Mercy Rewrote My Life!

by Teresa Atchenson
(Northport, Al.)

I was raised in a broken home, My daddy was an alcoholic. He was verbally and physically abusive to my Mother. She tried to be a Christian woman, enduring the abuse. That is what happens to people that do not let GOD into their hearts.

I vowed that I would never do that. Never say never! I got married at 17. Had 3 sons by the time I was 24, within 4 yrs. I raised my sons in an alcoholic home. My husband and I both worked, never missing a day. NO matter how much we drank and fought at night.

My husband had good Christian parents. In the late 1980s, I was seeing 5 different psychiatrists, addicted to their medication. Started me on 1 anti-depressant at night, ended at 5 with them continuing to add.

They wanted my husband to sign for me to be admitted to the hospital to get off their drugs and alcohol. I began to scream out loud at home one day. I asked if there is a GOD, why haven't you let me die! I prayed every day to die and I am still here!

I heard an audible voice. He said, You can Live and not Die! That scared me. Then I said, if you are GOD show me. Your word says that you delivered people instantly, right? Then heal me, set me free from Hell, or let me die!

A warm feeling came on top of my head, down my throat, into my chest, down to my toes. When it came up through my body, it left out the top of my head. It seemed as though someone had changed the light bulbs in that room.

I was speaking a language I could not understand. I knew that GOD had came to me and set me free from all addictions. He gave me a sound mind and delivered me from Hell. He saved me. He forgave me. His mercy changed my life. Erased the old one and gave me a new one.

HE will use us and my Family to do great things for him. He also has given me hundreds of testimonies. I LOVE JESUS. I am not ashamed to be a christian.

Teresa Atchenson