I Was Chosen In YAHWEH
Before The Foundation Of The World
YAHWEH said HE called me, "Revonda" before the foundation of the world. Before I even knew who I was, YAHWEH knew me and had chosen me in HIM. As a young child growing up, I knew some power or higher authority had its hand on me. It was not until I had gotten much older that the manifestation of this power came to it fullness. The feeling of emptiness can never come to its finality until YAHSHUA comes into the heart and makes HIS abode.
When I was a teenager I had a brief encounter with YAHSHUA. During those years I was very vulnerable. There were so many things that drew my attention. I had to make sure I would have a future. I graduated from High School and went on to College. While in college people surrounded me yet I felt alone. I graduated from College and went to work in my profession.
Every Sunday I went to church, but there was a void left in my heart and soul. I listened to radio preachers but they were not speaking anything that caused my heart to be comforted or converted. I would listen to a particular TV Evangelist preaching and I knew what he was saying was the truth. It was during that time that the ABBA (FATHER) started dealing with my heart and drawing me unto HIM. I knew there was something my heart longed and ached for but no one was preaching the Word of truth. The TV Evangelist failed, yet it did not prevent The Spirit (Qadash Ruwach) from drawing me unto YAHSHUA. I went to a Bible Study a few years later on a Tuesday Night at the YWCA. There was a young preacher in his thirties teaching that night. I remember as though it was a moment ago when I first heard him. My eyes filled with tears, and my heart became over elated with joy. I knew this was the Word of truth that I had been waiting for all those years. I said within my heart "This is it", "This is it". The Spirit (Qadash Ruwach) in me bore witness with The Spirit (Qadash Ruwach) of truth that was being taught that night. Even as I write about that night my heart overflows with joy and the tears run down my eyes. To think that an all Sovereign YAHWEH chose me and loved me enough that HE would preserve my soul and protect me through the most vulnerable years of my life. My heart was fully converted and devoted to YAHWEH. I fell in love with YAHWEH. HE was my first true love. HE has been all I needed these years. I was 31 years old then. Pastor Roberts was the young preacher at that Tuesday night teaching. I have continued to listen to him these past 16 years. He has not compromised the Word of YAHWEH nor has he shunned preaching the truth. He loves YAHWEH, and has a heart for YAHWEH'S people.
My plans and dreams changed after meeting YAHSHUA, MESSIYAH. The dreams and plans I had to get married, have a couple of children, live in a small house in the country, and eventually leave my job and be a mother and a housewife, were shattered according to the world standards. I am now 46 years old, never married but loving YAHWEH. I have never regretted the life YAHWEH has chosen for me. I am eternally thankful how the ALL-MIGHTY One YAHWEH has kept me these years. HE has been with me all the way. Happiness and peace are only in MESSIYAH. Everything else is temporal. Husbands will die, Children will grow up and leave home, Homes will eventually need repairing, Health will decline with age, so it has only been in MESSIYAH that my life has been fulfilling.
No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life: that he may please HIM who hath chosen him to be a soldier Timtheous Bet (2 Timothy) 2:4. I could not be drawn unto the ABBA until YAHWEH drew me. Being confident of this very thing, that HE, which hath begun a good work in me, will perform it until the day of YAHSHUA the MESSIYAH: I was chosen in YAHWEH before the foundation of the world. HE has begotten me and I know there is no salvation outside of HIM. I will receive the full sum of my salvation when I get into the eternal kingdom with YAHWEH. With anticipation, I wait to see HIM and look upon HIS face, and finally we meet.
HALLELUYAH
Sister Revonda