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My Testimony; My Testimony
Topic Started: Apr 27 2007, 12:28 AM (288 Views)
Stinker	Apr 27 2007, 12:28 AM Post #1
Advanced Member Posts: 142 Group: Members Member #975 Joined: April 13, 2007	Well, I did not grow up in a Christian family, but my Grandmother would always watch Jimmy swaggert on the television . I would watch sometimes with her when I was a kid. She also had a Hal lindsey book I would read. I guess those 2 things got me at least thinking that there might be a God. Then around the 11th grade in highschool, I had a freind who would talk about Jesus, and God. So one day he asked me if I wanted to except Jesus as my savior, I said yes. The first thing that I noticed was that when I would read the bible, it truly did feel like it was alive. Something had changed, before I was redeemed I would try and read the bible, and it would be like reading a very boring encyclopedia. But now, something was different in me, and the word seemed alive. The Church group that my freind was involved with, was full of false doctrine, looking back I can see it was all about minipulation. It does go to show(jimmy swaggert.false church group) that he uses alot of things we do not expect to reach people. After being redeemed, I didnt have a Church to grow in, or have anyone to direct me or instruct me about being Christian. The age of 18+19+20+21 are ages where a young man, has only the world on his mind, and the pleasures of it. During those "party" years, I always had a nagging feeling, that some of the things I was doing where wrong, and there was more I needed to know. and I needed to grow in Christ. I started to be heavely convicted, So, Jesus wanted my time and full attention, Well, he got it, Through circumstance,Heartbreak, conviction,and the loss of my Grandmother.....He brought me to a place where I needed him with me, or I would die. The first truth of the Bible I experienced was " he is close to the broken hearted" I was praying and seeking something.....I felt his presence, as though he walked into the room, and held me, and said I love you..the only way I can describe it ..is waves of compleate..and overwhelming pure,Holy,True Love. The most precious experience that life has to offer, is his experiencing presence and Love. When he gives that to you, you know that he is LOVE, and he is everything. I then sought what true Christianity was, found Charles Stanley ministries, and grew. I worried about the sin I had done when I was in my twenties, but found out that ALL sin ..past..present..future was dealt with at the Cross. We never will become fully perfect, (and we might fall or stumble over this or that once and awhile) but I find that the more you realize his Love for you,experience his presence, the more sin becomes week, and you find things that would really tempt you in the past...to be easily unwanted and refused(by his grace and strength). The Enemy offers only dirty rags, and useless junk.(its sad that people think worldly riches,cars, partys, model girlfreinds..is everything) its all worthless junk. I have not told to many people this, but to encourage other believers, and hopefully those who read my testimony: I will tell it "I have had a vision" It was another time in my life where I was crying out to him, really afraid, in prayer,seeking him....his presence fell upon me, and I was taken to a room, it was a small old potters room, there where shelves with pottery, it looked like some of them where being takin down, one at a time, and worked on by the potter. I felt compleatly still, and at peace,the only noise I could hear was the sound of the peddle being pressed,and the wheel going around, then I saw from the chest down the potters hands, working the clay. Jesus, IS LOVE.



hana	Apr 27 2007, 12:52 AM Post #2
Member Posts: 66 Group: Members Member #1,047 Joined: April 25, 2007	:rolleyes: Hi... I just finished reading your testimony and its awsome! The Father above is truely Love and does change peoples lives inside and out no matter how long you live for Him. Yahwah is always working his will and character in our hearts with love and compasion. I was truely encouraged and uplifted in my heart. It made me remeber when Yah first changed my life and He's still working and changing me today, I loved the vision of the potters wheel. The father just recently reminded through this very trying time in my life that He allowed me to go through this testing to purge things out of my life and was molding me and shaping me to bear more fruit it was during this time I felt alllll hell break through against me a spiritaul batte that had me praying every other minute...literly thought I was losing my mind...then Yahwah showed me that He's the one that allowed the pressure in my heart to cleanse me. Yahwah is truely awsome and His will be done even when we don't understand in the end He will make it known. For this I know all things work together for good to thoughs that love Him. shalom hana



Stinker	Apr 27 2007, 01:03 AM Post #3
Advanced Member Posts: 142 Group: Members Member #975 Joined: April 13, 2007	It makes me very happy, that my testimony in anyway has encouraged or uplifted others...Thank you



OnTheHorizon	Apr 27 2007, 01:42 AM Post #4
Advanced Member Posts: 1,040 Group: Members Member #58 Joined: November 9, 2005	That's a great testimony. It's so awesome how God reaches us and draws us to Jesus. I know what you mean about looking back and realizing you had been around false teachers. When I was coming back to the Lord after backsliding in the teen age years, I pledged 1,000 dollars to a TV preacher that I look back at now and realize was a false teacher. He was not even feeding the sheep, just reading a verse or two and convincing people to make huge 'faith promises'. I know the Lord saw how desperate and needy I was to renew contact with Him and He blessed me and took me back. Our God is an awesome God.



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