Back in the Spring of 2008, I had all but given up on myself and the confusing mess I had made out of my life when God brought a dynamic woman of faith across my path, Miss Sue*. Sue was a beautiful, bold, middle-aged Italian woman who had a passion for life and living. Her joy in life was contagious and I remember this strange and wonderful awakening in my spirit that took place when I was around her. She had a way of making me feel valuable, and special. I was very much damaged goods at that time, and desperately needed healing and refreshing inside, I just didn’t know where to look or how to find it.
God, in his incredible wisdom, used this brilliant woman to touch my life in such a way, that I would never be the same. I took to her immediately, and as I questioned her with the "why’s", my circumstances, the pain and suffering I was enduring, she pointed me back to the living Word of God. I listened as she spoke of the truths in the Bible, and as she taught me. Later, on my own, I hungrily began to devour the Holy Scriptures like never before in my life. As they began to literally feed my malnourished soul, my knowledge of His promises and truths grew. I was insatiable for the Word, and then, slowly, my understanding changed.
I found that God wanted me to live free of the pain, suffering, and betrayal. Free of all sin, negative thoughts, and old patterns. I found through the Scriptures HOW to live in freedom, and how to live in the promises currently in my life! His Word, though I had read it and known it since childhood, became alive to me in a time when I knew no life. I was breathing, but I had been dying inside.
Miss Sue began to speak life over me and prophesy over my life, and my future. She called the sickness gone, my pain healed and released, as she prophesied what was to come in my life. I began to thrive under those words of life, and partnered with God’s Word, I began to dream again.
*Name has been changed to respect privacy.
For more of my testimony, see my website www.bessieblanco.com.
This has been a small sneak peak into the upcoming book I am working on!
