"Why am I praying and my life
is a mess?"

As a Ghanaian woman I wanted to get married. It’s very important because I come from a culture where we believe that by the time you reach the age of 22 or 23, you should be married and settled with children. So for me it was very depressing and shameful to know that I couldn’t keep a relationship and couldn’t be happily married.

I went through at least six failed relationships. The longest lasting about a year, and the shortest for only two weeks. Either my partner would tell me that he wasn’t interested or for some strange reason I would just lose interest in the relationship. I was a very negative person and I wasn’t confident, so people would come into my life and couldn’t handle that. I always thought that there was something wrong with me.

I felt ugly and thought that no one could get along with me. In a day, my partner would have to constantly tell me that he loves me and compliment me about everything, from my hair to what I was wearing. I would get very upset if that didn’t happen. Most of the men became frustrated and ended the relationship.

At night, I would have this feeling that someone was trying to strangle or push me down and I’d be struggling to break free but couldn’t. I’d wake up screaming. These nightmares were so bad that it forced me to stay awake all night, and I was always tired and felt very weak. This affected my relationships with people at work as I became very difficult to get along with.

Things got worse in my life as I also developed asthma at the age of 32. At this point, life was unbearable and I wanted a change. I went to church, I believed in God, but I just couldn’t pray because I thought that nothing would work for me, until one day a colleague gave me the FiA Magazine from the UCKG. I read testimonies of people who had their lives transformed, so I asked her to take me to the church.

I came on a Friday and took part of the strong prayer; then I spoke with the bishop who told me to stop worrying and focus on changing my situation. I started attending Tuesday healing services, where I experienced my first miracle. I was healed from asthma as I believed in the prayers and the word of God. It’s been eight years now and I no longer need an asthma pump.

I started investing in my spiritual life and stopped being insecure and negative, because I believed in what I was taught. I also went out of my way to look good on the outside. I would always go out with a smile, which attracted people, like my husband. Everything has changed in my life and today I am so happy. The most important thing that I’ve learned is that we must always use our faith and take action.

Joana Spio,
Peckham

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