I would like to make a testimony not only to praise God for an answered prayer, but also to give hope and inspiration to a person or people who go through the same problem as I had been. I am a single mother and was struggling financially for many years. God has been good to my family because all the years, my needs were met, but the struggles were real and evident. All the years, there were attempts of eviction with the possibility of losing our home.
Now my children are already grown up, but they are still studying. Imagine all the years of being in the loop of lack and unstable income. Until recently, I asked God that although He is always on time to help me out of trouble, I want to experience His promise to live in abundance, to cancel the loop of lack and to step out of the scarcity. I asked for wisdom and His help what to do.
One time, God said, I need to put my battle in spiritual warfare. I received guidance and wisdom also from the Lord how to do it. I wrote down all the problems and wrote down the Scriptures that I need to battle the enemy with and with discipline to get up in the morning to pray, declare the Word and decree the Word into my situation.
My eviction case on court has been CANCELLED, God provided for the money I need to pay my rent, my bills, my fines. Not only that, but God opened an opportunity for me to earn more so I may not step into lack again. This Jericho wall fell down.
I want to share my testimony to all single mothers out there that whatever you are going through, if you knock at the gates of heaven, God is not rejecting you. God is our present help in any trouble. His faithfulness continues, even in times we are not perfect, we are underserving, because God blesses us according to the righteousness of Christ. Many believers are saved but only are living in freedom of the cross. My testimony is about the importance of the Word of God in our lives. That we can pray all day, but it is the Word of God that transforms, that pulls down the strongholds through our faith in Jesus Christ.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. Under His mighty wings. I pray for others who need encouragement today, that the world may tell you a different story but the God that I know is the same yesterday, today and forever. Hallelujah. Amen!
Hi Lady,
Your testimony resonates with me in significant ways and I thank God for your clarity and experience.
First God is good to us all and not only to single mothers – lol. We all carry a nature that’s fallen and we fall short in a lot of ways or in latching on to Grace all the time.
That prayer you prayed about the circle of lack, etc is a prayer I could still pray even today. And I do pray it regularly, to experience sufficiency or even abundance in a stable kind of way. When one shares or privately acknowledges God’s ever present help in time of trouble, it’s sweet to hear but its tiring to live at that subsistence level of the edge of life.
Well, but God is able to give bigger testimonies and yours is an encouragement to me to keep holding on even as God has been speaking to me of a better day to come.
Sometimes I wake up and say who knows, that day could be/start today. So I have learned to encourage myself daily and I know it will surely come.
Another part of your testimony that struck me was this – ” My testimony is about the importance of the Word of God in our lives. That we can pray all day, but it is the Word of God that transforms, that pulls down the strongholds through our faith in Jesus Christ.” I couldn’t agree with you more.
Some Christians unfortunately think their efforts at relentless prayers, church attendance, etc are commensurate to how/what they receive from God. Like a works based thinking and that negates Grace and increases frustrations. I know it’s a thin line here but so many people dont understand Grace or that God says He will have Mercy on whomever He chooses, and not according to your prayers. It’s understanding the Word that transforms like you noted.-
Knowledge and understanding of the Gospel, the good news are key here. It’s the inward transformation that births the outward life and not the reverse.
I remember a few days ago a brother was trying to make me feel guilty for not attending fellowships after I explained to him that I had no fuel in the car or money to take a bus and he insisted that I had to like prove to God I loved Him by walking to Church! But I tried to explain Grace to him that I didn’t need to prove anything to God, He knows my situation and what I can or cannot do.
Since I came to understand Grace of God, I ve quit living in fear or guilt of when I fall short. And that has given me power to live in love and even obedience to God without trying to impress any man.
So I really like your testimony and you will see more because it’s from glory to glory.
Thank you.
I needed this encouragement. Thank you so much for sharing. GOD is faithful. He is kinder than the kindest. He is merciful. He is more loving. He is caring.