December 20, 2018
Testimony from the Albuquerque, New Mexico church revival in 2017
Hello my name is Heather Regalado. I am Paul Chavez’s Daughter and Niece to Sophie & Lee Williams. This is my Testimony. I grew up not knowing much about Jesus we weren’t raised going to church and my opinion of Church was always basically that I didn’t need to go to church to talk to God or to know that he is real. I thought the churches wanted to just brain wash people and take their money. I never wanted to Go, but my dad ended up getting saved when I was around 23 years old and He started always trying to get me to go to the Potter’s House. I always refused though … My current husband and I had a lot of problems in our marriage. We ended up having a baby together, a Son that we so wanted … being that we each had 2 daughters from previous marriages this was such happy Amazing news for us we had tried to have a child for years and suffered one miscarriage … so to finally have our son was just beyond a happy blessing !!! But during my pregnancy we fought a lot and almost separated. Shortly after our son was born we ended up getting in a huge fight. We separated and I filed for a divorce. One day Shortly after our separation in August of 2017 I was doing dishes in the kitchen… I looked at my infant son and everything hit me. I broke down sobbing thinking to myself how did this happen… it wasn’t supposed to be like this. this isn’t what I wanted for my son or my kids … I was so sure That I was in control of my life if I could just try hard enough things would work out … but it didn’t and there was no stopping it or fixing it … I never felt this way just totally lost .. if I wasn’t in control… then what was I doing or thinking my whole life thus far and after having such a profound realization hit me so hard … All I could think was where do you even go from here !?!? I cried out to God in that moment, God please help me I can’t do this I don’t know what to do anymore. After a while, I picked up the phone and called my dad. I asked him if there was church that evening. he was Shocked to hear me ask that!! He asked why? I told him how I felt and that I wanted to go to church service we both cried … he was happy. He explained that they don’t have church on Thursdays but that his church was having revival service that night in Albuquerque. I didn’t want to drive to Albuquerque so I waited until Sunday and the kids and I went to church service … we’ve been going ever since. Then ……I was smoking Cigarettes at the time and I smoked a pack a day for years and loved smoking those cigarettes … I had smoked since I was 13 years old on and off (more on than off) I felt so bad smoking outside the house then going inside to pick up my infant son with the smoke smell still on me and also going to church and knowing that I was still smoking … I tried so hard to quit I kept asking God to help me to quit I would crush up a pack of cigarettes and say No More I’m quitting… then later that evening I would end up going to buy another pack . I was so disappointed in myself, Especially being that I did not have much money then to be wasting on more cigarettes. I kept going to church kept reading the bible and kept asking God to please help me to quit smoking I asked God please take this want and need that I have for these nasty cigarettes away from me so I won’t want them no more !! You know what, not long after, one day at work I threw away that pack of cigarettes and this time. THIS TIME…. I never bought another one … 1 day passed … then 2 then 3 then a whole lot!! Now here I am today smoke Free for about a year now and I have absolutely no cravings wants or needs, any more at all for a cigarette! God did that for me and my baby’s God did that! He delivered me away from that addiction He showed me Mercy God has been so good to me He is so Amazing and Powerful and good ! I gave my Life to Jesus, opened my heart to God and started seeking him genuinely. I started learning allot of things that I never knew about Jesus, Salvation and Gods Word and power! I am still learning allot and It is truly eye opening and Amazing!! I wish everyone could know the truth like I know now! To think I was walking around so blind the first 30 years of my life!? In January of 2018 I felt God was dealing with me to get back with my husband and to call off the divorce so I did and we ended up getting back together just 2 weeks before our court date to finalize our divorce. It was God! Only he could do that because I was done totally done with my husband and sure that I could never forgive him this time . Getting back with him was not easy or an easy decision God was definitely involved and still is! Our marriage is not perfect but it’s definitely not like it used to be God has been moving in our marriage and restoring our marriage I see the changes in myself and in my husband and I feel Gods presence. Hard times and trails still come but not as often and it’s different now going through the hard stuff…. with God it’s like your empowered by his holy spirit and God is with me he helps me through the hard times, strengthens me gives me Peace, Wisdom, Strategy, Discernment, Love and helps me to be able to forgive and move on . My husband is not saved but he goes to church for me and the kids… I know God will save him! We pray together every day us and all our kids. The kids and I read our bible everyday together. God has done so very much for us I see him in a lot of things every day and I look for him all the time!!! He has answered many of my prayers!! God has shown me truth Grace and what it feels like to be truly Loved, God has healed things inside of me that I never even knew was broken. God has taken such a heavy burden off of my shoulders that I never even knew I was carrying but man when he takes it off your shoulders in that moment you realize and you know that he is the king The Highest of all and that he truly is Our All Powerful Loving Father in Heaven It’s Amazing!! I’ll never forget I used to beg and plead with God please help me. Please show yourself to me! And I’ll never ever Forget the first time I felt the Overwhelming feeling of his presence I was brought to tears all I could do was say Thank you Lord God Thank you so much I am so Sorry Lord, I am so sorry God I didn’t know! It was truly amazing. Oh how I long to feel his presence his power I never want to lose it! Sometimes real bad or hard times come…. but God Moments!! God Moments those my friends are so very Amazing and beautiful and Good nothing can compare in this world to that and No one can take that from us!!! Hallelujah!!!! Thanks be to the Lord God Almighty!!!!! I’d like to Thank God for my Salvation! Also, Thank everyone who prayed for me, My Dad, my Aunt Sophie & Uncle Lee. Pastor at The Potter’s House, in Lubbock, TX. Prayers are Powerful don’t ever give up on praying for anyone. Nothing is to hard for God ! Also Testimony- My 13 year old daughter has been having allot of health issues this past year that came up out of nowhere. They suspect an autoimmune disease and cancer. This past week they did a bone marrow biopsy and the results came back that she is all cleared for Cancer no Cancer is involved in her Health issues! Thank God that’s a Christmas Miracle from God for us.