INSITE'S CLASSMATE DISCUSSES HER FAITH IN BATON ROUGE!

LATONIA DUNBAR TALKS ABOUT HER POWERFUL BELIEF IN GOD!

The Insite attended high school with LaTonia Dunbar back in the 80's. She's been friends with myself Carl Daniel, Michael Gildon, and other Insite familiar faces for quite some time even through we don't see each other that often. Here is the article:

For a hint of LaTonia Dunbar’s testimony, check the vanity license plate on the back of her car.

The message “My T God” speaks to how she credits God’s mighty power with delivering her from some difficult moments in her life, including giving her the strength to walk away from a “bad marriage.”

“If it wasn’t for God I would have lost everything, including my mind,” said Dunbar, of Baton Rouge. “He just dealt so powerfully within me in the midst of that situation.”

Dunbar, 37, said she just gave her unfortunate situation to God.

“For so long I couldn’t find the strength to do it, but one day I decided that I was going to put all of my trust in God,” she said. “I’m going to step out in faith.”

So Dunbar ended her seven-year marriage in 2001, stepping out on her own for really the first time in her life at age 31.

“I thought I couldn’t make it on my own,” she said.

Not only has Dunbar made it, but she said God has allowed the once shy Dunbar to flourish in gifts and ministries and places that she never did before — witnessing, dancing and even writing.

“My mind, my heart, my job, everything has been ordained at such a time that it all comes together,” she said. “It’s just flowing.”

None of the blessings would be flowing for Dunbar today, she said, if she had not learned to listen to the voice of God.

That first experience came when she was looking to purchase her first vehicle on her own.

Dunbar said God gave her a specific price to ask. When a car dealer rejected her low offer, Dunbar found another car for that same price.

She put “My T God” on the plate and has had that vehicle for more than 10 years with no major problems.

“That license plate has just ministered to people as long as I’ve had that vehicle,” she said.

Dunbar reasoned that if God can speak into her spirit about a vehicle, he could speak to her regarding all matters of her life.

“I knew he loved me that much that he would personally set aside time to whisper into my ear the direction he’d want me to take in my life,” she said.

Dunbar has given her life to the things of God. That includes developing a gift of spiritual dancing, where she has become highly sought for family and church functions.

She’s even danced at her job, where she said she practices her true calling as a social worker.

“I didn’t call myself. God called me — for as long as I could remember,” Dunbar said.

She graduated from Southern University with a degree in social work in 1994. She is studying in the same field in graduate school at LSU.

“I believe there are social workers that have called themselves to be social workers, and I believe there are some social workers who are called to be social workers,” said Dunbar, who also has been a foster mother to teenage girls. “It’s always been a part of my life. It’s who I am, not what I wanted to be.”

With such a full life, Dunbar said she hasn’t given marriage another try.

“It’s all in his time,” she said. “There’s other desires I have for my life and there are so many things that God has promised me, but I’m at a place now where I know it’s coming in its season.

“I just encourage people to wait on God.”

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