What brought you to RMI?

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Hello, I am Anastasia, and I live in Colombia, I found RMI in June 2017 after having cried like never before and having cried with unspeakable groans to God for help because I did not know what to do and the pain was so deep and unbearable. I knew I still loved my husband, believed in marriage, and wanted to keep my covenant with God and I also knew that God's will is not divorce. As soon as I finished my prayer, I saw a comment someone made on Facebook where the link to the page EsperanzaAlFin.com was, when I read all the testimonies, I knew it was His answer to me, and I immediately filled out the marriage evaluation questionnaire. The next day, I received their response and that's when my restoration journey began.

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My crisis began two months into my marriage, my husband told me that marriage was not as he had imagined, and that he did not want to continue if things did not change. I sought the advice of the pastors of our church, and they offered us counseling which, thank God, was never given, however, both they and our friends at church gave me a lot of advice on what I should do to regain the love of my earthly husband, which did not work, but made things worse.

 

Anastasia: How did God change you when you sought the Lord with all your heart?

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I desperately sought help because my pastors' advice was not working and because I learned of the existence of another woman, who had complete knowledge of my intimacy; since my earthly husband had told him everything about me, including about my medical condition for which we had not consummated our marriage. This devastated me... added to the fact that before consummating the marriage with me he had been intimate with another woman and that he confessed to me that he had lost a child with a different woman before we got married.

RMI introduced me to my Beloved Lord—this is the most valuable thing he has done for me—because even though I had already received my Savior, I still did not know my Beloved in intimacy, and it was at RMI where I was able to do so, thanks to the fact that they never gave me "advice" but always guided me to seek my Heavenly Husband in every circumstance, That's how I learned to depend on Him, listen to His voice, and identify His presence in my life. I loved every moment I sought Him and saw His glory, every time He opened the red seas of my life, I had the opportunity to admire Him and so I began to fall in love with Him.

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Because of my deep brokenness I had a great thirst for His word, so I was faithful to do my courses and conscientiously completing my journals, taking out of me everything that was in my heart, I really wanted Him to cleanse me of every sin that I was showing in the book "How God Can and Will Restore Your Marriage" which was a mirror for me, I was that silly woman who had destroyed her home, and the worst: in two months!!

I began to seek God with all my heart because He was the only one who gave me peace and with whom I felt accompanied, loved and cared for, He became my medicine for every moment of sadness, that shoulder on which I could cry and be me without fear of being judged... I began to feel His word healing me and I also experienced the happiness of answered prayers, even the smallest and "dumbest" ones, He began to rebel against me, to show Himself real and alive, then I began to see Him as a person who was there with me all the time. My sister once told me that I was different, and that she could tell I was changing. Even my co-workers said that there was something different in me than other people and I knew that it was God in me, it was that brightness that He reflected in me.

 

What were the most important principles the Lord taught and revealed that had the greatest impact on your life during your Journey of Restoration?

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The most important change undoubtedly happened in my heart, since I was a selfish, envious, arrogant, proud, contentious, bitter, idolatrous woman and I believe that everything the Bible says is wrong to do, I did it, however, on the outside I was a "good person", but it was nothing more than a whitewashed sepulchre. With all that in my heart no one could see the Lord in me and that very is why I was not able to win anyone to the Lord and much less my Earthly Husband who could see all my sins. It was a painful process—especially at first—and one of many trials but keeping looking for my Beloved for everything (big or small) allowed me to move forward on the right path, heading one way one step at a time to my Precious Treasure. I can't honestly say that I've already attained Him and that I'm a virtuous woman, I think He still has a lot of work to do in my heart, but I rejoice in what He's done so far in me.

Anastasia: What would you say were your most difficult times when the Lord helped you through them?

Believing what He said through the resources of RMI and putting it into practice brought about changes, for blindly obeying Him allowed me to know for myself that this was the truth and that I was blessed when I obeyed. As for my marriage, I am not currently seeking restoration because my marriage has already been restored to the glory of His name

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What was your "turning point" in your Restoration Journey?

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I wanted to become a minister because I believe it was His purpose for me, since I was a child He put the desire in my heart to serve Him full time. I wanted to stay by His side every minute of the day and I thought that if I served Him as a minister He would help me keep my eyes on Him, I also understood that my mission in the world is to be His ambassador and that it was His will that I bring the message of hope to other women who were in need of His love, He allowed this crisis in my life to feel compassion for women going through the same situation so that He could direct them to Him, who has the medicine for their pain.

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My sweet and precious Treasure is the king of my heart and the way I managed to get to this was by crying out to Him and asking Him intensely to become the king of my heart, making room for Him by being the first in my thought every morning, giving Him priority in my day and in what I do, placing my desires and my worries in His hands rather than, in someone else, was a process and a work entirely His. What I did was I set my heart and do what He told me to do, but He did everything.

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Anastasia Tell us HOW did it happen? Where were you? How did you feel?

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Spending time with Him looking for His face, having your lover every day speaking words of love, encouragement, giving you promises, affection, encouragement, etc. It was so healing and so needed, my soul needed it, and He filled me with Him. I believe that keeping and writing down His word and everything He said to me and even what I said to Him in my journal helped me become more aware of His responses and His acts of love for me, and it also helped me record and return to those victories in times of crisis, which encouraged me and helped me see hope in every situation.

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I embraced the Lord as my Savior in 2005 at an encounter I had at the church my parents took me to. I was 14 years old when I started attending the Christian church on Sundays and I was struck by the life of the Pastor, I felt admiration because he spent all day with the Lord and because he said that he spoke with Him and I wanted that kind of relationship, I wanted to listen to him too, but I didn't know how to get to that point, until I found RMI and was able to establish that intimate relationship that my soul longed for.

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Would you recommend any of our materials? Materials that helped him to take this key point.

What materials helped you the most?

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The materials that helped me the most during my process were mainly the Bible, the book "How God Can and Will Restore Your Marriage," "A Wise Woman," "By the Word of Her Testimonies," and the lessons from Course 2.

What would you like to say, in another way of encouragement, to leave women as a conclusion?

We arrive wrapped in tears of deep sorrow, but He transforms all the destruction we have caused into happiness, a happiness that we will never find far from Him. "To all who mourn in Israel he will give a crown of beauty instead of ashes, a joyful blessing instead of mourning, a festive praise instead of despair. They, in their righteousness, will be like great oak trees that the Lord has planted for His own glory" (Isaiah 61:3 NLT). He is so faithful!! Today I rejoice in what He has worked in my heart, I am happily in love with my Husband, my Lover, my All, and I encourage you to persist in seeking Him. everyone who seeks, finds; and to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened" Matthew 8:8 NLT. He has the balm that will heal each of your wounds. The love that your soul longs for deep within you—it is Him!!