The love of God and people are what led us into a website/blog ministry. It has been a blessing to hear from people around the world and how the Word of God touches them. It is always great to hear of ministries around the world working for God to spread the Gospel to the world.
We have as of late started receiving many many pleas for money and financial helps. We do believe in helping those we can and feel led to sow seeds into various ministries as the Lord leads us to do. We can not however send monies to EVERYONE that asks. It would be great if we could, but it just isn't possible.
I want to explain to everyone the area of the United States we live in has needs of it's own. We have people right here in our area that don't have the ability to purchase food, provide for their health needs, or purchase life saving medications. There are people in our own backyard that need to hear the Gospel and be raised up as Disciples of the Word.
In the Bible there were needs for money and the Lord Jesus Christ didn't tell any of them to seek out multiple other ministries for financial support. INSTEAD HE did have the provision show up in the mouth of a fish, or move in the hearts of someone in that area to provide what was needed for either transportation or provisions of food. The cruise of oil lasted day after day, the fish and bread were multiplied, God dropped mannah from above, and over and over the stories reflect HIS move to provide all things as they are needed.
I love my brothers and sisters of Jesus around the world and I pray this writing is understood. I am only taking it to the scriptures as it has been weighing on my heart as to how "I" was to even begin to meet the needs of all these peoples and nations crying out to us. It isn't "I" that is "THE PROVIDER"... but rather JEHOVAH GOD ALMIGHTY!
I do feel the need to explain even though we live in the United States which is a nation of spoils in comparison to some... there are more people in this country living below the poverty level than above! Don't be fooled by the glitz and glamour of the movie screen and Hollywood. The fact is our Veterans are becoming homeless at a rate of 2% per day! These are men and women whom have risked their lives for our freedoms and yet once they are unable to remain servants to the government they are cast out into a crude world of forgetfulness. While this might seem shallow to some... it disturbs me.
People are loosing their homes daily. Whole families are being cast out into shelters and other helps just to survive the crashing economy here in the United States. It is the "outsourcing" of our jobs and monies for labor that has caused this national crisis. They have taken all the LABOR jobs and sent them out of this country to China, Vietnam, India, Mexico, etc. The once booming communities here are like ghost towns with all the Mom and Pop stores shutting the doors to bow down to the ever growing monopoly of giants like Wal-Mart.
My point is... we can't provide for those outside of our own country financially when there are so many needs right here in our own area of the world. May God continue to provide for all of us that are working to do HIS WILL!
I pray all needs are met by God around the world for HIS WILL to be done in the NAME OF JESUS! Amen.
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Monday, December 6, 2010
Inner Healing
(This lesson is taught by Marvin Gorman. If you will go to Foundation for Human Helps website you can order this teaching on cd. We HIGHLY recommend all of Pastor Gorman's teachings!!! He is heavily anointed in all of the teachings the Holy Spirit gives him to preach and teach!)
INNER HEALING STEP BY STEP
Must help SELF first! Until you are helped you CAN NOT help someone else. You can change circumstances or learn to cope… but you must be healed to help self first. You must be healed from anger, depression, jealousy, bitterness, etc. The stress from these things will break you if you don’t receive healing from what’s inside of you.
First step- Be willing to FACE & ACCEPT TRUTH! If not… you will continually wrestle with problems bigger than YOU are. You have got to deal with truth as it relates to YOU. Confess or admit problem is a MUST! (Not to be confused with BLAME!) Doesn’t matter WHO cased it. You have to get rid of it. You are carrying that problem with you which robs you of several things.
The first thing it will rob you of is your inner peace and joy.
The second thing it will rob you of is your physical energy and body’s health.
The third thing carrying this unresolved disease around with you will do to you is destroy your spiritual life.
(Now understand… the first thing that you come up with is almost NEVER the REAL problem but rather a symptom of the REAL problem. Ex. Bitterness in your heart is a symptom or side effect of a deeper problem.)
Ask yourself… WHO is this problem effecting? Self? Spouse? Family? We must always start with self because it is SELF we have to love before we can love others. The Bible commands us, per Jesus, “to love others as you love yourself”. People often attack one another because they don’t love SELF… therefore we war with reflection of what they remind us of in our SELF we don’t like about our SELF! If the other person quits retaliating it makes us more angry because we are forced to look at exposed problem. IF we have others (children even) that act like us, we lash out at them because they put in our face our problems. The things that show us up, we will instinctively attack!
If you don’t fix problems… they will continue to manifest until they destroy you.
This is where hypocrisy enters in. People say “I love you” but they don’t because they don’t even love themselves. (This is especially found true in the church world of religiosity).
Second step- REPENTANCE! Go to the LORD in prayerful repentance for forgiveness of ever allowing yourself to open up and allow this symptom or problem to come into you in the first place! STOP BLAMING others!!!
Then REPENT for the attitude that caused you to react the way you have for however long.
Next REPENT for the people that inflicted this problem on you. YES, you have to REPENT for them as you do sincerely do this… you will feel the release of the hold it has had on you in your life.
Third step- Prepare to deal with other things about to surface! That is right… buckle up and hang on tight! Because you started with what symptoms or side effects recognized presently… the devil isn’t going to release this stronghold without a fight. Try to write them down… all those things that have added to your problem to complicate your life. We must be conquerors of problems that smolder and burn inside us.
Fourth step- Dig down to SELF through REPENTANCE! Quit dragging problems around with you like a ball and chain inside your jail cell! Christ can set you FREE if you REPENT! (Read over Hebrews 4.12 and meditate on this scripture).
It is very important to understand that CONFESSION is NOT REPENTANCE! Healing doesn’t come overnight in MOST cases. Deliverance from evil spirits is NOT the same as deliverance from what you have allowed into your being over a lifetime. Only YOU can release that… through reading God’s WORD and repenting. As “they” surface write “them” down or YOU will never be set free and “they” will not be to blame come judgment time. It is YOU that will be accountable for YOU and what YOU allowed to be within YOU.
Repentance chops up things, like a food processor, so you can get it out and get shed of it once and for all. Think of a person ingesting poison. The first thing the medical professionals do is give you something to induce vomiting and then they pump your stomach out. They don’t just reach in and pull all the poison out at one time. It is a process of breaking it down and getting it out. The same is true of repentance. If we don’t chop it up so we can get it out… it will make you sick and can kill you later on!
“I forgive you, but I’m not going to forget!” = “I’m gonna keep this around in case I ever need it again!” Think about it. To truly forgive you have to forget! Leave it dead and buried and DO NOT go dig it up again!!!
I remember a song back in the 80’s called, “Digging Up Bones” by Randy Travis. This song was about sitting around and lusting for something that was dead and gone… probably for a really good reason. Sometimes we do this without thinking… something triggers our memory and an old feeling or emotion floods our being in a sick and unhealthy way. Ungodliness is just that… UNGODLY! We are supposed to be Christ like in our thinking and remain on a GODLY thought pattern to be renewed daily! We must RENEW our minds constantly and consistently as the mind is the battlefield in which the devil loves to open up a fiery attack IF we don’t keep him out!
We should spend 15 minutes a day on our knees repenting for allowing this problem to build up inside of us. Repent! Name every person you have wounded with your problem. Even those who have really hurt you and you have wished at some point you could see them suffer. This steals our joy! Your joy depends on NO ONE but YOU and your inner peace!
Some of us will spend a MONTH or better at this step or stage because more and more will come up into plain view that has been harbored from way back in even childhood! Understand… there are NO SHORTCUTS!!! The devil will offer you “shortcuts” always… but our Father God expects us to withstand in faith the long haul. Yes, there is suffering. Yes, there is times when it is an uphill climb! But PRAISE BE TO GOD for the top of that mountain is achievable through FAITH, LOVE, GRACE, MERCY, AND REPENTANCE!!!
Many marriages fail because you are bringing into the relationship past things that were “nasty” or “tainted” from previous relationships. Must get SELF emptied out or it will never work. Again… STOP BLAMING and deal with YOU!
Shallow repentance is NOT repentance. Confession will cause you to receive a peace and to recognize strength that you can deal with real problem. Repentance causes you to get problem OUT!
Fifth step- See all people you have hurt! Weeping and crying out for those we have caused pain too. REPENT! You will experience a time of guilt and anger. That is when the devil says… “This ain’t working!” Many stop right here. You won’t get through this process without weeping. You have to face you selfishness and the pain you have caused others. STOP saying, “They made me do it!” and instead say, “I have hurt them, God forgive me!” Pray for those that hurt you. You are going to endure anger towards yourself for falling into the trap!
The spirit of suicide can attack through guilt, shame, and unforgiveness so please be very wise during this stage of your progression to inner healing! If you feel this even a hint… this is a time to call in the prayer warriors in your life. Ask them to help rebuke this spirit prayerfully so you can complete the healing process. As you push into the presence of God, the demons of torment want to stop you. Suicide is the drastic measure of the devil to stop you from walking in glory for the LORD and conquer the evil spirits trying to shut you down. They want to stop you from achieving the promises of God in your life. You may not know what God has for you… but know this… the demons of hell’s fury do! Fight the good fight as instructed by Paul. PUSH through for your breakthrough and receive the healing of a life time… an eternal lifetime! AMEN!
The sixth and final stage or step- “LORD, it is really YOU I have sinned against all this time by allowing this problem to rule my life!” Absorbing this into your core being will help you so much in the future with knowing WHY it is important to deflect these issues when they show their ugly face again.
God bless you and I pray this will help you in your walk as it has me. While I still battle with attacks of the enemy… this formula has helped me more than once. I want to give the glory to God for the teaching of this as HE gave it to my Brother Marvin Gorman and he passed it on to us.
This process is tough. The road is steep. Our Jesus will continue to help us through this as we “chop” up the burden we are carrying inside of us. The Holy Spirit will begin to fill in those voided spaces where once these sinful things lay. Praise the LORD for HIS perfect and awesome plan of salvation and progressive sanctification!!!
Must help SELF first! Until you are helped you CAN NOT help someone else. You can change circumstances or learn to cope… but you must be healed to help self first. You must be healed from anger, depression, jealousy, bitterness, etc. The stress from these things will break you if you don’t receive healing from what’s inside of you.
First step- Be willing to FACE & ACCEPT TRUTH! If not… you will continually wrestle with problems bigger than YOU are. You have got to deal with truth as it relates to YOU. Confess or admit problem is a MUST! (Not to be confused with BLAME!) Doesn’t matter WHO cased it. You have to get rid of it. You are carrying that problem with you which robs you of several things.
The first thing it will rob you of is your inner peace and joy.
The second thing it will rob you of is your physical energy and body’s health.
The third thing carrying this unresolved disease around with you will do to you is destroy your spiritual life.
(Now understand… the first thing that you come up with is almost NEVER the REAL problem but rather a symptom of the REAL problem. Ex. Bitterness in your heart is a symptom or side effect of a deeper problem.)
Ask yourself… WHO is this problem effecting? Self? Spouse? Family? We must always start with self because it is SELF we have to love before we can love others. The Bible commands us, per Jesus, “to love others as you love yourself”. People often attack one another because they don’t love SELF… therefore we war with reflection of what they remind us of in our SELF we don’t like about our SELF! If the other person quits retaliating it makes us more angry because we are forced to look at exposed problem. IF we have others (children even) that act like us, we lash out at them because they put in our face our problems. The things that show us up, we will instinctively attack!
If you don’t fix problems… they will continue to manifest until they destroy you.
This is where hypocrisy enters in. People say “I love you” but they don’t because they don’t even love themselves. (This is especially found true in the church world of religiosity).
Second step- REPENTANCE! Go to the LORD in prayerful repentance for forgiveness of ever allowing yourself to open up and allow this symptom or problem to come into you in the first place! STOP BLAMING others!!!
Then REPENT for the attitude that caused you to react the way you have for however long.
Next REPENT for the people that inflicted this problem on you. YES, you have to REPENT for them as you do sincerely do this… you will feel the release of the hold it has had on you in your life.
Third step- Prepare to deal with other things about to surface! That is right… buckle up and hang on tight! Because you started with what symptoms or side effects recognized presently… the devil isn’t going to release this stronghold without a fight. Try to write them down… all those things that have added to your problem to complicate your life. We must be conquerors of problems that smolder and burn inside us.
Fourth step- Dig down to SELF through REPENTANCE! Quit dragging problems around with you like a ball and chain inside your jail cell! Christ can set you FREE if you REPENT! (Read over Hebrews 4.12 and meditate on this scripture).
It is very important to understand that CONFESSION is NOT REPENTANCE! Healing doesn’t come overnight in MOST cases. Deliverance from evil spirits is NOT the same as deliverance from what you have allowed into your being over a lifetime. Only YOU can release that… through reading God’s WORD and repenting. As “they” surface write “them” down or YOU will never be set free and “they” will not be to blame come judgment time. It is YOU that will be accountable for YOU and what YOU allowed to be within YOU.
Repentance chops up things, like a food processor, so you can get it out and get shed of it once and for all. Think of a person ingesting poison. The first thing the medical professionals do is give you something to induce vomiting and then they pump your stomach out. They don’t just reach in and pull all the poison out at one time. It is a process of breaking it down and getting it out. The same is true of repentance. If we don’t chop it up so we can get it out… it will make you sick and can kill you later on!
“I forgive you, but I’m not going to forget!” = “I’m gonna keep this around in case I ever need it again!” Think about it. To truly forgive you have to forget! Leave it dead and buried and DO NOT go dig it up again!!!
I remember a song back in the 80’s called, “Digging Up Bones” by Randy Travis. This song was about sitting around and lusting for something that was dead and gone… probably for a really good reason. Sometimes we do this without thinking… something triggers our memory and an old feeling or emotion floods our being in a sick and unhealthy way. Ungodliness is just that… UNGODLY! We are supposed to be Christ like in our thinking and remain on a GODLY thought pattern to be renewed daily! We must RENEW our minds constantly and consistently as the mind is the battlefield in which the devil loves to open up a fiery attack IF we don’t keep him out!
We should spend 15 minutes a day on our knees repenting for allowing this problem to build up inside of us. Repent! Name every person you have wounded with your problem. Even those who have really hurt you and you have wished at some point you could see them suffer. This steals our joy! Your joy depends on NO ONE but YOU and your inner peace!
Some of us will spend a MONTH or better at this step or stage because more and more will come up into plain view that has been harbored from way back in even childhood! Understand… there are NO SHORTCUTS!!! The devil will offer you “shortcuts” always… but our Father God expects us to withstand in faith the long haul. Yes, there is suffering. Yes, there is times when it is an uphill climb! But PRAISE BE TO GOD for the top of that mountain is achievable through FAITH, LOVE, GRACE, MERCY, AND REPENTANCE!!!
Many marriages fail because you are bringing into the relationship past things that were “nasty” or “tainted” from previous relationships. Must get SELF emptied out or it will never work. Again… STOP BLAMING and deal with YOU!
Shallow repentance is NOT repentance. Confession will cause you to receive a peace and to recognize strength that you can deal with real problem. Repentance causes you to get problem OUT!
Fifth step- See all people you have hurt! Weeping and crying out for those we have caused pain too. REPENT! You will experience a time of guilt and anger. That is when the devil says… “This ain’t working!” Many stop right here. You won’t get through this process without weeping. You have to face you selfishness and the pain you have caused others. STOP saying, “They made me do it!” and instead say, “I have hurt them, God forgive me!” Pray for those that hurt you. You are going to endure anger towards yourself for falling into the trap!
The spirit of suicide can attack through guilt, shame, and unforgiveness so please be very wise during this stage of your progression to inner healing! If you feel this even a hint… this is a time to call in the prayer warriors in your life. Ask them to help rebuke this spirit prayerfully so you can complete the healing process. As you push into the presence of God, the demons of torment want to stop you. Suicide is the drastic measure of the devil to stop you from walking in glory for the LORD and conquer the evil spirits trying to shut you down. They want to stop you from achieving the promises of God in your life. You may not know what God has for you… but know this… the demons of hell’s fury do! Fight the good fight as instructed by Paul. PUSH through for your breakthrough and receive the healing of a life time… an eternal lifetime! AMEN!
The sixth and final stage or step- “LORD, it is really YOU I have sinned against all this time by allowing this problem to rule my life!” Absorbing this into your core being will help you so much in the future with knowing WHY it is important to deflect these issues when they show their ugly face again.
God bless you and I pray this will help you in your walk as it has me. While I still battle with attacks of the enemy… this formula has helped me more than once. I want to give the glory to God for the teaching of this as HE gave it to my Brother Marvin Gorman and he passed it on to us.
This process is tough. The road is steep. Our Jesus will continue to help us through this as we “chop” up the burden we are carrying inside of us. The Holy Spirit will begin to fill in those voided spaces where once these sinful things lay. Praise the LORD for HIS perfect and awesome plan of salvation and progressive sanctification!!!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Worldly Women vs. Godly Women
As I was pondering this contrast this morning, I realized some significant differences I had never before realized. A godly woman not only loves the Lord with all her heart and soul but also seeks HIS face in daily search for HIS guidance and direction of not only her purpose but those connected to her as well. A godly woman doesn't live to please the people in her life but rather serves the LORD in everything she lays her hands and spirit too. A godly woman doesn't hesitate to help another woman in need or provide shelter, food, or just a wise word spoken into another aching heart. A godly woman desires to be a treasure of the Lord's riches for the mate HE has provided to her. A godly woman has compassion for others and a passion for the wisdom and knowledge of her Father in heaven.
A worldly woman cares what everyone thinks or perceives about her. A worldly woman wants to always appear to the outside to be well put together, totally in control, and never a hair out of place. A worldly woman is eager to climb the latter of opportunity no matter the cost. A worldly woman doesn't serve others but rather has grandiose expectations of others serving her. A worldly woman has no time for a friendly smile, a warm sincere embrace, a prayer with a hurting heart, a quiet moment with the Lord and HIS word. A worldly woman is cold and bitter and battles with anyone interrupting her current goal and ambition. A worldly woman is always wanting more and never quite satisfied with what she has. A worldly woman is desperately seeking ways to rely more on self and less on anyone or anything.
What occurred to me this morning was for some reason I had always growing up had the ignorant opinion that a "worldly" woman was some mysterious woman of the night! You know, the ones with painted up faces, bright red lips and polishes, spike high heels and short skirts! The kind with tops bursting open and store bought breasts leaping out in your face... ready or not! But this morning I realized just how ignorant this stereotyping really was. There are many many women living worldly and outside of God's will for their lives and they aren't painted up harlots standing on street corners either! They are business women and career focused people blending in ever so easily with every day society. These are the women with whom something early in their lives have been scared and helpless and are just rebelling with fear to become stubborn in their feminist rights to claim what was once only a man's world. I can speak this... only because I have been there.
Yes, I confess I too was once a worldly woman!!! (No shocker to those of you that have known me for a long time!) I have lived my life as a woman in a dog eat dog world without Christ and let me add... I got chewed up and spit out! It about took my life. When HE decided to deal with me... I had to hit the bottom with total destruction of all things familiar and previously helpful. He had to remove all those rebellious, unclean, stubborn, self confidences, self strengths!!! When I was the weakest I had ever been in my entire life... HE MOVED! And as most of you know... my life has never been the same.
The devil didn't release the hold he had on my life without a fight... let me tell you. The devil would rather have had me dead than to see me swap sides and glorify God! We battled one morning about 9 years ago and as I took the pills to end my life... I cried out for God to forgive me but the enemy's hold was far to strong and I just could not do it anymore. I lay in a coma for several days with family and friends called in to say farewells. Life support tubes in every opening of my body and hands and feet bound to a bed. Death tried to take me... but God said my work wasn't finished here and HE had a plan for me weather I understood it or not.
I spent the next several years confused and even angry with God for not letting me just die. I twisted off into heavy drugs and a life style of drinking and partying even deeper than ever before. I was just living in sins right and left and still unsure of what was really going on. I had no rhyme or reason... only self loathing and self deprecating. I hated no one more than I hated myself. I was severely depressed and would actually pray to die very soon.
One day in 2004 I woke up and sat straight up in the bed to acknowledge I needed to stop everything evil I was doing and get my life right! Just like that... I quickly dumped every thing illegal in my home in the toilet and FLUSHED! Within a week, my friend called and asked if I might like to move into the country and buy their old home as they had just purchased another house. I quickly said YES! Joy began to fill me as I was raised in Macedonia for some of my childhood and always loved it here. After living in this house for about a month... another friend brought over the Passion of the Christ movie and we watched it together. About 1/2 way in between I had to excuse myself to the restroom to compose myself.. I thought!
As I walked into my bathroom... I hit my knees and truly repented for the first time in my life! The Holy Spirit was convicting me and I was rebuking those evils in my past. I understood for the first time... I was worth something to the LORD!!! I wasn't a piece of meat for men to devour and abuse! I wasn't a piece of trash kicked around on a street! I wasn't a piece of anything... rather I was a WHOLE woman of the most high God ever IF I chose to learn HIS ways and allow HIS adoption of my heart and soul. My life has never been the same.
While I have surely stumbled multiple times since then... I have never quit and gave up. I have strong faith, great wisdom, and ever growing progressive sanctification! I am a work in progress and I love it.
I am a child of the living God and a daughter of my Father in heaven. Christ took that bruital beating so I could find healing. Christ defeated death so I could as well.
I pray as anyone of you women out there today read this... you will praise our God for what HE has done in your lives. I know we all have testimonies and this is a portion of mine... but HE deserves every bit of the glory and I pray for every woman struggling with the world this day... they find the LORD of hosts instead standing with arms open wide saying to their soul, "Come to me my child!" I pray everyone will know who they are and what is before us to become!
Sincerely written in love and testimony of our Lord Christ Jesus,
Deborah
A worldly woman cares what everyone thinks or perceives about her. A worldly woman wants to always appear to the outside to be well put together, totally in control, and never a hair out of place. A worldly woman is eager to climb the latter of opportunity no matter the cost. A worldly woman doesn't serve others but rather has grandiose expectations of others serving her. A worldly woman has no time for a friendly smile, a warm sincere embrace, a prayer with a hurting heart, a quiet moment with the Lord and HIS word. A worldly woman is cold and bitter and battles with anyone interrupting her current goal and ambition. A worldly woman is always wanting more and never quite satisfied with what she has. A worldly woman is desperately seeking ways to rely more on self and less on anyone or anything.
What occurred to me this morning was for some reason I had always growing up had the ignorant opinion that a "worldly" woman was some mysterious woman of the night! You know, the ones with painted up faces, bright red lips and polishes, spike high heels and short skirts! The kind with tops bursting open and store bought breasts leaping out in your face... ready or not! But this morning I realized just how ignorant this stereotyping really was. There are many many women living worldly and outside of God's will for their lives and they aren't painted up harlots standing on street corners either! They are business women and career focused people blending in ever so easily with every day society. These are the women with whom something early in their lives have been scared and helpless and are just rebelling with fear to become stubborn in their feminist rights to claim what was once only a man's world. I can speak this... only because I have been there.
Yes, I confess I too was once a worldly woman!!! (No shocker to those of you that have known me for a long time!) I have lived my life as a woman in a dog eat dog world without Christ and let me add... I got chewed up and spit out! It about took my life. When HE decided to deal with me... I had to hit the bottom with total destruction of all things familiar and previously helpful. He had to remove all those rebellious, unclean, stubborn, self confidences, self strengths!!! When I was the weakest I had ever been in my entire life... HE MOVED! And as most of you know... my life has never been the same.
The devil didn't release the hold he had on my life without a fight... let me tell you. The devil would rather have had me dead than to see me swap sides and glorify God! We battled one morning about 9 years ago and as I took the pills to end my life... I cried out for God to forgive me but the enemy's hold was far to strong and I just could not do it anymore. I lay in a coma for several days with family and friends called in to say farewells. Life support tubes in every opening of my body and hands and feet bound to a bed. Death tried to take me... but God said my work wasn't finished here and HE had a plan for me weather I understood it or not.
I spent the next several years confused and even angry with God for not letting me just die. I twisted off into heavy drugs and a life style of drinking and partying even deeper than ever before. I was just living in sins right and left and still unsure of what was really going on. I had no rhyme or reason... only self loathing and self deprecating. I hated no one more than I hated myself. I was severely depressed and would actually pray to die very soon.
One day in 2004 I woke up and sat straight up in the bed to acknowledge I needed to stop everything evil I was doing and get my life right! Just like that... I quickly dumped every thing illegal in my home in the toilet and FLUSHED! Within a week, my friend called and asked if I might like to move into the country and buy their old home as they had just purchased another house. I quickly said YES! Joy began to fill me as I was raised in Macedonia for some of my childhood and always loved it here. After living in this house for about a month... another friend brought over the Passion of the Christ movie and we watched it together. About 1/2 way in between I had to excuse myself to the restroom to compose myself.. I thought!
As I walked into my bathroom... I hit my knees and truly repented for the first time in my life! The Holy Spirit was convicting me and I was rebuking those evils in my past. I understood for the first time... I was worth something to the LORD!!! I wasn't a piece of meat for men to devour and abuse! I wasn't a piece of trash kicked around on a street! I wasn't a piece of anything... rather I was a WHOLE woman of the most high God ever IF I chose to learn HIS ways and allow HIS adoption of my heart and soul. My life has never been the same.
While I have surely stumbled multiple times since then... I have never quit and gave up. I have strong faith, great wisdom, and ever growing progressive sanctification! I am a work in progress and I love it.
I am a child of the living God and a daughter of my Father in heaven. Christ took that bruital beating so I could find healing. Christ defeated death so I could as well.
I pray as anyone of you women out there today read this... you will praise our God for what HE has done in your lives. I know we all have testimonies and this is a portion of mine... but HE deserves every bit of the glory and I pray for every woman struggling with the world this day... they find the LORD of hosts instead standing with arms open wide saying to their soul, "Come to me my child!" I pray everyone will know who they are and what is before us to become!
Sincerely written in love and testimony of our Lord Christ Jesus,
Deborah
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