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Topic: Before and After (05/14/09)
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TITLE: HE touched me | Previous Challenge Entry
By SHARON GORDON
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addiction is the most frustrating
thing a person can go through.
After begging and praying for
so long you just want to give up. But
then you see a little glimmer of hope
and think, maybe I won’t give up just
yet. Then they let you down
again. That is the way it is with me
in dealing with my husbands
addiction. I have been with my
husband for 23 years and for 23 years
I have prayed that God would take that
addiction from him. I always wondered
why God wouldn’t do it. Was I a bad
person and God couldn’t hear my
prayers or was my husband so far away
from God that he couldn’t be reached?
I decided to start going to church so
that “I” could get closer to God. I
felt like if I got myself right with
the Lord he could hear my prayers and
he would save my husband. At the time
my daughter was going to a Christian
school so I started attending the
church affiliated with the school. It
was a Church of God and I was
Baptist. I had attended bible school
at a church of God when I was younger,
and let me tell you, those people
scared me to death! My daughter had
become so close to God at this church
and was doing things that I had always
thought were for show and not actually
God. She started speaking in tongues,
dancing in the spirit, falling out in
the spirit and all these things that I
didn’t believe were real. I found
myself doubting her spiritual
encounters. But one Sunday I went to
church and my husband and I had been
having some major problems. When that
preacher started preaching he was
preaching my story! I asked myself,
how did he know about my situation? I
was overcome with emotion and I
started to cry uncontrollably. When
the alter call was given, I went to
the alter. Two ladies from the church
came up and laid their hands on my
back and began to pray for me. Let me
tell you, it felt like their hands
were on fire. It was like you could
feel the power from God coming through
their hands! All this time I was
still crying so hard I lost my
breath. But suddenly I felt something
pouring over my head and I felt it
flow ever so slowly down my body till
it reached my feet. There was no
doubt in my mind then that this was
God and God loved me. Instantly I
stopped crying and felt this peace
that I have never felt before in my
life. It was so awesome! It was
like every bit of trouble that was
bottled up inside me was washed away
in an instant. As hard as I had been
crying you just couldn’t shut if off
on your own. It was God. God poured
down his love on me and since that day
I have never been the same. I have a
peace that let’s me know that whatever
happens, it’s all going to be
alright. I realized that I couldn’t
save my husband. I can pray for him
and love him unconditionally but I
can’t save him. I pray for the day
that he himself can feel the love of
God pouring over him. I know on that
day he will never be the man he was
before God touched him.
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