Life Renewed, Relationships Restored, Addictions Removed

WOW! Where do I begin? I am a 37-year-old whose heart has just been renewed by God. He has given back lost years to me and a sense of peace I cannot explain.

I am a daughter of a preacher and was raised under legalistic teaching. I always saw God as another authority figure in my life who loved to point out my mistakes.

As a result, my eyes became set on what this world could do for me. That did not work so well. After getting pregnant in high school and two failed marriages, I started to assume that that was life.

In the season of my second marriage falling apart and losing my job, I suffered a major seizure. I thought I was dying at that moment, and realized how completely helpless we are as humans.

Right after that season, my sister-in-law gave me your book, Unmerited Favor. Believe me, I have had enough grief over “churchianity” up until then and so was not looking forward to reading the book at all. However, I read it just so to shut my sister-in-law up.

After the second chapter, something started to sink in! I began repeating “I am righteous in Christ” even though that was SO far from how I felt at that moment. As I read Unmerited Favor, I knew changes were happening in me. I started to see what Daddy God was all about—peace, love, faith, truth, and most of all, FORGIVENESS!

I discovered that my sins were on that cross with His Son, so I could move on from all my failures. I did not have to drag them around anymore.

Since then, I have truly asked Christ to take over my heart and life. I was re-baptized and truly knew that my sinful flesh was circumcised from my spirit when I was immersed in the water. I was made NEW!

I was addicted to alcohol and cigarettes in the last two years as well. Today, I am delivered of both—not by my own strength, but because of Christ. I just kept repeating, “I can’t but You can.”

Praise God, I never would have seen that coming! People who have known me for a number of years can see the difference in my life! I am just resting in Christ! I don’t have to work for Him to love me. I just crawl into His lap and let Him love me.

Relationships with my children, parents and even with myself are all healed because of Christ Jesus and His perfect sacrifice!

Because of bad choices and sinful decisions in the past, I’d lost a few important things in my life. But God is restoring them sevenfold! The overwhelming sense of peace has been the greatest. Sometimes, I also feel Daddy God taking time to tell me He is thinking of me!

My youngest child also just got baptized. Part of her testimony to the church was how “her mom went through a really tough time, and God got her through it. Now I see my mom as a really big Christian, and that made me see what power God has!” WOW! That from an 11-year-old!

I watch sermons from Pastor Prince and other pastors just about every day. If I miss reading my Bible or watching my sermons, I feel like I am missing something.

I pray for wisdom in seeing where God is leading me next. I am remarried to a young Christian with two older children who were not raised in the grace of God. So I am praying that I can make a difference in their lives, as well as my two girls!

I pray that they will see the love of Christ through my eyes. I want to put God “on” to the point that there is nothing of self left!

Thank you again for letting me tell my story. I am just so excited about what God is doing in my life! I want to share this new heart in me with anyone who will listen.

One last thing: God also gave me a wonderful new job about two years ago with the county attorney—a wonderful Christian whom I can just sit and talk with about the wonders of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Thank you Pastor Prince, for allowing God to speak through you! God bless you, my brother!