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Everyone has a story. . . Our heart’s desire is to see God invade YOUR story. Whether you are a new Christian or have been walking with God for years, your story has the potential to be a unique testimony to the life-changing power of God’s love. This page is being provided so that you can share your story with us. Simply fill out the fields below and tell us how He has changed your life!
Ephesians 2:10 says that we are his workmanship or special work of art. Each person is a work of art that also becomes a part of a larger picture. Over the coming year, we’ll be using these individual stories to show how each of us are woven together to make up the tapestry of Mt Zion.
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So much of who I am today and what I believe was learned at MZCF. Gina and I had been married almost a year when I realized that we weren’t growing spiritually like the Lord wanted us to. He clearly spoke to me that it was my responsibility to be the spiritual leader of our home. Through a series of circumstances, we visited MZCF that summer. And our lives haven’t been the same! The greatest thing we learned above all else was to make God’s Word the priority of our lives. That one principal is the foundation that our personal lives, marriage, parenting, and basic life skills are based on. Only Heaven will reveal the total impact that MZCF has had on our lives. We love you with all of our hearts!
I just wanted to take the time to share an awesome testimony that I went through a few years ago in my walk with the Lord. Back in 1998 I was getting separated from my first husband. I was very young and had only been married for about 5 years. That marriage produced 2 boys. At that time their ages were 5 and 1 years old. The man I married was very very controlling and manipulating. I was married at the age of 17. I married so young because at the time I felt like it was my only way of escape from my abusive mother. Going from one abusive situation to another is never good.
In going through through this separation I had to figure out what I was going to do to raise these two boys on my own. My X husband eventually tricked me into giving him custody of the youngest son. He said if I didn’t give him custody of at least one of my boys, that his mom would give him the money to take me to court and he would take both of my boys. He was a former police officer and I was a correctional officer and I believed him. So instead of risking to loose both of my boys I settled with him and give him the youngest.
At the time it didn’t seem like it would really be that bad. After all, we now worked at the same job, lived in separate apartments but in the same complex. We worked the same days with the same days off. When he wanted to go out I would watch the kids. When I wanted to go out he would watch the kids. I wasn’t living the Christian lifestyle during that time. Things seemed like they would be ok. I wasn’t really going to be losing my son. My X hubby promised me he would never leave the state because he didn’t want to leave my oldest. Once again I believed him.
As soon as we got divorced, he moved to Tennessee. We were in South Carolina. He didn’t tell me he was living and I didn’t get to say goodbye to my 1 year old baby. I was devastated. After all, he promised me he would never leave the state.
During the summer we were able to switch off the kids. By this time I was living with my next future husband. We would all meet in Atlanta, I would see my son during the summers. I kind of got a bit use to that but then something else happened. He moved to Louisiana. Not only did he move to Louisiana but he moved and once again didn’t tell me. He married a young girl who was only 16, his baby sitter. He didn’t tell me he moved but I found out through her mom. I was able to get her number because she had met up with us in Atlanta one time to do a switch off with the kids. She informed me they had moved, she didn’t have a phone number or address for them at the time. Eventually I got a phone number and was able to talk to him ever so often. His new wife was very rude and would curse at me every time we got on the phone. She had no idea what she had gotten herself into.
As time passed I lost contact with my X husband and more importantly I lost contact with my son. For the next 3 years I wasn’t able to find either of them.. Then one night the Lord had given me a dream. It was a dream of my son. This dream inspired me to go after my son. I missed him so terribly. It was like he had become a figment of my imigination.
By this time I was remarried to another man that was not saved. I wanted so badly to go after my son but had no idea how I would get him, or where to even begin to look. I talked with my hubby about getting my son back. He said not now, we don’t have the money. Eventually after a serious talk with GOD , the Lord softened his heart and he told me yes, that in itself was a miracle.
After my husband told me yes I got a call from my X husbands wife telling me that my X and her were not together and for the last year and a half he didn’t have my son, because he gave him to this family that he met through a guy at a tattoo parlor. I was devastated. I told my mother about what was going on. Part of the reason my current husband didn’t want me to get my son back was because of finances. Attorneys aren’t cheap. My mother agreed to give me some money for an attorney.
At one point I decided that I would locate the school to find out what school he went to and I would go kidnap him. I was very excited. At this time I had never really known if I were hearing from GOD. One day, God spoke to me. He said to me, Wendy, if you go kidnap your son, I will not receive the glory. If you wait for me to bring him to you, not only will I receive the glory, but things will be done perfectly for you. If you do them on your own it wont be as easy. I was blown away that I had just heard from him. I sat in my car crying. Deciding to listen to HIM and wait for him to move on my behalf. At that time I said.. Lord I don’t know how, I don’t know when, but I trust you and I give this to you. You know the desires of my heart to get MY son back. I agreed to wait for him! This song came on the radio that said.. Be encouraged, no matter whats going on, HE will make it all right, but you got to be strong! Be encouraged!!! I sat there balling giving it all to GOD.
The very next week or two later, I actually found an attorney that would work with me on the price range that I needed to stay in. He was a God send. HE called my X hubby’s wife. He convinced her to get me the address to where my son was and she did that for him but not for me.
A few days later I called the family that had had my son for the last year. Not only did they have my son but they were Christians! They had been praying for the Lord that I would somehow find them. My husband had signed over custody to them and they wanted to adopt him but they wanted to find me first!!!! They couldn’t believe I found them. I couldn’t believe that I found them!
Even through all that, I went from not knowing where my son was to having him. Three years after loosing him the Lord brought him back to me. As I waited on the Lord,, he did it in less than a month. HE BROUGHT ME MY SON BACK!!!! Because I trusted him to do what he said he would do, he did it!!! In March of 1994 I drove to Louisiana and got my baby back. By this time he was almost 7 and the last time I saw him he was only 4. The drive back to SC was awesome. He looked at me and said, MOMMY,,, you look like GOD to me. To me that was like woo.. Where did that come from Lol.. All I could do was smile!
There is so much more to this story, but the point is this.. We have to trust GOD, even despite what people would say to us and how circumstances look. GOD is faithful. During this time I learned how to hear GOD for myself. Before this I thought only prophets could hear from God. Lol.. I didn’t know that he would speak to me too. HE is willing to speak if we just listen to him and follow that still small voice or the nudging that he sends to us. I pray this encourages other mothers out there that are looking for their children. PRAY and don’t give up.. Continue to trust GOD no matter how situations look. It doesn’t matter how things look to you. You just got to trust and believe GOD,, HE is the one that makes the impossible possible. You have to believe and not give up.. FAITH evidence of things hoped for but not yet seen.
Moms,, don’t give up please.. If it happened to me it can happen for you!
If GOD said it.. It will happen. I cant express this enough. It was going through this that I really learned to trust GOD, hear his voice and have a real relationship with him.. It was a water walking situation.
Now I have my son back!!!! And GOD has restored the years that we lost. HE IS SOO GOOD. It was soo worth it now to go through that, I grew so much. Thanks for taking time to read this mini book Lol.. Have a blessed faith filled day!!!
No matter what your situation may be. Jesus can work it out if you trust and believe HIM. Wait on him. Do things in his timing and not yours or the the timing of others. Many ppl tried to rush me into getting my son even after GOD told me to wait.. BOY, I praise the Lord I waited on HIM. Thanks for reading, I pray that this built up your faith too!
Love Wendy, feel free to forward to those you feel led to do so!
I like mt zion……is very important to us because the word of god is change my life and my family.