My Testimony

Let me take you back to June 23rd 2009, when I was about to embark on a very dangerous and hard spinal surgery, the Children’s pastor at my church that I still attend today called Hope Fellowship, came to Children’s Hospital and came into my room along with Helen Hartzo, who was the Early Childhood Coordinator at the time. They asked me if I wanted to know Jesus and have a personal relationship with him, and I said yes because I knew deep down somehow in my innermost being that that name was powerful. So they prayed with me and I prayed the Salvation Prayer and invited Jesus into my heart on that fateful day, I was gifted a Kids bible that I still treasure to this day! It turned out to be the longest and most complicated surgery I have ever had, it was only supposed to be 5-6 hours and it ended up being 10 hours. I had to stay really still flat on my back for over thirty six hours at first, looking back on that situation I can clearly see God’s protective hand and healing hand over my situation and helping to keep my parents calm cool, and collected even though it probably was the longest day ever for them too. I was only ten years old so having that major of a surgery that young really freaked me out but I knew that God was in control and in my story that is in the process of being written. After several hours the surgeon talked to my parents and gave my parents a bad report, so my mom called up the prayer chain and asked them to pray. By the time they talked to the surgeon a couple hours later the report had greatly improved- Praise God! ( 12 years later I am completely healed! All the Glory to God on that!)

Fast forward six years later, I was apart of a Christian Home-school group named Peach for about five years, and I didn’t feel like I had a really deep relationship with God even though I had been a Christian for six years now, nothing really had been cultivated and flourishing since then. Then in 2018 after I graduated High School, I walked back in the doors of Hope Fellowship the Frisco West Campus on a Sunday Morning ,as I sat down and heard What A Beautiful name being played and sung, I instantly felt goosebumps and what felt like a warm hug enveloping me and God’s voice whispering ” Welcome Home my daughter ” and I instantly broke down in tears realizing that I was back home in his presence and I never wanted to leave it again. I instantly was renewed with a fire for God that has never gone out and I never want it too. Ever since that day, I intentionally deepen my relationship with God, and leave my heart open for whatever he wants to do in my life AND through my life.

Don’t get me wrong, I have had my struggles in life and I continue to face those everyday. One I have this rare eye condition called Ocular Motor Apraxia which is basically a nuerological disorder that causes problems with voluntary horizontal eye movement, which also means I have trouble moving my eyes in a desired location. It is super rare , but as I have gotten older it has gotten better. I also have one leg that is about two inches shorter than the other but it has not stopped me from doing regular things. Those are just some of the struggles I have, but I also know and believe that God is bigger than my shortcomings and I am not defined by them either. I am a daughter of the Most High God and his Beloved, he made me in his image. I am uniquely made and placed on this Earth for a specific reason and it took me awhile to really and truly see that when I was younger, but now I fully know and believe that to be true with every part of my being. God created each one of us unique and made us in his image none of us are the same and I celebrate that, we were made to glorify and praise him with our lives. I am his beloved, I am chosen, I am royalty, I am a daughter of the king, I am seen, and I am forgiven. For too long I have believed the lies of the enemy saying that I am too far gone, and am unworthy of his love and forgiveness, NO MORE! I am resting in those truths forever and I am banishing the lies from the enemy forever. It’s because of the grace of Jesus that I can stand boldly in God’s presence and I am so grateful for that. Live no more lies today, rest in the freedom God has given you! I was listening to Spotify recently and a song popped up called God is in this Story by Katy Nicole and Big Daddy Weave and a couple of the lyrics are ” God is in this story, God is in the details even in the broken parts he holds my heart he never fails when I’m at my weakest I will trust in Jesus” and if that isn’t my life I don’t know what is. He truly and intimately cares about each of our lives and will not leave us on our own and left to our own devices so to speak. He is the best friend you will ever have and will never leave you or forsake you, as I look back on my life so far, I can clearly see God at work and I am in awe at what he has done and will continue to do in my life. You just have to be ready,open, and willing to be used by him, sometimes it’s uncomfortable and scary but that’s how you grow and trust him more. So I just have one question for you….. Who is God to you?