My Testimony

I experienced awful eczema from as young as I could remember until about the age of 16. I hated my skin so bad as a child that I wanted to have my limbs amputated and to replace them with prosthetic limbs. I couldn't bend my arms due to how inflamed the eczema was. I would lay in bed and my skin would shed. I did not feel beautiful, and I could not bear to look at myself. No matter how much medication I took and steroids I was prescribed nothing ever worked. I tried soooo many remedies and got no relief. Eventually, I stopped having allergic reactions to certain things, but the dark scars still remained. I started using raw shea butter and within about a year's time the dark eczema scars began to lighten up. God is faithful and he healed my body. Not only from eczema but from other sicknesses as well.

After attaining my degree in Psychology with First Class Honors I was ready to tackle the world. From a child I always knew what I wanted to do next. For the first time in my life at the age of 22 I did not know what to do. Being a people-pleaser, higher-achiever and perfectionist was a terrible combo at this stage. I was not doing what the world expected of me, but I remember God clearly directing me to leave my job. Those were the most agonizing 7 months of my life. I thought that by month 3 I would have been employed. I literally felt like Job, like I was going through hell on earth. Well, I wrestled with God as He told me to pick up entrepreneurship. "It's too hard" I said "I want something easy." I forgot my prayer that I wanted to be used more in His kingdom and that I only want to work 4 days a week. God was trying to answer my prayer. In those 7 months he taught me many things but here are the ones I wish to share:

1. God is the only provider not money and not a job.

2. Nothing is stable except for Him - Look at how COVID impacted our lives.

3. God brought me out of Egypt, but I was fighting Him to go back.

4. He was trying to break my slavery mindset and to set me free.

5. He is in control!

6. He was trying to answer my prayer, and I was resisting Him.

7. My identity is not in what I do but who I am. When all of the roles are stripped away what is left, who is left?

Currently, I am an entrepreneur who farms. I am able to give much more time to ministry due to the flexibility of my job. You can see the extent of my current ministry on the "My Ministry" page. I get to be a Christian employer who treats her employees kind. I am not perfect and I am learning how to navigate life when it does not go according to my plans. However, God has brought me SOOO far and my life and the person who I have become is beyond what I could have dreamt of years go. Many times, what we view as bad God calls good and what we call good God calls bad. My goal is remembering all the miracles He has done for me and to trust him 100000%.