By: RoseMarie Mullins
I wish to give all the glory to the Triune God, the Father who loved me and created me, His Son who redeemed me by His dying on the Cross and the Holy Spirit who upholds me daily with His wisdom and grace. I'll never forget Oct. of 2007 as my life seemed to be ebbing away, I could actually feel my life's energy draining. I could no longer "work circles around people" like I had always done. I had to pull myself up by the rails when climbing stairs, my daughter had to help me get out of chairs, my strength was totally depleated. I could not understand why? I had serious health challenges, with my heart, blood pressure, swollen feet, eye sight deminishing, extremely short of breath and no ENERGY, moving slowly as my bones would hurt to move and on top of all that I weighed more than i had ever weighed, I weighed 287 pounds!
I had always been an upbeat person, seldom did I find myself depressed, but now I felt hopeless. How had I got myself into this position? I found myself in a condition I could do nothing about. I was taking 13 different medications that kept pileing on because one medication caused me to have to take another one to get rid of the problem the other gave me and I was in a vicious cycle. That night in October I found myself on my knees, not knowing if I could get up but I was on my knees praying and crying to the Lord. One of the things I clearly remember saying was, "Lord I need my strength, I don't have any stamina, my vitality is draining I feel my life is draining out of me, Lord help me"!
This was on a Monday, I clearly remember because the next evening I went to my prayer meeting and before it started my sister in Christ came over and said, "don't leave right after the prayer meeting, I have a word from the Lord for you". After the prayer meeting she immediately came over to me, she started to pray and then the words of the Lord came out, "I have heard your prayer and I will give you STRENGTH, STAMINA AND VITALITY my child"!
Now this got my attention!!! My sister in Christ had no idea that I had prayed these very exact words the night before! I'll NEVER forget these words, for they gave me HOPE for I had been hopeless. I had given up on losing the weight I was carrying all these years. I would lose from time to time only to gain it all back and more. I knew this night I had been touched by my God and Creator, my Redeemer, my Helper! I went home jubilant for, I knew that I knew that my God had spoken.
The next morning I woke up giving thanks to Him for the hope He had given me, I did not know how He was going to give me this new Strength, Stamina and Vitality but I KNEW that nothing is impossible with my God. I would wait... Two days went by and I get a phone call from another sister in Christ. She is all excited because she had talked to a friend and this friend had said to her " I have lost 20 pounds and I have my strength, stamina and vitality back! As my sister in Christ is relating this I am trying to stop her to ask her, "How did she do it"? She proceeds to tell me about a nutritional product she was using. I knew the Lord had brought me the answer! In my heart I knew I had to act. Now I know that God can use a donkey if He so choses, He can do it miraculously and I also know that His ways are not my ways, I am called to hear, listen and obey. I was not going to wait on this one. I found out what I needed to do, I received the product and directions on how to go about taking it etc. On October 25th I began, 3 days later I started feeling energy again...not a whole bunch but a little. A little goes a long way when you have had zero....none! 11 days later I had lost 14 and 3/4 lbs. That was fast, almost 15 lbs. in 11 days! I could not lose 1 pound before, I just kept adding them on daily it seemed. Well I was on my way, singing and leaping and praising God, for I knew that my God had done an awesome thing. He had given me hope that turned into faith! Now faith goes on as if it already is. That is where I am today, each and every day my Helper the Holy Spirit helps me chose what I eat and my body is RELEASING the fat, I am no longer losing fat as you find what you lose and I don't ever want to find this fat again. My body therefore is releasing the fat, I have released 55 pounds at this writing but I will continue to release much much more in order to glorify HIM!
Along with releasing the fat in my body it is also working to get rid of the toxins in my body that have accumulated through the years. We all know the air that we breath is toxic, the water that we drink is polluted, eating food that has food dyes etc. and food that has been sprayed with pesticides, our soil no longer has the nutrients to give the food that is grown in it any nutritional value.
Bottom line my God has come to our rescue and as He has provided this product out of plants and herbs that He has created, I am stronger today and feel so blessed with the changes in my body that I will always give praises to our God who loves us all so very much.
Yesterday, June 15th I turned 70 years old and I thank the Father, Son and Holy Spirit for my vitality, my zest for life is back with enthusia (enthusiasm) which is from my God. Amen