Today you will hear an encouraging message from Mrs. Lashawn Jennings. I have admired her. She has a poise and a smile that truly captures a room. I asked her a series of questions to encourage any women who may not feel like they can be restored. You will hear how the Lord has truly restored her and I pray you are encouraged that with the lord he also does this for you. Enjoy!
Questions we asked:
Who is Lashawn Jennings?
In three words, describe your life so far?
How did God restore you?
When did you meet your husband?
How did you battle with a lack of faith during your waiting?
What things did you do while you waited on God?
How have you witnessed miracles in your life?
What encouragement would you give a woman who doesn't feel like a WIFE?
How do you believe with your story, you can encourage Christian women to pursue all things through Christ?
If I could describe myself self I would say, LaShawn is a Wife, a strong mother of three children, a grandmother of two, a Godmother, and a person who loves to give others a chance. I am a huggable /loveable person and a visual learner. I love the Lord, I love to direct and minister in music, as I am a current coordinator. I love serving and being obedient to the will of God. I love helping other churches build their ministry, especially when they are just getting started. I love to cook for my family. I love bringing people together for prayer it’s what I live for mainly because this is how God has kept me by praying, maintaining my faith, and believing that he has everything under control. I an overcomer, a fighter, a survivor who has never given up. My faith is stronger, My confidence in God is amazing, I know who I am in Christ.
A prayer warrior who’s been restored. This word restored I see differently now. Firstly, God had to cause me to dream one day, just so I could see who I was and how my life was headed for destruction. When God puts you in front of a mirror so you can see how dirty you are on the inside it will make you change fast. I had to love me, I had to know how to be in that alone place. I had to know how to believe in God and not what men say. I had to go back to all patrons and ask them to forgive me for leading them the wrong way because they knew that I was a church girl, oh and I LOVED the Lord but l wasn’t living according to God’s word.
God restored me by changing my mindset, and maturing me in Him. God, had to teach me how to be a godly woman and not just a church girl, he had to teach me to be a woman who knows the word and to live the word, not a church girl who’s just a hearer of the word. I met my husband in the year 2000. To be honest I did not battle with a lack of faith as I waited on my husband. For I always knew a change was coming I just had to change my mindset. While I waited on God to change my mindset and restore my love life I continued serving God and allowing him to work on me.I’ve seen God do some amazing stuff. One of them was with my husband and I reuniting back together although.
After being divorced for five years. I said never, God was saying yes you will. I’ve watched God move on my mother’s behalf, I’ve seen him move on my nephew’s behalf when death was calling him. I know him to be a miracle worker. If I could encourage any woman who doesn't feel like a wife, I would say first you have to find the root of the problem of why you do not feel like a wife? In Ephesians 5:33, the bible commands wives to respect their husbands. This means revering, admiring, and honoring their husbands. A good wife values her husband's opinions, admires his values and character, and is considerate of his needs, such as the need for self-confidence and the need to be needed.
So we must be ready to be these things when we say I’m ready to be a wife. I encourage you to get closer to God have a relationship with him so you can hear from him. Ask God to show you yourself, to see how you can fix how you are feeling. I encourage you to speak out of your mouth who you are as a woman of God. Everything I’ve been through and all the test I’ve passed this is one of my favorite scriptures I say, all the time Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” And know, God is already working it out, without God, it just won’t work, keep God in the front of your marriage and in front of your stages of healing and He will lead you.
Comments