Well...I am Eriane Ritta and I am from Chapecó / Santa Catarina - Brazil.

I wanna congratulate your work and to say that I am your follower. You do a great job!

I have a simple testimony that made the difference in my life.

In the beginning of this year, I started to work in one of the biggest aereas companies in Brazil. After competing against 32 people, I passed for a select interview with psychologists and I started in my so dreamed job.

I had a few days of training. Yet after this training the manager called me at her office, asking me about something that hurt my heart. She wanted to know why I hadn’t wore make-up and earings. I said to her I was a Christian and I couldn’t wear this.

She said it was a rule of the company and she couldn’t rid myself of the basic appliances of makeup, only of the earings. She wrote a list for me, including black pencil for the eyes, black eyeshadow and black mascara to eyelashes. I said to her I couldn’t wear this, but the ‘devil’ persist speaking that I had to decide if I will continue working with them wearing these things or I would be dispensed.

It happened on Friday before Carnival, and she was going to travel on the holiday, so on the following Wednesday we were to talk again.

I went home with my heart broken and in great distress. I didn’t want to lose my work.

On Friday night I went to sleep nervous, and I cried a lot asking God why the things were so difficult for me, why everything I have tried always something wrong happened. So, I slept crying and I had a dream. I remember in that dream I was going up a street, and in the end that street there was a plaza with big houses, mansions like beautiful cathedrals. I remember a man was with me that moment, and he showed me a big and beautiful white house with pillars and facade that were orange color (the same color of the uniform the manager wore, blouse white with orange colored collar). I remember I thought: Such a beautiful house! However I noticed two sealed coffins inside the house, and some people entering and going out the house, and I still was outside. Then, I asked the man why I hadn’t saw bodies in the coffins and he said: There are two souls inside these coffins and they are trapped forever there, no one can see them and they never will be able to be free. I woke up worried and nervous remembering the message that Brother Branham preached ‘Souls Who Are In prison Now’ when he saw in the mall two women he had seen in hell.

On Saturday morning I got up early and I forgot the dream. I went to the drugstore to buy what the boss asked me, and I was looking for some things not so flashy or striking, and what I could I bought clear (transparent) and went home get ready for work.

I wore the make-up feeling myself like a witch. I worked all day long nervous and sad. When I arrived home I saw my face in the mirror and I saw a worldly girl. I couldn’t accept this to my life and I started to cry. I asked God why I was passing by this and why I couldn’t have a job like a normal girl, where the people would respect my faith.

On Sunday I was nervous again and cried all day long again. First I thought to myself: I am going to work there until December because I can’t be fired now, what people would say, “You just started and already were fired”. But in my heart, when I remembered that I would have to wear make up again I thought, “No, I can’t continue with this.”

On the Sunday afternoon, I talked to my mom and she advised me to talk with my boss again, but I knew that she wouldn’t accept my ‘excuses’.

Before I went to church on Sunday night, I decided in my heart I would face the consequences but I wouldn’t wear make up anymore.

On Sunday night at church my pastor read the Bible in Revelation 2:10:

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

He preached all the time about this, saying that sometimes comes great opportunities in our lives, but we have to discard this because behind this there is something wrong that goes against the Word, and if you refuse this, one day we will receive the recompense.

Monday morning I went to work decided. I called an assistant manager and I said everything to him. He said he was a believer too and he understood, however, unfortunately he could do anything for me. He got very sad and said it was a pitty, and that I could wear the make up only at work and after go home I would take out it.

Monday morning I went to work and called a assistant manager. I said everything to him. He said that he was a believer too and that he understood me, but unfortunately he could do nothing for me. He got very sad for me and told me that it was a pitty. He said I could use the stuff only at work and after go home and take it off. But I said no.

On Wednesday, the boss called me again and told me what her assistant had told her I said, and that she felt sad but she needed to fire me.

That moment I lowered my head and a tear fell down on my face. I raised my head again and said: No problem, everything is ok. When I said that and looked at her, I remembered the dream. My heart felt weird. In the same moment I felt relieved, I felt afraid. She was the soul that was inside the coffin, she and all the girls working that company wearing make up. That moment I only felt His grace upon my life and went home happy and worshiping God.

I remained in the company all month long, because I needed to close the month. During this time all the girls tried to convince me to stay there. When I said to them the reason I wouldn’t remain there, they thought I was a little crazy. Someone said to me, “you are silly, I love God too and He never forbade me to wear make up.” I said to them, “Yes, I respect you, but it is for me, not for you, He forbade myself, not you.”

Even before I got fired, I started to work with children at a school as a teacher, and I love my job. I saw His hands in this.

This is my humble experience and testimony what God did for me this year. I know I am not perfect and I have a lot of fails and proofs, but I wish to be better everyday, and I know one day the Perfection will come down upon me.

I hope it can help somebody else.

God bless you.

Sister Eriane - Brazil