God speaks life into Kathie Hobson's leadership

Kathie Hobson, one of the leaders at Christ-Life Solution, has a powerful testimony. She struggled with perfectionism and performance for a long time until God spoke to her about it.

Here are a couple of compelling excerpts from her testimony:

I remember sitting down one day, excited about filling out a new Bible reading chart. Perfectionists love ways to measure their performance. I quickly read through the Scripture passage for that day because what I was really excited about was checking it off my chart. As I picked up my pencil to check it off, the Lord spoke to me. He said, 'What are you doing? Don’t you know I just want to spend time with you?' It was a profound moment for me. I thought that living a good Christian life was up to me and then when I couldn’t do it as well as I wanted to, I could ask Jesus to come along and help me. I loved God and wanted to please Him, but I just didn’t really know what that looked like apart from performance.

As I went through my healing journey, God gave me a mental picture that when I was on the performance treadmill he was sitting on the comfy sofa watching me. And the look in his eyes was not one of cheering me on, but sadness. He knew what perfectionism was doing to me. He just wanted me to get off the treadmill and sit on the big comfy couch with Him. He was the one that had already finished all the work. He just wanted to BE with me. During this time I read a little quote that has come to mean a lot to me. 'When I work God rests, when I rest, God works.' Instead of a scale of 1-10, I am now at ground zero. That is where God shows up. Anything more than zero is the Kathie Hobson Show, not the Jesus Show. People need to see the Jesus show.

Thanks to God, Kathie no longer feels that she has to be a perfectionist and is less stressed out by leaving everything in God's hands.