Lynell's Story

For three-and-a-half years a friend had urged me to go to church with her and my answer was always "no".  Events in my past made me feel like I wasn't good enough and I was afraid to face God.  After a divorce and experiencing the struggles of a single mom I wanted to better my life and my child's life, so I started attending services.  My life improved for awhile, but I still felt like I wasn't good enough and I just didn't fit in.  I was just a pew sitter; spiritually dead.  I came in, sat down, hugged a few people and went home after service was over.

One day the Women of Destiny wanted volunteers for an all-women choir for Mother's Day.  I thought, "I know music.  I can volunteer for one day."  After one rehearsal I found myself walking around the house and the hallway at work singing.  It was as if a little spark had ignited in my spirit.  After the Mother's Day service, that little spark become a flame and it felt good.  The next thing I knew God had moved over me with boldness because I approached the Music Minister and asked to join the choir.

It wasn't long after joining the choir that I started to feel like I not only fit in the choir, but that I actually belonged there.  Three weeks later the Lord moved in me again and I went through a five-week transformation process in which the Lord reviewed with me the things I went through in my past and the healing began as I faced each event.  At the end of this process, God showed me mercy and I had become a new person inside and out because He had made me alive in Christ.  I rededicated my life to Jesus Christ and was baptized.  I experienced the immutable love of God overflowing in my heart and spreading to others.  The Lord has placed a song in my heart that is constantly singing praises to Him and He has filled my spirit with joy.  The choir is a family to me and through the entire process, and as I continue to grow in Christ, one or more of them has been there when I needed help.  That small flame now consumes my entire being and I long to be closer to Jesus.

Thank you Father that Your love and grace is so deep that you have Your only Son and His blood is so powerful that there is no sin that it doesn't cover and it restores my relationship with You.  For the first time in my adult life I feel I have a purpose and goals.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped;  Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise Him.  Psalm 28:7