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David Althoff from The Orchard Barrington shared the following testimony about how he has seen God work in his life at his baptism.
For most of my life, I carried the weight of the world on my shoulders. I believed in Jesus, but only in an intellectual way, shaped more by church tradition than by a personal relationship with Him. I thought my success, security, and happiness depended entirely on my own efforts. I worked tirelessly to provide for my family, to control outcomes, and to fix every challenge that came my way.
Sin wasn’t something I thought about because I measured life by my own standards, not God’s.
Then, everything I had built started to collapse—a broken marriage, the loss of my parents, multiple bouts of cancer, career struggles, and then seeing my adult children going down dark paths in which I had no control. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t fix any of it. The burden became unbearable, and I reached a breaking point. That’s when I truly heard the words of Matthew 11:28: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."
In my brokenness, I finally surrendered everything to Jesus—my worries, my failures, my need for control—and He lifted those burdens from me. Over the past nine months, I have seen Him move in ways I never imagined. He healed my body, provided clarity in my work, and brought my children back toward faith and purpose. I now walk in peace, knowing that I don’t have to carry these burdens alone. Jesus has taken them, and I trust Him completely.
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