God is my strength!!!!!!

Good morning everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ya'll are right I do have alot on my plate but God is giving me the strength I need. I am so blessed to have a wonderful God that looks after me and my family. I can remember 20 yrs ago trying to juggle half as much and falling on my face. With out God there is no way I could do near the stuff I do now. I know that losing all the weight I have lost makes me feel better, but the joy and happiness I have in my life comes from much more then weight loss. God has givin me a sense of freedom and happiness that I just can't put into words. I feel closer to God now then I have in long time. I don't remember feeling this close when I first accepted Christ into my heart. God is guiding me into areas that I have never even considered before. WOW!!! just now I feel Gods hands holding me and telling me that everything is going to be just fine. I was really scared a couple of weeks ago when my father got into the accident. I really thought that he was going to die and I wasn't ready for that just yet. I am just now able to handle the fact that my mother is gone and that has been four years ago. I hope ya'll don't mind, but I feel like sharing my life with ya'll a little this morning. My mother has always been a Christian for as long as I can remember, but she never taught the bible to me or my brother. She was not a bad mother, she just made the same mistake that alot of parents make today. They leave the teaching of the gospel up to youth pastors and sunday school teachers. It should not be that way. Well, growing up I did not know God, I knew of God , but I didn't know who He really was and I sure didn't know Jesus or the Holy Spirit. I went to a revival when I was in high school so a teacher would leave me alone and at that revival I asked Christ into my heart. WOW! that was a great night, but I didn't have anyone to guide me or teach me what I was supposed to do as a new Christian. I was still lost and in time I began to read books on witchcraft and satanism. My life had begun to spin out of control. I started to use drugs more and drink more, but I still would remember that night I asked Christ into my life, but I didn't know what to do. The teacher that had asked me to go to the revival had givin me a Bible, but I just could not get into it when I would try to read it. I had all but givin up on God, but HE had not givin up on me. Over the years He allowed me to make some really stupid mistakes, spend a couple of nights in jail, and fall flat on my face until I came back to Him and asked Him how to be Christian. He has been teaching me every since then. Sometimes I still want to be a rebel, but God will always set me straight. I think that I will always have a little rebel in me and that is good thing, because God has allowed me to use that rebel to minister to others like me. My tattoos are a story of my past and a way to start a conversation with someone that might not even give me a second look if I didn't have them. Thank you God for all that you have done in my life and thank you for the mistakes you have allowed me to make. With out them I could not be the person I am today. Thank ya'll for allowing me to take up some of your time. God bless ya'll today and thank you for being my OH Christian family!! Ken

Ken, that is a marvelous testimony. It has touched me this morning in a very special way. I am constantly reminded of God's faithfulness. I can totally agree.....I have grown closer to God thru this surgery than I thought possible. I am so grateful that He provided this means of relief from my burden of weight and the effects on my emotional and spiritual health....not to mention my physical health. It is freedom...... You are an inspiration and truly God will provide many exciting opportunities as you continue to share and counsel with those who cross your path. luvitsunnyv

Ken, I agree with luvitsunny. That is an awesome testimony. I believe with every fiber of my being that while you were out there testing out the waters in worldly things, it was His grace and mercy that protected you. I believe that every time you chose to make a choice that was out of His will for your life that He made a way for you to incorporate it into His Glory after you came back home to Him. Don't thank us for listening to your story, let us thank you for sharing it. Dawn