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Hi, me and Marilee we want to come on here and share our testimonies. The Lord has been
showing us things, since Mariliee and her husband brother Andy come to visit us. Marilee
was telling me about how her family has turned against her since she has come to, you know,
serve and follow Jesus. Her and her husband, and how her family members attack her and
attack her husband, and so we wanted to come on here and share our testimony. So I guess,
I'm (Is it okay if I go first)... YA, ya go... So, I wanted to come on here and share with
you what the Lord has showed me and taught me and my testimony, since I found Jesus.
When I came to know Jesus on my sick bed back in 2008 I found Him. I was a church-goer,
you know paid my tithes, I was dedicated to the church, I was so dedicated, I was in DEAD
RELIGION, and I was on my way to HELL. And I did NOT know it. And I though I was saved,
but I wasn't. The Lord had revealed all my sins to me that would send me to hell. And
in that time when He showed me all of those sins, I REPENTED, and on my sick bed I worshiped
HIM and praised HIM until I Found Him and then He came in ME and MADE ME NEW! And when
I got off my sick bed, I wasn't the same woman any more. I could see things. I could see
things that I could never could see before. But my family has turned against me. They
think I worship the devil. They think my husband worships the devil. They think we are in a
cult, and they just totally turned against me because they don't believe that anyone
can stop sinning. And they HATE the word REPENT. And they say that I have no love in me and
they scoff and they mock me. They have even tried to turn my children against me, to say
that I preach a false gospel. But I thank the Lord for having brothers and sisters like
sister Marilee and brother Andy, you know that we can come together and you know, encourage
each other and be here for one another. Because Me and Marilee we are going through the same
thing, you know her family turned on her, her and her husband, and my family members
have turned on me. But the Lord has shown me that those who follow Him are His true
family. Those who OBEY HIM and have been born of HIS SPIRIT. Because we are all connected
to HIS body. And He has shown me that is you true family anyways. Because see Jesus is
the VINE and we are the branches, and we are connected to HIM, and that's what nourishes
and feeds us, and we are all one body in Jesus. We are all one in HIM. See, we are no longer
connected to our old blood line, to our old family, you know, our family members, but
we are connected to the NEW blood of Jesus Christ. We are connected to HIM and HIS body.
So that is our true family, those who follow Jesus. And it's good to fellowship with the
other body parts, with those who. you know, who have been born again of His Spirit. So
it's good to just come together. But I just wanted to encourage those who have problems
with their family members, those who have woke up and found the true Jesus, and it seems
like everybody is coming against you, your family members are coming against you. Just
remember my friends, it is the Spirit of God that lives in you they hate, they cannot stand,
they cannot stand Him, and they say that they follow Him but they don't. They just give
Him lip service, and their hearts are far from Him. But, I just wanted to tell you what
me and sister Marilee have been going through. Because me and her got to talking and share
things with each other. Because Her family, you know have turned on her, all she has is
her husband, and all I have is my husband. So we thank God that God made a way for her
and her husband to come here to fellowship with us, and for us to come together in Jesus.
It's nice isn't it? And we've enjoyed ourselves. But we wanted to make this video to tell all
those who are suffering and wanting to give up, and you know, wanting to quit. DON'T QUIT!
Just keep on following Jesus even if you have to walk alone! and KNOW that Jesus is for
you. But the TRUE FELLOWSHIP is in Jesus Christ alone, you know because He will lead you and
guide you, as long as you put HIM first. But, I wanted to share these things, and I think
that's it. Marilee I think I'll let you take over... Sure, Ya, well all my life I grew
up in church and I was heavily involved since i was very young being on a worship team,
then being involved in more like leadership positions. Anything really you can think of,
I always wanted to be a part of whatever was happening in the church. There was a point
in my life once Andrew, my husband and I got married, that I really had to seek after what
was truth. My family was pulling me one direction towards churchianity and this idea of God
that is inside the church system, and what I knew Andrew was speaking was also truth,
more so truth actually, that Jesus is NOT where sin abides. Which you find in church,
and He is calling His children to be separate from all these worldly systems. So I was really
torn because I knew my family loves me and I grew up one way that they taught, and I
would think why is that wrong you know, because they wouldn't lead me astray. And I also knew
my husband was speaking the truth and I knew He wouldn't want the worst for me either.
And so it was at this tug-a-war that I had to truly seek Jesus for myself and pray and
just ask Jesus WHAT IS THE TRUTH, because I don't know it is anymore. I had to surrender
everything that I once knew to be true, and completely just go before Jesus absolutely
broke and humbled. And it's that point when Jesus would speak to me and reveal His truth
actually to me, and He had to rid me of everything that I held dear in my life, everything that
I though I was doing that was glorifying to Him, He showed me was just a bunch of filthy
rags. Like I said I was singing I was in leadership at church, I was going to be married to a
youth pastor. So I was gong to be helping out kids and stuff. And Jesus was just showing
me that everything I was *** was all for my own gain and I didn't even understand that
until He actually showed me that He was pulling me out of that, and that huge entire web is
just so difficult to get out of, but it is so possible through Jesus. No other person
can help you but Jesus, Jesus is the only one who can help you find truth, and help
you get through. Anything you think you might know, Jesus is gong to help you, if you want
to know Him, and get to know Him better. If you just pray and seek Him, He will help you
get through all these hardships that might come towards you. Once I actually did start
following Jesus, like sister Betsy here said, that her family just my family as well, they
started mocking and saying that my husband and I are following demons and I'm just following
my husband, that is possessed by a demon. And they think of all these weird things,
that we're just in a cult, they make up these lies that are obviously not true. I don't
even know where they get these lies, but it's just through all the whisper and whatever
demons they're listening to. All I can do is go to Jesus. I desire and miss my family.
I love my family more than I ever have before, because Jesus has showed me HIS true love,
not a worldly love. But HIS true love. And I miss them and I wish I could be with them,
but Jesus has continued to show me that they serve Him with their lips, but their hearts
are far from Him, and I cannot be a part of any kind of sin, and I have had to pull myself
separate from that, and as difficult as that is, Jesus has been able to give me the strength
to continue moving forward towards Him. And what He has encouraged me with is that my
true family is not what's in the flesh and blood, what's on earth but it has to do with
your true heavenly family. He says it this way that WHO are my father and mother my brothers
and sisters but those that do the will of my Father and it's those true believers that
are actual family. The people in the world will just let you down, and they will disappoint
you and fail you, but Jesus will never fail you, and that's what you have to hold onto,
that is the most important thing, is just knowing Jesus and holding onto HIM. But yes,
I also just want to encourage those that are having a hard time wanting to follow Jesus
and realizing that there's a lot of things happening now that, if they want to, there's
a lot of trials that they're going through with family and other persecution. HOLD ON
TO JESUS, because He can give you the strength and will give you the strength to endure through
that, and comfort you and fill that hole in your heart that will supply and give you all
the things that you need. The world will not be able to fulfill that for you, but Jesus
will. But yes, it's been a huge blessing to be able to come visit our true family, and
yes we have just totally enjoyed each others company. In fact we've just been snowed in
the whole time, but you know we don't even complain about that because we've just enjoyed
being able to encourage and edify one another in Jesus. And that's what our main goal is
to do, is just point people to Jesus, and encourage true body to keep holding on to
Him and enduring until the end. We don't ever know when our time is so we just have to keep
holding on and making sure we are pleasing to Jesus. But yes, keep holding onto Him.
We just wanted to share this with you guys. We love you...,. And me and Marilee, we're
gong to keep in contact with each other because we don't have, you know, our family members
have turned against us and we don't have them so, me and Marilee we're going to say in contact.
We're gong to write each other, we're going to encourage each other. And just be with
each other, you know and just encourage each other, and just be here for each other because
that's what we are to do. You know, because we're all connected to the vine, and we are
the branches, and we are the true body of Jesus Christ, and Jesus has called us to uplift
one another, encourage one another, love one another, and help each other, because I believe,
I do believe that's why Jesus says endure to the very end, because we will have trials,
we will have tribulations, people will scoff us and mock us, and Jesus did say that you
know, you know, the family will turn on you, you know, mother against daughter and daughter
against mother and father against son and son against father. So, you know, Jesus is
the divider and He will divide those who are not connected to Him, and He will protect
His. He wants us to fellowship with those who have been born of the Spirit, because
He does not want us to fellowship with dark. We cannot have fellowship with darkness. You
cannot sit there and share in sin with your family members that are dead in sin and loving
it so. We cannot sit there and say what, you know God overlooks this, because these are
my family members. NO HE DOES NOT. It's no different than sitting with the sinner next
door, fellowshiping with him and sharing in his darkness. Jesus says; WHAT fellowship
does light have with dark, NONE AT ALL! So me and Marilee we're just coming on here to
encourage people to let people know that the body of Christ is truly your family members,
and the main thing is having true fellowship with Jesus and the true bodies of those who
have been born, grafted into HIS vine. And we just wanted to encourage you and tell you
that we love you. Is there anything else you want to say Marilee?... I think that's It!..
Okay! We love you and may Jesus bless you.