About one year ago, the Lord spoke to me and said, “I am about to shake things up in your life so you can get to where you need to be”. He also told me that things were going to be hard for a while. My immediate response was fear and depression. After a few days, the depression lifted as I put my life on the altar again. Shortly after God’s initial word, He spoke to me again through a sister at church. She told me that Spiritual increase was coming to my life and that people close to me were not going to like it, but to walk in it anyway. I received this word in better spirits because I had already placed my life on the altar. Still, I made a mental note to put on my seatbelt.

            A year later, God has changed both my spiritual and my physical locations. I found myself in a place of loneliness confronted by a person who has been known to be brutal and cruel to many people in the past. I have had to endure daily insults, criticisms, belittling, etc. I have been broken. But the situation has caused me cry out to God in a way I haven’t in a long time. It made me fight not to be a casualty of someone else’s unhappiness. As I fought, I climbed out of a pit I didn’t know I was in. The pit was called fatigue. Past battles had rendered me useless as they sucked the life out of me and with it, my faith. Now, I am beginning to recover what was stolen. God is restoring my hope and faith in Him. From this experience has sprung the birth of this blog, Captives of Hope.