Testimony: God Saved Me From The Pit

Anonymous testimony "God Saved Me From The Pit" on 11/25/2014, 2:48am...

God is SO good! I love him so much and praise be to His holy name. I would like to start my testimony by sharing a little bit about my life before God turned it around.

Since I was born I was brought up in Christ and always had a strong faith and belief in God, however I became very rebellious at a young age due to growing up in a split family and watching my father suffer from alcohol abuse. (He is now remarried and has not had a drink in 16 years.)

When I was 16 I became an alcoholic. I drank myself to death almost every night for years also while suffering from bulimia. I got into a drunk driving car accident and The Lord spared me my life, I would have died had it not been for him. But that didn't stop me.. I continued to abuse alcohol and drink like a maniac until I was 19 years old. By that time I had already gotten 5 MIP'S (minor in possession of alcohol) in 5 different counties along with four open intoxes and failed drug tests for marijuana which allegedly caused me to lose my license for many years. When I was 19 I met the love of my life, who was in ministry and loved God. He brought me closer to God again.

We started going to church together and praying together. At the time he was going through a divorce and already had two kids. His family did not know me, and they didn't want to because they wanted him with his ex wife. Because I wasn't accepted by his family, he asked me to move away with him. We moved a few hours away and lived with his brother and brothers wife and kids for many months.

Things were not good. We started to fight all the time, things because abusive both mentally and physically. I was having unprotected sex everyday with him, and never got pregnant. I was never on birth control. We made the decision to get married, although we had nobodies support besides his brother and his brothers wife. So their pastors at the church we were attending married us, and told us to send the marriage license back into court house within 30 days to be legal. I sent documents back in a couple weeks later.

Things continued to worsen, and by this time it had been almost a year since he had seen his baby girls who were 1 & 2 years old at the time. One day I decided to leave after a big argument and we were done. I called courthouse to see if I needed to get a divorce and annulment and they told me they had never received documents so it was never made legal. I moved back home with my mother and started my life over again.

I got a job working at a bar as a waitress, and I went back to the world and started drinking and hanging out with those types of people again. I still loved my ex very much but I knew in my heart it wasn't in Gods timing that we be together at that time and that in due season if we were meant he would bring us back together.

I started working all the time, moved to the Virgin Islands, lived life there, and made more stupid decisions because of alcohol. After living there for 7 months I moved back to the u.s, and I went right back to the same bar job I told myself I would never go back to. I knew enough was enough.

If there was ever a time in my life I felt God tugging at my heart and speaking to me it was then! I felt The Lord tell me I needed to stop drinking. If I didn't stop I would lose my life. I cried out to him and begged him for my husband to come back. I told him I was ready to change and wanted a family of my own. I wanted my husband and I pleaded and begged for him. I told God how sorry I was, and a month later he brought my ex back into my life whom I had still loved all of these years. By this time 4 1/2 years had went by. His family accepted me and got to know me.

They now love me and I am closer to them than my own family. It has been 1 year and I have not had one sip of alcohol. His mother and I are best friends, and his daughters, (now 4 & 5) both love me to death and I them. My mother and my family loves him too, and after trying for 4 years on and off we FINALLY are pregnant! I didn't think I could have babies, but I cried and asked God please lord give me a child, I will give him back to you and raise this child in you Jesus.

I am now 5 months pregnant and so thankful. My husband and I have been remarried now for going on 5 months as well, with the support and love from both sides of family. My husband now preaches and is a pastor at his families church. God has done so much for me and changed my life so much for the better.

Without him nothing is possible and with him all things are. My life has changed SO much and I give him all the honor and glory! There is nobody greater than Him... And nobody like Him. I am here to say that every day is a new day, Jesus makes all things new. With him you are made new, a new creation. He no longer remembers your past, your sins are forgiven once you repent. The only person that reminds u of your past is satan. The devil is a liar.

"Trust in The Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mind and all your soul and lean not on your own understanding but in all your ways acknowledge Him as He shall direct your path."

I encourage everybody to give their hearts to Jesus, ask him to change your life. Surrender completely to him and watch what he will do for you! His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts not our thoughts, but He knows what's best! He will never leave us not forsake us!

I am happy and proud to say I will never turn to alcohol or things of the world like that again. Jesus is my love and my savior. He can take away all of your pain and hurting. He loves us more than we could ever imagine. Please, turn from your wicked ways and repent of your sins and give your lives to God. He is the only way. To live for Christ to die is gain. I thank you Jesus and I hope this story encourages others to give their lives to God and watch what He will do for you.

 

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