Has Your Life Changed Lately?

Another inspirational testimony!! God bless you all, Letty ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Faithful One, This week, I wanted to share with you an email I received from someone who attended an Inspire Women sponsored event. I don't know what is going on in your life but I pray that this testimony will give you hope that God intervenes in human history to give you renewed direction in your life. However, there is also a part you need to play. God opens the doors but you are the one who must choose to walk through them. God speaks but you are the one who must choose to receive His instruction. I pray this testimony will bless you in a special way. If you have a testimony you would like to share on how the ministry of Inspire Women has changed your life, please email me at [email protected]. Love, Anita Dear Anita Inspire Women has meant more to me then I could ever express in few words. It would take a novel to explain what and how Inspire has changed my life. I was introduced to Inspire last year when a total stranger called my publisher in Indiana, asking how to get in touch with me. A press release she had read about me was lying on her desk for about six months in Waller County. One day she decided to get in contact with me. She didn't know why, but felt God had placed me on her heart for some reason. She invited me to Inspire Women classes. I was a little hesitant at the time not knowing her, not knowing why she contacted me or why I was being invited to these classes. However, I felt there was something to it. Some destiny-ridden reason. The first night I sat and listened to Anita, it was as if she was telling my life's story. For the first time since my mother's suicide, break up of relationships, suffering violent domestic abuse, homelessness, separation from my children, and pain beyond what I thought I could ever bare. I saw someone had felt or witnessed that same pain, someone I didn't know, someone who was standing there with all the confidence, and love of God and telling her own story and how God took her tragedies and used them for his glory. It was the first time that I realized that I didn't have to live like a victim anymore and that God had purposed for me to be there that night. How God had plans for my life despite the destroyed parts of me. I realized that I could make it even on broken pieces. The following day I woke up with a song in my heart, a purpose, expecting a miracle for my life, my mind, and my family. The desire to know God and develop a much stronger relationship with him became top priority. I learned that God was not some distant being standing there with a baseball bat ready to knock me down each time I fell flat on my face. I realized that he truly cares for me and that I was his daughter, his heir, his mouth piece, his instrument, and his very own. A new sense of confidence had rose up in me like none before. I was stripped of my confidence after several years of abuse and living in an alcoholic environment. I was bitter, angry, and never expecting anything good to happen. I was always waiting for the other shoe to drop so to speak if things were going good. At the time the press release went out on my book I was in college for Criminology, an Undercover Agent, writing articles, working on books, and raising six kids. I thought I was on the road to success. I was running in circles but getting no where but exhausted and still empty. After attending Inspire Women, it gave me direction into living my life with a purpose, God's purpose. My life took a 180 degree turn starting up a helps ministry which started with a book which was passed to 9 individuals. Those 9 people gave their lives to God with the passing of one book. This started a domino effect which took off into other directions of working with a few families in crisis, ministering to nursing homes, preaching on Sundays, and to this day is still going. I had given up an opportunity to earn a substantial income when I realized that there were other definitions of success, spiritual successes working within the Kingdom of God. I am currently a bus driver for a local school district in which I daily get to minister to others who were once like me. I am also a volunteer for the Guideposts Ministries. Every day he sends someone down my path to share the gospel with. I never imagined a year ago that I, a once cowardly, cynical, depressed, resenting, full of self-pity, product of divorce, another statistic and hurting soul would ever be witnessing, ministering, and sharing my life story with others. I never imagined that others would come to me for prayer, counseling, or wanting help to change their lives. I recently was asked to share my story with Guideposts Magazine which will be published this month and is publicized worldwide. God has opened up doors and literally laid opportunities in my lap without the struggling efforts I was experiencing before I gave my life to him. I help women who are trapped in unsatisfactory living conditions, relationships, jobs, and help them to find their purpose, and direction through Christ. I brought a friend of 10 years from England most recently to the Inspire Women Rally we just had. She had heard me speak of God, but had never considered God a real being, or any portion of importance in her life. However, she always came to me for help and prayer. The day at the rally she broke down completely giving herself to him. I looked beside me to find her with arms raised and tears streaming down her face. I was in total awe of God's changing power. She has since gotten out of relationships that were only hurting her. She has become inspired to do more with her life. She has become an even more loving and dear friend. I will finish by saying this. I am so thankful that that stranger yielded to the Holy Spirit and stepped out on faith and brought me to Inspire Women. I don't believe that I would have ever truly known what God had in store for me, otherwise. It took one small seed, one person, to change a multitude of people in my path..just as Inspire Women does. When women attend the classes or rally's they take that seed that is planted in their hearts and minds. They sow it to others around them and thus begins a garden of daughters and heirs of the mighty king rising up from their once lost, and hopeless empty lives changing their very existence and affecting others forever. I know because I am one of them. -Brenda G.