Judy’s one of my adventure friends. She’s always up for exploring and going on spontaneous outings with me.
From thrift store shopping to going to the butterfly pavilion in a snowstorm, Judy’s been up for it.
She’s also been great about letting me use her as a model for my camera, putting up with me when I’m trying something new.
It’s not easy to find a friend willing to go on an adventure at the last minute. Add to that being patient and understanding of my photographer ways. Judy’s been one of my best spur of the moment photo adventure buddies.
Judy’s also a prayer warrior. She prays for the nation, ministries, businesses, and people who are sick or in distress. When Judy says she’ll pray for you, you can be sure she’ll take the time to actually do it, she’s not just saying it.
When asked about her testimony, she’s more than willing to share. It was only natural for me to want to interview her for my “Women Speak Hope” project.
Here is Judy’s interview. I hope you find what she has to share encouraging.
Wheatridge, Colorado – January 20, 2019
Sherie: It is January 20th, 2019 and interestingly enough it is the night of the super blood wolf Moon and I am here with Judy Pearson in her apartment in Wheat Ridge, Colorado and we are going to talk about hope and what hope is for Judy. And Judy do you understand that this interview is completely of your own free will and that you will not be compensated for it anyway?
Judy: I do understand that, thanks Sherie.
Sherie: Thank you, thank you for doing the interview. So tell me how old are you if you don’t mind?
Judy: I am sixty-seven.
Sherie: And where are you from?
Judy: I was born and raised in Ponca, Nebraska
Sherie: And where are you from now? Wheatridge, obviously.
Judy: That’s correct.
Sherie: Okay. So tell me a little bit about yourself. Career, married, single?
Judy: Well like I said I grew up in Ponca Nebraska and I moved out right away right away, out of the house, and I moved to Colorado.
Sherie: Right away, like, when you say right away, how old were you when you moved out?
Judy: I was eighteen, just graduated, seventeen, just graduated from high school.
Sherie: Wow. Big family?
Judy: Well,I kind of had a circumstance. I was actually engaged to be married and then that fell through. And so I lived in Nebraska just for a short time and then I moved here to Colorado with my sister. And I lived here for a few years and then I moved to, I moved back home and then I moved to California and that’s when I met my husband. And we got married and 12 days later we moved to Weiser, Idaho. I was twenty-six at the time and I got married, or I mean I had my first child,Travis, when I was twenty-eight, and then twenty-two months later I had my youngest son, Justin. And Justin was born at home. Kind of interesting. Three blocks from the hospital.
And then, let me see. Lived there and then kind of went through a lot in my life right then. My husband left and I had two children and I raised them for eight years.
So I met the Lord then and received the Lord Jesus into my life during that time. And so then we had divorced and then I was divorced about, I don’t know, three years ago, or three years or so. And then the pastor’s wife, they had moved to Boise, Idaho, and she wanted me to come down and meet this other guy that she thought I’d be interested in. So I ended up marrying him, so anyway, later on through the years, it was kind of a hard marriage. And we ended up getting a separation and then we ended up getting a divorce. And then the following year, he had passed on. So I’ve been by myself all of these years now.
Sherie: So, I understand you have a lot of siblings?
Judy: Yes I do I have nine siblings, five girls and five boys and I’m like sixth from the top.
Sherie: Okay, that’s a lot of kids.
Judy: It is. (laughs)
Sherie: And, I understand you’re an intercessor on the side, correct?
Judy: That is correct, yes.
Sherie: And so what does an intercessor do?
Judy: Well it says that Moses stood in the gap. And he stood in the gap between God and the children of Israel. That’s what you do as an intercessor, you stand in the gap for that person. And you stand, you know for God for that person and then you stand against the enemy for that person and you intercede in prayer. And just kind of a prayer covering actually, It can be a prayer covering and it also, well there’s different kinds of intercessors actually, to get into all that. But just say an intercessor really does pray a lot and that burden to pray is usually put on you by the Lord. It doesn’t have to be but for the most part it can be.
Sherie: Wow. That’s pretty cool.
Judy: It is.
Sherie: So now, to hope. What do you hope for?
Judy: What do I hope for? Well, for me personally, I hope that I will fulfill what I’m called, what I’ve been called to do on this earth. And my biggest hope is for others to receive the Lord. And to see a large harvest field come in for the Lord. To see heaven expand and hell decrease. And so I really have a hope and a desire for many to make that decision for Christ.
Sherie: Okay. So as you hope for that what is it specifically that gives you hope?
Judy: I believe the Lord gives me hope. It says, like you know faith is the substance of things hoped for and so we know that hope is a part of faith and hope is also to me, hope is very positive. It’s a very positive thing because you’re hoping, you’re desiring for something to come about in your life. And I look at hope as very necessary in one’s life.
Sherie: And so is there anything along with that hope, specifically, that gives you joy?
Judy: Joy, yes, well if you’re hoping and desiring for something and then Lord would bring that about, I mean it does give you joy. So it does intersect. And I think a lot of like the fruit of the spirit in your life inter, you know kind of dove tails and intersects one with another. You know they can, a lot of times, work together. You know even though it says that hope is not one of the fruit of the Holy Spirit, you know hope is great but like it says you know, hope and mercy and the charity is the biggest one, or love is the biggest one, so I think it does mention that in the scripture that way about hope.
Sherie: So is there anything the you’re doing, something specific that you might be doing to encourage hope in others?
Judy: Yes I do. I feel like when you really are on that positive or hopeful side of things and you can encourage that for others or have others be encouraged to have hope and a desire, then I think that is a good thing. And I do try to do that. I try to, you know help people to look on the bright side of things or the hopeful side of things.
Sherie: Okay. And you do that like just whenever you run across people or…?
Judy: Mmhum.
Sherie: Okay. So in light of that is there anything specific that you would like to do that you’re not doing now to encourage hope and others?
Judy: Well I think I would like to be out there as a witness more about what the lord has done in my life. And to give others hope because I feel like a lot of the things that I have gone through in my life may be similar to other’s lives. And so it’s getting that message out there. You can continue on and you can not be fearful. And just go ahead and press towards those things that you want in your life without looking back. You want to look forward, you want to have a hope for the future, you want to have a hope for the best. Yes, that’s what I would really desire, is to give people hope. I think it’s a great need.
Sherie: Okay. And so what would you like to say to someone who’s struggling and has lost hope right now?
Judy: I would like to say that, you know it says in the word of God that a righteous man may fall seven times, that the Lord picks him up. And I would say to keep, to keep on getting up and to keep on believing and to keep on hoping and to keep on going forward no matter what the odds are, no matter what the difficulty is. To, you know, get out of this state that you’re in and brush yourself up. Get up, brush yourself up and off and just keep on going. Don’t give up.
Sherie: Okay. So we are in the United States and it seems to be full of turmoil at this time. What do you hope for this nation? As a woman in the United States, what do you hope for this nation?
Judy: Well as President Trump is alway saying make America great again, I grew up in a very, to me, well the way I grew up on a farm in Nebraska was a very quiet life, a family life. I didn’t have any fears or I didn’t have anything that’s going on in this day and age. And I didn’t know about homosexuality or anything like that that’s going on today and, and I didn’t have any interference as far as someone wanting me to do drugs or anything like that. And so my hope for America is that we just get back to the basics of life. And I think that’s what the children need too. I know we were talking today about, you know, children playing outside and having fun and just seeing them away from, you know, away from the computers away from their phones and actually just getting to know a person. And playing a game or are just having fun and growing up instead of being programmed, instead of America being programmed into a culture, I would like them to just be free to be what they are without any interference. Without any things trying to program their mind in a wrong way. That they would be, just be able to enjoy life and have a good life and have a clean life and a moral life and a good life again. That’s my desire for America.
Sherie: Hmm, awesome. Well, we live in a great nation that’s free right now so let’s continue to pray that it will stay free.
Judy: Yes.
Sherie: Thank you for your time and for the great interview!
Judy: You’re welcome, thank you, you did a good job!
Sherie: Thanks!
