Years ago I was in a very painful marriage and had 2 small boys. My husband was a broken man too and he cut me off from friends as he wanted me all for himself. I got him to leave our home and he would call me every morning to have me hang up on him. He had hurt me so badly. He invited me to meet him at a local bar one night to hear me rank him down and totally emasculate him.
One day at about 3 am my sister called me asking me what was going on. I told her I was finished with him and I wanted out and to go home (1/4 of the country away). Now I had fully trained mu sister to follow me and this time she didn't. I was shocked. She prayed for me and told me about Aglow Fellowship. She told me to look one up where I lived and I did. I was also getting into occult stuff and I wrote a letter to Charles Blair in Denver where I lived and he told me straight and I put it aside.
Then the next morning after we hung up I talked to my husband and I chose to meet him. To make a very long story short we packed up our house and moved to Washington. My sister moved over for me and we went to Aglow meetings and we got saved. This is the end of 1973. I quit smoking, drinking and the drugs and occult and became a new creature in Christ. My husband did as well.
Our relationship changed totally at that time. I often relate it to doing a waltz and where I knew if I did this or that steps, it would make him loose it. But he didn't. I had to learn to dance a new dance with him. He no longer hit me nor drug me around the house by my hair. Now we were still living at my sisters house and prayed for him to get a job. He did he got hired at Boeing and worked there till he retired for 30 years.
He worked with a bubbly kind of guy and he took us to church with him and his wife. Afterwards we went for some coffee and I wanted to smoke of course, and discovered I had no matches. That started a quest for me to stop smoking. I sat at my sisters dining room table and I light up (we still wonder why she allowed me to smoke, but she did). As I drew in on that filthy thing I heard the words go past my ear (from behind to forward) "You love those cigarettes more than you love me." And then the same way the voice said, :Besides that you stink." No kidding that is the honest to God truth . He knows each one of us intimately and that is how he knew me.
So that was the starters for our lives. My husband never smoked but he drank and was a man to mess with his wife, He has never sworn and he made so many changes. But the gest of it is Aglow was there for us and we are eternally grateful. That was late 1973, we have gone to Bible College and I taught 4 yr. old children and sang in a 350 choir and ran a home. Now that my sons are grown and out of the house. I have been used to teach men coming out of prison at two different homes. Then I taught at church the ladies night bible study. Thank you Lord for everything you have done for me. Amen