Today is my daughters 40th birthday and I have been thinking lots of the last 40 years and so thought I would write a small testimony.
I had my daughter when I was 15 years old,I was a very rebellious teenager.I was brought up in the church and I still don`t know to this day why I rebelled so badly.I guess the devil just got ahold of me and it took me many many years of trials and troubles to surrender my life to the Lord.Now let me tell you,that was the best choice I ever made in my life.I used to feel such shame from my past.I never felt that I was worthy for God to love me and the day I let the Lord take control of my life I totally lost all of the shame and condemnation I had felt for many years.That day 6 years ago I was reading the book the Purpose Driven Life and it said in it that you have to let Christ in the drivers seat of your life and let Him take control of the steering wheel.
That day when I read them words and made that decision to let Christ take control of my life was the day everything in my life changed.I knew then how much the Lord loved me and had always been there waiting for me to come back to Him.My whole life changed.
The Lord has been so good to me.My daughter that turned 40 today is a beautiful woman.She has a wonderful husband and a 18 year old son and a 16 year old daughter.She has a very blessed life and God has been very good to her.
My cup runneth over,the Lord has been so good to me.It still amazes me that He just forgave and forgot all of my past sins.All I had to do was surrender my life to Him and let Christ take that steering wheel in my life.Thank You Lord for all You have done for me.
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Wow, that blessed me Marlene! What an awesome God we serve. He did the same thing for me and will do the same for anyone who surrenders their life to Him. He frees us from all the guilt and condemnation we feel and wipes the slate clean. And this is the part that I've always found so amazing... He forgets all our past sin.
Thanks for sharing that my sister, my friend.
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I would like to share something. I have spoken in tongues since I was 18 or so, but recently, have started singing in tongues, almost nonstop, waiting for the bus, shopping, as well as in private prayer. And I'm really busy. I teach FT and take grad classes. But I was thinking about how tired I was, and the song changed.
It was a lullaby. And I began to think about how so often, we are taught that God demands our praise, like this big Ego God, and people don't understand, or maybe resent it. And over the years, I have learned that God is the one loving us, the one trying to get our attention.
So, I kept thinking that these songs were for God, for my edification,to make me better or to praise God, and God reminded me of a quote:
"God create us because he thought we might enjoy it"
So, turned off the lights, and realized that the Spirit was singing me a lullaby, singing me to sleep. And then I thought of the fear that people had in the night for pretators, so he gave us stars, to look at.
It's like a parent loving a child. We don't have to earn God's love. We don't have to spend all day saying, "You are the best daddy ever!" We just sometimes have to allow him to love us, to acknowledge that, that we are precious to him, diamonds to shine from within.
We probably serve God far more by loving one another, than saying "Praise you Jesus" and mistreating our brother.
So, I thought all this time, I was singing to him, and sometimes, he was singing me to sleep. And it's moved me very deeply, and I wanted to share, and hope it give some hope and insight to you. I wanted to know so badly why I was singing, the same so, why it was flowing and overflowing from my heart. He reminded me of my child hood, and I would sing all the time, songs like, "I love my mom, and she's vacuuming the floor..." I sing in tongues because he thought that I might like it.
He was doing it for me.
I can't stop crying
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Matthew 10:16
See, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as cunning as serpents and as innocent as doves.
17 “But beware of men, for they will hand you over to the courts and scourge you in their synagogues; 18 and you will even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. 19 “But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say. 20 “For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. 21 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. 22 “You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.
The church I attend has been in revival since Sunday, nightly many have been saved, many baptized in the Holy Ghost, many healings and many miracles.
Praise the Lord, and thank you Jesus.
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2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him.
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way cool! both of you!!!! 
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