My Mount Carmel Experience

When I met God, He changed me from the inside out. He taught me about His Word, His Character, His Power, His Name, which I learned by reading the Holy Bible.

• He taught me the truth about what is good and what was bad.
• He taught me about what "Love is" and I learned to love Him.
• I learned to open my heart to others and have a heart to mentor ladies using the Bible.

For 30 years I was lost in the wilderness of life. I came into my own when I was able to change my body physically through workouts and I got to wear braces. 

These two things changed the "image" that I had of myself. I had no personality, no friends, no boyfriends because the image in my head was of a fat 4 year old girl wearing a dress with a petticoat. I felt ugly, had no confidence or any idea of who I was.

It was a long journey for me to get from a very lonely girl to a place of feeling as if I "belonged."

What caused this change, was meeting my boyfriend, who becomes my husband and savior. I use the word savior because with him and his family, I began to feel as if I belonged. 

I inherited a real family with members other than my sister, my brother and my Mother. Here I found love and acceptance.

Growing up I felt like an orphan. No family nearby to share dinners, birthdays or family time with; no country, since I did not fit into California's cultural. People knew that I was different in speech and cultural and so did I. 

Because of not having outside family around, I grew up without any outside interaction with people and I did not learn many of the simple things of life, like hugs and the words "I love you."

I felt "unloved." I am not sure that this feeling was true, because my Father abandoned us when I was 6 years old. The word "abandon" is the correct word to use because he just up and left, and did not reach out to us until later in life. 

So what is the Mount Carmel experience? 

It is one of those rare moments in your world, when "God steps out of the unseen realm and makes His Character and Power known. My experience in meeting God, is what I want to share with you, in hopes that you will see the power of God's love.

I was 33 years old, when God met me at Mount Carmel. This was my very own real moment when God stepped out of the unseen and brought Light, Truth and Freedom into my life and my heart.

At Mount Carmel and I felt His love and began to learn about His character and power which He made known to me in an evident way.

I experienced this feeling of being "awaken" into this new person and I had a great new "image" of myself."  My mind begins to heal and that image of the "fat girl" begins to be replace with confidence, joy, and finding courage.

The Evidence was that I felt the "metamorphosis in my heart and mind and people like my family, friends and others have all witnessed this.

The caterpillar undergoes a transformation. She begins to emerge as a butterfly.

My reason for writing about my own Mount Carmel experience, is simply that I want to share with you the gospel. God is real. God is reaching out to this world and has given us the Bible with which we can get to know Him.

He wants to make things right between humanity and Him. Remember, that we are born with a sinful nature which we inherited from Adam and Eve. This sinful nature of ours, is contrary to anything that is holy. God is holy and has made the way for us to become holy and forgiven of our sinful ways.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, 

that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, 

but to save the world through him.  

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, 

but whoever does not believe stands condemned already 

because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

 

This is the verdict: "Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil."   John 3:16-19

These days I see faces without peace on so many people, both young and old that do not want to know God and it saddens me. I want them to find what I found at Mount Carmel. 

The look of death on someone who knows God is a beautiful and serene look of peace on their face, as God prepares them to come Home, He allows them time to makes things right. The atmosphere around them is calm and there is a sadness about leaving their families behind, but they have that assurance and hope in their that they will see God soon. They begin to prioritize the things that are important and they have a far away look in their eyes, as they begin to understand the truth about Heaven. 

This is why I share the gospel.