Miranda’s Story

Miranda has been a part of Passion City for the last few years, attending gatherings at 515 with her husband, Nathan, and their seven-year-old daughter. Back in 2020, Miranda was involved in a wakeboarding accident that resulted in serious leg injuries and left her feeling sad and anxious. During this time, our House was able to pray with her several times and make sure she had the care and support she needed.

Several years later, in 2024, during ABOVE + BEYOND, Miranda found herself in a place of great pain. She and Nathan had separated, and he was deeply struggling with sobriety. She was in the middle of working on saving everything she had to get her own place for herself and her daughter. During the gathering, she felt God speak very clearly to her. She said, “I felt God tell me to give towards the pipes that needed to be replaced at 515. I was wrestling with tithing because I was trying to get my own place. I sat there trying to negotiate with God on an amount, which now seems funny because I was negotiating with what He had already given me. I had my savings envelope with me that day, which had a couple of hundred dollars in it to save for my move. As the gathering went on, I realized God was still tugging on my heart to tithe, and I kept justifying what I should give, or why I can’t give right now. Then I felt God say, ‘Miranda, 10 you don’t get it. I want your obedience, not your money.’ So I decided no more wrestling with conversations and negotiations, got out the envelope, and tithed everything I had saved. I told God that if I’m trusting You and tithing all of this, then I’m leaving my prayers on this envelope too. I wrote, ‘I think I’m about to be a single mom, and this is my savings for my own place, but I trust God’. Then I turned it in.”

A couple of weeks went by, and Miranda was contacted by someone at the church, who told her that someone had come forward to pay the deposit for her home. She said the day she gave, she felt invisible. She remembers looking around the room, noticing everyone with wedding rings, wondering why everyone else’s marriage gets to work but hers. YET, God saw her and knew her needs. In a large church where you could easily feel invisible, she said it was now the second time she had felt intimately seen and cared for.

So many times, we pray or give to what we feel God is calling us to give, without the promise of seeing the results this side of heaven. But just recently, Miranda followed up with our team to share the immeasurably more that God has done in her family’s lives: “I wanted to do a follow-up because I’m sure you all pray for and help a lot of people, and wonder where they are in their stories. I feel led to share what God has done in our story. I’m happy to say I’m in such a healthy and happy place in my life, and that God has done some incredible and personal healing all over my family’s story. My husband, whom I had separated from, is now 7 months sober and working a program at a local church in our area for additional support and therapy. I also went on my own healing journey, and time really does show you everything you need to know. I never dreamed we would reconcile, BUT GOD. God had never prompted me to stop the process of divorce, and now I understand why. It took us hitting the end of ourselves to find true reconciliation.

Instead, God taught me to go on a healing journey with my own health and wellness and to invite Him into the lonely, painful places as I navigated our separation. He taught me to be still and not make life-changing choices or decisions while dealing with emotional distress. It was not easy, but what He shaped within me during that time built something within me that could not have happened any other way.

I learned that I had to stop trying to fix my husband and let him completely go. He can now say he had to lose everything to choose sobriety and let God heal all the broken parts of his story. We went on individual journeys that have now brought us back together. I never dreamed we would reconcile, nor did I even want that when I made the decision to leave. I was empty, broken, and done, BUT GOD. 

Nathan has worked so incredibly hard on his sobriety and health, and I’ve truly never seen a more stable, healthy, clear version of him—I am so proud!

2024 was a nightmare. But in 2025, I have peace, clarity, forgiveness, healing, and most importantly, we have our family again. God told me in December that He WILL restore what the locusts have eaten. I’m watching Him do that and more! We are making daily strides to fight for our family and piece our lives back together. The Enemy almost had my husband, and he almost had our family, BUT GOD.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I wanted you and the team who prayed to know that your prayers meant so much to me. The gift of generosity meant so much to me and gave me strength and shelter in such a vulnerable time as a mother and woman who had never lived alone. I’ll never forget what Passion did for me and my daughter! I hope this brings encouragement and hope as y’all continue to pray big, bold prayers over people’s prayer requests. We bought a house, closed on March 28, and celebrated 10 years of marriage in April! Before we moved in, we wrote on the floors of our bedroom Joel 2:25: ‘I will restore what the locusts have eaten’. God has shown up and restored the devastation and what felt like the death of our marriage.

I’m watching God breathe life back over us in every way, and am forever grateful that God CAN place commas where I put a period.”

We hope Miranda’s story serves as a reminder that every penny we give in faith into the hands of God matters. He takes our open hands and turns them into miracles, seen and unseen, all through our House. Thank you for being the hands and feet of Jesus to everyone inside and outside these four walls of Passion City Church.

Joel 2:25 — “I will restore what the locusts have eaten.”