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Jean Kurtz
My name is Jean Kurtz and the joy you see in me is real because I've found what my heart had been longing for, and I now get the privledge of helping others find it too through online classes.
Maybe you can relate to my story. I lived passionately my whole life and threw my heart into everything I did whether it was school, relationships, career, friendships, marriage, and family. I wanted to have a successful life, but the more I tried, the more sidetracked I became. I looked for mentors along the way - people who seemed to have found success in the things I thought I wanted. I read all the "self-help" books, went to career and personal development seminars, but at the end of the day, alone with myself, I couldn't fill up my empty heart and find the help and direction I was looking for. A series of events in my life (marriage at 27, a baby at 30, the end of my career at 32, my husband’s health crisis) on top of an inability to control my increasing weight with diet and exercise culminated in a crisis of faith that brought me to my knees and a desperate plea to God to help me.
God answered my prayer in the Fall of 2001. I had danced around the Weigh Down message for a number of years, and I knew it had to be the answer for me. Sick of myself, and ready go “ALL IN,” I signed up for the “Weigh Down Advanced" class. I saw in Gwen Shamblin and in the testimonies on the videos, people who had something extraordinary - they had a relationship with God like I’d never seen or known was possible. In the 12-week long course my eyes were opened, God removed 30 pounds of greed for food, and a 17 year long hidden addiction to cigarettes. I marked a fork in the road as a result of true repentance and the beginning of an understanding of who God is and who I am. My position in the relationship with God became clear.
I got to hear Gwen speak live at Southbend, Indiana one Saturday in November, and it sealed my conviction that I finally found someone who truly knew God and loved him with all her heart, mind, soul and strength. This was finally a leader and mentor I could follow. Gwen was following the Jesus Christ who would deny himself and live only for God. I found in this message true life and freedom. Weigh Down revolutionized my life and that of my family. The 30 pounds I lost all those years ago is still gone. In addition to the weight, many, many other healthy changes in my life and relationships have occurred. I continue to run after this passionate relationship with God, and He truely IS better than anything else.
It truly is “A Wonderful Life.” You can do this too!
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