08/09/2022
Happy terrific testimony Tuesday y'all!! It's a terrific day for some testimonies of the goodness of our God!!! I don't know about you, but if not for the Lord Jesus, I would have been dead a hundred times over. I didn't deserve life or love or any good thing. You see, I used to be a mess. I mean my life was a total wreck. I was so broken, so crushed, so bound up with many addictions, & not just to drugs, but to men, women, drugs, and everything in between. I was hurting so bad on the inside my emotions were a mess & all over the place, mentally I was unstable and the doctors even told me for years and I quote, "Miss Arvin, you do not know how to cope with life." That's what I heard from all the doctors I would see to try and help me. Y'all I knew I couldn't cope with life, I knew I was broken beyond repair, or so I thought. But I was looking for a worldly solution, which is ALWAYS just temporary, to a heart & soul problem, which was a God sized problem only Jesus could fix. Y'all I thought there was no hope of ever getting any better. I never thought I could be sober, or free, I sure didn't think my heart, mind, will, and emotions would ever be healed, but i was so so wrong!!! And thank God I was!!
You see when the Holy Spirit starts drawing you, listen 👂👂👂. And follow that draw! That's where your help, your salvation, your healing, your peace, everything you need and could ever need, want, or desire lies in Jesus Christ!!! So the Holy Spirit drew me one night in a church service. I went to the altar to get prayer. Now y'all it was my 5th day detoxing from IV drugs and I was so so sick and so weak from all the puking I could barely stand. So I went to that altar for prayer. My pastor at the time, Janice Smith Claypoole , she said "Honey you just close your eyes and raise your arms and you think about Jesus." Well y'all that's just what I did. All of a sudden it felt like I was floating like a feather and this great light shone and such peace and great love washed over me and into me. When I came to, I was on the floor. They had to help me up. I could barely walk the power of God was on me so strong and I remember telling everyone I want sick anymore. My pastor even told me that my whole countenance had changed. Praise God!! And y'all Jesus Christ delivered me that night! Hallelujah, glory to God!! Now it's not been a perfect road, I've made many mistakes I'm not proud of, but Jesus has always brought me back in relationship with Him. For that I'm so grateful.
I wanna encourage you today, it doesn't matter what you've done Jesus loves you and wants you to run to Him today so He can love you and heal you and restore you sand so much more!!! What He did for me He will do for you, I promise. And listen to me, when u make mistakes, and you will cause none of us are perfect, do not allow that cause you to stay stuck in guilt and shame please! Learn from your mistake, and pick yourself back up, dust yourself off, and move forward in Jesus name. I love you all and would love it if you would share a testimony with us to glorify our God!!!
