Faith Filled Family Magazine October 2016 | Page 51

tion changed when her Bible
kept opening to verses that
would tell her “what does it profit
a man if he loses his soul.” This
verse kept speaking to Naomiexcept her thought was, at that
time, “Oh, those poor people!”.
At the time, Naomi admitted,
that she just didn’t get it until she
reached her third opportunity in
New York City. This was when
everything began to change.

her a message from God. She
was resistant at first, until he
started to reveal her life to her.
She realized that her life was at
opposite ends. He commented
that if she took her “mask” off,
that people would not recognize
that it was Naomi.

God began to take hold of Naomi. God was saying to Naomi,
through the chauffer, that she
could continue to go down the
path that she was on, which
At this time, Naomi was search- would lead to repeated hearting for answers. She was being break, or she could give it up and
courted as a hip-hop artist, but follow him, and the plans that
she really didn’t like the atmo- He had for her. Naomi reflected
sphere. She would retreat to that she had been given many
her hotel feeling like she smelled opportunities that all ended in
like sin. She wondered silently heartbreak for her, and her bigwhat it was worth to pursue this. gest fear was failure. She knew
What was the cost?
that this wasn’t God’s desire for
her. God told her that it would
A chauffer came to her, at the never