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On the home page I had mentioned these photos were taken during a hard time in my life and that once I had them developed I knew they were from the Lord. The hard time referred to was an abusive marriage I was in. When my ex-husband was drunk and hot-tempered, I used to run in the bathroom and lock the door (it was the only door we had that locked). I would get on my knees on the floor and cry out, "God! Where are you? God, do you see me down here? If you don't help me, I'm gonna die. " And then I would cry myself to sleep on the bathroom floor. Sometimes I would put towels down in the bathtub and try to sleep in there. I was afraid to come out of the bathroom, afraid my ex-husband would kill me. This happened countless times. (I'm leaving out gory details on purpose).
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After my ex-husband would leave for work at 5:30 or so in the morning, I would get up and watch the sunrise. We lived on the top floor of an ocean front high-rise apartment building. I would throw bread out the window to the seagulls in mid-air, and take pictures of the sunrise. Something about the beauty of the sunrise on the ocean was healing. Sometimes I could catch a photo of a seagull outside my window with the sunrise in the background. When I got the pictures developed, they were incredible! Sometimes, I didn't recall seeing or taking the image that came back in the developed photo. It was the Lord. I had been crying out to Him and He was in my face. I just didn't know it. The Lord was showing me that He was THERE all along, keeping me. He saw & cared about what was going on. All I had was a 35mm point & shoot, but the pictures were supernatural in my eyes.
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If God, the Creator of heaven and earth, can show His power and love to one as undeserving as myself, then He can show it to anyone. Anyone who cries out to Him with their whole heart. It says in Acts 2:21 "And it shall be that whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." In that same season, my hairdresser prayed with me in the back room of a hair salon in Brooklyn NY. I felt the power and presence of God! When I walked out of that salon, I knew something really big had happened. Little did I know I would never be the same again. My life began to radically change over the next 2 years, without stepping foot into a church or opening the Bible. All by Himself, the Lord changed me from the inside out. I stopped cursing, partying, hanging out in bars, etc. It was totally an inside job that the Lord did on me. I know His sovereign power, He's God all by Himself. Then, 2 years later, I walked into a born again church and found out about worshipping the Lord and finally understood His Word. I met the lover of my soul while at home reading Isaiah, and didn't stop reading it for 3 days. I discovered the Bible is actually a love letter! Are you tired of life as you know it? He will change your life if you let Him...
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Salvation is a free gift, you cannot earn it. You can only receive it! The Word of God says in Romans 10:9, "If you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe with your heart God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." He will wash away your sins, and make you a child of God. Receive it and believe it! To begin this new life say, "Lord, I'm sorry for my sins. I ask You to come into my heart. I make Your Son Jesus my Lord and Savior." By faith we receive Christ into our life. You will have an actual relationship with God, today! Find a non-denominational or born again church. Asking Jesus into my heart was the best thing that ever happened to me in my entire life. God is real and He loves us.
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