The Testimony of Valerie Elliot Shepard, daughter of Jim & Elisabeth Elliot

[@isaiah53design]

Thank you for watching this precious story of this precious lady. If you'd like to leave a comment, I'll try to see that Mrs. Val sees it. And sometimes these KZbin comments seem glitchy, showing up twice or not at all - thanks for your patience. To God be the glory!

[@ORSkie]

Please thank Val for the testimony! I would love to hear what Galatians study they went through. Also, out of curiosity, I would have loved to hear how they decided that they should go ahead and get married after denying themselves for 5 years. 💝

[@isaiah53design]

I have passed along your message! I don’t know the name of the Galatians study but I love Galatians. And you can read “the rest of the story” in Becoming Elisabeth Elliot by Ellen Vaughn, and ESPECIALLY in Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth written by Valerie. It’s GOOOD

[@amandadalmeida8096]

@@isaiah53design😊😊😊😊

[@summerf3022]

I’m not sure if this message will reach Valerie, but I wanted to tell her that since 2018 I have gone through the deepest and most treacherous valleys - things I never in any lifetime could have seen coming - things I never expected to have to endure or live through... but through these past 3 years your mother has been hands down the #1 conduit for God to speak to me and tell me that suffering is never for nothing... I have read her books, listened to her audiobooks of the same titles, and watched all the videos I could find of her... anytime I find myself in the deep valley, I listen to Elisabeth Elliot speak... and I have never heard the voice of God more clearly through any other person in my life. I cannot wait to get to heaven and thank her for how she helped me through my darkest times; times when all I wanted to do was lay down and die. I know she understands this... God anointed her life and her words, and your father’s, to live on for generations to come. Thank you for following in her footsteps. There aren’t words in the English language to be able to convey how priceless she’s been to me and my life and surviving a wilderness I never saw coming.

[@isaiah53design]

From Mrs. Val: Yes, I’m so thankful for what my mother taught - The Truth! I’m so GRATEFUL for my mother’s impact on thousands. Thank you for listening and for letting me know how you’ve been blessed! To God be the glory!!

[@carynmason3421]

I'm in a wilderness period right now and have just discovered the Elliott's teachings, writings, talks. I agree that it is truly a Godsend! I think about Elisabeth's mother who raised 6 godly children and how it is STILL bearing fruit in this earth and kingdom. Wow, what a testimony to following God's design. 💓

[@MD-hg9dq]

My objective using wonderful words of life found in the attached prayer for unity is to encourage the disheartened and help the weak by being patient with everyone because our contract with survival is brokered with fragility, sadness and anxiety. On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE. YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors, their families and friends. 🥰 YOU SAW them as sinners (missing the mark resulting in their weaknesses prevailing causing guilt of wrong doing) because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive the grace by justification even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏🏾👏👏🏾👏👏🏾 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow. If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰 They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh. They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seek to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take. Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movies, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES. LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain. LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏🏾👏👏🏾👏👏🏾 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned inorder for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌🙌🏾 LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰 LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their door until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌🙌🏾 If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee. Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again (repentance manifesting itself in a changed life), I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh. O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰

[@isaiah53design]

SO well said!

[@joycemorrice9509]

I know the story but so loved hearing it from your words. What a beautiful testimony you are to your mom and dad's parenting.

[@isaiah53design]

Amen, Joyce!

[@cherylannlower9472]

Loved listening to your Mom on the radio each day in the everlasting arms. She made a difference in my life. Thank you for sharing her with us!

[@isaiah53design]

WELL SAID!

[@feleciaredd5625]

I happened upon this video, as I was surfing KZbin. I am so glad I clicked on it. We are a homeschool family and the curriculum we use has a history portion that includes a timeline and Jim and Elizabeth Elliot are featured on one of the cards, and as the student graduates into the middle school portion of the curriculum, we read at least one of the books by Mrs. Elizabeth Elliot, so I have personally been blessed by this beautiful story of Agape love and service to the Lord Almighty. It is such a blessing to hear Mrs. Valerie Elliot's testimony, and to have it resonate with my very own life. As a wife, I saw myself in her words about her own marriage...It just amazes me how the Lord directs our steps and we know not the real reason until we take the time to listen. What a blessing to hear her testimony. Thank you so much for sharing. God bless you.

[@isaiah53design]

Wow, praise the Lord, Felicia! Thank you so much for commenting. I’ve passed on your comment to Mrs. Val, and I’m sure she’ll be as encouraged as I was reading your words. God bless you as you train those sweet kids to serve Him! Jer. 32:38-41

[@junehelton3730]

I always listened to your Mom on the radio. Loved her wisdom. You were indeed blessed to have the parents you had. Love to you and your family.

[@isaiah53design]

Thank you, June! I will pass along your message to Mrs. Val.

[@jb-xz6lf]

Beautifully humble, open and honest. Thank you 🙏

[@isaiah53design]

Isn’t she?! Thanks for commenting! God bless you

[@joanpettengill2758]

I was blessed by Valerie's testimony. I previously have watched some of her Mom's videos. I am so humbled by their life stories. Makes me feel inadequate in my life's testimony. I had grandiose thoughts when I first came to Christ. I've lived a basic American life in NH quietly living to try and honor the Lord but fail miserably. Lord Bless you and keep you.🙏🏻

[@isaiah53design]

When all is said and done, may it be said that we walked with Jesus in faith whether in a spectacular journey or a quiet one. He is the Hero in the Elliots’ story and in ours, as I’m sure Jim and Elisabeth would agree. He is the Spectacular Author and Finisher of our faith who knows how to add twists and turns to our personal stories, even allowing plots that hurt our hearts and remove ugly flaws and ultimately birth beautiful things into our lives. May He bless and keep you too!

[@joanpettengill2758]

@@isaiah53design Hallelujah this was timely and thank you for the blessing from the throne🙏🏻

[@isaiah53design]

Praise our timely God!!!

[@lilliemarie896]

Thank you so much for your testimony of christ life, when I start on christ Journey which I knew my children are sinners and my husband and also myself chief sinner, I didn't have heritages of save family, but he has keep us in this marvelous journey. Blessing dear woman of God.

[@isaiah53design]

Amen. God bless you, Lillie Marie! Lovely name

[@GlendaWalton-y5l]

This was an awesome video. It was great hearing more about Jim & Elisabeth Elliot. I just LOVE Elisabeth Elliot and her work. Her book "Me, Obey Him" helped me to be a much better wife to my husband. I'm not sure if Valerie will see this or even be told about it but she was a guest on Gateway to Joy on BBN and she exlained to her mom some sayings she lives by. This was taped many years ago. I was able to copy some but missed a few. It went something like this "I will receive what You send, I will lack what You withhold." Like I said there was more and I would love to have it all to share with the ladies in my Sunday School Class. Thank you for sharing your mother with us. LOVED the video. God bless you and yours.

[@isaiah53design]

Thanks for your beautiful comment, Glenda! I sent it to Mrs. Val and she said she’ll have to look it up-it was in one of her Bibles that she wrote in a long time ago. And I believe “Me, Obey Him?” was actually written by Elizabeth Rice Handford. It has also been a great blessing to me, too! For anyone who hasn’t read it, here’s a link: archive.org/details/meobeyhimobedien00hand

[@roxananoboa4190]

That was so beautiful so inspiring so honest the kind of testimony you don't hear of anymore.

[@isaiah53design]

God bless you-thanks for commenting!

[@sue2272]

Thank you, Mrs. Shepherd. Your asking the Lord Jesus to bless is gracious. Thank you for pointing out that being in God's Word is more than a duty, it is building a relationship with Him. --I sure need to know that. Also, thank you for exhort, urging us to die to our self. My life-long dream has been to marry. As an old, single woman, I must surrender that dream and accept the gift of singleness. Breaks my heart, yet I do sense joy and peace that only Jesus gives. I've often wondered about you, as I listened to your Mother's talks. Thank you for sharing a bit of your story with us. The Lord Jesus bless you and yours..

[@isaiah53design]

From Mrs. Val: Dear Sue, thank you for your kind words of grace- Yes the relationship with Him is something which becomes more and more precious as I grow older. May He complete all your desires. He will fulfill what concerns you, because He is always GOOD!

[@MD-hg9dq]

A prayer using caps as emphasis to encourage believers by reminding them that they are not alone in the spiritual journey. On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE. YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors. 🥰 YOU SAW them as sinners (missing the mark resulting in their weaknesses prevailing causing guilt of wrong doing) because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive the grace by justification even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏🏾👏👏🏾👏👏🏾 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow. If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰 They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh. They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seek to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take. Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movies, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES. LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain. LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏🏾👏👏🏾👏👏🏾 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned inorder for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌🙌🏾 LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰 LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their door until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌🙌🏾 If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee. Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again (repentance manifesting itself in a changed life), I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh. O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰

[@bevcallow5833]

Thank you for this beautiful story. How blessed they were and still are.

[@isaiah53design]

Amen, Bev! Thanks for commenting!

[@HotSeat17]

That was such a poignant and beautiful testimony. Thank you for sharing. What if you woke up tomorrow with only the things you thanked God for today? The more the world grows evil and moves away from God, the more the Light of Jesus Christ shines and the beauty of the Gospel of peace and salvation grows brighter each day...

[@isaiah53design]

So well said! Thank you for watching and commenting! God bless :)

[@MD-hg9dq]

I am in agreement with your words, ... "[t]he more the world grows evil and moves away from God, the more the Light of Jesus Christ shines and the beauty of the Gospel of peace and salvation grows brighter each day" ... as illustrated by the following prayer using caps as emphasis. On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE. YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors, their families and friends. 🥰 YOU SAW them as sinners (missing the mark resulting in their weaknesses prevailing causing guilt of wrong doing) because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive the grace by justification even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏🏾👏👏🏾👏👏🏾 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow. If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰 They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh. They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seek to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take. Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movies, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES. LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain. LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏🏾👏👏🏾👏👏🏾 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned inorder for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌🙌🏾 LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰 LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their door until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌🙌🏾 If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee. Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again (repentance manifesting itself in a changed life), I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh. O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰

[@shelzybelzyjournal1763]

Wow, that was a really beautiful and convicting testimony. I knew the basics of your parents story and so that is why I watched this but your testimony was powerful. Thank you.

[@isaiah53design]

Thank you!!

[@joannajakes3489]

Thank you for uploading this testimony. Valerie, thank for sharing your beautiful story and memories with us. 🙏

[@isaiah53design]

Thank you so much for commenting, Joanna! God bless you.

[@hephzibah4675]

My goodness, its is so incredibly encouraging..... to me , mother , wife, daughter of God.... Its so powerful hear someone speaking of someones elses life and share testimony through their eyes, even more than someone sharing their own. Such a witness.... worthy of acceptance

[@isaiah53design]

Amen, Hephzibah!

[@hephzibah4675]

@@isaiah53design i can really relate in regards tonwife that tries to change her husband. I am trying to unlearn that, but its not easy when one have bunch of expectations on the back of her head... Any practical steps towards freedom from this pattern you could share?

[@isaiah53design]

Ask God for wisdom and profound thankfulness that this man, just as he is, loves me, just as I am. I’m still learning but those words were what a much wiser woman told me and they work!

[@felicitysummers9140]

Thank you so much for your testimony it has really touched me. In my later teens,(now 76) I used to go to WEC Missionary Training College, I lived in walking distance. I would go to their prayer meetings on a Friday night, I well remember we would be praying for your parents and the other missionaries who were led to reach out to the Quechua Indians. That God would be with them and the shock to hear of the men’s death. But to also later on hear how the Lord used their sacrifice to bring them to Himself. I only just recently discovered your Mothers videos and it is a blessing to hear her speak, God has used her in a mighty way Praise to Him for that, I’m being challenged for the sacrifice she has gone thru and of my closer walk with the Lord. May He continue to bless you and your hubby in your service for our blessed Lord and Saviour.

[@isaiah53design]

Thank you so much for letting her know, Felicity! Mrs. Val said, “Please tell her thank you and I’m so glad the story keeps being heard, for His glory!!”

[@felicitysummers9140]

@@isaiah53design 💖🙏

[@kiji2643]

Thank you for sharing your story my beautiful sister! God bless you and Keep you! Glory to God

[@isaiah53design]

God bless you, Ki Ji!

[@homeworshipwithmartyandamy7754]

Amen! May you continue to grow in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for being an example of honoring your parents and building on the foundation they gave you!

[@isaiah53design]

Thank you so much for watching and commenting. May God bless you!

[@garydonohue7032]

Thankyou for sharing, l enjoyed reading some of the testimony of your parents and yourself. God Bless you and your Family.

[@isaiah53design]

Thanks, Gary. God bless

[@elises2074]

Wow this just blessed me soooooo much!!!! My heart is so softened by the Lord through it....in tears as He softens my heart more.

[@isaiah53design]

Mrs. Val replied, “Wonderful!”

[@vanessa2d898]

She's just as beautiful in heart as her parents

[@isaiah53design]

Amen, Vanessa. Thanks for watching and commenting! God bless :)

[@kimberleeyamplolsky647]

Thank you for sharing so many insightful nuggets of truth.

[@isaiah53design]

Thank YOU, Kimberlee! :)

[@kameiajeilu9136]

Most beautiful testimony may God continue to bless and enlarge forever the the gospel of Jesus Christ Amen 🙏🙏🙏

[@isaiah53design]

AMEN, Kamei!

[@mariaemilianegron]

Thank you for sharing your testimony

[@isaiah53design]

Thank you, Maria! God bless!

[@renhar2043]

Such a inspirational life journey . So nice hear from you knowing her seeds glorious work GOD has done and doing on the EARTH .Keep praying for the Lost, Backsliders and the will of the Lord JESUS Christ we need real MEN to rise up to the calling of the LORD in these dark times. BRIDEGROOM is coming for his Bride AMEN Best Husband were never alone Amen..

[@isaiah53design]

Amen! ❤️

[@stephaniesmith4121]

Thank you for the Word. God bless you.

[@isaiah53design]

Thank you, Stephanie. God bless you too!

[@jenr2180]

I remember reading the story of your parents and in '76 visiting the area where the Aucas lived. I want to say it was near Shell and Macas? (without bothering to look it up) . We crossed a big river on a taravita! I remember being a bit disappointed that the only Auca we saw had on western clothing and carried a transistor radio 🤣. I was either a very new Christian or became one later that year, but have been fascinated by your parents ' lives. Thank you for sharing yours in this video. PS At that time I was living just over the NH border from Franconia in Vt.

[@isaiah53design]

Amazing! Thank you for sharing your memories! So cool that one day in heaven we can all share our memories and connect all the dots. Because of Jesus! Let’s praise Him!!

[@joyouslily2982]

To live for Him & die to my feelings…I need to etch that saying in gold

[@isaiah53design]

Amen! Me too!! God bless :)

[@carolpage7162]

Thank you !🥰🙏

[@isaiah53design]

Thank you, Carol!

[@cherylcali8222]

Thank you ❤

[@JesusLovesyou..1John3.6]

Love it 😊❤ praise God He prepared them thank God for all the good Always all His Help always 😊❤❤❤❤❤

[@isaiah53design]

Amen! :)

[@meghalaratnaiya9113]

Hello Valerie, tku for sharing this. How true is the quote- Like mom ,like daughter ! I am in India but I want you to know that your mom's biography on your dad ," Under the Shadow of the Almighty " which has the quote He is no fool...inspired me. It helped me in 1983 as a 19 year old bible school student to take some decisions to follow the Lord .

[@isaiah53design]

Thank you so much for your precious comment! Here’s Mrs. Val’s reply: Wonderful! Please tell her “I’m so grateful for the Lord gifting him and my mom with such spiritual hunger and serious commitment! So glad the story is still blessing people!”

[@ibelieveinjesuschrist8911]

Wow!! Thank you!

[@isaiah53design]

Thank you for commenting!

[@joycemiller606]

No sound??!!!

[@isaiah53design]

Maybe try refreshing the page?

[@treasure2behold282]

She has a good listening voice. Though, I love listening to her mother's talks. Native tribes have a lot to teach us. We value material things over the genuine quality of life.

[@isaiah53design]

Doesn’t she?! It’s amazing: when we share the gospel, God rewards us by teaching us from the people we are teaching. What a wise God!

[@marcibunn]

❤thank u!

[@isaiah53design]

Thank you, Marci! :)

[@theelizabethan1]

Valerie Elliott Shepard, you are a great communicator, so-o-o like your Mom!

[@isaiah53design]

Amen to that! I’ve sent her the message :)

[@ramonam9251]

What a lovely woman.

[@isaiah53design]

YES!! Thanks for watching and commenting, Ramona. God bless you!

[@nik7972]

God bless your penple in the HOLY SPIRIT AND TRUTH FOR THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS CRIHST AMEN 🔥🙌🙌🏿🙌🏾♥️

[@isaiah53design]

God bless you, Nik!

[@2TSB222]

Praise God

[@isaiah53design]

Amen!

[@jenniferotieno7823]

Wow amen and amen

[@isaiah53design]

❤️ Amen!

[@danitapowell2291]

I wonder if Valerie had a relationship with her Elliot grandparents.

[@isaiah53design]

She did! :)

[@ginamcknight8115]

I wouldn’t want to be in her company.EE

[@Raminakai]

I respected her for many things, but I agree, I don’t think she made others, besides her husbands, perhaps, very comfortable around her. She had flaws and her very strict personality. Order, is a good thing in principle, but one can take it so far that a human joy is missing. I had similar upbringing, not to that extent, and am still very uncomfortable around my parents. I have fought hard to allow Jesus to help me accept others as is, while maintaining my conviction based on Bible Truth. ❤️

[@isaiah53design]

They say for each of us, there are about a third of the people who love us, a third who can’t stand us, and a third who don’t care one way or another. May God give us all the grace to love those who love us and those who don’t alike. Thanks for watching and commenting, Gina. God bless you!

[@isaiah53design]

Interesting perspective, Raminakai. Isn’t God good to use us just as we are, flaws and all? What a merciful God. Have a wonderful day-God bless! :)