Awaiting the King The Personal Blog of Theresa C. Shell

About Me

Hi, I’m Theresa. I’m a ’stay-at-home’ wife, mom, intercessor, discipler of women, and an avid student and follower of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Though I gave my life to the Lord at age seven, the complexities of secular life and an unhealthy attraction to the dark side of the supernatural led me to experience a great deal of New Age and occult cultures before being miraculously brought back to Jesus. I was baptized in water on July 4, 2004 but still suffered from physical and emotional torment. Then, after diligently seeking what I felt was a loosing battle to KNOW the Lord, I was baptized in the Holy Spirit on March 1, 2008, and by May of ‘08 found myself free. Indeed, I’ve been truly born again!

I have a BA in English (with a Linguistics emphasis–I especially love phonetics), a minor in Theatre, and a teaching certificate in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). I dropped out of an MA program to follow God’s call on my life, and have learned more from the Holy Spirit than I ever did in college. Recently I’ve started attending a School of Supernatural Ministry, which has brought even more excitement to my adventure of life-long learning.

I love to read, so I’ve been partnering with two of the larger Christian publishing companies (Thomas Nelson and Tyndale) to get free books in exchange for honest reviews. I post these reviews fairly often on my site and sometimes I also review the other books I’m reading. I also enjoy cooking, gardening, dancing, traveling, painting, history, cleanliness, learning about cultures and languages and many other things!

Spiritually, I’m outside the “normal” realm of Christianity. I was raised Lutheran and Presbyterian, neither of which felt like a natural spiritual identity for me. As I began pursuing the Lord on my own in High School and college I began attending all sorts of churches and spiritual events, and even began looking into other religions. It was eventually through an Assemblies of God church that I found myself delivered from the bondage of sin. And my family has now made our home at a Messianic Synagogue (though I also attend Bible studies and events at a Presbyterian church and a small and fiery non-denominational Pentecostal church). With so many connections to various churches through my own involvements and my friends and family, I have no strong denominational ties. I believe that the multiple sects of each Protestant, Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox, and, of course, Messianic Jewish believers have equal chances of salvation so long as they love Jesus first and foremost and work out their salvation with fear and trembling. It alarms me to recognize that so many Christians in every ‘kind’ settle for Jesus having a small piece of their lives, when He Himself says that He IS life–He is the only bread we need. I hope to encourage and walk along with those who fervently desire to walk in Truth, even as our Lord shakes and refines the different branches of His body to destroy every lofty thing and to pull close the hearts that love Him.