BIO: Marta 🎓MM 🎓ALC 🎓 HGC

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My Personal Journey and BIO

Hello, I'm Marta and I live in Minas Gerais.

I arrived at our ministry in July 2015.

My journey began when I met RMI, because before that I thought that separation was the only way for us, since I thought I was right in everything, and that the wrong one was my ex-husband.

I arrived full of pain, sadness, bitterness, and even though I had heard from some people that God would restore my marriage, I had no hope, especially because I had never heard of “marriage restoration” before.

I need to emphasize to you that I have been a Christian since I was little. I was active, a Sunday school teacher, and I was a regular churchgoer. I barely knew Him, I didn't walk with Him, and this resulted in the collapse of my family, because I wasn't interested in being the wise wife He created me to be, so the outcome could not be any other.

One day, while searching the internet for articles about marriage, I was directed to a website of a Brazilian pastor who had a testimony of a restored marriage and who recommended the book “ How God Can and Will Restore Your Marriage .” I began to be transformed when I started reading the book, and God spoke deeply to my heart. I was able to see all my mistakes and He filled me with hope, renewing my strength and increasing my hunger and thirst to seek Him through His Word. In a short time, I learned more about Him than I had learned in my entire life in the church. I read the book in a few days, signed up for the courses and effectively began my journey.

At first, I didn’t understand that He wanted me all to Himself. He wanted to talk to me in private, where I could hear Him and understand that He was in control of everything. Today I know that He allowed me to go through the desert so that I could seek, trust, and have Him as the first in my life.

As I said, I only knew Him, but then I came to know Him intimately and walk with Him, and this changed the way I view life and other people.

Becoming a minister was such a beautiful way for Him to do things for me, because I never imagined myself helping other people. Even though I had worked my whole life as an advisor to different executives, I didn’t have much patience for work. I was always one to just do it and be done with it, without caring about what people would think or what they wanted. But when I learned to seek God in everything, things started to become smooth and easy. I became calm and centered, and He, with all His Love and Affection, brought me back to His reality.

Day by day I have been learning from Him and about Him, because I know that the journey continues. Every day that He shows me my sins and mistakes, He also gives me the opportunity to draw closer to Him and His Word.

I asked God to perform a miracle in me, because I couldn’t do it on my own. I wanted to be able to say, as many women said, that the most important thing was to have Him as a Husband, to have Him at home, providing for their needs and those of their children. And once again, He was faithful and granted my heart’s desire. When I took my eyes off my marriage and began to praise Him in every circumstance, I began to have joy, where human eyes only saw pain, humiliation, and rejection. I went through many trials, but I had Peace. I began to live the Abundant Life that He promises in His Word, the Life that only He can give. I was transformed into His Bride!

Today my desire and longing is only to live His will for my life and that of my family. Today, I know and understand His Word and I know how to walk with Him. I also know that He only has plans of peace, joy and happiness for me, but I delight in His presence so that nothing else takes first place in my heart, which is only His, no one else's.

I always say that the materials from this ministry are all wonderful, because they come from His Word, and that is what matters, and I recommend them all. But I must emphasize that what led me back to Him was the book “ How God Can and Will Restore Your Marriage ”. When I read it for the first time, I couldn’t stop crying... The scales fell off and my eyes were opened to everything I was going through, and I was able to understand that there was hope, and that there always will be, if He is the Center of my life.

Another book that also fills my heart in a very special way is Workers in the Home. With each reading, I have learned to be the woman He created me to be, and I am loving this new woman, because today I can take care of my family and home by myself, without becoming exhausted and overwhelmed. I just need to seek Him, and let Him guide me in each and every task I do.

I confess that the beginning of leaving the church, applying to be a minister and joining the Restoration Community was the hardest for me at first. I had been in the church since I was a child, my father is a pastor, all my siblings and their children are in a church, so stopping going felt like I was turning my back on these people. But I needed to obey what He was asking of me, so that I could seek Him in "A Church Without Walls", and become HIS bride and HIS church in my home.

I was born into a Christian home and have had many wonderful experiences with the Lord. When I was a baby, the Lord saved me from an illness that the doctors didn’t think I would survive, but my mother said that my healing was what saved her, and that she was able to testify to her entire family about the miracle He had performed in my life. Today, I can still testify that the day He gave me a new opportunity to live was because He had plans of salvation for me and my family as well, and I can only thank Him, because I am sure that I too will be able to say that “as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

My dear, I would like to tell you that if you are here, consider yourself privileged. Because this is the way to live the abundant life that He wants to give you. Do not give up on your family, do not lean on your own understanding, but trust, surrender and rest in the Lord. Know that He cares for you. 

May you always rejoice in the Lord, no matter what the situation. May you look only to Him and not to what is or is not happening. And above all, may you receive Him as your Bridegroom, and let Him transform you into His Bride. Love Him the way He loves you.

He is the best and most perfect Husband. He is far beyond what we think or ever dreamed of.

If you want to read more about my journey, click on my #Marta to follow my Praise Reports and Abundant Life lessons.