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Testimony: What God Has Done For Me
Earlean's testimony "What God Has Done For Me" on 1/15/2013, 11:37am...
My testimony starts, well maybe I should just start at the beginning.
Before I was 9 monthes old my mom and biological father had gotten a divorce. He was a very violent man, he hurt my mom mentally, physically, and emotionally. There marriage wasn't a spiritual marriage God was never in it.
After my mom's divorce she had met a man (she had met him before) well anyways he wanted to be with her before there divorce but my mom insisted on waiting till the divorce was final. This man came into my life when I was 9 months old. He was a really bad alcoholic. That is what I had to grow up in.
I thought that alcohol was normal and that if your family didn't drink and have parties then you were not normal. Boy was I wrong! When I turned 7 my mom married this man, and the day after they got married he was picked up for a DWI. Little did I know that this would be the best thing for my mom and I.
On Christmas day of that same year, I was able to see him and tell him bye because he was fixing to be shipped of to prison because of this conviction and all others prior to. It was a very emotional time for me at 7 not fully understanding what was happening, just knowing that the man I called daddy was being taken from me.
Now I had to grow up very fast. My mom was working all the time to make ends meet and to provide for both of us. She is a very strong woman. She attended church and believed in God and was saved. But I didn't understand why God was doing this to us. I mean if He loved us then why was he making us suffer. Well my step dad was in prison for 4 years.
During those 4 years I had been really depressed, started hanging out with the wrong crowd at school, and doing things that I am not proud of. When my step dad came home it was very exciting and yet I was scared that we were going to go right back to our old way of living. Little did I know that God was creating His magic with my family.
Now my spiritual life I had confessed my sins because I saw my friends doing it and didn't want to be made fun of because I didn't do it. Now as I started attending church I started believing everything I was hearing. I believed that God was real, I even knew that He was real. I even thought I was saved but didn't realize I wasn't I will get back to this part in a minute. Now my freshman year in highschool my friends had told me that there were some new kids in school I really didn't care but they insisted I see these two brothers.
They all thought that the short one was cute. But when the tall one looked at me I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I would spend the rest of my life with him, and that he was the one I was supposed to marry. You see my mom had been talking to me and was telling me that she couldn't wait till I was married and out of her hair. I told her I didn't want to get married because I didn't want to be like her. You see this was her fifth marriage to be in, and she had 4 kids, we all have the same mom but have different dads.
I knew that this was wrong and didn't want that for me. Well back to the tall guy! My sophomore year in highschool was really tough, I thought life was to hard and tried to kill myself, so glad it didn't work. I started dating the tall guy his name was Philip, he came from a Christian home and background I didn't know this at the time. I had dated in the past and did things I was not proud of but I was still a virgin. That was something to be proud of. We dated throughout highschool off and on. When we graduated we decided to go our separate ways.
I moved the day after graduation to live with my brother. While I was there I partied and I partied hard, I was drinking and smoking, I tried to get guys to sleep with me but they wouldn't man am I thankful for that. Well I knew I wasn't saved but I could hear God talking to me trying to put me back in the right direction. I moved back home with my parents, and started college. I stayed in dorms at the college I attended. During my time there I had experienced with weed, and drinking as well.
I received a phone call one day from Philip, it was unexpected and I was very mean to him. I told him that if I wanted anything more to do with him that I would contact him. I locked my self in my room for 2 days and prayed and asked God to not put him back in my life if it wasn't meant to be.
On October 15, 2003 we started dating again. On December 2, 2003 I was in a really bad car accident that totalled the car and the only injury I had was basically a pull in the neck. This accident brought Philip and I closer and we knew we were meant to be together. Now I found out that his dad was a preacher at a baptist church, his grandpa was a missionary, and his uncles were deacons, so you name it they had it. I was a little blown away but still i was with him not his family. Well he asked me to go to church with him one day and so I did and something pulled me in and I was hooke on being there every time the doors were open whether Philip was with me or not. I became a member of there church in 2004. There church would attend church camp that ranged from the youngest oth young to the oldest of old, and Philip and his family were persistant that I go.
He was going to be away at college and I would have to go with his parents. Well let me just say I went you see I had asked Philip when he was going to marry me and he told me that he couldn't even consider marrying me until he knew for sure that I knew Christ as my Saviour. Well I went to camp and the first night I was there at the evening service that Monday night I knew I wasn't saved but I didn't do anything about it, I couldn't sleep that night, and during the next day I knew I needed to do something about it but did nothing, I went on like this until that Wednesday Night. A young lady that had been attending this camp since she was really little, and worked with her parents at this camp by helping with meals and so on, everyone thought that she was saved and she did to, but she had made a statement that night that woke me up, she said I would rather get saved 100 times and know I'm saved then to get saved only once and not know for sure.
I knew in that moment that if I didn't ask Jesus into my heart and left that building that I was going to go to Hell and I didn't want that. So I found Philip's mom and told her that I needed to be saved. That was a very happy momemt for me. Philip had shown up to camp that Thursday night, when I had told him what happened to me he said I know God already told me.
We started courting in October 15, 2004 and we were engaged to be married on December 12, 2004 and were married on June 25, 2005. We have been through alot we had a beautiful baby girl on March 3, 2006 not to long after being married i found out i was pregnant, it came as a shocker because neither one of us was ready for this, plus i had been told that i couldn't have kids. We had alot of complications with my pregnancy but with God's hand in it He let me have a healthy baby.
We have been trying to have another child for 6 years now and He hasn't blessed us with one yet but I knwo that with God all things are possible and that if it is in His will we will have another child. I am so blessed with the husband, and child I have. My parents are still together and my stepdad ( my daddy) is fixing to celebrate 21 years of sobriety. God is so good! Just pray for me because I am still having a hard time with not being able to have another child.