrases such as:

1. I am not worthy
2. I am not qualified to lead
3. Who would listen to me
4. I am a joke
5. I am a murderer

Now I have been growing for the last few years spiritually by leaps and bounds . . . even with God calling me so loudly to do his work, in my head this is what I was subconsciously hearing.  That is NOT what God has to say about his children! I am a child of God . . . I was told so 30 years ago by an angel. Even with that, I allowed the evil one to get in my way and even worse for me . . . to stay there!

It is my hope that with me allowing the Holy Spirit to work through me that I can help countless others avoid the trials and tribulations I have gone through myself . . . or at least to help them out of the pit of Hell quicker than I made my great escape!

I had to make this leap of faith today and begin a blog when I had no idea what I would say! This is my opening blog and it is my intent to write daily here. Sharing my story with any who decide to read it. Remember our God is stronger, our God is Mighty through him all things are possible.

May you have a blessed day,

Wendy, Mom of Many!