Friday, December 17, 2010

My Life


God bless everyone and hello. My name is Pam DeWitt, and what a glorious day this is to praise the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! How blessed I am to be here. I am currently seeking another Christian rock band to sing with :)

I am blessed to still have my parents to thank for leading me to the comfort and saving grace of God's Word (like the Bible instructs to do with your children).
 The oldest of five children, my mother had me and two sets of twins. I was born April 8th, 1966. What we lacked in lush and plush financial riches and worldly comforts, we more than made up for with love, laughter, and tight family bonds. The importance of an active walk with God was evident very early in my pre-teen years.

I was baptized at age 26 (after the dissolution of marriage from my first husband). I focused hard and heavy on my walk with God for the next several years until my involvement with a secular "Southern Rock / Country" band (Dangerous Territory out of Lawrenceburg, IN) became the main focal point in my life at the time.

I've enjoyed singing since I was five. With a hairbrush as a microphone and mom's bed as my stage, the show was on! My parents have always said their children have talent and they all "crave" the spotlight, but I knew in the deepest place of my heart I would one day really, really be a "star", a singer!

Thirty six years later, the hairbrush became a real microphone as I sang for Lest We Boast (Christian rock band, Hamilton, OH) for seven years! They asked to "part ways" with me in December of 2010, but my time with them will be forever in my heart and cherished.

My Heavenly Father became disappointed with my life and I truly believe as part of His admonishment, He lowered His mighty hedge of protection from me around age 29. During this time I met, and fell madly in love with, my current husband of ten years now, Chris. I became pregnant out of wedlock after years of trying to have children with my first husband with no success. I was three and a half months pregnant when Chris and I married in June, 1997. My teenage children, are, and have been the loves of my life. I immediately quit singing the bar scenes and stayed at home to raise my family. I believe that our "living in sin" out of wedlock had a major tidal wave effect on my spiritual life and walk with God. I knew I was not obeying his word, but I didn't really care. I was a Christian, right? What could possibly happen to me?

Looking back, everything fell apart soon after Chris and I had begun our life together.

At 6 1/2 months pregnant, I was involved in a car wreck. Upon arrival to the ER, they told me they couldn't hear my babies heartbeat! The very baby I had waited ALL MY LIFE FOR! The one that I had PRAYED for! After 24 hours under constant monitoring, they found it. Praise God. The hidden blessing in all of this was that due to the car wreck, I had more than the usual number of ultrasounds. They were able to tell me before my son was even born, that he would only have 1 kidney. This had nothing to do with the wreck, but it was very useful information to know. They verified this when he was 3 months old. Now we know that he can't play any contact sports. With my husband being a 6'4", husky "viking" type of man, he would have had our son play football for sure! But I truly feel that God revealed this information to protect our son in the future.

I suffered from generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks from about 1997 to present, everyday of my life. Paralyzing, debilitating panic attacks made me feel like I was dying at LEAST 20 times a day (I still have them). How would my children be without their mother? I wasn't ready to die. It took SO long to have kids, and now I was lookin' the devil square in the eyes. I lived in FEAR every minute, gripped in Satan's clutches, and he brought me to the lowest point in my entire life. Depression and despair was only met with darkness and loneliness. NO ONE knew how I felt or what I was going through. I had already been involved in a car accident while six and a half months pregnant with my first child, Christian. Suffering injuries (physical and mental), I was alone all day and night while my husband worked second shift. It was just me and the babies. My hormones had changed, affecting my seratonin levels and my weight exploded out of control. I had female cancer cells lasered off my cervix right after the birth of my second child, Callie Jade.

Neglecting EVERYTHING but my children, my marriage fell apart. I was never so close to a breakdown. Of course I cried out to God and asked why, why, whyyyyyy? Of course I felt "abandoned". I began to be confined in my home, a prisoner who would not, and did not want to even leave my house. The thought of getting into a car and going anywhere threw me into a full-blown panic attack. My husband (bless his soul to this day), did our laundry, grocery shopping, taking kids to doctors and family outings, and practically anything else that needed taken care of outside of the home. Still working fifty to sixty hours a week, I think it smothered any love or respect he once had for me as a wife because he just didn't understand my illness. No one did.

You know, God gives His blessings in many disguises, and in HIS time :)

As I was sinking and only seeing darkness and total despair, He was preparing to lift me up again and again and again (and still to this day). For THREE LONG years I was unable to leave my home. I had nothing to do and nowhere to turn except back to God. I was just praying that He would remember me from years ago. Would He remember the close walk I once had with Him when I was ON FIRE for his presence???

It's amazing just how close you can get to God while lying face down in your own sobbing and slobbering sinning self. God loved me enough to convict me and to teach me that His faith and promises are EVERLASTING. The bible says that His word does not, and will not return void. It was literally the "mustard seed" that I struggled with. How would these panic attacks go away and I get my life back with just the faith of a mustard seed? Ironic, but it's the very act of even questioning this possibility that made this work. That with just the faith of the tiniest seed, I could move mountains. I could, with God's help, learn to have faith in Him to bear my mountains, cure my mountains, re-position my mountains, or even rid them entirely. It was totally His will. I had to surrender. I couldn't do it my way any more. Something so simple to read was so difficult for me to believe... that's what's called the "lack of faith".

God performed what I still call to this day yet another miracle in my life. SLOWLY my attacks lessened and my faith in God's promises grew again. I still have panic attacks to this day, but they don't "control" my life. I have accepted that God wants me to share this with others who may be where I once was. I have wonderful friends and a loving extended family to encourage me through the next adventures and expectations in life. After five surgeries in 2004 (one removing my thyroid gland, one removing my gall bladder ), I still need God's help each moment of every day. I have diabetes. I have Chrohn's disease. I was sexually abused as a child, then again as a teenager by a man I used to babysit for. I am not the size I should be. I suffer from generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks. I have sleep apnea and seldom get more than 4 hours of sleep per night/day. I am a proud mother of two angels, that God blessed me with after trying and waiting for 11 years! I have a sick husband that has put up with a lot of my illnesses and surgeries, and still loves me. I have no thyroid gland ( removed due to tumors). I had cervical cancer in 1999. Some members of my very own family don't even want to know God. I had an alcoholic father that left my mother with 3 children age 3 and under (me and a set of twins), so I grew up in the projects of Cincinnati on welfare (Winton Terrace). BUT we survived. God had His hand on us even back then! God promised to take care of the fatherless and the widows :)

I ALSO HAVE FAITH IN THE GOD THAT DIED FOR ME. I HAVE PURE L-O-V-E FOR HIM, AND NOTHING WILL EVER TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME. I AM TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH JESUS! I think I am the most luckiest, blessed person in the world, despite all that I've just mentioned to you. I've been through the fire. God didn't just walk in it with me...He literally PULLED me through it all. I KNOW there are millions of people that have many many things more terrible than any of my worst problem or experience, that's why I don't even focus on them. THE BIBLE SAYS TO KEEP OUR EYES UPON THE LORD. There is a reason for that. If we keep our focus on Holiness in God, there is NO way our minds can allow bad in to tear us down. THE DEVIL IS A LIAR! If we stay and DWELL in God's word, nothing but good can come from it. All things work to the good according to God's will.

I'm not worthy to be on the world wide web sharing God's glories and miracles with you right now. I'm a sinner. I fall short of God's glory EVERY minute of the day. I don't pray enough (without ceasing) like He tells us to. I don't volunteer my time and resources enough (love one another). I don't do a lot of things that I know I should, but the Bible helps me to strive to be more like Christ. The one thing I know with the very soul that lives within me.....is that

JESUS DOES LOVE ME! HALLELUIJAH!!!

He has already died for me and forgave me for ALL my shortcomings and sins. God is NO respecter of persons, and he loves me. I'm crying pure tears of joy as I'm writing this right now. It is my prayer that everyone could FEEL what I'm feeling, just being wrapped in God's loving embrace.

Dear Heavenly Father... I pray that You will help motivate me to be healthy and become a strong, God-fearing, wife, mother and light for You. I confess my sins and ask for forgiveness. I thank You Jesus, for dying on the cross so I may live with You eternally. Abba, I praise Your Holy Name and I love You with all my heart and soul. I thank you for my family, friends, and many blessings (one of which was purchasing our first home 10/18/05). I thank you for leading me back to you Father. You came and rescued me...just like a lost, stray sheep in your flock. I am not worthy Father, but I am forever yours. I owe my very LIFE to you. Lord, I pray for the continued protection of this great country, and for the leaders running it. I pray for you to answer the individual prayers and needs of all who read this, and ask that you convict them to have a closer and better walk with you. I ask for you to hear the prayers of our band's prayer request lists every day. Let us remember to praise you continually Father, for there is no other greater. Thank You Lord for bringing me to this band and may You bless us to praise and glorify Your Sweet Name. Use us Lord to help others. You promised you would never leave me or forsake me Father, and you didn't. Everything happens in YOUR time, not mine. Fill my cup with you Father, so I may share and proclaim your name!!! I want to spend the rest of my life seeking Your face. I DO believe in miracles. I DO believe in You Father. You are everything Lord. You are Holy, and I humbly thank you for your very being. I ask these things in Jesus' name, Amen. "


I was baptized at age 26 (after the dissolution of marriage from my first husband). I focused hard and heavy on my walk with God for the next several years until my involvement with a secular "Southern Rock / Country" band (Dangerous Territory out of Lawrenceburg, IN) became the main focal point in my life at the time.I've enjoyed singing since I was five. With a hairbrush as a microphone and mom's bed as my stage, the show was on! My parents have always said their children have talent and they all "crave" the spotlight, but I knew in the deepest place of my heart I would one day really, really be a "star", a singer!Thirty six years later, the hairbrush became a real microphone as I sang for Lest We Boast (Christian rock band, Hamilton, OH) for seven years! They asked to "part ways" with me in December of 2010, but my time with them will be forever in my heart and cherished.My Heavenly Father became disappointed with my life and I truly believe as part of His admonishment, He lowered His mighty hedge of protection from me around age 29. During this time I met, and fell madly in love with, my current husband of ten years now, Chris. I became pregnant out of wedlock after years of trying to have children with my first husband with no success. I was three and a half months pregnant when Chris and I married in June, 1997. My teenage children, are, and have been the loves of my life. I immediately quit singing the bar scenes and stayed at home to raise my family. I believe that our "living in sin" out of wedlock had a major tidal wave effect on my spiritual life and walk with God. I knew I was not obeying his word, but I didn't really care. I was a Christian, right? What could possibly happen to me?Looking back, everything fell apart soon after Chris and I had begun our life together.At 6 1/2 months pregnant, I was involved in a car wreck. Upon arrival to the ER, they told me they couldn't hear my babies heartbeat! The very baby I had waited ALL MY LIFE FOR! The one that I had PRAYED for! After 24 hours under constant monitoring, they found it. Praise God. The hidden blessing in all of this was that due to the car wreck, I had more than the usual number of ultrasounds. They were able to tell me before my son was even born, that he would only have 1 kidney. This had nothing to do with the wreck, but it was very useful information to know. They verified this when he was 3 months old. Now we know that he can't play any contact sports. With my husband being a 6'4", husky "viking" type of man, he would have had our son play football for sure! But I truly feel that God revealed this information to protect our son in the future. I suffered from generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks from about 1997 to 2003 every day of my life. Paralyzing, debilitating panic attacks made me feel like I was dying at LEAST 20 times a day (I still have them today). How would my children be without their mother? I wasn't ready to die. It took SO long to have kids, and now I was lookin' the devil square in the eyes. I lived in FEAR every minute, gripped in Satan's clutches, and he brought me to the lowest point in my entire life. Depression and despair was only met with darkness and loneliness. NO ONE knew how I felt or what I was going through. I had already been involved in a car accident while six and a half months pregnant with my first child, Christian. Suffering injuries (physical and mental), I was alone all day and night while my husband worked second shift. It was just me and the babies. My hormones had changed, affecting my seratonin levels and my weight exploded out of control. I had female cancer cells lasered off my cervix right after the birth of my second child, Callie Jade.Neglecting EVERYTHING but my children, my marriage fell apart. I was never so close to a breakdown. Of course I cried out to God and asked why, why, whyyyyyy? Of course I felt "abandoned". I began to be confined in my home, a prisoner who would not, and did not want to even leave my house. The thought of getting into a car and going anywhere threw me into a full-blown panic attack. My husband (bless his soul to this day), did our laundry, grocery shopping, taking kids to doctors and family outings, and practically anything else that needed taken care of outside of the home. Still working fifty to sixty hours a week, I think it smothered any love or respect he once had for me as a wife because he just didn't understand my illness. No one did.You know, God gives His blessings in many disguises, and in HIS time :)As I was sinking and only seeing darkness and total despair, He was preparing to lift me up again and again and again (and still to this day). For THREE LONG years I was unable to leave my home. I had nothing to do and nowhere to turn except back to God. I was just praying that He would remember me from years ago. Would He remember the close walk I once had with Him when I was ON FIRE for his presence???It's amazing just how close you can get to God while lying face down in your own sobbing and slobbering sinning self. God loved me enough to convict me and to teach me that His faith and promises are EVERLASTING. The bible says that His word does not, and will not return void. It was literally the "mustard seed" that I struggled with. How would these panic attacks go away and I get my life back with just the faith of a mustard seed? Ironic, but it's the very act of even questioning this possibility that made this work. That with just the faith of the tiniest seed, I could move mountains. I could, with God's help, learn to have faith in Him to bear my mountains, cure my mountains, re-position my mountains, or even rid them entirely. It was totally His will. I had to surrender. I couldn't do it my way any more. Something so simple to read was so difficult for me to believe... that's what's called the "lack of faith".God performed what I still call to this day yet another miracle in my life. SLOWLY my attacks lessened and my faith in God's promises grew again. I still have panic attacks to this day, but they don't "control" my life. I have accepted that God wants me to share this with others who may be where I once was. I have wonderful friends and a loving extended family to encourage me through the next adventures and expectations in life. After five surgeries in 2004 (one removing my thyroid gland, one removing my gall bladder ), I still need God's help each moment of every day. I have diabetes. I have Chrohn's disease. I was sexually abused as a child, then again as a teenager by a man I used to babysit for. I am not the size I should be. I suffer from generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks. I have sleep apnea and seldom get more than 4 hours of sleep per night/day. I am a proud mother of two angels, that God blessed me with after trying and waiting for 11 years! I have a sick husband that has put up with a lot of my illnesses and surgeries, and still loves me. I have no thyroid gland ( removed due to tumors). I had cervical cancer in 1999. Some members of my very own family don't even want to know God. I had an alcoholic father that left my mother with 3 children age 3 and under (me and a set of twins), so I grew up in the projects of Cincinnati on welfare (Winton Terrace). BUT we survived. God had His hand on us even back then! God promised to take care of the fatherless and the widows :)I ALSO HAVE FAITH IN THE GOD THAT DIED FOR ME. I HAVE PURE L-O-V-E FOR HIM, AND NOTHING WILL EVER TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME. I AM TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH JESUS! I think I am the most luckiest, blessed person in the world, despite all that I've just mentioned to you. I've been through the fire. God didn't just walk in it with me...He literally PULLED me through it all. I KNOW there are millions of people that have many many things more terrible than any of my worst problem or experience, that's why I don't even focus on them. THE BIBLE SAYS TO KEEP OUR EYES UPON THE LORD. There is a reason for that. If we keep our focus on Holiness in God, there is NO way our minds can allow bad in to tear us down. THE DEVIL IS A LIAR! If we stay and DWELL in God's word, nothing but good can come from it. All things work to the good according to God's will.I'm not worthy to be on the world wide web sharing God's glories and miracles with you right now. I'm a sinner. I fall short of God's glory EVERY minute of the day. I don't pray enough (without ceasing) like He tells us to. I don't volunteer my time and resources enough (love one another). I don't do a lot of things that I know I should, but the Bible helps me to strive to be more like Christ. The one thing I know with the very soul that lives within me.....is thatJESUS DOES LOVE ME! HALLELUIJAH!!!He has already died for me and forgave me for ALL my shortcomings and sins. God is NO respecter of persons, and he loves me. I'm crying pure tears of joy as I'm writing this right now. It is my prayer that everyone could FEEL what I'm feeling, just being wrapped in God's loving embrace.Dear Heavenly Father... I pray that You will help motivate me to be healthy and become a strong, God-fearing, wife, mother and light for You. I confess my sins and ask for forgiveness. I thank You Jesus, for dying on the cross so I may live with You eternally. Abba, I praise Your Holy Name and I love You with all my heart and soul. I thank you for my family, friends, and many blessings (one of which was purchasing our first home 10/18/05, even though we lost it to foreclosure in 2008 after hubby lost his 12 year job). I thank you for leading me back to you Father. You came and rescued me...just like a lost, stray sheep in your flock. I am not worthy Father, but I am forever yours. I owe my very LIFE to you. Lord, I pray for the continued protection of this great country, and for the leaders running it. I pray for you to answer the individual prayers and needs of all who read this, and ask that you convict them to have a closer and better walk with you. I ask for you to hear the prayers of our band's prayer request lists every day. Let us remember to praise you continually Father, for there is no other greater. Thank You Lord for bringing me to this band and may You bless us to praise and glorify Your Sweet Name. Use us Lord to help others. You promised you would never leave me or forsake me Father, and you didn't. Everything happens in YOUR time, not mine. Fill my cup with you Father, so I may share and proclaim your name!!! I want to spend the rest of my life seeking Your face. I DO believe in miracles. I DO believe in You Father. You are everything Lord. You are Holy, and I humbly thank you for your very being. I ask these things in Jesus' name, Amen. "


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