Mariela Genem

Like many people I grew up knowing that there was a God but I didn’t know His ways and I sure didn’t know I could have a relationship with him either. My faith walk I thought started when I married my husband, I realized later that God was looking for me way before that. Six months after I got married my husband deployed to Afghanistan. I was so terrified of loosing him that I began going to church, I needed to pray for his safe return. In the process I began for the first time in my life to know who God really is and so began my love for Him. I was so amazed at all the things I was learning and disappointed that no one ever told them to me. I knew Christian people before, why didn’t these people share Him with me. I felt like I had wasted too much of my life living without God in it and realized that knowing Him earlier would have saved me from many bad choices. But being the awesome God that He is, He as given me beauty for ashes. I also decided to surrender my life to Him because I had been married before and I didn’t want another failed marriage. And guess what, there’s stuff about how to have a great marriage in the bible too! Knowing these marriage principles this time around has made a significant difference. I’ve learned so much these last two years through the guidance of Jesus and I hope you may also see through my walk how knowing God can make a difference in your life. Its not about a program or a method its about a relationship with Our Creator.