Rev. Pat Unfiltered - Her Blog

Welcome to Made Anew, my newest assignment from God. It was birthed from what happened to me four years ago as I surrendered my everything to God. I'm not talking about the cliché surrendering that so many Christians profess to have done during their faith journey. I'm talking about a time of surrender that was a culmination of years of hidden pain and unhealed trauma.

Before receiving my healing I had to confess to God that I knew there were soul pains I had not yet given to Him, even after walking with Him for over twenty years. Yes, I said I had been walking with God, serving Him in the roles of minister and Biblical teacher, singing in the choir, and serving wherever He needed me. All of that and I wasn't healed. I wasn't whole.

However, there was this jacked-up Rev. Pat others didn't know existed. Let me tell you, she was tore up from the floor up. I could quote to you without hesitation 2 Corinthians 5:17; I had taught it and preached it. I just hadn't begun to live as if I were a new creation. I wasn't living like old things had passed away. The worst part was that I didn't know I wasn't walking in my newness, this new life that Jesus gave His life for me to live. How could I teach about it, preach about it, and quote the verse with such conviction and not live in this newness?

Because I was just like so many other Christian women. They have accepted Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. They are serving in all sorts of roles within the body of Christ. They are wives; they are single, divorced, mothers, sisters, and daughters. My beautiful sisters come from every walk of life, every race and color. They are me, and I was them. Operative word, was, until four years ago, when I decided that the inner me needed healing.

The young girl who was raised in a home filled with domestic violence. The eighteen-year-old girl who lost her virginity to rape. The woman who had learned how to live with so many inaccessible parts of herself, and she was ready to be healed. Even as I write this blog, my eyes fill with tears at the thought of how broken I was for so many years.

I see you, my dear sister. I know what it is like to say "I'm blessed" knowing you are still a mess. I am not judging; how could I when I was once you?

Made Anew is the result of being healed from all the pain, hurt, unforgiveness, and disappointment that had made its home in my soul. When God whispered to me four years ago, "You have been serving me well, daughter; now you can serve me whole," He released me to serve you better. To aide you in discovering and walking in your newness, no matter how long you have struggled to be that new creation the blood of Christ gifted to you.

Let me say this — it is an honor that He has called me to serve you. But the work that needs to be done to embrace the new you is on you. I can go live every day. I can teach you. I can pray with and for you. But you beautiful, you have to work out your own salvation.

God created Made Anew for you. I will follow His lead and use His Word as the foundation of all that I do. I commit to being honest, straightforward, and real as we take this journey together, because this is the season for real, unfiltered faith talk, teaching, and Christian living.

Now that I have discovered the new me—I cannot wait to celebrate the new in you too.

Be blessed, dear sister, and be a blessing to someone else.

Rev. Pat Flowers

Minister, Biblical Teacher, Spiritual Coach

Founder, Made Anew

www.madeanew.org