Pauls Testimony

God has blessed me and my family with so much ever since we came into this amazing message, but before we could recieve these blessings we had to be pure and blameless before God. God has softened my heart since the first February when we went down to Nashville. Through the Weigh Down Workshop and Weigh Down Advance classes God has taken off 35 pounds of greed from my body. He restored my looks to what they were meant to be, which is more than I deserve for my 13 years of sin!! I have left my old, ungodly friends and beliefs behind, which were hard things for me to do at first. God was so gracious that once I let go of my will and ran after His, He gave me three times the number of friends that I had in the world!!! Pride was a HUGE issue for me, but I praise God that He graciously had the Zanoni's, who were also in these classes with me, help me get rid of it. It is so freeing now to not have that pride, but to have a soft heart so that I may wholeheartedly seek God!!! Another sin I was holding on to was praise of man, and that was very disgusting!!! Praise of man is meaningless, for it's the praise of God almighty that we want to strive for. I used to feel sorry for myself when there was no one to hang out with because I had no one to show off to. Now, looking back on those times, it just sends shivers down my back to think that I was like that. Isn't God AWESOME!!?!! I mean to give us not only a second chance, but a third, a fourth, and even more than that!!! That is way more then anyone deserves. I wake up in the morning, and I get on my face praising God because I have another day to praise and give glory to Him!!! It's just amazing what God can do, and you just have to sit back and watch him work!!! You also have to go out and fight for His kingdom!!! I praise and thank God for His mercy and grace and I will just battle onwards for Israel!!!!!!