Change

Wow this past weekend was amazing!!! God did so much not just in my life this weekend but I was able see people get blessed by the Holy Spirit. This weekend we had a church retreat and it was amazing God moved in many many ways! Words can hardly describe how lives were changed by God at the retreat, but it didnt stop there. So I'll start with this! As a teen my parents divorced but it took me a while to seek God to find comfort in that pain of not seeing my parents together. Finally moved with my mom when I was 15. And started seeking God like crazy, I got involved with youth ministry and praise and worship. Even at one time I became a youth director of a church being the age of 19. I was on fire for God, but I let that fire die when these certain pastors not only abused the authority that was given by publically embarssing my family in a restaurant but with other things. Slowly I allowed so much junk and filth in my life. I allowed drugs, porn, lust, alcohol, pain, bitterness, anger, sex, etc to take over my life after what I experienced at young age with certain pastors. Since that time it was getting harder for to trust someone who called themselves a pastor. Even after I decided to get away from all that mess and to get right with God. I just couldnt trust a pastor. Even after my divorce I couldnt truely trust a pastor unitl I started going to The Gathering. Pastor Marco is different. Pastor Marco has spoken things back into my life, even though I allowed at times for the grudge I had against pastors to get the best of me. And I say all this because after yesterday I was freed from the things I was holding onto. Like that wall of not trusting a pastor was broken, the things that I had experienced and still held onto just to keep me from not going back to that stuff. I am FREE!!!! I am no longer holding onto those things just to keep me from going back but now I am going forward with the things God has for me! The chains are broken and I know that I am not the only one who can say after this weekend. Several people testified of the things God is doing in thier lives. God is Good and I thank him alone for allowing me to go through the things I have been through!