I'm Charlsey Hare - I'm from Oxford Mississippi
so in 2009 I came to For My Life
with my mom. I was a freshman in college and so I just went home over
Christmas break and she was like "We're going to be in health." I've had allergies
for my whole life; had to get allergy shots from the time I was like I don't
know five or six until I was ten and then was on allergy medication at least
twice a day and sometimes three times a day depending on like what weeds were in
bloom and everything so I had allergies and then I'd also developed
Acid reflux during high school my dad's a pharmacist and so we would
just ask him you know what medicine do I need for this and didn't really think
that there could be a spiritual cause for it so I didn't know anything about
Be In Health...my mom had read the book A More Excellent Way and she asked me if I
wanted to read it and it was really big and I was like no that's fine I'll just
go and so I went and I was very resistant to the teachings at first
because I'd been raised in church my whole life until that point and never
had heard anything about evil spirits honestly and so I thought it was a
little weird but I was willing to admit that I did have fear which was behind
allergies and acid reflux so that year while I didn't embrace all the teachings
I was healed of the allergies and acid reflux so I was really excited about
that and I went back to college and I wasn't on medicine anymore at all and so
that was very exciting but I didn't really take the teachings with me so I
was away from my mom and didn't know anybody else who knew the Be In Health
teaching so I didn't really apply them for the next four years so then I was
graduating from college and in 2013 and I was getting ready to go overseas to
serve and I never was really diagnosed with this but I had something resembling
an eating disorder or maybe it wasn't eating disorder I don't know but I know
now that it was an unloving spirit and so at I guess it was really as a last
resort before I left to go overseas that summer I told my mom we have to go to
Be In Health because I can't go to the field like this so we went and
and I just was kind of at my wit's end and I remember sitting at the I think
it's called the Hope Inn now it was called the Crestview Inn at that time
but I remember sitting in there and just being like Lord I don't know what else
to do like I've got to go overseas and it was like just a couple of weeks from
then and I just remember crying out to him and being like please help me give
me an answer and that was the first time that I'd ever really felt His voice in
my spirit just heard Him speak so immediately to me so that was really
really cool and He just said "who told you that?" so it's kind of like in the
garden like who's been telling you these things and where are your thoughts
coming from and so that really just was a big big step in my freedom and so
that's really what I wanted to share today was just that while the the
physical things you know I've been healed of those things and it's really
awesome and I'm so thankful but what really means more to me is just
that now I'm so close to my Father I had no idea that I was so separated from Him
but really if I wouldn't have if I didn't have this knowledge then I would
be accusing God of all these things that He hasn't done that He hasn't said and
with the Be In Health teachings I'm able to recognize that the enemy
wants to cover up his character and wants to just occlude everything about
him so that's what I'm really thankful for is just being able to have a really
close relationship with Him and just walk in freedom with Him
I'm a teacher and so I teach it Ole Miss and on Monday Wednesday Friday I have two
classes and I just remember thinking at the beginning of the semester without
the Be In Health teachings I would be so scared I just had so much fear in my
life just a whole lot of fear because I wasn't close to the father and I wasn't
trusting him and so now I'm able to go in and teach I'm 27 and my students are
like 18 and 19 and so it can be intimidating sometimes but I know that
like God's got my back now and I don't have to go and they're afraid so
that has just been it's made a world of difference in my day to day life
I would just say to go I mean I think people can make any kind of excuse not
to go because it is a week long but a week is such a short amount of time in
the whole scheme of eternity like this matters for the rest of time and so if
you would just take a step and go for seven days or maybe it's even five days
I think just five just invest in yourself and invest in your life and
yeah you won't be disappointed