El Hayyay- The God of My Life

Day 14

El Hayyay- The God of My Life.

There are so many things that can happen in your life when you have no relationship with God. I remember being in a hospital bed on the verge of losing my life because of a bad decision I had made. I didn't have a personal relationship with God, but I knew that if I prayed something might happen. I didn't pray because I was afraid of dying. I prayed because my mom was upset and I had never seen her break down until that day. I prayed so the pain I was feeling would stop.

Yesterday I revisited some old paperwork regarding my case (I'm adopted) when I first came into this world. It read: I was born a dry birth. My biological mothers water broke 4 days before I was actually born. I was born addicted to cocain and my mom had no prenatal care during her pregnancy. No vitamins, just drugs. There were also other complications. Wow! As I read it I couldn't stop the tears from flowing. Before I even made it into this world God had His hands on me. He had already known who I was and who I was going to be. He protected me! He kept me alive for a reason!

Just as I could have died at 16years old. The doctors told my mom if she would've brought me in a day later I wouldn't have made it. But God put me in the right place at the right time! That morning in February 2005, my mom asked would I like to ride to Galveston with her to go car shopping. I had been sick with flu like symptoms and crippling joint pains for about a week, but I was tired of being sick and I was tired of hurting. While at the car dealership my hands and feet began to swell and hurt so bad they felt as if they were going to pop. It hurt to move my fingers and walk. I developed a horrible headache and a really high fever. I began to sweat profusely and feel like I was going to pass out. I interrupted my mom right before she was going to make the purchase and said, I NEED TO GO TO UTMB!

She stopped what she was doing, said she'd be back and we left immediately. The nurses checked me in, did my vital signs, and immediately admitted me into the hospital because my fever was so I extremely high. I was scared to death. I didn't know what was going on. They drew blood ran all sorts of tests and gave me some medication through an IV to get my temperature to go down. Once the blood work came back the doctor told my mom I had contracted a couple STDs (Sexually Transmitted Disease). I was afraid because I didn't know who I contracted them from. I had, had sex only a few times before and I had two people I had been with. The ex who broke my virginity and the ex I was with after him. I called and told them both to go and get tested so they won't ends up in the hospital like me. They both denied they needed testing and had given me the diseases and said I had gotten it from someone else. I found out that whomever had given me the disease was a "carrier" of the disease. They've had it for so long their body doesn't show symptoms it just carries the disease. To this day I still have no idea of who gave me the STDs. My symptoms were not normal, the Doctor and his students took pictures of me and documented my symptoms for a medical book. I was in the hospital a total of 7days.

This was only one of the bad choices that almost resulted in me losing my life as a result of my foolish choices. Drug addiction didn't kill me. Dry Birth didn't kill me. Promiscuity didn't kill me. Disease didn't kill me. Why? Because God has a plan for me!

Reflecting on my life and the mistakes I made before I developed a personal relationship with God I am able to see how important my life is to him. Some people would say, well, you're just lucky! However, I don't believe in luck! I believe in the miracle working power of God! Today I encourage you to take 20 minutes out of your busy day and reflect on all the things God has brought you through. There are so many times we get too busy and too caught up in all the things that are going on in our lives that we forget to acknowledge how truly great God is! I don't know the plans He has for me, but I am grateful He saw fit to keep me alive. I'm grateful for the change He's created in me! I am truly humbled by the fact that it didn't matter how low I had gotten or how wrong I was living my life, He kept me for a divine purpose. I am here for a reason and through it all he's never left me. Thank you God!

El Hayyay, The God of my life!

“Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.”

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭42:8‬ ‭AMP‬‬

Love,

ChelCy

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