Our Guest: Stephanie Vigers
Stephanie co-pastors a church with her husband, Donnell. They have 3 grown children. She has authored 2 books and co-authored another. She hosted her own talk show, “Awakening the Diamonds” and has been a guest on various other Christian shows. Stephanie and Donnell served as hosts for the Reinhard Bonnke Crusade in Houston in 2015. They continue to facilitate and lead other city-wide prayer and evangelistic gatherings.
Key Thoughts and Scriptures:
Isaiah 43:4 ESV Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you…
Psalm 27:10 NIV Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.
- Follow the Lord. When you mess up, you confess your sins, and you just move on.
- Even before Stephanie and her family knew the Lord, He provided.
Joshua 24:15 NKJV …Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve…
- “How can I say that I love God and want to follow Him and want to kill myself? Those don’t mix together, so something is wrong.”
- “That night I said, ‘I choose you, Lord.’ Everything just lifted.”
- She had deliverance even when she didn’t know what deliverance was.
- When Stephanie read the Bible for herself, she discovered that it was different from what she’d been taught.
- That started her on a journey for truth.
- She would line up what she was being taught against the Word, so she would no longer be deceived.
James 1:27 NLT Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.
Romans 8:37 NIV No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
- We can choose to be a conqueror, to choose right or wrong.
- He gives us that ability to do it, but He also gives us the power in order to do it.
John 16:33 NLT I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.
Stephanie had to learn to forgive.
- Stephanie had every right to be angry because the things were wrong and evil.
- But those rights were taken away when she came to the Lord.
- For He said we have to forgive and to show mercy just as He has forgiven us.
- Sin is sin in the eyes of the Lord.
- God has great love not only for us, but for others as well.
- People that are broken break other people.
- “The more I fell in love with Jesus the more the hate and anger went away.”
- As we become more like Him the more the things that are not of the Spirit fade away.
Ezekiel 36:26 NLT And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.
- Forgiveness is more about ourselves than it is about the other person.
- Unforgiveness keeps us in bondage.
- “No, someone else is not going to teach you. You’re going to walk alongside Me and I’m going to instruct you.”
- When Stephanie gave her past to the Lord, He used the scars, the wounds and the healing that He did and opened up so many doors for her to join Him in ministry.
- “If the Lord tells me to do something, I just do it. Then I freak out later.”
Isaiah 55:11 NKJV So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
- “Sometimes we lead; sometimes we serve. I’m doing it all for the glory of the Lord and He’ll be pleased with my service unto Him.”
Stephanie’s Suggested Ways to Get Unstuck from Bad Relationships or Struggles from the Past:
- Know that God is Love and that He isn’t abusive.
- Learn what Love is (1 Corinthians 13 NIV)
- Love is not hurt/pain.
- There is no fear in love. (1 John 4:18 NIV)
- We are worthy to be loved because Jesus made us worthy of it.
- Love doesn’t dishonor other people.
- It always protects.
- Safely get out of bad relationships.
- In Christ, you have the power to overcome.
1 John 4:4 NIV You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
- Call upon the Name of the Lord.
Acts 2:21 NKJV And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
- That’s not just salvation. Whatever situation that you are going through, you can call upon the name of the Lord.
- The Lord will hear and answer.
Isaiah 65:24 NKJV “It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
- Surrender it all to the Lord.
- Allow God to be God.
Rahab’s Story (The Unlikely One)
Joshua 2 NIV, Joshua 6 NIV, Matthew 1:5 NIV, Hebrews 11:31 NIV, James 2:25 NIV
- God was able to use Rahab despite who she was or her past.
- There’s not enough bad things that you have done that the Lord wouldn’t choose you.
- He continues to transform us into who He has created us to be.
- God’s love redefines our worth.
Deuteronomy 31:6 NIV Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Psalm 32:8 NIV I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
Romans 10:9 NKJV That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Psalm 18:30 NIV As for God, his way is perfect…
Matthew 28:20 NKJV …And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Ephesians 3:17–19 NIV …And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Links:
Books:
- Misery Has Lost Its Grip On Me by Stephanie Vigers (Some of this story may be disturbing)
- Fire Starters: Unleashing the Fire Within You by Stephanie Vigers
- Preparing for Revival Instruction Manual by Donnell and Stephanie Vigers
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