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| by Kim Dahl Homemaker Reno, NV
Before I was introduced to Dr. Eckman's materials, I believed that God was a judging God who constantly condemned me for my actions. My solution was to work hard to earn His favor by dedicating my life to ministry and reading the Bible. I was involved full time in various ministries. I spent a couple of hours a day praying and studying God's Word. My actions looked good on the outside, but my inside emotions and thoughts did not go along with my actions. The people around me thought that I was a good Christian because they did not know what was going on inside of me. I got the pleasure of taking a seminary class from Dr. Eckman where I was introduced to Becoming What God Intended. This material is life changing in a subtle way. I learned that God is my precious Father who loves me in the middle of my greatest sin. My emotions are tools to take me to God so that I can work problems out with Him rather than being a whitewashed tomb. God is not interested in my 2 hour a day study periods. He wants to clean out my inside thoughts and emotions to match my outward behavior. Let me explain how this has changed my life. I have a 2 year old little boy. God has called me to be a full time stay-at-home mom. I gave up the full time ministries to raise my son. Before this class I would not have done that, because I believed that I had to work to receive God's favor. Now I understand that I don't have to work to receive God's favor. Because of my relationship with Jesus, I already have it! My job is to seek God and follow His leading for my life. He has called me to stay at home, and raise my son. In my obedience, I have discovered such joy in raising my son. God made me to be a stay-at-home mommy. I love it! There are people who believe that I am wrong in giving up the ministries and that's okay. I know that staying at home is pleasing to God, and He is the person that I answer to. Another example of how this material has changed my life: as I am writing this God has me in His refiner's fire. I am pregnant with our second child. There have been some problems and my obstetrician believes that the baby is dead and that I will miscarry the baby any day. This has been going on for 3 weeks now. When I first heard the news I cried for this child. Then I received a message from God to not worry about tomorrow. Until the miscarriage happens, I am to consider myself pregnant with all the joy that goes with that. When the miscarriage happens then I can grieve. God then filled me with His joy. I have been living a happy, joy-filled life for the last several weeks. Friends and family will call to see how I am doing. They will be taken aback because they expect to talk to a sad person. That gives me an opportunity to say, "Let me tell you what God is doing!" This has been made possible through the process of renewing my mind that has occurred while going through Becoming What God Intended. Read it. It will change your life!! Kim Dahl Update from Kim on the baby: Two weeks after writing the testimony, I had the miscarriage. God carried me through the whole process. As I wrote before, God gave me a joy through the process. That continued on for the next couple of weeks until the miscarriage happened. After the miscarriage, I cried intensely every time I thought of the baby. Then a friend sent me a song that talks about how the baby was born into heaven and the angels are taking care of her while mommy sings her songs of love to the baby. This helped me so much! When I got this song, I cried and cried. But now, I have a new way of expressing my love for the baby. Every time I think of her, I sing a song to her in my heart, and say a prayer, thanking God for giving her to us. We named the baby Asher, which in Hebrew means "happy." This is the name of our baby for three reasons: God taught me how to be happy in a difficult situation through the miscarriage; Asher is happy in heaven; and when I first became a Christian I said that I wanted to name a child Asher. Buy the workbook Becoming What God Intended from our online Christian bookstore! Now available on-line!
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