From Depression To Overjoyed

Walking Deacon Takyra’s Testimony

I can’t believe that after only three years, my entire life has changed. I came into CMBC broken, lost and confused. Wanting to give up on life and everything in it. Not knowing whether I was coming or going but taking everything as it was thrown at me. I never thought in a million years I would be able to say that I no longer suffered from depression but this day I testify that I have been delivered. I can’t say the moment when it happened, I can’t say the exact time His word manifested but I do know that my Lord wouldn’t allow me to stay there.

Giving me such a peace that no devil in hell was ever able to break it like that again. Unable to get to this place on my own but only through God, my Bishop and this anointed ministry, I‘m forever grateful unto God and my Bishop. From day one I stepped into these doors Bishop Lawrence Eugene Edgerton Sr. opened his arms to me. Never judging who I was or the things I did but opening my eyes to see that I didn’t have to stay there, that I didn’t have to be stuck or feel guilty but through the power of God, I could live freely. For the first time in my life, I felt understood, I felt like everything I went through my Bishop was right there going through with me. I didn’t have to defend myself, I didn’t have to hold back but everything I faced, I was able to let it go right here. Pouring out all my many disappointments, my heartbreaks, my lack of support and my Bishop encouraging me that it would all work out in my favor. Everything I tried to handle on my own before entering the kingdom I failed but once I came under this divine teaching, he delivered me from it all. Taking every tear and replacing it with a testimony, all my heartbreaks and replacing it with a harvest, all my problems and replacing it with his promises, giving me more than I ever imagined. Today I have faith, today I believe, today I can say I know him. I’m grateful for my new life and my new beginning because truly it was never what I saw for myself. I have been raised up from having burdens to receiving better, from being the walking dead to now a Walking Deacon. The right hand to my Bishop, ready and willing for all God has in store for me. Trials and tribulations still come, affliction still sets in but through it all I know I will persevere. I thank God for using you Bishop to save my life because truly without you I wouldn’t know what it meant to have everlasting life.