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At least three times in the past eleven months
I've sat down to write and update my testimony...I can't seem to keep up with
the changes that are taking place in my body, life, marriage, daughter, friendships,
family, etc... This obedience walk has rocked my world in all the right ways,
and I can't stop praising God for giving me this opportunity to get my life
right before Him.
Before obedience: I was a mess. I was lost. I was desperate. I was so lonely. The guilt of my past sins and inability to get my heart and life completely right was crushing me. I desperately wanted to be out of the prison of self. I couldn't get my boss (the Senior Associate Pastor) or co-workers on staff at the church we attended (and I worked at), to talk to me about becoming a "new creation," or "repentance," or "laying down sin completely." The things I was learning about in the Weigh Down Diet Book (1999), Weigh Down at Home (Jan. 2000), Desert Oasis 2000, the Rise Above Book (Summer 2000), and finally Weigh Down Advanced (Sept. 2001), were opening my heart right up to God's Word, and the unseen God was becoming very real to me.
Since last September I've gone from a size twelve-fourteen to a size four (forty pounds)--and have had the joy of giving away all my old clothes!!! I've have laid down trying to rule my husband, major control issues with money, praise of men, anger, depression, obsessive exercise, lust, greed, envy, expectations, and loose lips/gossip/slander, and even "sneaking cigarettes" behind my husband's back. (I hate to even write this yucky stuff down because it's so gross!) BUT, no more!!! I continue to ask God daily to show me anything in my heart that is not pleasing to Him, so I can lay that down too. He is faithful in showing me, when I ask!
The blessings for obedience are simply astonishing: peace in our home, with my neighbors, an obedient five year old, loving friendships with my brothers and sisters in a fellowship of like-minded believers and a new job that I can't believe I get paid to do! I can't even believe the man of God my husband is becoming. Honestly I just can't stop PRAISING GOD!
And I thank GOD for YOU TOO!!! This quite simply IS the Truth and there is NO PLACE ELSE I'd rather be!!! If you only want to seek and do the will of the Father you too are in the right place!
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