Episode 002: Discovering Our Identity in Christ: Barbara’s Testimony of Restoration
SeeKing Holy
English - April 13, 2020 12:00 - 2 hours - 90.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality christ jesus holy god christianity devotion beth moore if gathering jennie allen ann voskamp Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Since my salvation in a jail cell twenty 22 years ago, God has instilled within me an insatiable desire to share with and offer others what has been freely given to me. I want ladies to know there is a way out; but only one way out. We live in a culture and world that is constantly telling us there are many ways to God and to happiness and contentment.
There was a time in my life when I didn’t sense my life had any worth. I certainly couldn’t see any value in it. I didn’t feel I had any significance. In fact, I didn’t feel life had any meaning at all other than general misery; then you die. I was suicidal mostly from my preteen years to 24 y/o, which the age of my salvation
These deeply felt beliefs really influenced me to make a lot of detrimental decisions. This general pervading sense of self abasement, I believe, came from most of my early life feeling abandoned, rejected, and unloved.
What I found to be true is:
John 14:6 Jesus answered, I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
I didn’t find the one way, I learned He found me. I assure you I did not wake up one day in a jail cell having almost lost my own life including everything worth anything to me and decide to follow Christ.
He pursued me. He called me. Through the Holy Spirit, He came for me. He found me.
There are women who will listen to this and who God is right now pursuing and calling to salvation. I encourage you, if you’re listening, to respond to Him with humility, repentance, willingness to surrender to Him in prayer. Believe Him, receive Him, and desire to follow Him.