I wanted to share this part of my testimorny today. I hope it gives great peace to someone else that is struggling. Have a beautiful day. Keeping holding on to the one who will never let go. Love and many prayers, IN HIM, Dar. In the Valley He Restoreth my Soul By: Darlene E. Revell In 1992 my husband Bill retired from the Navy after serving his country faithfully for 20 years. We had our last pack-em-up and move um out from Patuxent River, Maryland in June of 92. We were finally headed home to Missouri with our few belongings, 2 daughters, no job lined up, and no place to call home; In other words we were flying on a wing and a prayer and trusting the Lord. Well, God had great plans for us and we were ready to start our new life. We arrived in Missouri, bought our first home (built in 1900); God led us to a church with a beautiful church family (Liberty). We started getting settled into our home in Aug of that same year and got the kids enrolled in school. We were starting to put some roots down for the first time in our marriage and it felt so good. Although Bill had not found work, I was able to get a part-time job in Perryville, Mo working with crafts, which is what I had done in Maryland; this was enough to help buy the groceries. One night in February of 1993 I woke up feeling very strange. I got up and made it to the downstairs bathroom, as I was climbing back up the stairs my whole body just gave out on me. I called for Bill to come help me. At this time I could not speak, nor stand and I was very scared. I was taken to the hospital where I spent the night. Over the next five and half years I bounced back and forth with my health. For a few months at a time I would be down where I could hardly walk, and then without warning I would snap out of it like nothing had ever been wrong. I was frustrated and scared. I had always been healthy and very independent. I had watched my father die, a young man of 47 of a similar disease and I can honestly say; that although I was trusting in the Lord, that this kept coming back into my mind. In 1998 I finally went to a specialist and he diagnosed me with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). I really didn’t know much about the disease, but I was just happy to know what I was dealing with. I read everything I could get my hands on about MS and finally felt like my thorn in the flesh had a name and that I could fight it. It is now November of 2010 as I write this blog and I still have my thorn in the flesh; as we speak I am in the middle of one of the many down times that I have experienced over the years. I have prayed for God’s healing in my life and He constantly gives me the same answer that he gave to Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:9….And He said unto me, MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEE, FOR MY STRENGTH IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS, Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the POWER OF CHRIST my rest upon me….VS: 10(THE PUNCH LINE)…..Therefore I take pleasures in infirmities(make the best of it), in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses FOR CHRIST’S SAKE; FOR WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN AM I STRONG. The tears are flowing as I write this because I have learned through this illness that we serve an AMAZING God. He just keeps blessing me more and more. He has given me a testimony by allowing me to go through something like I had never been through before. He keeps teaching me over and over to trust in Him. Psalm 119:71…It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn THY statutes. Now I can look back to where I have been and where I am headed and say with all confidence, but I trusted in Thee, O Lord; I said, Thou art my God, Psalm 31:14. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; to the end that my glory may sing praise to Thee; and NOT BE SILENT, O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto Thee FOREVER. Psalm 30:11&12 Phil. 4:13 I can do all things THROUGH CHRIST which strengtheneth me. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto Him be glory in the church by Jesus Christ throughout all ages, world without end A-men ~Darlene~
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