Gayle Mahnke

My name is Gayle Mahnke. Through hearing this truth that Gwen Shamblin teaches in the Weigh Down Workshop, and through putting it into practice, 45 lbs. of overweight is gone from my body. My highest weight was prior to 1999 when I first got to participate in a Weigh Down Exodus seminar, and I feel better physically now in my 50's than I have ever felt in my entire life! The reason for this is because of all the selfish evil desires that are gone from my heart. Through this love relationship with The One True God, I have been set free from strongholds of anger, outbursts of rage, pride, criticizing and nagging my sweet husband that God gave me, mean-spirited toward others on the one hand and people-pleasing on the other hand, wrong shopping, over-talking, thinking I knew the answer to everything, hating authority, power struggles against co-workers and bosses? now my greatest joy is to be lined up with the personality and character of Jesus Christ who lived every minute to do the will of the Father! I am on a path of looking for God's will in everything and laying down my will wherever it doesn't line up with His will ? for His will is perfect, and He has poured out generous blessings on me for submitting my heart and actions to Him! It is such a joy to have found others who are free from the pain that wrong choices brought to their lives, too. As a member of Remnant Fellowship since 2001, I worship God Almighty with those who have found this relationship that lets you rise up and fly above the pull of the food and the world's desires that rob us and are going to pass away! (1 John 2:17) Only God is a true God who gives back when we truly repent of doing it our way. Anything else is a bad god, a false god, which only robs us and cannot give back! Now that I have learned these truths through the Weigh Down and Remnant Fellowship teachings of God's Word'they are a life-giving foundation on which I live every minute for God! I thank God for all He has done! In my life before my repentance, before I turned from sin, I was absolutely full of pain. There was emotional and physical pain from my actions, which were destroying my body. In my life now, through obedience to His Word and His commands, He has healed me of searing back pain that was a daily part of my life and that drained me of energy. My body is now also free from the irritable bowel syndrome that was getting worse while I grabbed for food as I tried to fill the emptiness in my heart. I used to have headaches all the time? it is so rare now for me to have a headache that it is almost never! After the life of sin that I was living, I certainly don't deserve to have anything good. But since hearing the truth and putting it into practice, my life has been a sweet journey of feeling God's disciplining hand and turning, following His lead and being so blessed and healed. My marriage is so different than the painful emptiness that it was, and even to this very day God is blessing my husband and me with a stronger, more loving relationship than we ever thought was possible. And now that I know how to live for God so that I may go to Him for every need, money is not my focus or worry. Living within God's boundaries there is no stress about money.

Remnant Fellowship Church and its leadership keeps to the plumb-line of Jesus Christ, that is ? ?not my will, but Yours be done, Father.? Through the example of their lives of obedience to God Almighty, through the teaching of the Word, and through the help that I get, I have been able to identify idols in my heart and lay them down ? to God's glory! No other church has ever shown me how to do that. The church that I used to attend not only left me weak and ineffectual against laying down sin, but it taught me that God didn't expect me to lay it down. I praise this awesome, righteous God of all, who has shown us in His word that He ?has given us everything we need for life and godliness? so that we may ?receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? (2 Peter 1:3-11). In Remnant Fellowship the focus is on God, and all of us help each other to live pure lives for Him. There is no resemblance here to false churches where it is all about what they can get out of the people. Here the truth is spoken in love so that those who want to have only ONE God grow stronger every day in living righteously for God. Thank You, God Almighty, for this Remnant of believers? sold out to living for You so that we may all 'take hold of the life that is truly life? (1 Timothy 6:19b). I have found true life!