HE Can Change A Hoe Into A House Wife

2 Cor 5:17  (KJV) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

We all have made bad choices in life at some point, but thank God for His mercy and grace. Today’s post is dedicated to the women who want to move past their mistakes and press to get where God has called them to be. God knows the things we’ve done in our past that we’re not proud of but He can make ALL things new. God loves us despite our mess. God wants to make our mess our message to others to help get other’s free. God can do supernatural heart and brain surgery, causing your heart to be healed of past hurts from bad decisions and your mind to be at peace and ready to move forward in victory. If your ready to move from a hoe to a housewife, God is able to help you start the process.

In college I made bad choices about friendships and romantic relationships and as a result I became confused, angry and insecure. I was messed up and was not marriage material at all. It’s so amazing for me to look back at where I was 11 years ago and see how far God has brought me. I have not arrived by any means but God gets all the glory for the restoration, peace and joy that I have right now. The picture in this post of me and my husband on our wedding day in 2008, we met at our church and we are more in love today then ever before, to God be the glory.

Here are 3 things that I did to allow God to transform me from a lost woman into a woman on the road to victory:

1. I surrendered my life fully to Him. I realized that on my own I was messing up my entire life. My grades were slippin, my relationships were stressful and nothing was going right. I decided to stop focusing on guys and drama and start developing my relationship with Christ. Once I made the decision to walk away from mess, God was able to begin His work in me. I started getting rid of everything that was hindering my relationship with Christ and the drama seemed to disappear with every passing day. I wanted more of Christ, I was hungry for change and Christ had been waiting patiently for my return back to Him.

2. I found myself a new group of friends. It’s impossible to hang with the same no good friends but expect to do good and live right. I had to end so called friendships with males and females that were only bringing me down. At one point I only had one other Christian female friend, she was my roommate, and we hung out, prayed, served in campus ministry, shopped, cooked and studied together.  We both ended up joining Word of Faith and God blessed us to meet lots of other Christian friends who became like family and the rest is history. It’s easier to remain holy, sober, productive etc when you surround yourself with like minded people who are going places and on the grind for Jesus.

3. I had to change my way of thinking. I changed my focus from how I could find me a boyfriend and get some money to buy cute clothes and hang with my bad news friends and started focusing on God, graduating from college and trying to make something of myself. I knew I wanted to one day get married and have something to offer my future family. I had to change my mindset from only thinking about pleasing my flesh in the moment, which always got me into trouble, to setting myself up for a successful future with Christ at the center. To change my thinking, I changed what I read, what I listened to and what I viewed. Listening to secular music, reading trashy novels and sitting around watching soap operas when I wasn’t in class wasn’t going to help me change my thinking and reach my goals. I was introduced to Christian hip hop and other gospel music that I’ve never heard of, Christian novels that had humor and drama minus the sex scenes and I found more wholesome things to view on tv; it all made a world of differfence in my behavior and attitude.

It doesn’t matter how many people you’ve dated, fooled around with or slept with. It doesn’t matter what lies you told or the deep dark secrets that you carry in your heart with shame. God already knows, He sees, He hears, He saves and He forgives! If you would like to ask the Lord to come into your heart right now and experience a life better than you could ever imagine, please say this simple prayer:

Dear Heavenly Father, I need you, please come into my heart and be the Lord of my life.  I repent of my sins and I turn away from them, please forgive me Lord and show me how to walk in your ways. Thank you for dying for me on the cross and raising from the dead. Thank you for the gift of eternal life, in Jesus name I pray amen.

If you prayed this prayer I’d love to know about it. Please email me and feel free to email any questions to joanna.willis@hotmail.com I encourage you to get hooked up with a local church and surround yourself with like minded people.

Philippians 3:13-14

Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.