Our family joined Remnant in spring of 2002 after taking the Weigh Down Advanced Class. We had family members already in Remnant, but we were hesitant to join right away, in fact we were really questioning what this was all about. After a dear family member told us just to take the class that it would beautifully answer all of our questions we did and to God's glory we were never the same again.
We cannot thank God enough for graciously allowing us to see this truth after 28 and 30 years of being in the false religious system, so-called Christian schools, and bible college, all of which left us feeling self-righteous and completely deceived into thinking that we could just "do the best we could" but never fully overcome sin. It was all so confusing and deep down we did wonder why life was the way it was. Life was truly about us, not God, although we did not see any of this clearly. In fact if anyone would have asked us we would have said "yes we absolutely love God", and "yes we are obeying God as best we can", but the true foolishness of those answers now makes us cringe when we think and remember back to all of the sin that was so evident in our lives. To the outside we may have appeared as strong Christians who understood "doctrine" and had been trained by "respected" theologians, but inside only God knew the deepest part of our hearts and how sin truly did rule over us.
After taking Weigh Down Advanced we were totally blown away. We had been begging God to make this all clear to us, and had been on our faces saying "if we are wrong, and if we are missing something so big, then please, please show us so we can get this right." Well, our prayers were answered! Weight loss occurred right away when we saw (for the first time ever, even after a lifetime of church) that greed was idolatry and that idolatry will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Being told that being overweight was just greed was mind boggling and I went home and began to practice obedience with my whole heart in this first area that God showed me. I lost all of my weight (30 pounds) in less than 2 months and was so amazed at the hold that food had on me that I had not seen! The testing was strong for me, but I did hang in there and kept going to God and He was so gracious to continue to deliver me from a lifetime (since high school) of greed for food and total self- focus.
After the first testing with food and our obedience to what He was showing us, He so kindly began showing us all that was truly in our hearts, so that we could lay it down and begin for the first time to truly live only for Him. Anger, greed, praise of man, desire for material things, and self-focus to name a few, are things that He has delivered us from. Not only delivered us from these detestable things, but He has delivered us to a real personal relationship with Him that only the pure in heart can have. This has been an unbelievable change for us. To know that He does answer the prayers of His true Saints, to know that we can go to Him and we do go to Him. This is personal, and like nothing we've ever experienced before. To be concerned only with His will and not our own, and to DO His will and not ours. This message has changed our lives, it is the true Gospel, and we are so grateful and humbled to be able to understand and to Do what He wants. We love to be with the Saints and we are so grateful to hear the truth every week, and to be with others who are in love with God like we are. We have now been in Remnant for almost 5 years and the fruit is still here, this is real and the changes in our lives, our whole families' lives and in our friends' lives are permanent. Our Leadership is the real thing'they live what they speak and in doing so, inspire us. Come and see what God is doing. It is priceless, and Remnant Fellowship is precious to us.
Topics: Overweight