Darlene Bishop
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Monroe , Ohio
Joined Jun 6, 2010
Darlene Bishop made a commitment to Christ at fourteen years of age. At that time she felt the call of God on her life and at seventeen she married her sweetheart, Lawrence Bishop. When they married, Lawrence was a very spiritual young man and Darlene thought someday he would become a preacher and she would be a preachers wife. But not long after they married, Lawrence became consumed by his quarter horse business and began to be very successful. Soon, church took a back seat to business and Darlene found herself just taking her children to church. Being that Darlene was raised so poor, with business booming, she began to try to fill the void inside of her with shopping. As she has told many times, she bought 2 Cadillacs and 18 fur coats (one for each member of her family) in one year. Finally, one day she came in from a shopping excursion and as she pulled out all the dresses to show her eldest daughter, Jana pointed to one and stated, "Mom you already have that dress." Sure of herself, she replied, "Oh, no I don't." So Jana led her upstairs to her closet and dug the dress out from the collection of many only for Darlene to find that in fact she did already have one of the dresses hanging there with the tags still attached. At this, she realized it was not working. The big house, the diamonds, fur coats, collections of designer clothes, none it was filling the emptiness residing in her inner most being. She threw herself on the floor sobbing and declared, "Lord, I want more of you! I don't care what Lawrence is doing I just want you. And I'm going to seek you until I find my true place in the kingdom." From then on, instead of going shopping Darlene would delve into the Word of God.
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