Dre Muir

Starting Date: November 2010

Home State: Alabama

Prayer Request:

-That God will provide the support needed for my summer team

-That I will stay on the path the Lord has set for me

-For wisdom and discernment

Testimony:

I haven’t always known the Lord, but He has always had a calling on my life. He took me and my 3 other siblings out of bad family situation. After about 2 years of foster care, we were about to get adopted by a Christian family. They only wanted 2 of us, but the Lord really started working in their hearts and they ended up adopting all of us.

Well, I accepted the Lord into my heart at age 10, but it wasn’t real for me because I really didn’t understand what I was praying. I was just this angry girl who, if you made me angry, would make your life miserable. I had all that bitterness inside of me and I refused to let it go. Also, I had a huge problem with self-esteem. I did everything I could to make guys look at me. People always told me that God could make me feel beautiful and that He would love me for who I was and I didn’t have to wear small clothes to get His attention. The Lord started really tugging on my heart, and I didn’t like the way my life was headed – I was so tired of being angry and having low self-esteem. I wanted to live according to His Word. So I started reading the Bible and praying to Him.  Galatians 2:20 really spoke to me. It says, “My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” It really explains itself, but I love the fact that I didn’t have to worry about the person I was before the Lord changed me because it died away when I accepted Jesus into my heart. It doesn’t mean I don’t struggle with getting angry when someone has wronged me, but I am learning to forgive. William Authur Ward says, “forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door to resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chain of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.”