Turning Over Rocks

Ronda (Texas)

Recently you asked if I would be willing to share with you my story and I told you I would and now here I am. I grew up in a Pentecostal church called Church of God of Prophecy. My family seemed to have a strict and sometimes harsh belief system that was very hard to want to live by. As a child I hated church and rebelled against God every chance that came up. Now as an adult, I am so thankful that God sheltered me from their beliefs by what I thought was rebellion. I went to that church as an adult but found that growth in truth was hard to come by and I was treated rather badly due to some of their beliefs and judgments against membership in their church. I stopped trying for a long time and put God on a back burner. When I returned to another church I thought I was hearing truth. Through this whole time I had one friend that really told me truth even if we argued over it by my not understanding. He really had patience and kindness toward my ignorance. This church seemed to have lots of good things to say, until I went to God myself and begged Him for understanding despite the cost to me.

The more I learned, the more I had to repent of earlier beliefs that were wrong in my heart. I asked Him for truth and He poured it on me. In learning truth, I left that church as I started to see with eyes open and I was being told more lies.I have stopped attending church since and I have grown more without church then I ever did in one.The first thing He shared with me was His name and the name of the Messiah. I was floored that I had been calling Him everything but His name. I came to know Yahweh and started reading about who I was to Him and realized that I am not just a simple Gentile but a child of Abraham. An heir to the promise sealed by the down payment of His
Ruach. I lost many friends and family avoids me at times. The more I grow, the more I want. I have been on this journey now for 2+ years
and I am amazed at how many things I believed that were delusions and lies.

I am still growing and hope to grow until my time's end. I have been
re-baptized into Yeshua and have surrendered my life over for I am no longer in control of my heart. It belongs to Yahweh. Many hard things in family and friends have made it tough at times to continue by the undying desire to know more and get closer to Yahweh in truth is so much more overpowering. This is the life I chose I am so thankful and blessed that He chose me....

Turning over rocks and stones,
Ronda