I like to try and make you folks laugh. However, this blog isn´t going to do so. You see, I need to tell you about what God did in my life this week. It´s hard to tell you about because the beginning is something I don´t often speak of. But the ending is a happy one. It begins a long time ago…
I was Depressed.
I know this is a shock to many of you. But it is true. For many years I have had trouble with depression. I assumed that this was something I would always deal with. No one ever told me that this could be overcome. No one ever said that this might be an attack from Satan.
After I told my testimony to my team, my leader spoke some truth to me. She was riled up! Not at me. Not at God, but at the Enemy. We had a long talk and she told me that my past doesn´t have to define me. I don´t have to consider myself a depressed person, or someone who struggles with depression.
The whole next day this was on my mind. By the time the evening women´s service approached I knew it was time to do something about it. The came the sermon. God used our friend, Alyssa, to speak to me. This was a powerful message about the Holy Spirit. She called to the front those of us who had accpeted Jesus but needed to come to know the Holy Spirit also. As I knelt on the groud with people praying over me, I heard three words.
"You are free."
I knew then and there, that I was no longer a depressed person. Bondage I didn´t even know existed, was gone. Satan was defeated and I overcame. For the first time in my life I knew God had my whole heart.
God did not create me to be the old me. He has much bigger plans for me. As I left the church the song "I am free" played in my head. Of course by this point, the spanish lyrics were also playing… "Libre Soy!"
"Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself."
