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Posted: 4/30/2009 3:15:34 AM
I am blessed by your testimony...thank you soo much for sharing!! God Bless you!!
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Posted: 10/18/2008 7:20:28 PM
Thanks for your example! Love, Theresa
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friends 49 hours ago...
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Praising God for all the lives given to him!!!! 73 hours ago...
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Theresa is rejoicing all those who got saved this weekend at Family Reunion! Another Amway function 73 hours ago...
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my dad went to be with the lord he was 92 pray for me lol 219 hours ago...
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has lost 27 lbs since mid May! Feeling GREAT! 268 hours ago...
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| Barbara's Testimony |
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My husband and I have had a rocky marriage from the start. Neither one of us knew what a good marriage was and we were both caught up in the "what about me" syndrome. Our marriage for many years was filled with fighting, infidelity, coldness and distance. It reached a point where neither one of us had strength or the desire to go on. "I deserve better than this", I told myself and "I'm going to do what it takes to make myself happy". But I wasn't happy, the things I was doing that I thought would boost my self esteem and make me feel better about myself were just making me more miserable. They say there is no such thing as an atheist in a fox hole, well I was not quite and athiest but I was in a fox hole and I needed God. I was raised Catholic but I hadn't attended Church regularly since I was 15. I had alot of issues with the Catholic Church. Some reasonable issues and some excuses, mostly excuses. I figured there had to be another easier way to get to God. Then I began my brief exploration of New Age religion, "Oprah Winfrey" type religion. I thought I knew who God was, and my God then wanted "me" to be happy. My God then wanted me to do what ever felt right for me. I soon found out that this wasn't working either. Things just got worse at home and divorce was inevitable. At first I thought that divorce was the answer, that it would finally "free" me. But then I started to think about my kids and the effects it would have on them. I was very torn. I, as Abraham Lincoln put it, was driven to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. I would go back to Church. I started to attend church regularly hoping some how if God was real, he would help me, and some how he would change my husband, and make him see how much he was hurting our family and how much at fault he was, it was all about my husband, never about me. Every week I would go to church, feeling sorry for myself, angry that he wouldn't come with me, I had to go alone. I thought If I could just get him to church, and if he heard the gospel, maybe he would believe and maybe he would change. I tried asking, begging, I even tried to guilt him into to going to church, but he never would budge. One day sitting in church a bible verse popped into my head, it was like someone was saying it, only in my head (hard to explain). It was 1Peter 3: 1-2. I just thought I was just very stressed and was hearing things. I forgot about it and later that night I remembered it and decided to look it up and see what it said. When I read it the hair stood up on the back of my neck.
1 Peter 3:1-2 said:
1) Wives in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, 2) when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.
I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that God was speaking to me. And at that time, I couldn't quote one Bible verse. I barely even opened the bible. Wow! God spoke to me! And in that moment of realization, I felt the presence of the Lord for the first time in my life. It was the most amazing feeling of Love, it can't even be explained in words. Then after the excitement faded a little, I realized what God was asking of me and I became angry. Why should I be the one to "submit" God? God wanted me to be a loving, patient, kind, caring wife, he wanted me to love my enemy! But then I realized that this is what God wanted me to do, so I better do it. God made me realize that it was my choice to get married, my choice to have kids, and I had a responsibility to do the right thing. So, grudgingly at first I did it. Swallowed my pride alot, said nice things when I wanted to say bad things. Kept my cool when I wanted to blow up. I praised him for the good things he did. I even stopped bugging him to go to church. I prayed, and prayed and prayed. This went on for several months. We started going to a marriage counselor. Things were better but I would have never imagined what would happen on Christmas Eve morning 2005.
Our church has their Christmas service Christmas Eve morning every year. I had small (very small) hopes that he might come to church that morning but I got the impression the night before that It would be another day in church alone. When I woke up that morning he was still in bed. I was drinking my coffee and he came into the kitchen. I wondered why he was up, he didn't say anything, he looked like he had something very heavy on his mind. I asked him why he was up or something like that and he didn't answer me. He just kind of paced the floor, back and forth. I have a page from a devotional calander on my fridge, it says: "God is working in secret, behind the scenes, even when it looks like things will never change". He walked up to the fridge, read it, paced some more, walked over, read it again, paced again. Now by the way he was acting and the look on his face I knew something was wrong. I asked him what was wrong and what was on his mind, he didn't say anything. He walked into other room, and walked back into the kitchen and did the same thing again. I asked him again and again he didn't say anything but the intensity on his face got worst, I knew there was something he wanted to tell me. Again I asked and then he burst into tears and told me to come into the bedroom to talk to him. That was a long walk to the bedroom. What happened? What was he going to tell me? So many things went throught my mind.
He told me that when he woke up, his arms were outstretched to his sides, he feet were together at the bottom one on top of the other, he felt pain in his forehead as if it were being pierced with thorns, and tears covered his face. He said he felt a presence in the room with him. I immediately began to cry, I just knew that Jesus had made himself known to him. Nothing else was said, we just cried. We both knew what happeded. He didn't talk much about it after, still doesen't. He is a changed man though. And yes, he did go to church that morning, and every Sunday morning since then. And our family is restored, we are closer than we've ever been. Praise God! Thank you Jesus! Truly a miracle.
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