I believe every human being is born into a journey of finding happiness! As a child, I thought happiness was making my parents happy with me, so I worked hard to keep the rules and get good grades.
When I was a teen, I realized pleasing my parents wasn’t where happiness was, I thought being in a relationship and having a boy love me would be happiness, along with also being skinny. So I started having sex and became anorexic.
When being promiscuous and starving myself didn’t bring happiness, I entered my adulthood believing that getting married, having kids and buying the big house filled with material items would finally be the answer. So we went into debt!
After 10 years of marriage, I believed a lie, that the problem was, that I married the wrong person. After multiple affairs and filing for divorce, being more miserable than ever, I obeyed God and reconciled with my husband. Reconciling with my husband was great, but something was still missing; that deep happiness I always longed for, so I thought my husband held the key to my happiness, therefore I pressured, manipulated and did everything I could to mold him into the person I thought would make me happy. Which in turn just caused a division in our marriage.
As a mother I thought having perfect kids and being admired was the answer to happiness. So I raised them in a strict home and jumped into tons of ministries at church, making my ministries a priority over my family. That process taught me that depending on other people to admire me, in order to be happy was a lot of work. And heart breaking at times when they didn’t.
I discovered the key to happiness on a power walk one morning!
While I was crying out to God to change the people and circumstances around me so I could be happy, I heard him say: “The happiness you are searching for is found only in me!” That’s when I realized that happiness happens, when I take my mind off of me and put it on pleasing the Lord, loving and blessing others.
This is Freedom!
From that moment on, I began an incredible journey of love, peace and freedom! Because I was finally free from me and free from being dependent on others for my happiness!
Isaiah 26:3-4
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
My mission is to help people discover their identity in Christ, to realize how free and powerful they are. To realize the dreams, passions and desires He’s planted in their heart and to help them go after them!
Rhonda Ferguson
Helping people take back their hijacked life God’s way!