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Beauty for Ashes
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As stated, My
life is a reflection of God's Abundant Grace, Mercy, Blessings, and
Divine Protection:
Mother and I both cheated death
at my birth, and as the story goes, my father discovered two feet dangling
over the edge of our rooftop when I had climbed a ladder at eighteen months
old. By the time I was four, I'd almost chopped off my toe with Daddy's
big ax and I nearly drew back a stub for being too friendly with a
relative's watchdog. Incidentally, my "tomboy" tendencies led me into
many adventures on our cattle farm in the Missouri Ozark mountains, where I
spent hot summer days riding my Missouri Foxtrotter Lucky, diving from
cliffs at the swimming holes, making slingshots, bows-n-arrows, fishing
poles, and mining for more good junk to add to our Isle of Refuge and
our Tree House Tower.
At
ten, I followed my oldest brother to an old-fashioned altar in a small one
room, stone-walled Baptist church. They saw fit to take us across the
road the next (February) Sabbath morning and break the ice along the bank of
Marble Creek to baptize us. To say I began developing a personal
relationship with the Lord that day would be a gross overstatement.
With little self-esteem, strong co-dependency traits, and being unprepared
to face a modern world, I soon spiraled into a series of failed
relationships and drug-filled years.
I rededicated my life under the direction of my youngest brother more than a
decade later, but my need for God's deliverance peaked shortly after my
father's accidental death in 1984. Pastor Joe White met with me
in a Denver winter cold car that following January and listened as I told him of a
monkey that would not get off my back. I didn't know how to pray for
what I needed, but he did. In 1989, I found myself in a church
service that changed my life, as I received the overcoming Power from on
High, the Baptism of Fire gift of the Holy Spirit, and that is when Jesus Christ, the Word,
came alive to me.
May all glory be given to the Father.
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My faith has been greatly strengthened by miraculous deliverances and
healings of my past. Trials such as drug and alcohol abuse (including
overdoses), physical and emotional abuse in a marriage, cancer, surgeries,
miscarriages and two high-risk natural child deliveries, hysterectomy, loss
of close family members, divorce, co-dependency, depression, anxiety, single
parenthood, child learning and speech impairments, re-forming a blended
family, name only a few of the emotional, financial, and physical works of
God that I can personally attest to. I've experienced many
heavenly dreams, and encounters over the last several years during times of
fasting and great travail in sickness, and though I continue to fight
battles in this earth, I've been Blessed and Mine eyes have seen the
Glory!
My God is able to do exceedingly and
abundantly above all we ask or think.
In His Grip,
Rev. Debbi Cox, ThD.
Please prayerfully consider
this ministry.
And be sure to check out:
Aubrey
Cox.
(References are
available)
P.S.
The Blessing
is available.
Be sure and get a copy of this revelation of Jacob's Seven Blessings: a
Model for Biblical Blessings.
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