From Insecurity, Abuse, and Drugs...to Jesus

[@brendapouncey6475]

This was what I needed Lauren! Thank you so much and thank God for leading me to this. He knew I needed it! I have been saved years ago, but I have been really sick with several conditions for 5 years now and had gotten so low in spirit and I had become so sad and depressed, and isolated. I started having anxiety and panic attacks so bad the past 2 weeks! Even had two trips to the ER. The enemy is using my vulnerable state to take me down and deter me from what God has for me. The enemy wants me to give up. He is feeding me lies in my mind that tells me how bad I’ve sinned and all the past from even 30 years ago. Please pray for me as I fight to overcome this attack and become strong again!!

[@stefanleonides]

What a comeback story. Jesus is so faithful ❤

[@MyLivingMinistries]

❤️❤️ amen!!!

[@grove8843]

I've hit rock bottom when I found God, and there the verse Proverbs 3:5-6 really made sense to me in a personal and profound way.

[@MyLivingMinistries]

Amen, we just meditated on that scripture in my bible study. God is trustworthy in all things, His will for us is good. Lifting you in prayer, for restoration and healing 🙏🏼❤️

[@JesusSanchez-np7bx]

Thank you for your testimony. You make me feel the necessity to abide in God's presence in everything I do. GOD bless you Lauren and your husband Tim and family ❤

[@JesusSanchez-np7bx]

I 've been struggling with bad addiction, I just want to thank Lauren for his powerful testimony, I don't have words enough to say, how much means to me.

[@MyLivingMinistries]

So glad my testimony could speak to you. I know the struggle all to well, but I can promise you there is hope. God wants to lead you into full freedom from whatever addiction it is. He has overcome the world, and you can be an overcomer too.

[@lordisthetruthrepentandrej5494]

Jesus Christ can Heal what you’re hiding. He forgives and removes the shame of our secrets and provides a Freedom that’s Genuine. Repent🫶🏾

[@bobmartin3018]

Thank you

[@readysetgleam]

What an incredibly powerful testimony, Lauren! Always sending you lots of love and support! ❤️

[@MyLivingMinistries]

Thank you!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@GodHelpMe369]

January 16th of this year (2024) was his 51st birthday. Capricorn. The man I loved. The man I revered as my best friend. Last year, on his birthday, he was significant in my life. This year, he's a stranger. He left me. Abandoned me. Betrayed me. Replaced me. My soul is raped by the pain and the grief...

[@ChanYoon-ls9gl]

yo, you have a crazy testimony, god's good keep sharing

[@tv-st3qy]

Hallelujah Amen. 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ We love you..

[@MyLivingMinistries]

❤🙏🏼

[@sarahgallegos2243]

❤

[@MyLivingMinistries]

❤️

[@seanmick3093]

I trusted in the Lord of Jesus Christ as my personal savior into my heart through faith alone, and not of works, by accepting his free gift of salvation, by his grace on February 16, 1996, each day, I confess sins for process of sanctification, to receive Jesus Christ as your personal savior, please refer to Matthew 10:28, John 3:16-18:36, 5:24, 6:37:47, 10:27-29, 14:6, Acts 2:38, 16:30-31, Luke 15:10, Romans 1:16, 3:23, 4:5, 6:23, 10:9-10:13, Ephesians 2:8-10, and Titus 3:5. God bless the world, and thank you for sharing.

[@seanmick3093]

I will see you in heaven.

[@alimarpelolargo]

La felicito por el cambio, mire esta buenas noticias de Dios, en Isaias 33:5, 6

[@phoenixaz8431]

God's love is certainly a good thing, like having a good friend, someone smile at you, a beautiful bird landing on your balcony, fresh squeezed orange juice in the morning, an espresso in the morning, but if God decreed a hard life for you, a life where pretty much nothing works out right, it takes way more than his love to sustain you through life. 95%, perhaps more of what has plagued me in my adult life wouldn't have plagued me at all if I wasn't a slave to money, iow if I was financially free. But what would be the purpose for God to decree a thankless life only to shower me with financial blessing later on? God isn't great, but he's not that dumb, either. I recognize that whoever got me into this miserable mess, i.e. my life, is my enemy. God, a prescient being, created me knowing how much life would crush me.

[@MyLivingMinistries]

@@phoenixaz8431 we are so sorry that you’ve experienced so much hardship throughout your life. There are real challenges and trials we all face. We want to encourage you to know that God has not willed for anything unjust, bad or evil to fall upon you. The Bible tell us that He came to bring life and life more abundantly, His will is also that none shall perish. We have been given free will in this life and a lot of the challenges and hurts we face are result of sin (either ours or others all around us). Jesus Christ came back to take back authority and it is through Him alone we have everything we need to overcome our trials and rise above the things we face. It is a false doctrine that God chooses to give some a bad life, this is a deception from the enemy. We encourage you to read more to discover the true character of God (look in the gospel at Jesus ministry) and we encourage you to study the believers spiritual authority. God bless you 🙏🏼❤️

[@phoenixaz8431]

@@MyLivingMinistries I was raised in a Christian household, very dysfunctional (2nd evidence that God is against me). I had as a boy wed betting until my early teens (3rd evidence that God wanted to destroy me). I have some kind of ADD, learning disability, in short i'm not mentally sharp, my kindergarten teacher felt I couldn't go to grade I because I lacked the maturity (4th evidence that God wanted to crush me). So I went to a special class and was behind everyone among my peers. God made me so wonderfully in my mother's womb that I didn't have gifts or talents that could allow me to rise above the deaths of my childhood. Even as a young boy, I struggled with despair, the thought of having to live, to face God's generous, amazing gift (life) for decades was too much to bear. The Bible says that whatever you ask in Jesus's name, it will be given to you. But when you read the fine prints, it says, ''You know I was just kidding, right?'' If God screwed you over in your mother's womb, a dry well will be more useful to you if you're parched than God will. Sadly for humankind, out of all the possible gods, we got Yahweh, the one that makes deals with Satan (Job), and the one that makes hell the default destination. Somehow, i think God gets off on people's misery. God would be in panic mode if life started working out for me. He'd de be scratching his head, ''What the fuck happened? I had Satan, people, circumstances his own parents chip away at his identity, personality, *any* possibility of him living a good and satisfying life. All my eternal decrees have fallen in pieces on the ground.🙄 I guess it's time to ask my partner in crime Satan to have another Job moment'' God's eternal decrees of lack and adversity would have been easily defeated by money. Satan didn't snatch me out of the peace of nonexistence only to be crushed by this life, God did. God is prescient, which means he knew this life would crush me in a matter of a few short years and that overcoming that wouldn't be possible. God is a heartless monster in that he creates people knowing they'll be miserable in this life and in the next. Imagine inviting your best friend to your birthday party and they, out of the overflowing generosity of their heart, give you something they *know* you hate. How fucking twisted is that? God didn't snatch me out of the perfect quiet and peace of nonexistence for my own sake, that much is obvious. Can you imagine the impossible task for you to convince me that my biggest enemy is actually my only true ally? (smile) Much of my life attests that God is truly my enemy. I can call so many witnesses to the stand and they'll tell you God *willed* for me to be crushed and to not be able to rise above my afflictions. What kind of life was I supposed to build on such crummy foundations? Imagine being heartless enough to give someone life when you *know* they'll be mostly plagued by it. That's the god we're dealing with, the dry well god. The one that makes loving him the sine qua non condition to avoid hell.

[@luxshampoo8520]

she's a little older than me!

[@Gowdy-mm3cc]

Pretty❤

[@luxshampoo8520]

sounds like your parents try hard to protect you the hard way. most parents just allow drinking & marijuana to there kids.