"23 Hours Dead" - Testimony of Angelica Zambrano

Destiny

Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

What is destiny? According to the dictionary it says and I quote: 1. something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune. 2. The predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events. 3. The power or agency that determines the course of events.

When it comes to finding Mr. Right or finding Mrs. Right, people tend to choose the “impulse of the moment” rather than who God really wants them to be with. Now-a-days you see the divorce rate sky rocketing, you see people being abused, children being neglected by their parents for selfish reasons, families not being in unity. The list goes on. What I’m about to tell you comes from the heart.

I came from a family of prayer. We weren’t always perfect, but no matter what happened in my family, God knew that one day my family would answer the call. Growing up, I was always exposed to God because growing up in Norfolk, VA my parents were both involved in ministry working in children’s church and ministering God’s word. When my sister and I were about 7 or 8 we then moved to the Lynchburg, VA area. Growing up we had a series of difficulties within the family unity.  My father left the home for a while and moved back and then left again. But no matter what, my mother was praying for my father to straighten up. In my teenage years, I finally decided to receive the Holy Spirit. I was already saved but, I wanted something more in life, but deep down inside, I was still empty. I became rebellious and I wanted to do what I wanted to do. I began to date different guys and guys  that I would meet online, because I wasn’t as outgoing then  as I am now.( Praise God for delivering me from being shy!) I felt that being online made me feel beautiful. I could take pictures however I wanted and got a lot of attention because of how I looked. But deep down inside I was empty. I wanted to find love that would replace that emptiness inside. I wanted love. I felt so lonely. I had my good days but that emptiness deep within made me feel desperate for a guy.

In 2004 I graduated from high school and about a year or two later I went to college in NC. I wanted to move far away to do what I wanted to do. To sin and copy the so called “fun things” that I saw on TV. I didn’t want my mother to tell me what to do. I was determined….Being in college, I thought I knew what I wanted to study which is fashion design, but my heart wasn’t really truly into it. I began to get serious with different guys that I though loved me but really didn’t. I became insecure about myself after being cheated on once. I played games and still got hurt in the end.  In the mist of it all, I had a praying mother. Time went on and I began to get at my lowest and one day God commanded my mother to get down there to Charlotte and get my sister and I. So my mother obeyed and we packed our things and moved to Northern Virginia. We were in transition of moving from our house in Lynchburg, VA to Northern VA at that time.

After living here for a while I began to get myself into more relationships and trying to bounce back to God but was still in sin…. I was empty and began to get really desperate for change. Time went on and my sister and I have both been hungry for change and we began to search for God. One night, we began to browse the internet and we came across a ministry experiencing signs wonders and amazing things in the Holy Spirit. We began a hunger for what they have. Enough was enough so we began to cry out to the Lord and ask him to change us and to cleanse us. That night something happened that changed our lives like never before! God met us at our lowest, God refilled us with his precious spirit, God’s presence rested on us like a blanket and that night I’m telling you was so indescribable! We were free. The weight was lifted off of us. Our cares were casted upon the Lord! Night after night, month after month God revealed so many things to us like never before! My sister and I made a pact to pray and intercede every night from then on!

Last year before Christmas God began to reveal supernatural things to us through my prophetic writings. He speaks and I write, and the Lord revealed to me one night that because of your prayers, your father will return home and God will restore our family and my parents’ marriage like never before!!! Christmas day came and the doorbell rang and it was my dad! Praise the Lord!

What I wanted to point out is that destiny is key. If you’re out there looking for love in all the wrong places trying to seek a person to try to fill that void, you need to check yourself and realize that your hunger is not for a MAN or a WOMAN. Your hunger is for a relationship TRULY with Jesus Christ! You might think you have a relationship with God but why do you still feel the need to do what it takes to get attention from a person?! When you truly experience Jesus through the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues (NO MUMBLE JUMBO FAKE TOUNGES) YOU WILL BE FILLED TRULY WITH HIS LOVE!  The bible says in John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. CONCERNING HIS LOVE- Ephesians 2:4-7 KJV -But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 1 John 4:16 says-And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him.

I’m telling you to wait on the Lord for the one that God had destined you to be with because if you are truly called by God to fulfill an assignment, that other person will FIT YOUR CALL, AND YOU WILL FIT THEIR CALL!! Don’t settle for infatuations, don’t go off and connect with a person that has a history of curses. ONLY GOD HIMSELF IS THE PERFECT MATCH MAKER!!!!!!!! I chose to wait on the Lord and by answering the call over my life, God has revealed to me the one I will marry that fits my calling!! I refuse to settle for less!!!! TRUST IN THE LORD AND TAKE THIS TIME TO DEVELOP A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS! GET IN THAT WORD! NO PERSON OF GOD WILL EVER SETTLE WITH A CARNAL PERSON WITH EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL BAGGAGE! God filled that void PEOPLE! He did….Why experience an “impulse of the moment” over a love that windows THE HEART OF GOD?! Why mess up your life?! No poser could ever replace God’s love. The devil isn’t playing. He could send a person that SEEMS TO BE A NICE PERSON AND THAT FITS THE QUALITIES THAT YOU THINK YOU MIGHT NEED, BUT IS NOWHERE NEAR QULIFIED FOR YOU SPIRITUALLY.

In closing I care for you enough to type this letter and to say that I use to be in that situation but I made a faith decision to change. Even though it wasn’t easy, God still picked me up and carried me the rest of the way. I’m nowhere near perfect, but I strive each day to please God through my obedience and my rejection to sin and the things of this world that are distractions to try to get my mind off of the ultimate commission. Please don’t waste your life trying to find some person to fill that void. Find Jesus and cry out to him IN JESUS NAME, until he answers you! He will give you the desires of your heart when he thinks you need it! (READ PSALMS CHAPTER 37)

God Bless You!