Testimony of Angellia Perry

I realize the choices I have made throughout life should have been much different. The only wise choice was to choose the Lord. Now I don’t have to make decisions without one who truly loves me to guide me. With Christ’s guidance, if I choose Him, there are blessings and not curses.

When I met my husband we were both unbelievers. It was in the year 2000, I was a single mother of a 2 year old boy and had no idea who or where his biological dad was. I was afraid and concerned for my child and myself and how I was going to make ends meet. I was a laborer on a construction site making $7.00 an hour. With day care, rent, utilities, etc… I let the cares of the world get the best of me. So I felt I needed a man to help ends meet. My supervisor and I started seeing each other May. In June Edmund left his wife and moved in with me. About a year later we decided to have a baby and I became pregnant.

Now with another life I am responsible for things get more intense and I start my search for something more. I started going to church and knew the Lord was the answer to all of my issues. My boyfriend, Edmund, would attend most of the time but didn’t claim to believe. While I was learning of Christ I did not know His ways. The church I attended sugar coated the word. By ’03 we had three children, my son, and our two, a son and a daughter. Conviction set in about living in sin and fornication so I nagged Edmund till he married me in ‘05. One month before our wedding the Lord told me not to marry him. Loud and clear God said, “ I will take care of you.”  I chose Edmund.

The next four and a half years were filled with torment, depression, financial difficulties and continuously fighting with my husband. I was under the impression that I didn’t have to obey him because he wasn’t a believer. I ruled the roost or at least tried to. I wasn’t trying to please him he was the last on my priority list. It went the world, my children, Christ, myself then my husband. And it was complete Chaos. The Lord then brought us to Cottageville.

I look back and see the Lord’s hand in directing me to the truth. Though it is a challenge to live by the truth, much more than what the other churches were teaching me, I praise the Lord for loving me enough to chasten me and teach me His ways. Since the Lord has helped me put my priorities straight, Christ, my husband, my children, and bothers and sisters in Christ, there is a peace. No more depression and no more senseless loud bickering. I know my place now it is to be humble and serve. As long as I am doing the Lord’s will and not my own peace and blessings are there. When I do mess up I just repent get up dust myself off and go again in faith. I love my Lord and wouldn’t go back to before for anything I want to labor to stay in His rest where there is peace, grace and unconditional love. My family and I have gained much more than we have lost. It is immeasurable. Christ is and always will be my Savior, PRAISE GOD ALWAYS AND FOREVER, PRAISE THE KING OF KINGS. Hallelujah!!!

In Christ’s Love,
Angie Perry