Testimony Tuesday: Sandy Humble

SURRENDER- TO YIELD POSSESSION OF, OR POWER OVER TO ANOTHER.

MY CHILDHOOD CONSISTED OF ALCOHLICS ,PHYSICAL ABUSE, SEXUAL ABUSE, AND RAPE. AS I GOT OLDER, I DETERMINED THAT NO ONE WOULD EVER TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ME AGAIN. I WAS NEVER GOING TO GIVE POWER OVER TO ANYONE TO HURT ME AGAIN. 

I MARRIED HAROLD (THE LOVE OF MY LIFE) WHEN I WAS 22 YRS. OLD. LITTLE DID HE KNOW THAT THE GIRL HE MARRIED BROUGHT ALONG WITH HER BAGGAGE FROM THE PAST. IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR THE BAGGAGE TO SHOW IT'S UGLY CONTENTS. INSIDE WAS ANGER, HATRED, RESENTMENT, BITTERNESS, UNFORGIVENESS, FEAR, PAIN, SHAME, GUILT, REMORSE, ETC. YOU NAME IT, IT WAS IN THERE. IT WAS FULL...HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT, AND NEITHER DID I. AND BECAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, THE FIRST FEW YEARS OF OUR MARRIAGE WERE NOT SO GOOD. I KNEW HE LOVED ME, AND I LOVED HIM, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO FIX MYSELF. 

AND ONE DAY, ABOUT SIX YRS. OF BEING MARRIED, WE WERE INVITED TO CHURCH. NOT LONG AFTER WE WERE SAVED. THE LORD BLESSED ME WITH EXPERIENCING WITH HAROLD SALVATION, WE WERE BAPTISED TOGETHER AND STARTED THIS JOURNEY WITH THE LORD TOGETHER. PRAISE THE LORD . FOR THAT MY HEART OVERFLOWS WITH THANKFULNESS. 

THE LORD BEGAN TO CHANGE OUR LIVES. THE LORD WOULD TAKE ME TO MY BAGGAGE THAT I HAD CARRIED FOR SO LONG, AND ONE BY ONE I WOULD TAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT AND SURRENDER IT TO HIM. I WOULD GIVE HIM THE "BAD", AND HE WOULD GIVE ME THE "GOOD". FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I KNEW WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO PUT MY TRUST IN SOMEONE AND NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. WITHOUT ME WILLING TO SURRENDER TO HIM ALL THAT WAS IN MY BAGGAGE, I NEVER WOULD HAVE HAD VICTORY OVER THOSE THINGS. GOD HAS BLESSED MY LIFE, MY MARRIAGE, MY FAMILY. MAYBE SOME OF YOU HAVE BAGGAGE THAT CONSISTS OF THE THINGS I HAD. WHATEVER YOUR BAGGAGE CONSISTS OF, LET HIM LEAD YOU TO SURRENDER TO HIM THOSE THINGS. HE WANTS TO TAKE THE "BAD" AND GIVE YOU THE "GOOD". 

IT TOOK JESUS TO SURRENDER TO THE CROSS TO GIVE US VICTORY, AND IT WILL TAKE SURRENDER ON OUR PART TO WALK IN VICTORY. AND I STILL, AFTER 34 YRS. OF WALKING WITH THE LORD, LIVE MY LIFE IN SURRENDER TO HIM IT HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN EASY, BUT ALWAYS WORTH IT.

MATT:11:28-30 - COME TO ME ALL OF YOU WHO ARE WEARY AND CARRY HEAVY BURDENS, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU. LET ME TEACH YOU, BECAUSE I AM HUMBLE AND GENTLE AT HEART, AND YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS FOR MY YOKE IS EASY TO BEAR: AND THE BURDEN I GIVE YOU IS LIGHT.