What did He bring you from

[GodsPromises]

Most if not all nows that God has brought us from a mightly long way.

So my question is where were you when God called you to serve him.

You don't have to go into much details. Tell as little or as much as you what.

Use this thread as a testimony of how God can deliver.

 

[GodsPromises]

As for me,

I was a partier. I loved to drink, smoke and hang out all night long. I was one of those that would look at Christians talking about how good God is and just shake my head and say how silly they sound as I lifted my glass . I played the field and talked like a sailor. I would curse you out and not think a second about it.

I never hardly went to church and was a 3 times a year church goer. Oh my son was sharp on Easter you better believe that but I wasn't serving God. I was just doing my thing, so call enjoying life.

Now, I'm the one that can't stop talking about how good God is. I am the one that loves the Lord and doesn't think about drinking and smoking. I haven't had a drink since 2002 and a cigette since 2003 Praise God. I am now a one man woman and not playing the field.

Yes when I look back over my life I can see where God has saved my life and cleaned me out. I don't do what I use to do. I am a changed person and not by my strenght but by the power of God.

 

[Shimmie]

I always thought that I was a 'good girl'. I didn't do anything. I was always 'mommie's helper' and daddie's big girl and always his babygirl. My mom and my dad were divorced and while she worked I stayed home to watch my younger sisters.

I married very young; I was in my teens and pregnant. My ex-husband was my 'first' and only. I was a 'good' wife. Actually 'perfect'. I had been primed to take care of home, because I learned from helping my mom. I never cheated on my husband; I loved him and gave him my all. I loved our babies and made sure that they had all that they needed.

All of this, and I was still going to hell...big time.

After my divorce, I was 'searching' to fill the void in my life. I wanted to be married. But in all of my attempts to have a husband, it failed. I allowed myself to be used in three different relationships which only lasted 6 months each. This is so strange that they each equaled 666. With '6' being the number for man.

In my third relationship, the Holy Spirit began to 'woo' me. And one day, I yielded. I fell in love...deep love with Jesus. I was so happy. I would come home from work, take care of my babies, and when they went to sleep, I would stay up ALL night long just reading the word of God. I couldn't get enough. I was so hungry for God's word; the more I read, the more I wanted. I was a dry and thirsty sponge and could not get enough of being with Jesus.

Seven months into my 'new' life with the Lord, I noticed that I still had some lingering feelings for the man from the third relationship. God gave me this prayer, "Father I would be free." Just 5 words, "Father I would be free." And then I added, "I want these feelings away from me," And that's exactly what God did. He took those lingering feelings away.

I was so full from God's love and His word, that there was no room for anything else, unlike God. It's almost 24 years since my life and marriage to Jesus and I don't want to ever go back the life I lived before.

I love God so much. I cry each time I think about all that He has done for me. All of that time that I was spending in His Word, in Church, and in 'Quiet Time' with Him was not in vain.

For lives have been healed; my mom delivered, my children, my body healed time and again, true love coming into my life from a man who loves me and God; so, so much more from loving Him. I can't go back. I don't want to go back. I only want to go forward with more of Him. Him being Jesus...

To God be the Glory...Amen!

Thank you beautiful Lady R for being bold and obedient in your walk and love for God. You don't know just how proud He is of you...praising Him while going 'through.' Ahhhhh, but don't you know...it's real! God's love, from Heaven above.

 

[**Tasha*Love**]

LadyR you are going to make my cry on this one:

God has brought me from the lowest depths of despair. Losing my mother was like losing a part of me. I thought that life could not go on. I was lost and down. You have got to understand - we lived and breathed each other. For her to leave me was like I died and I wanted to die with her. But God came to me on the 1-year anniversary of her death and told me "Life goes on". He said " I'm not giving up on you. You mother is gone but I am here forever". Life changed after that. I got myself together. I miss her deeply but me and God are now bestfriends. I live and breath for him.

I would eat to feed my emotions. I would eat because I was depressed, unhappy, bored and lonely. God brought me to a place where I have lost 75 lbs and still losing. People ask me how I did it? Well I focused on God. I let him be there for me instead of food. My life has changed drastically. I am no longer bound by an eating addiction. I still fight this battle but I turn to God when I am in pain. He sustains me.

Men have always been a problem for me. I never felt pretty enough or good enough to be with a "good" guy. I would accept anyone that accepted me. Not anymore. God loves me so much and he accepts me. I don't have accept just any man, I desire a Godly man. God has shown me so much love that I want someone that will love me the way I deserved to be love. I won't settle for less. I no longer have low self-esteem. God gave me a new outlook on life.

I no longer have financial problems. I remember when I couldn't pay one car note, now I have 3 cars that are paid for. God changed my situation - suddenly.

I can go on and on. But to sum it up, God brought me from a life of doubt, fears, worrying, helplessness and low self-esteem. Now I believe in myself, I have faith beyond all understanding, I LOVE myself and I don't worry. I was a constant worrier. But I am fighting that battle with the help of the Lord as well. He has been so good to me.

 

[GodsPromises]

Thank you ladies for your testimonies,

God is so good and can truly deliver you from any and all that you need.

Sometimes you forget how good God truly is. I have been asking God for a financial mircles but the last couple of days I realized that I hadn't had the big mircles but God has been blessing me all year a little at a time so I knew some I didn't. He has sent people to me that just wanted to give me things and pay things. And what God has been saying is "if I can do the little things, image what else I can do. I did it once I will do it again" Thank you Lord for the deliverance and your love

 

[dreamer26]

I was raised in the church and got saved at 15 so I did not have a lot of bad habits to kick. I had a nasty attitude and a bad mouth sometimes.

But when I got older and really serious about my walk with God although I was saved at 15 God has to develope me.

In one day I went from being married to VP of AT&T owning a home and a condo, two children and a husband, cars and money.

THe next day I was divorced, no where to live, children taken by my ex, lost my job, got behind on bills it was aweful.

I later found out my ex paid off my attorney to lay down and not represent me so he would get the boys so he wouldn't have to pay me child support. My ex wanted my children to hate me, but all his plans and schemes didn't work, when my children turned 13 they packed and moved to stay with me. My oldest stayed with him not for him but because he had a girlfriend there. We live in different states.

But during this time God taught me to really trust and depend on him. He taught me how to forgive those that do you wrong. (Hard lesson) and I tell you this has been the most life changing test I've had.

I developed a prayer life, I developed compassion for others, I had a real testimony of God's power and compassion. One of the worse events in my life became a stepping stone for my greatest leap of faith.

During this time I cried a lot and one day God spoke to me and said, daughter your tears don't move me but your faith will. I had to stop crying and whinning and began to speak life into my life and its been over 10 years now and my spiritual life has been off the chain. I still have test and trials but they don't get me down like they use to do.

I went to the doctor in Dec 2005, and they found a pollup and they start talking cancer, I left the doctor's office and told the enemy you might as well take your hands off me , because I trust God to deliver me wholly and completely. The tests came back negative for cancer. THANK YOU JESUS.

I could go on and on but I'll just leave you with FAITH WORKS IF YOU WORK IT.

 

[**Tasha*Love**]

a beautiful testimony of what God can do.

I was raised in the church and got saved at 15 so I did not have a lot of bad habits to kick. I had a nasty attitude and a bad mouth sometimes.

But when I got older and really serious about my walk with God although I was saved at 15 God has to develope me.

In one day I went from being married to VP of AT&T owning a home and a condo, two children and a husband, cars and money.

THe next day I was divorced, no where to live, children taken by my ex, lost my job, got behind on bills it was aweful.

I later found out my ex paid off my attorney to lay down and not represent me so he would get the boys so he wouldn't have to pay me child support. My ex wanted my children to hate me, but all his plans and schemes didn't work, when my children turned 13 they packed and moved to stay with me. My oldest stayed with him not for him but because he had a girlfriend there. We live in different states.

But during this time God taught me to really trust and depend on him. He taught me how to forgive those that do you wrong. (Hard lesson) and I tell you this has been the most life changing test I've had.

I developed a prayer life, I developed compassion for others, I had a real testimony of God's power and compassion. One of the worse events in my life became a stepping stone for my greatest leap of faith.

During this time I cried a lot and one day God spoke to me and said, daughter your tears don't move me but your faith will. I had to stop crying and whinning and began to speak life into my life and its been over 10 years now and my spiritual life has been off the chain. I still have test and trials but they don't get me down like they use to do.

I went to the doctor in Dec 2005, and they found a pollup and they start talking cancer, I left the doctor's office and told the enemy you might as well take your hands off me , because I trust God to deliver me wholly and completely. The tests came back negative for cancer. THANK YOU JESUS.

I could go on and on but I'll just leave you with FAITH WORKS IF YOU WORK IT.

 

[pebbles]

Oh my goodness, what a beautiful thread! Believe me, as I type this post, I'm in tears of joy! GOD is a deliverer!

I was never into parties, I never went to clubs, didn't drink, didn't smoke. I was into school and books. I was so proud of myself, thinking I was so smart in school, and there wasn't more to it then that. I was nice to people, but I had a very bad temper. People couldn't talk to me without me blowing up. You really had to tread lightly around me. I believed in God and went to church, but it was mechanical. I didn't really give it much thought.

I had 2 bad relationships before marrying for the first time, got pregnant and had an abortion for my first boyfriend. I never told anyone about that. I didn't want a baby to ruin my life, and I didn't want to shame my parents with a baby born out of wedlock. I carried the guilt of what I did for years, and that started to change me. The start of depression was setting in, but I didn't know it. For the next 18 years the spirit of depression plagued me to the point of making me suicidal.

Long story short, between that, two failed marriages, 2 children I was raising on my own, I became someone else. Everyone could see the changes happening in me, but no one could reach me.

Thank GOD for a praying mother. I accepted Christ as my savior and started getting into the word, but I wasn't delivered from depression. Unfortunately, my depression affected my eldest son, and eventually both of us were on medication. I was on Prozac and Alexander was on Wellbutrin. He was 11 years old at the time.

Finally one day I woke up and went to reach for that bottle and I just stopped. I asked myself: am I really saved? Am I really a child of The King? Why can't I shake this demon? Why am I and my child on medication? Lord, Jesus free me. I don't want to take this medication anymore. I don't want Alexander to suffer. Heal me, heal him!

I don't recommend people on medication do what I did, but I CRIED AND I PRAYED that morning, and I told God I wasn't taking the Prozac any more, and I wasn't going to be giving my son medication either. I wanted to be delivered from depression right there! 18 years of my life was long enough for the devil to plague me with depression. I threw the pills away. And THANK-YOU JESUS, a great weight was lifted off my shoulders that day. I never looked back. And Alexander has come out of his shell, and he's a happy boy today.

I feel such compassion for people who are depressed, because it is a battle that you fight in your mind, but I truly believe that only the power of the LORD can truly free them permanently of that demonic influence.

I'm a happy person today, and I thank God that He led me to this forum. Years ago, I couldn't be on this forum talking to so many women and dealing with so many different personalities, never mind moderating. I might have been banned long ago, but isn't it just like God to show you how much He can change a person?

 

[GodsPromises]

Pebbles,

I too know about the guilt of aboration for I have been there done that and more than once. The hardest thing is to forgive yourself and to realize that God has alreadly forgiven you, but what a God we serve. He says that once you repent and true away from your sins you are forgiven and it is forgetten. Praise God he means just that. But forgiven yourself that is a whole different story. The enemy will have you thinking that God will never forgive you, that you are such a horrible person and that everything bad that happens to you is because of that. However, we know that he is a lie and the father of the lie he knows no truth and couldn't tell it if he wanted to. Yeah I said it and yeah I'm putting him on notice righht now so that anyone else he is trying to tell that lie to we know where you are coming from Satan and it won't work anymore. Get back Get back you and your lie are not needed or believed.

 

[pebbles]

Thanks, LadyR! It was hard to let that guilt go, but thank God for His grace.

 

[Crysdon]

God has brought me from fear. I feared failure and not living up to everyone else's expectations of myself. God also took the nicodemon (cigarettes) from me and for that I am truly grateful.

That is all in the past now and I look forward, not backwards.

Life is great and God is Good.