Faith’s Testimony
Hi, my name is Faith+++ I am part owner of this list “Rapture Rescue Force” with my best friend Miranda. We have been friends for 15 years. Through the years, we have both grown and changed. When I first met Miranda in high school I was going through some rough years. I had been raised in church. My mother attended Living Waters Ministries in Summerville GA, with brother Billy Wright. I was saved when I was nine years old. Although I did not know what being saved was, I remember asking the Lord to save me. I feel I was saved because when I was out doing things as a teenager that I knew was wrong, the Lord was always with me touching my heart and telling me I was not living as I should. If I had listened to him, I would have not had things so rough in my life. When I became a teenager, I decided that I did not want to go to church anymore. Especially since my mother had to move us to Dalton GA, and we could not attend the church we had grown up in.
At age twenty, I was pregnant twice and lost both babies
due to early problems in my pregnancy.
I was not married. I was living
with a boyfriend that I really cared about at the time. I was so sad but I was so determined to
have a child. Not because I loved my
boyfriend. In fact, I was not sure what
love was. I was only sure that I wanted
to have a child. I remember crying out
to God asking why he would let my babies die.
I did not think I was that bad that I had deserved to be barren. Of course, God never puts anything bad on
us. God is a loving God. However, at
this time, I did not understand that.
A few months passed after my last miscarriage and I
became pregnant again. I was so happy,
although the doctors were not happy with me. It had not been long enough since
I had miscarried and I was still having trouble. While pregnant I was sick the
whole time. I lost a lot of
weight. I found out that I had a Thyroid
problem. There was not a day during my
pregnancy that I did not wake up sick as a dog.
By this time I had really saw the true colors of the guy
I was living with and my parents came to take me back home to live. My father
was not happy that I was pregnant but I believe he could live with that as long
as I did not stay with the baby’s father.
I wanted to try to make things work between my baby’s father and me, but
he just was not ready to be what I needed him to be. He chose his lifestyle over my baby and me.
During my pregnancy, I started thinking more about
God. Of course, I thought this was
because I had decided
to seek God.
However, God was actually calling me back to him. I would read the bible to my baby while I
was still pregnant. I never realized
that I was feeding her the word of God the whole time.
After the birth of my daughter Jani in 1992, I soon
started attending a church called “Fellowship” with George Johnson as the
pastor. I soon married a wonderful man
named Terry. We became a true family on
the day he adopted my daughter. Our
Pastor George Johnson is a very wonderful gifted man. He is very educated when it concerns the bible. He really does in dept bible studies and
breaks down the word so that people can really understand it. I have been blessed to sit under him. It will be really hard to leave our church
but we both feel we are stepping in the direction the Lord is leading us. I have grown so much under George
Johnson. However, I believe that God
does allow a time for learning and growing, and then we as Christians are to go
out and spread the news of Jesus. I
never want to be the kind of Christian that just sits back and never grows and
learns. Learning about JESUS is an
everyday thing and we should all strive to learn more each day. If we would really seek God’s face, he would
let us learn something new every day.
Both Terry and I have grown in the Lord a lot since we
first met. Times have been hard. However, we have never given up on our
marriage because we know that God put us together and we both value marriage so
much. We have fought the devil from the
day we said, “I do”, until now and we will probable still be fighting the devil
until Jesus comes. The bible says that
things will not be better until JESUS comes.
The reason the devil fights the Christian home is because “The Church”
is only as strong as the families that are in it. If the devil can break up the
Christian home, then he can destroy the church. We both have come to an understanding of that now. When things start going crazy around the
house, we stop and realize that the devil is just trying to mess things up.
Once you become a Christian, the devil can only steal your joy.
Recently both Terry and I have been called into the
ministry of God. We are letting the
Lord led us in the direction he would have us to go. Right now, we plan to make a move to Summerville GA to help with
the building of “Lighthouse
Ministries” with Pastor Harold
Hughes. We both are seeking God’s
will for our lives more and move each day.
The Lord has given me a burning desire to reach the people of
Summerville. I vision to have a Street
Team called “Rapture
Rescue Force Street Team” This street team will go out to the prisons,
jails, nursing homes, hospital’s, mental homes, and just out to lead others to
JESUS. Anywhere the LORD leads us, we
will go.
If you are ever in Summerville GA, please come and visit Lighthouse Ministries.
Faith+++