After 10 years of a career, a broken marriage, and the death of my mom, I found Jesus!! It was the greatest moment of my entire life!! For the first time I realized every problem that I had was because of the choices I had made, or that others had made that affected me! Jesus's holiness, perfection, purity and Lordship was illuminated to me as well! In one instant everything became alive to me! I sat in my living room moments before, longing to die and now I realized why I had to live! The world needs to know what His truth is and I determined to wrap my world around His from that moment on! I ran after Jesus with everything inside of me!
I had never been a church member! I had never attended more than one church service every six months in my entire life! Church was the scariest place I ever had gone to as an adult! Not because I felt I was a horrible person, I just never entered a church and felt the love of God. These were my experiences before my encounter with Jesus!! I might add I had no idea who He was or what relation He was to God Almighty, until that one moment that He came down to me in my living room! After that moment, I sincerely believed it would be easy to find a church that was on FIRE and doing what I was longing to do!!!
After 17 years of going to church, being in ministry and going to ministry school, I found myself dry, disillusioned and dying on the vine, (in church). Christians seem to be comfortable with their lives and if it be God's will, then let God do it! I was not comfortable going to church without an enormous amount of God in every service. I met a lot of good people, who were limited by a system of religion that binds the hands and mouths of God fearing people. You see, God moves through people who die to themselves so that He might truly live through them.
I didn't know what to do and was completely all alone?! My quest to save the world was a silent desire, no one knew but Jesus and the forces who wanted to stop me. My family, husband and kids loved me, but they all thought I was on tilt and just needed to enjoy life. My oldest son Derek would say," mom nobody but you seems to care, no one really does what the bible says!" Those words would cut me like a knife!!! After 15 years of going to church and 10 years of looking for a church on FIRE and really wanting God to show up, I found myself once again perplexed.
Broken really, was I really on tilt, over the edge, looking for something that didn't exist or should I keep going? I remembered God made my world stop to show me something, I know there is more, I have already seen more of the presence of God in my living room then in church. Jesus was very real to me! I could feel His presence, hear His voice and know His will for my life, and others anytime I was willing to stop my world and listen.
This is what happened to us when we were completely ready to give up on church altogether! This happened, my world stopped!! My husband Robert, asked me to watch a t.v. program with him. It was Daystar, the program was World Revival Church. I sat on the couch and as the program was being aired my mouth dropped open! As I was too broken to believe, I thought, a church that knows how to worship the Lord!?? Everything inside of me was glued to every aspect of the service! I had longed for so long, prayed for so many years, and been beaten down so bad, I could barely believe what I was seeing!
When Pastor Steve preached I thought wow, he must have gone to our churches!? When they called people up for prayer I thought, could it be, is it really.......? Does Jesus actually come down and touch these people and change their lives?! Is that God healing the sick, and raising the dead? Does a place like this really exist? My heart began to feel hope again!
We are here in revival, in Kansas City, MO. a place I never dreamed about, yet doing everything I have ever dreamed about for over three years now. I get to see dead people be brought back to life, starting with my family and I. I feel more alive than I ever have and I have done things that I never dreamed I would ever do.
God's plans for us is great and He is greatly to be praised! I have the opportunity to touch the world in ways I may never know. I get to be with a large group of people who want to change the world too! My children have taken on, the over the top attitude that I had, and now try to keep me up to speed! I can see through eyes I never had and hear what was never possible! I have a new heart, a new beginning and a life worth living!
Now you might be saying, well all that sounds great for you, but I like my church, or maybe your saying, I have no idea what you are talking about! It is quite simple really, God is real and He comes down to dwell with His people! Hungry, humble, teachable people! He can take anything that was meant to destroy us and make it a monument of His greatness, mercy, grace, and love!! We could have chose a different response, but instead we made the only choice for us! I sincerely hope that this gives you hope that God is real and when His people chase after Him with all their hearts, many times He let's us catch Him!
Why Revival.......? Because God is desiring to restore His people back to Him and revival does that!
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Have a great day! Thank you, Michelle.
