Tomorrow is the Day!

Tomorrow is the day I will be Baptized! I am so full of emotion! So full of so many emotions.
Here is my testimony. I will posting more tomorrow! Happy Easter!

When I was an infant I was baptized and raised Catholic. Catholics do infant baptisms. I also had Natalee baptized Catholic. I didn't know where I was in my faith and I didn't know where I was going with my faith either. I knew I needed more than what was happening. About 5 years ago, a friend of mine told me about this church in Mundelein and my family and I went. And we kept going. We fell in love with the people there. The fellowship. The overall experience. Natalee loved going to church. That alone just melted my heart! Torrance's faith was growing and I could tell mine was too. I got involved in Women's Ministries, Missions, and I also attended many ladies bible studies. We participated in many doings at the church. Not just Sunday Worship.

God had a huge plan! I remember it very clearly. My husband was in Miami, FL with a friend of his and I took Natalee to church. God was speaking and HE WAS LOUD!!! It was one of those services that you could feel the Holy Spirit there. The kind that you feel like you are the only one in the room and the Pastor is talking to you…that kind.  At one point during service, Pastor had asked us to bow our heads and if anyone here would like to receive Christ to look up at him. Tears poured from my face! I knew this is what I suppose to do! The door was wide open and Jesus was telling me to come in! And I did! I walked in the door...tears falling and on my knees. It was like a weight of YUCK was lifted off of my shoulders. I called my husband after service and cried on the phone with him then I just prayed.

I wish that I could tell you that it has all been peaches and cream since then. It hasn't. There have been times that I have turned my back on God.  I chose to be tempted by the Enemy. I have done things that I am not too proud of. But found my way back. Re-dedicated my life to Christ and have asked for forgiveness and moved forward in my walk.

With all the hard times that had fallen on my family in the past year, I can stand here and say I would not be able to have made it through without Christ. When I didn’t know where the next dime would come from, Christ spoke to His people and there was money or food. When Torrance was in and out of the hospital several times, and I felt like I didn’t have the strength to carry on, Jesus reminded me of Philippians 4:13; that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. God is good! And there are many more examples of His greatness in my life. He has lead me to begin a Blog a few months ago, about His Grace. This is in hope of inspiring other women and working moms. Hoping that see they see Christ in me. To show them that they too can have Christ in their life. That Christ loves us for us! And we all have our daily yuck.

The week leading up to Palm Sunday, God was preparing me. I didn’t know it at the time but he was!  That week was full of surprises. I was reading about forgiveness, and that evening at work, my ex-boss, well one of them, came through the drive thru. I didn’t realize that I had been harboring all this anger and hurt. When I saw her, I cried and I told her that I held nothing against her. A huge weight was lifted off of me. Then one morning, a customer was crying in her car when she pulled up to pay for her coffee. Her mother had a heart attack and then her sister went into labor all in the same morning…I asked her name and prayed for her right there in the window. One evening, I was chatting on face book with an old grammar school friend who is a brother in Christ. He was having a hard time dealing with some issues in his extended family. He felt guilty that he was angry with God. I was given the opportunity to minister to him and to pray with him. I felt honored to do that. 
Then on Sunday, when Pastor Herb spoke of baptism and Jesus knocking on our hearts door…I honestly don’t think the knock could have gotten any louder. After 5 years from accepting Christ, I couldn’t imagine NOT publicly showing my commitment or love for Christ. HE is my Savior. HE is my ALL. I long for people to come to Christ because they see Christ in me.

So now what? I ask myself, and of Jesus….I don’t have an answer just yet. But I know that He has a wonderful plan for me and my story is nowhere near being complete. Not with all the people I come in contact with daily. So I ask of you now my brothers and sisters in Christ, please pray for me. Pray that I can continue to minister to others, that people will continue to see Christ in me and be inspired to know Christ’s love. My prayer for you is that you will continue to listen to Jesus when he speaks to you, and that you will continue to experience His Glory in your life as well.