Minister Raymond Jamel Webb

God has been so good to me that it's unthinkable what I'd do without Him in my life. Even though I've been a licensed minister since I was eight years old, I've yet to become spiritually perfect in my relationship with God.Little did I know that my trust in God would eventually be tested in such a way. I spent some time in Houston, Texas to attend a community college there. The university I attended was five and a half miles away from where I stayed at the time, and I walked both to and from the campus when I had class. One day I had a major math test to take, and I had spent the entire previous day studying for it. I prayed that God would help me to retain all of the information I learned, and I felt very confident and prepared for the test. The following morning I walked to school just like every other normal day, and I came up to a street that curved to the right. That was the only way to keep moving forward to the school. Suddenly I heard a dog growling and barking in front of me. I stopped moving and looked up. The dog was about the size of the average full grown rottweiler. Before I could think of what I was going to do, two more dogs of similar size walked up barking and growling. It almost seemed that they stood in a formation blocking my one and only route to get to school. Thoughts of fear and panic were racing through my mind, because I did not want to get attacked by them. However; I couldn't just try to walk away and find another way to school, because that would have made me incredibly late for my math class. The dogs stood there growling as I was thinking about how I was going to get myself out of this situation unharmed. I figured that making it to school on time for a test wasn't worth the potential mauling. I decided to just give up, and I slowly started walking in the other direction. As I was walking away I began to remember the story of Daniel in the Lion's Den, and I thought that if God kept him safe from all of those lions, he could keep me safe from three dogs. I began to get angry at myself for my spiritual faiure, so I picked up a branch on the side of the road and lifted it up in the air as I walked slowly towards the dogs. As I approached them they began to split apart, and I was able to safely get between them. I honestly felt like Moses when he parted the Red Sea. I did make it to school on time, and I got an A on my math test. I'm trying to say that it is always best to trust God. This is my testimony.