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We'd like to pass along what the Lord has done in the lives of others. Here we share reasons to Praise the Lord. To give you faith and encouragement for believing the Lord does Answer prayer.
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I asked for prayer for myself because for almost two weeks, I had been experiencing heavy twitching and numbness on my left hand & fingers and the numbness was running up my arm to the neck and finally to my face and lip. I asked for prayer on a Wednesday and was already planning to visit the doctor on Friday.
By the time Friday came, ALL symptoms were completely gone! I had a routine checkup - that's all the doctor could do because my Lord had already taken care of it for me! I give God all the glory. I Thank God for this praying ministry, may they be mightily blessed. Amen.
Hallelujah!! You all have prayed for Rena Enriquez, and little girl who had surgery yesterday (4/28). She had a tumor in the lymph node on her neck. Doctors had reported the severity of the location on the tumor and how lengthy the operation was gonna be, BUT OUR GOD heard all our prayers!!! The operation was only one hour!!! the doctor said the tumor was on the surface!!! no drainage tube needed!!! Rena was up and around within hours and was discharged that same afternoon!!! Rena is home today, I spoke to her Mom this morning and Rena was hungry and wanted to go shopping!!! I give God All the Glory and I thank you for your faithful prayer and covering. In Jesus' Name, Amen!!
In 1993 I was in a bad car accident.The Doctor said," I was going to be paralized for life", and that they can not do anything for me. Thank God there was another Doctor in the building named Jesus. Today I'm saved ,and santified and filled with the Holy Gost.
I was wrongly accused of something, and my life was thrown into frustration and stress. THrough the prayers of my fellow church members and friends, our LOrd has helped me through this ordeal and maintained my health. He has also provided for my family and kept us close. He came with me the first time I was given a chance to speak for myself, and gave me the words to expose the liars and let the truth ring. The entire process is not over yet, and I pray and ask for prayers that God keeps the truth ringing loud and clear until this horror is finished. I ask it through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
This past April God healed me from Crohn's disease. I had had it for twelve years and could not eat some days at all, other day I could only eat a little. I am so happy that I can eat every meal every day without pain. I praise the Lord for this healing that has happened in my life.
On June 10, 1996, I prayed a prayer of faith asking the Lord to take away the desire of cigarettes. I had been smoking about 20 years a pack a day. When I awoke that morning, I didn't awaken with the normal desire to smoke and haven't had the desire to smoke since. Isn't God is good!!!. I am a witness prayer works.
For more than three years ago i was in a very hard time for me but i bleave that the Lord Jesus Will give me his power to stand agenest the power of the darkness in Jesus neme we are vectorious .
Before knowing Christ I was raised in an abusive home with an alcoholic dad. I was asked to leave my home whenever I was sixteen due to having a friendship with a person of another race. I lived in Tennessee so this wasn't unusual for the one town I lived in. After living on the streets with a friend I linked up with for a year, she was murdered. At that point I tried to get off the streets and went to work at a trucking company for a rock yard in which I was raped by my employer. At this point I called a high school friend and she allowed me to stay with her family for awhile. Both of her parents were Christians and active in the church. What a blessing!!! I didn't accept Christ while living with them but at least had the exposure I so desperately needed. By the age of 18 my mother and dad had divorced so I went with my mom to Washington State and attended college. At the end of my 18th birthday I moved back to Tennessee to be with my brother. During a date with someone I was raped again. This time it resulted in a pregnancy. The guy said that he loved me after he found out and we had to be married. From this marriage I also had another beautiful daughter. Someone invited me to attend a revival with them at their church in which I agreed to do. The day after the revival was over the pastors came to my home and spoke with me. I accepted Christ at that moment and went just a short time later to be baptized. My husband became extremely abusive around that time and started doing drugs and stealing. My pastor let me know that he was also breaking into the houses of people in the church and that I should think of a separation to keep my daughters and me safe. I did separate and went to live in Arkansas. A short time later (1 month) he shot himself through the stomach. He didn't die but was committed to an institution. Whenever released they caught him trying to cross the state line with a gun and a goal of killing us. At that point I did divorce him and he was told that if he crossed the line that he would be put back into the institution. For a year in Arkansas I attended school and worked two jobs to support my family. We had a wonderful time and I grew alot in Christ. We attended church weekly and I even became the church secretary. In 1989 I was introduced by my sister in Washington to a man whose wife had left him for another man. He was raising three children on his own and was just needing someone who could understand things to write him. I wrote my first letter to him and three days later I received his letter back. Things took off from there and in 1990 we were married. What a blessing he is to me. We have now been married for 7 years. He is finishing up his license to become a pastor and I now work with an agency that is called Crisis Pregnancy Center. Our family still has 5 children in it but they have all accepted Christ as their Saviour. Outside of work I do many various projects that involve working with younger people in order to keep them on the right track of knowing Christ. I praise God for taking me from the streets and giving me shelter, safety, food, clothing and many other blessings at the same time. Even before I got off the streets He watched over me and didn't allow me to die like my friend. He has a purpose and how awesome our God is!!!
I was hospitalized for depression 5 years ago. I was fortunate enough to be able to go through a Christian based therapy. During those 3 weeks, the counselors were trying to make me understand that God loves me, even when I don't love myself. I felt as if God was so disgusted with me that he had to have his back to me, unable to even look at me. Towards the end of my stay there, I was out in the courtyard, sifting through all they had tried to teach me. The day was as dreary and gray as I was inside. There was no sight of the sun. I looked towards the heavens and said, "God, are they right? Are you really still there? Do you really still love me"? At that VERY moment, the clouds broke through and one single beam of sunlight shined through. That was the turning point of my entire life. At that moment, I began to believe Romans 8:38-39 "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord".
When I was 5 y/o I fell from a 3rd floor of a building, since that I develped scoliosis and I had to use a sole implant in my left shoe. 5 years ago, when I was 25, I recieved the Lord Jesus Christ as my savior. Being still a baby in Him a christian friend layed hands on my back and ask God to heal me in the name of Jesus. At that moment I was thinking that there was no way my back and my legs were going to be normal again, I didn't even know how it felt to be straight and not having pain in my body. Nothing happend. Three days after i was listening a testimoni of someone who had been healed by the power of the Holy ghost in the name of Jesus, I heard that Jesus is the same, yesterday, today and forever, and I believed. The Word had touched my heart. I BELIEVED! That night I experienced the warmth of God's touch in my body, and I stood up and realized I didn't need the sole implant any more, and never more. The Lord has brought me trough tough trials and tribulatios since those days where I first believed, The enemy has tried numerous times to steal my blessings, but I'm still here, hanging on to His promises, He didn't have to do it, but He did it, He healed me, saved me, filled me with the Holy ghost, but most of all, gave his life and shared His precious blood for me... AMAZING LOVE...isn't it?
I want to think My LORD and SAVIOR JESUS-CHRIST for giving me the opportunity to go to college. Two years from today, I didn't know if I would be able to continue my education. My parents didn't have the money. But since I know that God Can make a way when there seems to be no way. I called on his name and he answered. Now I'm in my sophmore year at the American Intl. College Studying Psychology. LET'S KEEP ON PRAISING GOD.
I was raised a "pagan" and living by they're ways for 22 years. Having an alcohol,drug abusing father who was also physically abusive and a mother who could really care less at the time and a sister who was the "favorite" seems to have made things even worse. I grew up in the foot-steps of my father, loving motorcycles ,getting tattoos, and loveing my pot and rum! At the age of 17 I got married to a man in the Navy who was a younger version of my father. Always drunk and alwats abusive. After 2 years of being married to him (together for 5 years) I finally gave up, I could not handle him always eating acid and drinking. My body was to sore from the abuse. I moved to Miami with my "new man". Our lives seemed to be filled with the same garbage! All the while I am practicing my "pagan" ways and abiding by their laws. Nothing was changing! "My new man" also turned out to be abusive though he was less of a drinker and NOT an acid eater!The cost of living was to high there so we figured moving home to Ohio would help financially and mentally. We were wrong. The abuse got worse and then to top it all off I was now pregnant! "I hope she is a girl so I can show her the ways of all the females on my mother's side" , I always said that! The abuse continued and even worsened, I became deaf in my left ear, my wrist is broken and my spine is a mess! Just to name a few. We always thought geographical location was our problem! HA! Many times I left this man and then got back together with him thinking that he had himself under control now. And things continued just the same even with a beautiful healthy little baby girl with us. Then I became pregnant again, and things still had not changed. After she was born he sworn to me that he had changed and treated me like gold. The next incident was the worst that is where I got the broken up body!I left this time for good. He was on his way to God, while I was on my way to hell with my "paganism". His life got better, I seen him controlling himself(believe me, I tested him!), and I seen the love inside of him growing! I was still unconvinced. I got a job bartending, making good money and having a socila life to die for. I thought things were great, then I was raped, had to quit my job (he was a regular there) and stepped back to see what was going on with my girl's. Ooohh... their lives were in shambles. Only 2 and 3, but yet miserable as could be. This is not right I told myself. They were growing up too fast!In the foot-steps of all the females in my mother's side. Is this what I wanted? I was so confused I decided to try to go to church with the girl's fahther. No, not for me I said (this was Wednesday night). I came home and prayed forgiveness to my imaginary god's. Things in my life got worse and all I could feel was a nagging on my heart to go to a different church. Sunday I called Ty and said I was ready to go again. He took me to his regular church and the Pastor called for people who wanted Christ in they're lives. We looked at each other and I said "no way, not for me buddy!". The next thing I know I am saying this in my head as my feet were carrying me up to the alter! Louis held my hand's and prayed for me. The immediate feeling of peace, serenity, contentment and the guilt of my life was lifted away from me. I heard "you are my child and I will take care of you" in my head and tear's came rolling! At one point I looked about me and everybody was surrounding me praying and crying for me! I wish I had the word's for the way I felt, but they would be nothing but a understatement!There is NO drug in this world that can do this except the grace of God. You see, the whole time I was praying to false god's and living in sin, God had not left me, He had not given up on me!He knew what I would do! And to top this off He had much bigger plans in mind! To build a church from bottom up in His name and to start our lives over again with His guidance!Every morning I wake up and praise our Lord with the blessing He has given me of flute music! He has changed our lives 10 times over! No more abuse, no anger,no drugs, alcohol, no confusion. You see, if God can soften the heart of a "pagan of 22 years" and take all the pain and suffering away what could he do for you? This is not religion, it is a relationship, ask Him He will help,call to Him and He will answer, plead to Him and He will resolve. I am not saying He will do it alone, you need to have an open heart and accept that He is the Lord. There is but one God out there and it is not the dark god's. No, it is God the creator He is the One! I see Him working every minute of the day in my life , my children's lives, and Ty's life. Give Him an honest chance. You will feel Him and know He is there. No matter what you have done in the past!
I want to Praise my heavenly father , and to thank him for a good report my husband had some test done and a good report came back . I Praise his Holy Name, God of all , Lord of Lord , Thank-you for keeping us in the palm of your hand father . Mary
I want to take this opportunity to thank the Lord for what he has done in my life. As an infant, I started out in life on rocky ground. I was born with a childhood kidney cancer and the tumor was quite large. At the age of 11 mo. the cancer was finally found and diagnosed and I went in to surgery. They removed my tumor and what was left of the kidney. This was in 1956, there was no chemo then. I received heavy doses of radiation 6 months later. Not long after this, my father got saved and became a minister. He built his church and it grew over the next 23 years. He is now retired, and is evangelizing, and I thank God for giving me parents that brought me up in a Christian home. During the childhood and teenage years, I was checked yearly and the doctors always suspected some day I would develop cancer of the liver because of the radiation treatments. They also felt I shouldn't have any children, also due to the radiation treatments. I have since found out, on the old radiation machines, they leaked, even though the body was shielded, so they suspected I received radiation everywhere...resulting in damage everywhere. I am now 41 years old, living a fairly normal life with some medical complications, some due to radiation, some not. I have a daughter, who weighed 2lb. 15 oz. at birth, and is now 20 years old and a Christian. I thank the Lord for letting me live and see what a beautiful woman she has become, wanting to serve the Lord. The hospital where I had my cancer surgery, called me about a follow-up one day, and told me that the other children that were in the hospital the same time as I was, with the same kind of cancer that I had, did not make it. I was the only survivor of the group of us that was treated. God placed His hand on me, and led the doctors to treat me differently from the others...more radiation in less amount of time. I know He's got a plan for me, and it's not finished yet. I thank Him for everything He has done for me and my family. He's given me a good husband, who needs salvation, but I believe He will lead his heart to Him. Everywhere I go, doctors tell me I shouldn't be here. But I know I'm only here through the grace of God.
I also would like to say, that after my father retired, our church split. For 6-7 years, I stayed out of church and blamed it on the hurt that caused the split. After all of those years staying out of church and not wanting to associate with Christians, I started having full body tremors. They were just like seizures, only I was alert and knew fully well what was going on. I didn't have a life for 8 months. Every day, continuous all day long, one tremor after another hit me. I started going back to church, which I believe now was a plan that God had in my life, due to the death of an uncle. He died of cancer, and never left a testimony behind. At the time of his death, this caused me such despair, and this is when the tremors started. When I started going back to church, after a few months, the tremors almost completely quit. I am now totally involved in my new church, I do the bulletins, and I love every minute of working for the Lord. I'm a shy person and don't like to up in front of people, but the bulletin work has allowed me a way to praise the Lord without being shy or afraid. I believe that God was telling me I needed to be back in church and show MY FAMILY where I stood with God. I had already felt the hurt of the loss of a loved one from not knowing whether he was in heaven or not. I promised my family, never again would they doubt. That I would live my life, totally for the Lord and there would never be doubts in anyone's mind. I didn't want to cause them that kind of pain. We don't know what the Lord has planned for us, but you can be assured, HE KNOWS WHAT'S BEST AND HE KNOWS WHY. We have to trust in Him and let him lead us where He wants us to go. I thank Him for allowing me to grow up in a Christian home, for my daughter, and for my husband. I thank Him for giving me a fairly normal life when all the odds were against me and everyone said I shouldn't be here. I've been diabetic for 3 years now, and the Lord has also provided me with the courage to face this. He also has given me a way to cope with it, without insulin. The Bible doesn't promise us that bad things or circumstances won't happen to us, but I beleive they happen for a reason...to glorify Him. I've got so much to be thankful for and I love the Lord dearly.
wow. i dont even know what i want to write. all i know is that about a year ago i let jesus christ into my life and ever since then, things have been going SO well. He has answered so many of my prayers from the smallest to the biggest. i have been tempted to do so many un-christian like things, being a teenager and all, but He has given me the strength to resist. i love God and what he has done for me. prayer is so powerful . i am really lokking forward to this christmas where i can remember what our Lord did for me. thanks
This morning as i woke I rembered the He stilll loves me and forgives my sins dayly. I Thank God for His son Jesus and HIs tender mercies each and every day Praise the Lord! LOve Gary
I just want to praise God for Jesus and Salvation.
God has been so good to my family and myself. I've been in the ministry for 25 years. My wife and I were married Oct. 21, 1972 and we never dreamed of the ministry that lay before us. July 15, 1989-5:30 A.M., on a Sunday morning. At this time, I was not as faithful to God as I should have been, but what mercy shines on us. Driving a semi-truck, in business for myself-pulling tanker frull of a chemical called "black-liquor", I passed out at the steering wheel. I had pushed myself to the limit-exhausted. When I came too, I found myself hanging upside down in a piece of the truck I had been driving. I reached up through the wreckage trying to break free from what had me suspended inside the portion of truck that I found myself in. When I reached up to free myself, all I could feel was my left leg mangled and broken. Fear began to grip my heart and I felt that it was all over. Blood began to run down my clothers and drip to the wreckage below me. In frantic desparation, I began to scream for help, but no one came. I knew that it was over. As I submitted to the fate that I saw, I heard a voice speak these words, "Don't worry, It's gonna be alright". I thought that someone passing by had found me and I began to scream to let them know that I was alive. But to no avail. All of a sudden a warmth came over me and covered me like a blanket and then I heard that voice again, saying, "Don't worry, It's gonna be alright". I felt the peace of God as the Holy Ghost began to comfort me. I knew everything was gonna be alright. When they did find me about 45 minutes later, the E M T's tried to comfort me trying to keep me from going into shock. I knew That everything was gonna be alright.. It took them another hour to cut me out of the wreckage, because during the accident, I had sheared 2 huge live oak trees off at the ground and they were laying on top of me. I died 3 times on the operating table, but each time, I could still hear that voice, "Don't worry, everythings gonna be alright". The doctor's said I would be in a wheel chair for a long time, but, "Don't worry, everythings gonna be alright". I had so many injuries and my condition looked so bad, people would literally grimace when they would come into the room--"Don't worry, everythings gonna be alright". I could write a book on what I went through for 3 years, but every trial, "Don't worry, everythings gonna be alright". God has been there every step of the way. God bless! Rev. Bill Johns, Pastor-Palmetto Pentecostal Church--Waynesville, Georgia--31566.
One Sunday, there was a terrible thunderstorm while we were having our church service. Then lightning struck, and there was a power failure. Everything went off, the air-conditioning, the microphones, the lights............ ....everything except the light above the cross on the altar. After going through some inspection, it was found that everything should have gone out, as they were all connected to the same electrical circuit. This is really a miracle that shows God's Almighty presence! Praise the Lord!!
I HAVE BEEN A CHRISTIAN SINCE I WAS A JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL. I WAS SAVED AT A YOUNG LIFE CONFERENCE IN MY HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM. I ALWAYS TRIED TO LIVE THE LIFE A CHRISTIAN SHOULD LIVE, BUT AFTER GOING AWAY TO COLLEGE, MY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST HAD WAIVERED AND BEEN PUT ON THE BACK BURNER. I MARRIED AND HAD 2 DAUGHTERS, WHOM HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THE CHURCH, BAPTIZED AND SAVED. MY HUSBAND, TOO. I HAVE A GOOD LIFE, BUT 3 YEARS AGO I CAME DOWN WITH VIRAL ENCEPHALITIS AND WAS IN A COMA FOR 3 DAYS, AND SEIZURED FOR 17 HRS. STRAIGHT. WHEN I CAME TO, I REALIZED HOW CLOSE TO DEATH I HAD BEEN AND HOW THE LORD HAD TRULY BLESSED ME. I HAVE NEVER HAD ANOTHER SEIZURE AND I DO NOT HAVE ANY MEDICATIONS THAT I HAVE TO TAKE. I HAVE NO BRAIN DAMAGE, BUT WHAT I DO HAVE IS A NEW, PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH KING JESUS, MY LORD AND SAVIOR. I BELIEVE THE LORD SPARED ME FROM THIS LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS TO BE A WITNESS FOR HIM AND TO TELL OTHERS WHAT HE HAS DONE IN MY LIFE.
WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY I BECAME A MEMBER OF A TERRORIST GROUP IN MY HOME TOWN OF BELFAST I SOON STARTED TO TO GET CAUGHT UP IN THE THINGS THAT WHER EXPECTED OF MY I WOULD RATHER NOT GO INTO DETAIL WHEN I WAS 18 I WAS OUT WITH SOME FRIENDS AS I THOUGHT WELL THAT NIGHT I GOT SHOT IN A GUN BATTLE WHEN I WAS IN HOSPITAL I STARTED TO THINK IF I HAD DIED WHERE WAS I GOING HEAVEN OR HELL THE STATE I WAS IN I KNEW IT WAS HELL FOR WEEKS I WAS VERY TROUBLED I COULD NOT SLEEP OR WORK I JUST KEPT THINKING ABOUT HELL WELL I WAS ASKED TO GO ALONG TO A GOSPEL AND I WENT FOR A LAUGH THE LAUGH WAS ON ME I GOT THE LIVING DAY LIGHT SCARED OUT OF ME THE FIRST WORDS THE PREACHER SAID WAS WHERE ARE YOU GOING HELL OR HEAVEN I COULD HAVE SWORN HE WAS TALKING TO ME I SOON CAUGHT ON IT WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO WAS DOING THE TALKING AFTER A WHILE I BECAME A CHRISTIAN THE BIG PROBLEM WAS HOW WAS I GOING TO GET OUT OF THE GROUP I WAS IN GOD SOON SORTED THAT OUT HE OPENED THE DOORS FOR ME I WAS FRIGHTEND EVEN TO GO OUT IN CASE I WAS SEEN BUT THE LORD HAD OTHER IDEAS HE BROUGHT THEM TO ME ,THEY ASKE DME WAS I SAVED I PAUSED FOR A WHILE AND ASKED WHY EXPECTING A HOOD TO BE PUT OVER MY HEAD BUT THERE WAS NO HOOD ONLY THE WORDS TO SAY YOU CAN NOT BE WITH US WHILE YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN SO YOU ARE FREE TO GO BUT YOU MUST A;WAYS STAY A CHRISTIAN IF YOU LEAVE IT YOU ARE BACK IN WELL I CAN SAY I LEFT GOD MANY TIMES BUT OH PRAISE HIS NAME HE NEVER LEFT ME MY LAST WORDS ( WHEN YOU JOIN A TERRIOST GROUP THEY TELL YOU THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN LEAVE IS IN A BOX WELL I CAN SAY I AM NOT IN A BOX I AM ALIVE FOR EVER MORE I AM SORRY I TOOK UP SO MUCH SPACE BUT I HADS TO TELL WHAT MY GOD HAS DONE FOR ME PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME
After staying out of church for awhile, my friend and I decided to find a church where we felt what we both seemed to be missing from our home church.We found one, a different denomination from what each of us had been baptised in. I can't believe what I have been missing. People who attend for one reason, to Praise th Lord not for a fashion show or a popularity contest. Also they feel free to speak out loud to lift their hands to heaven and testify. I can't wait until we meet again. They sing like angels. Now if we could only get our husbands and children to go too. Pray with us that they be led to Christ.
Dear Pastor Ruth and Global Family,
After calling and talking to Pastor Ruth about my husband's depression (he said he was just waiting to die - he's had some health problems and stress on the job). Pastor prayed and rebuked the spirit of depression and there has been such a great change in my husband's behavior. He has accomplished more in these last few weeks than in the previous MONTHS. It has been real nice to see him smile and joke around again. Again Thank you and Praise the Lord for His faithfulness and love.
Karen
My parents brought me to a Catholic church when I was very young, but that ended when my parents got a divorce. I spent the bulk of my childhood away from Church, living in Germany and moving back to the United States. I was a vile sinner. I was a thief, a compulsive liar, a lustful fiend, and a child filled with rage. I had a bad self-esteem in middle school, and fell into deep depression during my eigth grade school year. I was falsely accussed of homosexuality and rejected by most people. The summer after my eigth grade year was even worse. I continued to go deeper into depression. I was plauged by thoughts of worthlessness. I contemplated suicide a few times. I shrunk back into my own world, literally creating fantacies of whole worlds in my mind to relieve the stress of reality. It is hard to describe, but I would not even close my eyes, and I'd be seeing whatever it is that I wanted to see and I could be anyone I wanted to be. Not litteraly of course. I would lay on my floor and imagine these things, but they would be startlingly real. I would make all kinds of noises, that to me, were just part of my world. I was, symblically a god of these worlds I'd create. I could make anything happen, or not happen. It was all up to me. I was in control. Well, God blessed me with a wonderful best friend, who had taken the persecution in eigth grade right along side me. The difference between us is that he went to church. He brought me to his youthgroup that summer. That one incident changed my life forever. I will never forget how God used my best friend to bring me to Him. Never. I was welcomed by the youth group in such a way that I had never imagined. I couldn't fathom why these people greeted me and accepted me as they did. I was instantly addicted. I started going every week, and I even started going to church. Well, this continued up until my Junior year in highschool. I was still going to church, but I was not a Christian. It was my junior year in highschool when I met another person that would change my life forever. Her name is Heather Harvey, and she was 15 at the time. I started talking to her, because I thought she was gorgeous. I found out, that she her inside was much more beautiful than her outside. She invited me to her church, and I was bombarded with the work of the Holy Spirit. It was nothing like the church I had been attending for the last two and a half years. I was very freaked out at first, but as the weeks went by, I found myself again, addicted to church. I couldn't get enough of whorshiping in the Spirit, and being around the people in that church. It wasn't really the people, however, it was the God in the people. Well, I soon realized that they had something I didn't, and so I decided I needed to get baptized. I talked to the preacher, which was Heather Harvey's father, and he agreed to baptize me. As the weekend of my baptism approached, I continued to go to the church. The weekend before my baptism, I experinced something that, once again, changed my life. I was whorshiping God while the church band was playing. I felt led to kneel and so I did. I closed my eyes and prayed. I bowed my head. Suddenly, God gave me a vision. There was a robe in front of me. I knew it was Jesus. I didn't see his face, but I knew it was him. It is like that knowlege you have in your dreams. I reached out and grabbed the bottom of the robe. I pressed it against my face and wiped the tears from my eyes. Jesus, then, said, "Look at me." So, I raised my eyes a little up the robe, but not enough to see Jesus's face. Again, Jesus told me, "Look at me." Again, I looked up a little, but still didn't look up at his face. He continued to tell me to look at him, until I finnaly did. His face was beutiful, his hair brown and neck-length like in some of the pictures of him. He was smiling down at me, and I up at him. He said, "Chris, I am pleased with you." I about flipped out when I heard him say that. I was beaming like a gradeschool kid at the gates of DisneyWorld. He took my face in his hands,brought my head against his stomache, and he hugged me. When we had finished hugging, I told Jesus this: "You can leave now, I belive in you." Jesus replied, "No, I will never leave you." I told him again that he could leave because I had seen him and believed in him. He replied again, "No, I will never leave you." And then I saw Jesus crucified and brought to the tomb. The rock moved to the side, and I saw Jesus come out and ascend into heaven. My vision had ended. I stood up shaking. I had no idea what had just happend, except I knew it had been real. The next weekend I was baptised. Ever since then, my life has been getting better and better. I am a new creation, and God blesses me abundantly everyday. I am no longer the sinful person I was. I am a child of God.
I met my husband 8 years ago. He was a christian praying for a christian woman to come in to his life. Well he met me and I wasnt a christian then. Ray (my husband) took his eyes off the lord and put them on me. We started off in our marriage good then we were introduced to drugs, meth to be exact. At firt it was casual use then it turned into a 3 1\2 year benge. I ended up in jail 3 times because of this, and by the way I was an account executive. Well this drug took everything from us we have 5 children one of them is in heaven now and that is what it took for my husband to realize that the Lord was disciplining us. Well it took for me a little longer I couldnt understand how God would allow my 5 1\2 month old baby to die. so I continued to use and I left my husband and blamed him for my little boys death. Then Social Services came in and took my other children and I was so upset with my husband about this, I knew he had called them and with this i wanted to divorce my husband but 4 days later I had the most tremedous spiritual awakening I felt the evil live my body, I didnt want a part of the drug and many demons that came with it anymore. I called my husband he came to my apt where he reached the pastor at Calvary Chapel PCH who called me from his vacation time and prayed with me on the phone to except Jesus into my heart and he forgave me of my sins at that moment they where washed by the blood of Jesus Christ. It has been 2 1\2 years since that prayer and the Lord has given back to us our marriage and our children came home the case with Social Services Closed and he bleesed us with a beautiful new baby boy. God allows things to happen so that we may know his precious son Jesus Christ Love in our Saviors name Debra Martinez
I would like to thank God for my family that are saved. I thank God for healing my dad of cancer, two or three times. The doctors didn't think that he would live but he is alive in Jesus Name, filled with the Holy Ghost an doing fine.
I would just like to thank God for everything that he has done. I am 16 years old and I have recently been babitised. I think that the greatest joy in my life that God has given me is my loving parents. My dad,Tommy hutto, is the preacher at my church which he owns and my mother, Doris hutto, is a loving and caring person. She has always been a house mom and has never complained about having to stay at home with us. Recently I lost my brother because he got drunk one nght and hit a tree. I know that he is with God and I am thankful that God is taking care of him as well as my family. THANK YOU GOD!!!!!
I just found out, during a pre-surgical EKG, that I had an unknown heart attack at some point in the past. I've been very upset to know I had a heart attack and didn't ever realize it and have been struggeling with trusting God for my healing. Much trouble trusting God at all lately. I had asked the Lord for a confirmation on things I've been praying about, and when I read the Prophesy "The Lord is With You, Be not Weary in Well doing, I just burst into tears of joy. I know God has spoken to me. I expect to write another testimony after my appt with the cardiologist on Feb.9th that all is well! God is so Good!
10: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11: And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
My dear friends, It is my hope to tell you what happened to me a few years ago that totally changed my life. I was married, and had four children, three boys and a girl. I had a very hard working husband who had his own business in roofing. He also had a few men working for him and as was the custom in that day for the bosses to stop at the local bar with his men for a beer or two, just to relax you know. My husband did also, resulting in coming home more than a little under the weather and very late for supper. And as it was in a lot of womens lives, prior to this time , I could not drive and even if I could there was only one car. So I was stuck at home with the house and no way to go to the store to get grocreies or whatever in a place where there wasn't any real shopping.We moved to a little bigger town, and after a number of years of this I got totally fed up with the situation and on more than one occasion wanted to leave and get a divorce, because all I could see was the type of life that I came from at home and I was very unhappy. I could not see any way out and I felt totally trapped and abused. I had no training for work and all I could do was house work and take care of children and waitress work, but like I said , I had no way of getting anywhere because of where we lived , way out in the suburbs where there weren't even buses running to town. Things kept building up, and many years later we finally moved to a town called Forest Lake and after putting up with an unfinishedlake cabin, that was old to begin with, for many years and even though we were living on a lake and had moved many times, even in that town, because the house was finally condemned, and we had to tear it down and rebuild. We had monies stored up with a contractor, so my husband found that he had enough money to build a new small house on the lake and , yes it was nice but the problems of drinking never stopped, and prior to moving up there I had decided to join them in drinking, because I figured if you can't beat them join them. BIG MISTAKE! It turned out to be my downfall, because I soon realized that I was an alcoholic, even though I was not going to bars by myself, I was still drinking with him at home. Then we began to go to a VFW's there and as was our custom we drank at home and at the bar, and every night at home. It seemed that our lives we gone and we had no control over it, and that I was living in some sort of hell on earth. I honestly kept getting more and more frustrated with it all and I tried to find a way out of it through false religions, occults and reading books that I hope would give me answers,but they only got me more deeply drepressed, I kept searching for some answers.. One day I found some stray kittens in our yard and they were starved and very weak I thought that they were from some neighbor so I took a couple around to see but no one knew who's they were. Then one of them died, and I panicked and thought that I exposed my neighbors to rabies or something and I called the pound and they came to pick them up and by that time I was totally gone. I had been on some pills from the doctor for depression and they made me like a zombie, I was walking around in a daze and my husband said that I should quit taking them because I was so different. Well, in the meantime this kitten situation took place and I figured that I would write notes to peoples and my doctor and family because I was so afraid and take the pills and so I went to the Hospital and sat in the parking lot and after I took them I figured they'd find me and I wouldn't have hurt anyone , after all I let everyone know what I was doing, not good reasoning at all. So I sat there and prayed and talked to God and my dead realitives[ which incidently you cannot do because they are gone and the only one who will answer you is one of the devils henchmen] . For God says you cannot speak to the dead for there is a great gulf between us and them. Anyway, I tried and also I was speaking to Jesus and I prayed the only prayer that I knew . I said JESUS, Mary and Joseph , if I'm sinning please forgive me. And after what seemed like hours, I finally thought that nothing was happening but I didn't know drugs so I was not aware that they were working and I walked into the emergency room unsteadily and told them what I had done and told them to call my daughter at home to come and get me because I knew I couldn't drive. I had planned things out fairly wellon how I would do this. Well needless to say I stayed there, and my doctor was very upset with me and I just couldn't handle anything. He even called me a liar later because he thought that my husband was physically abusing me, because of bruises on my arm a week before, but they were from carrying some deck chairs down to the lake one day on them. But he was very upset because of all I had done and I stayed there for about 3 days and took some tests and finally had to go to a doctor about my emotional condition, I had promised them I would go so I did but it didn't really workout so I quit going. Actually things hadn't changed much, of course the family was concerend and it didn't take long for things to get back to normal, but I want to let you know that when someone does something like that, the whole family walks on egg shells for years, around you hoping they won't trigger another incedent. It was awful. I gave it a lot of thought And another thing , I began to realize was that each one of the children would feel this thing deeply , thinking it was all their fault or that they were the cause of the final step. It was at this time that I once again began searching for answers. People would come to me and ask why I tried such a thing. They said you had so much going for you a nice place and nice kids and a good hardworking husband and why? Well I told them that even though I may have had what they said, what they didn't know was that we had no real marriage, at least not what I had expected I wanted a marriage that I knew so many others had and I was very disappointed, and our lives were meaningless and empty. The then a song on the radio was "Is This All There Is?" and that is the way I kept looking at life. I would sit for hours looking out the window at the lake and ask the Lord, Lord is this all there is, and Lord, give me something to live for. What people do not understand is that a lot of wives don't have anything to look forward to except what I have been describing or worse. There were things that most women would not have put up with, like living out of boxes, because you had no where to put all your cloths, and living in an unfinished 1\2 remolded cabin. To him it was okay because that is the way he was brought up but I wanted something better. I put up with bats once again in the house , even to falling on the floor in front of the kitchen sink and almost stepping on it in the morning barefooted. Also having a schrew crawl over your foot when you put you foot on the floor in the morning,[ a schrew is a mole like little creature that shouldn't be in the house,] and we had all this , and I had to put up with it, also, the bedroom not being finished, and having plastic over the ceiling and it leaking and filling with water and sat above the bed like a water baloon and of course you can't leave out the carpentuer ants that were literally eating the house up to sawdust. And all the time I am trying to put up with all the rest of the inconveinences. finally we moved to another house that was just fine not on the lake but above the houses on the shore on the other side of the lake and it was very nice and I really liked it there.. We rented the other one to one of our sons, and finally it was decided for us that it needed to be torn down.. So here we were , demolishing one and I didn't really care to move after he decided to rebuild there, but I had no choice so we moved back and sold the one we were in that I liked . In between all of this I had come to Jesus Christ as my personal savior and Lord in the house on N. ShoreDr. and He delivered me of smoking and drinking and began to set me free in other areas. I was very happy with the Lord being in my heart and life and somehow some of the things I had to put up with didn't seem so bad as they were before this. And I knew that I had Jesus to help me, and I listened to radio Evangelists, and teachers and ate up all I could. I literally devoured the teachings I heard. I was so hungry for the word and for fellowship, that I practically lived day by day listening to Christian radio and writing lessons as fast as I could, and I still have those lessons today. As a result of being saved and set free of Alcohol and Nicotine, my whole family, 4 children, husband, and Mother and Step Dad and now our grandchildren, and I believe God for our almost 5 greatgrand children, my prayer for them was to a 1,000 generations is Jesus tarried. I Praise my Lord Jesus Christ for all that He has brought me and our house through for my faith in Him was tested shortly after, when we were about to move into a better house, on the south side of the lake, and the youngest son had married and was experiencing violent headaches, but never told me, and anyway through all the testing he had to have brain surgery for a brain tumor at the base of his brain about the size of a tangereine, or small orange and it grew from nothing in May to August to that size, and the Lord was so merciful that Steve got saved just before all this and also didn't tell me, anyway- Through the result of the operation and cobalt that was 21years ago and he is doing just fine, and we giveGod all the glory for all that He has done, He has done this and more. One day I will share how my husband was resurrected in our home just 21/2 years ago. Diana Buffham. There is so much more that I may have to write a book.
submitted 4/25/99
i had started hearing voices and thoughts in my head from the devil telling me to sell my soul to him and he was inpersaniting me making me htink that i would say oh give me this or that and ill give you my soul but i could never be sure if it was me or not cause it was in my head so i went through great anguish and he would also tell me when i was walkin if i didnt step back he would take my soul so i couldnt even walk 10 feet without steping back a countless number of times and my friend whose mother was a born again christian had enough of seeing me go through so he took me to my other friends house and they read the bible to me and prayed for me and i Accepted Jesus Christ as my saviour and the prolmbes that used ot keep me up all night in pain i cant even describe almost fulley went away i was so happy but i was stuck in the house a week without any friends becuase my friend had went to soccor camp and i dont know why but i didnt bother to hang out wiht other friends and from so much boredom and not reading the bible i went back ot they way i was then when he got back his mom took me to one church in Edison nj and they prayed for me there and i was feeling much better and she ttook me to her church and they prayed for me there too and after doing that again and prayer and reading the blble i am fine PRAISE THE LORD!!!!! Without God in my life I dont know where i would be right now
My brother who has been incarcerated all his life had been released on parole. We tried so hard to get him to come to our city, but there was simply too much paperwork and red-tape to work through. Finally in a fit of rage he simply came to our city and was thereafter violated for breaking parole. His only crime to us was wanting to be with his family after 10+ years in prison. We prayed for him as he was looking at 25yrs to life for breaking parole. We had friends and family and co-workers alike praying for him and he received a sentence last Wednesday of 4yrs inwhich he will serve about 3yrs and 4months.....God has been good to us, and it was by his Grace that we were saved, again! Glory be to our Heavenly Father who answers us in times of need and trouble and strengths us with His Everlasting Love!!! Thank You for sharing in our Joy :) love patrysh
14 years ago I was baptised. Though I accepted the Bible truths I had no real knowledge of Jesus. Instead I spend two years trying to please God by keeping the 10 commandments, the harder I tried the more miserably I failed. In the end I left the church feeling God was a bit of a taskmaster, I felt guilty, convicted of sin and going to Hell fast. I could not please God, and I could not keep His 10 commandments. I was forever hearing people say you needed to have a relationship with Jesus, but if this was it - I did not want to know. I guess I had a form of godliness without the power. I left the Church - but God followed me out too, He did not leave me. Though I spent the next 14 years living like the prodigal son, glad to be free from the law's observances - God was still working on me. During those years, I did pick up my bible and moments alone I pondered on His teachings. I still had the desire to know Him, but I shuddered at the thought of going back to church living that way again. God has never given up on me and I glad He didn't , don't ask me how, but He's shown me His love, His character, His son Jesus Christ, I now know what it means when His says His burden is light and I have accepted His rightousness as my own. In Him I am saved. I never want to be without Him and through it all no matter how weak I get, He just holds on to me harder. My prayer is that we all know Him for He is gentle, yet strong - He is is my best friend. To any one who reads this that may be feeling despondent, whether you are in a church or not JESUS LOVES YOU, STOP TRYING AND GIVE HIM A CHANCE HE WANTS TO HELP HEAL AND SAVE. AMEN.
RESTORED MY HEALTH AND HE HAS BLESSED ME SPIRITUALLY.
I am a 34 year old native american woman. I was delivered from partying, cigarettes, whiskey, "speed". I married a demon possessed man, but god took care of me. One night while sleeping i felt my hand fly up and grab something, i opened my eyes and my husband was over top of me and I had him by the arm! He said "let go of me", I said "you are the one over top of me, I was sleeping" he said "so was I". that demon inside him was trying to kill me, but the holy spirit inside me was watching and stopped him! I learned to trust in god even more!! MAY ALL THE GLORY BE TO GOD WHO LOVES US ALL!!
God has allowed me to be saved at a young age, and I am grateful to that. I could have been a young person on drugs, committing fornication, living out on the streets, but the Jesus Christ saved my life, and I am grateful.
God Bless.
HIS AWESOME WORK
HOW CLOSE CAN THE LORD BE ? Just a breath away.
Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall take refuge. Psalm 91:2,3.
Do not be afraid of their faces, For I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord. Jeremiah 1:8 .
Well, the Lord can be as close as a breath. I have been several times face to face with a murderer, just a breath away. An individual of whom others were very fearful. I am the PROOF that the Lord is real and right at our fingertips when we need Him. I had been prepared over the years in the spirit, the time had arrived for practice.
We were in the Ministry, I knew my place in His Kingdom and was familiar with the battle in the Spirit against the enemy, but I had never experienced what happened next. It was around 7.00 a.m., I was at home by myself , the children were in bed. I was 8 months pregnant of our 4th child. I had come downstairs, after my husband had left for work.
I just had started the washing machine and a pail of hot water was standing on the kitchen floor, when a man climbed over an 8 feet wooden fencing, which enclosed our backyard. He came to my kitchen door and pulled it open with force, I stared into the eyes of one who was bewildered. We had met before. He was an ex-convict, and had finished his 8 year term for manslaughter, which should have been for murder. He was also a fierce fighter.
He knew me well and hated me. Our eyes made contact and stayed put while we checked each other's strength. I measured his ableness and concluded that I could not outdo him. Any feeble attempt on my part would be a disaster and only aggravate him more. He knew my strength, which was not physical, but spiritual. He came closer. His bloodshot eyes, due to the alcohol and his fighting, appeared protruding. He kicked the pail with boiling water over, which was standing between us. Now he was so close, I could nearly feel his breath. I did not move. I knew he came to hurt me, he had killed before and could do it again. One kick in my belly from him would have brought me right into labor.
I stood my ground, not saying a thing, my mind on blank, my soul on God, I showed no fear. When he started to lift up his hand towards me, I broke the silence and said: "Herman, do not touch me." I repeated myself in an unnaturally calmness. I did not panic. I had no time to think, I had no physical compatibility, but I had the Lord. I could ONLY count on Him, I had no choice. The Lord allowed me this experience as to test my faith, and He knew I could do it. Praise His Powerful Name. I continued: "Herman, if you touch me, God will touch you", pointing my finger towards heaven. Both of us were still standing in the same position. I knew one thing, Herman didn't even had to hurt me, just his touch would have done him in. It scared me more to know that he could drop dead right in front of me, than being hurt myself by him.
We stood there for a few more minutes, which felt like an eternity to me. Still making eye contact. The Holy Spirit was tangible and Herman must have seen something I didn't see. His arm went slowly down, Herman dropped his sword, so to speak. He turned around and left through the same door he had come in.
I was not even shaky, I took a deep breath of relief and praised the Lord. I wiped up the floor, got the kids out of bed and continued with my daily chores as if nothing had happened.
I call this the Supernatural Power of God. Praise You Jesus.
I will render praises to You, for You have delivered my soul from death. Psalm 56:12,13. He who walks in integrity will be delivered. Proverbs 28:18.
It doesn't make any difference who we are; Daniel in the lion's den; the three men in the fiery furnace; Joseph in the pit; an Israelite followed by Pharaoh's Army or YOU with a revolver being pushed into your back. It may make a difference to us, but not to God. He can close the mouths of the lions, bring someone to pull Joseph out, divide the waters of the Red Sea or even take the bullets out of the pistol. Why not ?
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for Me? Jeremiah 32:27.
BE ENCOURAGED IN THE LORD, YOUR GOD AND FATHER !
I thank God for keeping me alive for 32 years old. I thank the Heavenly Father for his gracious love and forgiveness of the sins I have committed. I thank God for the things that he have provided for me even when I did not acknowledge him. It is because of the Lord that I been born again and he is changing my ways of thinking continously. The Lord,my Savior is now the head of my life and I will allow him to guided my footseps in life. I can't do anything or be anyone without him. May his name always be kept holy.
I wanted to share with others that the Lord has delivered me from a long, dark period in my life. I was suffering from a deep depression that lasted for five years. Like most sufferers of depression, I had little hope, and felt that I would never get out of this dark place. In the last six months I began asking many different people to pray for me--anyone who was willing. It was humbling, but I was too desperate to care. God began a work of healing in me and delivered me out of that deep pit. I wake up in the morning and feel joy and enthusiasm and optimism. I had forgotten what that felt like ! Words can't convey my gratitude to God. Few things feel more hopeless than depression. I want to let others who are depressed right now know that there is hope! God does give you a future and a hope. Thanks be to Him. Be cncouraged. Love in Christ, Marianne
WHEN I WAS A TODDLER, I GOT INTO MY MOTHERS MEDICATION. THE DOCTORS SAID THAT I NEEDED A BLOOD TRANSFUSION OR I WOULD DIE. THIS WAS THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE MY LIFE. MY MOTHER FEFUSED TO ALLOW THEM TO GO AHEAD WITH THEPROCEDURE DO TO HER RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AT THE TIME. INSTEAD, SHE HAD THE ELDERS OF HER CHURCH COME OVER TO THE HOSPITAL TO PRAY OVER ME. THE LORDS HANDS WERE OVER ME. THE DOCTORS SAID IT WAS A MIRACLE. THE ONLY CONCERNS FOR MY HEALTH WA MY KIDNEYS. THE DOCTORS WERE CONVINCED THAT I WOULD HAVE SOME KIDNEY DAMAGE.
IN 1993, AT THE AGE OF 24, THE LORD TOLDME THT I WAS TO BE A KIDNEY DONOR FOR MY EX-MOTHER-IN-LAW. SHE WAS A VERY CRUEL PERSON TO ME AND I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE LORD WOULD ASK THIS OF ME. I WAS OBEDIANT. I WAS TESTED AND A FEW MONTHS LATER, I WAS IN LOMA LINDA HOSPITAL GOING THROUGH THE TRANSPLANT PROCEDURE. THE TRANSPLANT WAS A SUCESS AND MY MOTHER-IN-LAW HAS HER LIFE. WE STILL HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP BUT THIS WAS NOT PROMISED TO ME. I NOW UNDERSTAND WHY HE HAD ME GIVE HER MY KIDNEY-THE ULTIMATE ACT OF FORGIVENESS. THROUGH ALL THE PAIN SHE CAUSED ME, I STILL WAS OBEDIANT TO THE LORD. WHAT AN EXAMPLE THAT HAS BEEN FOR HER. SHE IS NOT WALKING WITH THE LORD, BUT I KNOW THAT SOMEDAY SHE WILL. HE ALSO SHOWED ME THAT HE WAS PROTECTING ME AND PREPARING ME FOR THIS TESTIMONY ALL MY LIFE.
Praise be to God,Lord of the universe!!
My father was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and given just a few months to live..But he,in all His misericordy heard our prayers and granted us a miracle..A biopsy was taken and the cancer had turned into a very treatable form of lymphoma.. God,through His Son and Savior Jesus Christ,granted us a miracle.He heard our prayers!! I want to thank all who prayed for my father and our family.. Blessed be the Lord God of the universe!!
God has answered my prayers this week in the form of coming up with rent this week, finding a solution to keeping me warm this week (heater quit this week), stopped people from harrassing me, and showed me the heart of the man I loved........Praise God!!!!!!
I praise the Lord now for He led me to find the prophesies you are showing here which are speaking to me and encouraging me. You see, I have been under demonic attack for several years, and I have been trusting Him all this time but sometimes I have felt really low and asked Him; Lord, how long? I know that He is answering me in these words of prophesy here and though I have to wait a little, He is with me leading me to victory.
Three times I prayed to the Holy Spirit and three times He answered me. As they are very personal, suffice to say that the three day prayer is powerful and does work. Thank you Holy Spirit for answered prayer. d.
The Lord has performed many miracles in my life but each & every one of it is a test to my faith & hope in him.He is real & u will be able to feel his presence in your life if u let him rule it.There are times when my life is filled with so much sorrow & disappointments but then someday he finally gives me the joy that he took aways two times more than what i need.Trust in Jesus.....u do not know how much u are missing out in life without him.
I was saved at a young age,but my father died of a heart attack when I was 18 yrs old & It wasn't long after that I began to turn away from GOD,& seek the things of the world.after years of living like the world,I began to suffer for the bad decisions that I had made.I finially came to the end of myself & I realized I was in desparate need of the one who created me.GOD began to show me his love through my brother Mark.The lord blessed me with a wonder
I was saved at a young age,but my father died of a heart attack when I was 18 yrs old & It wasn't long after that I began to turn away from GOD,& seek the things of the world.after years of living like the world,I began to suffer for the bad decisions that I had made.I finially came to the end of myself & I realized I was in desparate need of the one who created me.GOD began to show me his love through my brother Mark.The lord blessed me with a wonderful mother, father & 7 brothers. amoung those 7 brothers GOD gave me a special realationship with my brother Mark. Mark lived JESUS before me like no one I had ever seen. JESUS was truly Mark's best friend in the whole world.He shared the love of JESUS wherever he went. He was the most kind,compassionate genuine,& loving man i had ever known.What made Mark so unique was the relationship with his heavenly father.he volenteered in the community in which we lived by helping troubled teenagers that were in detention homes.once a week for many years he would go to the detention homes and share the love of JESUS to troubled teens.he made an impact on everyone he came in contact with.He had a heart & a burden for lost souls unlike anyone I had ever known.In my eyes he was a hero.GOD used him not only to change my life around for the glory of GOD,but also many others. I was not only blessed to know him, I was blessed to have him for a brother.After many years of growing in the LORD,Mark began to record in his prayer journal the burdens he had for some of our other brothers.his wife Lorrie said she can recall him praying Lord whatever it takes to get my brothers saved and in a right relationship with you,please LORD do it before it's too late. After years of praying that,we began to watch GOD work, But not in the way we wanted.Mark was diagnosed on march 11 1999 with a inoperable brain tumor. the doctors told us Mark had the worst malignant brain tumor any one could have. they told us that because of the swelling around his brain he would only have about 2 weeks to live.our whole world seemed to fall apart at that very moment.crying out in desperation I said LORD please dont take my brother. He and his wife Lorrie was expecting their 1st child together which GOD had laid on their hearts to do,many months before Mark got sick.Mark's wife Lorrie began to pray & trust the LORD to give her strenght as she tried to take care of this precious child growing inside of her & at the same time her wonderful husband & the father of her baby was getting a death sentance from the doctor. we began to have our church family pray & people all over the world. Our pastor came to the hospital and anointed Mark's head with oil,and he laid hands on him & prayed over him,along with many others. GOD began to move and touch more lives through Mark. One day after Mark was diagnosed with the brain tumor, Our brother Roger that Mark had prayed for many years gave his life to JESUS beside Mark's hospital bed in ICU.Evangelist Rick Via led him to JESUS because Mark could not speak,or know much about what was going on around him.BUT as Roger prayed the sinners prayer,Mark woke up with tears rolling down his face,because he had waited for so long for that day.No one else was in the room,only Mark,Roger & Rick,but Roger told us that Mark was trying to get out of the bed to get to him so he could hug him.after that GOD began to transform many more lives.several more brothers were saved as well as sister-n-laws.GOD used this terrible circumstance to bring glory to his son JESUS.GOD began to give us scriptures to strengthen us &to give us hope that he was in control.The swelling of Mark's brain finially went down afer 4 days or so,and things began to look a little better.but the doctors told us that even if Mark was able to go through chemo & radiation,it was just buying Mark a little more time here on earth. we wasn't sure of how much time.we began to pray that GOD would allow Mark to be here for the birth of his son Mark Allen Jr. Many things took place as GOD began to use Mark's illness.3 months later Mark Jr. was born. GOD answered our prayer! GOD allowed Mark to have some wonderful times with his family.He was able to go to church with our whole family, something that he had always wanted but never got to experience until then. as we sang victory in JESUS tears began to fill the eyes of every family member.expecially Mark's as he began to thank GOD in the midst of his dark fight with cancer. he was able to praise GOD because he knew what GOD had done through his battle with cancer.he began to thank GOD for saving his family from satan's distruction. 4 months later in october Mark began to get worse and his wife took him back to the hospital and found many complications. they did another MRI,and found that the tumor had grown and that 1/4 of an inch more would end his life.we knew no matter how bad things seemed god was in control and that GOD could still heal him if it be his will.But it was GOD's will to give Mark the ultimate healing. GOD called Mark home March 11 1999 while the whole family gathered around his bed singing his favorite hyms.what a beautiful way to leave this world to go meet JESUS. many rewards awaited him because of the life he lived here on earth.even in his deepest darkest hour he gave GOD all the Glory.he showed all who knew him that nothing can separate us from GOD's love.ther are so many wonderful stories that I can share about what GOD has done through Mark and how he could say the name of JESUS to the doctors when he couldnt say anything else because of the affect the brain tumor had on him.what a testamony his life was and always will be as a result of his love for JESUS even in the midst of the storm.
I praise God for removing my daughter's boyfriend from our house in Jesus Name. I didn't have the strenght to tell him to leave and God did it for me. thank you Lord!
I had requested prayer for my husband last tuesday, he was going for a CT scan of liver lungs and pancreas. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in Dec.1998 which had spread to the liver, lungs and bones. He was given 4 months to live. Well he is still living and the doctor said he couldn't explain it but the cancer in the pancreas, liver and lungs was gone. My husband told him I can explain,it is called a miracle from the Lord!!! Please continue to pray that the Lord will take care of the bones too. WE both want to thank-you for your prayers.
I had lived with my boyfriend for fifteen years and it was hell. And I MET jESUS EVERY TIME i WENT TO CHURCH i WOULD GO TO THE ALTER TO Pray because i wanted to Love him the way a girlfriend should love a boyfriend and nothing was happening I was getting fustrated and I was ready to give up but I kept my faith and one year later after we were married something beautiful happened I fall deeply in love with my husband and he is very good to me hes a hard worker and I know he loves me very much he never gets mad he doesnt say bad words and he quit smoking over night , thats when I knew the good Lord was hearing my prayers all along he just wanted to see how much faith I had in him the Lord has given me and my husband a beautiful gift. I LOVE YOU JESUS , AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THE BLESSINGS YOU HAVE GIVEN US IN THE NAME OF JESUS AMEN.
Yes I would like to tell you what God has done in my life. In 1996 my dad passed away and I collapsed and they didnt know what was wrong with me will when I returned home I had pain in my I had pain from head to toe but the pain that really got to me was in my chest and I was getting a rapid heart beat will I went to over 40 doctors and had I dont know how many tests. Then I ended up with panic attacks and anxiety attacks and went through a really bad depression will I had 2 major healings one in 97 and the other in 98 and my depression and attacks left and muscle spasms but I was left with fibromyalgia and dislocated ribs on my left side and a rapid heart beat but I keep the faith and prayed and gave it all up to the lord and then on dec 31st I went to a benny hinn crusade and I was healed out in the crowd and I made it up on stage and Lord what power there is on that stage will I was completely healed and I prase god everyday of my life for what he has done for me and I thank jesus for all he has done and I have been with my husband for 16 years now and I have no children of my own and I think I am pregnant right now and that is of God no doubt in my mind..
Praise Report I had to e-mail everyone this praise report to show how wonderful Father God to his faith ones. Everyday of my marriage, I took care of my husband Grandma. She was blind, bed bound, in her 80's & had many health problems. For the first 5 years, She could only feed herself. The last year she couldn't even do that. It was a hard life both grandma and my husband and I. I had to bath her, make her meals, strangers came in to home at all times. We lived in her home. The house was falling apart. Two years ago, are gas lines had to be shut down. We didn't have the money to replace them. We had no hot water for two years. Basically, life was hard and trying. There where times we thought about leaving. Through prayer, we felt like we should stay. We couldn't see putting grandma in a nursing home. We always tried to be grateful for the blessing Jesus gave us. We always had plenty of food, a roof over our heads, good friends, our own business, church with a terrific pastor, clothes on are back, a super daughter, and each other. Also God gave us Godly wisdom and favor to run our business. My husband use to be a painter. There was so much money we could earn. God gave David the idea to be a home contractor agent. We have more than doubled our income in the last 2 and half years. Praise you Jesus Thank-you Father God! My husband's Grandma went to be with Jesus at the being of this year. Thankfully, she died in her sleep. Her last year of life very hard. She was ready to be with Jesus. Grandma left my husband her house. She wanted my husband to have it because he had a very hard childhood. Though the grace of God we where able to sell this home as is for alot of money , as is. We also are buying a much nicer home. Praise be to God! Glory be to Jesus. With prayer, tithing, and faith, God has blessed us and still blessing us more than we could have thought. Thank-you for your prayers. You have been a blessing to us. Please keep praying!
I WAS FROM HINDU BACK GROUND. WHEN I WAS ON MY DEATH BED A PASTOR CAME TO ME AND TOLOD ABOUT THE LOVE OF JESUS AND ACCEPTED HIM AS MY PERSONAL SAVIOUR. I HAVE BEEN SERVING HIM FOR THE LOST FIFTEEN YEARS.MY ADDRESS;PASTOR O. RATNA KUMAR TENALI-5222O1, A.P , INDIA SINCERELY IN HIS SAVINGS GRIP, PASTOR. O. RATNA KUMAR
I married late in life and had been trying for over 5 years to become pregnant without success. Upon reaching the age of 42, I sadly gave up hope. My husband and I decided that God apparently had other plans for my life, perhaps working with children, but I would never hear a little one call me Mommy. Well, one Sunday in January during the church service, I said a little prayer. I thanked God for all He had done and told Him I would try my best to do whatever He had planned for me, and sadly noted that had I been able to have a child, that child would have known that Jesus was Lord in a way I never had (I am Jewish and had only found Jesus recently at that time.) I felt at peace after praying and went home. The following week I began to experience pains that I thought were due to an intestinal problem I had on and off, but the pains came and went for a few weeks. I finally decided to go to the Dr. A couple of days before that, I realiezed that my usually regular monthly cycle had been delayed. I felt a shiver and ran to get a home pregnancy kit. It showed up positive. When I went to the Doctor's office, they did tests and told me they would contact me. Three days before Valentine's Day I found out I was pregnant, and told my husband the incredible news!
For anyone who doubts that God answers prayers, I am living proof of that, and after becoming a Believer, I found that those answers sometimes come fast and furious, or sometimes slow and subtle, but God is always listening. He has answered my questions and prayers through the words and actions of people in church, Christian radio and television programs, Christian co-workers or just people I meet wherever I go (brothers and sisters in Christ.) There is no Praise great enough, Lord, to thank You for all You have given me, but let me never forget to praise and thank You and tell others of Your faithfulness. Amen.
I JG would liketo tell you why ijust lOYE THE LORD"" FOUR YEARS AGO I GOT A TERIMAL DIAGNOSIS AFTER YRS OF DOING MY OWN THING DRUGS MOST PEOPLE JUST DREAM ABOUT BOY GIRL TAR 714 SOPORS LQ METH RJS PERTS HYDROCO ESTY MONEY WOMAN TRAVEL'THEN I WENT IN FOR MEDICAL TEST AND WAS TOLD I HAD LESS THAN A YEAR TO LIVE DOPE MENT NOTHING NOTHING;5 LITTLE GIRLS BAUTIFULGDAUGHTERS GOD THROUGH HIS SONHEALED ME SAVED ME AND GAVE ME A MNEW LIFE INOW WORK FOR A CO TRYING TO START A CHRISTIAN METHADONE AND INPT JESUS AND I SEND HOPE AND LOVE
i have been a christian since i was 12yrs old the lors JESUS became my FATHER MY FRIEND my mentor.i gVE MY LIFE TO HIM completely when i was 25. i am a 66yr old woman. the LORD ANSWERED MANY PRAYERS that only GOD could do. the most recent prayer GOD DID IN A MIRACIOUS way.
MY DAughter-in-law AS BORN WITH HOLE IN HER HEART, SHE IS 39YRS OLD.FOUR YEARS AGO drs told AURORA she had to have corrective surgery or she would die.She couldn't have the heart surgery because she had infected teeth that had to be removed.because she didn't have the money for her teeth she couldn't get the heart surgery, he healh deteriated so much she had tom, use oxygen all th time and had to have help bathing and dressing. she had to use a wheelchair all the time and she couldn't walk a few feet without becoming exhausted. w were afraid she would die before sh got the surgey. after along search we found drs in PARKLAND HOSPITAL THAT WOULD DO BOTH oral surgery and heart surgery. On March 7, 2000 ARORA TORRES had her heart surgery because of bleeding she had to have the surgery again.SHE FLAT LINED 3X. SHE STAID IN CCU THE ENTIRE TIME becaus of complications,She could'nt get weened of the ventilator,she develped an infection of the blood, she hD TO BE PUT TO sleep for a month, we thought she was not going to recover. AURORA IS A TINY PERSON weighing about 93lbs.she is asbout 4ft10 she lost about 25lbs.I HAD SPECIAL PRAYER IN MYchristian chat room. we prayed for her several tims a day. she was put on prayer list in churchs all around the country. GOD did heal AUROA AND SHB WAS ABLE TO COME HOME AFTER ABOUT 5 weeks,but she develoed another blood infection that had gone to her heart. she was in our hospital 10 days for antibody therapy, and 10 days as an outpatient.TODY AURORA IS A NEW WOMAN SHE HAS GAINED WEIGHT AND CAN DO THINGS SHE NEVER WAS ABLE TO DO BEFORE LIKE BREATHE. I CAN TESTFYTHAT GOD DOES INDEED DO THINGS WE SOMETIMES THINK ARE TO BIG BUT NOTHING IS TO BIG FOR GOD AND IF IT IS A GOOD THING GOD WLL DO IT IN YOUR LIFE, JUST DONT GIVE UP
I truely give an honor to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I found out in 96 that I had a tumor in my head, I had 7 MRI's and on the last one the Dr. said that she did not understand because it had shrunk. Praise God saints, because God is AWESOME. I did not take any medication. Just trust in the Lord and stand on his word and he will work it out. Please pray my strength in the LORD!
My testimony is GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME.
The Lord has done marvelous things. He is my refuge and strength. He is my healer. The Lord healed my severely premature son (26-weeker, weighing under two pounds). We were told he may not walk, talk or think for himself. He had chronic lung disease, among other things, and was on oxygen for a year. But the Lord gave him a new set of lungs and he has had no problems since then. He turned 13 years old this month, is going to the 7th grade, loves golf, biking and music (plays the violin). The Lord also healed me of breast cancer. I was diagnosed last year, had radiation and have received excellent reports from the doctors. The Lord contained it within the milk ducts and did not allow it to pass into my blood stream. The Lord is worthy to be praised. Oh come and magnify the Lord with me. Shout unto the Lord with the voice of triumph. He is worthy to be praised.
Hello, I'm a student in Ontario, Toronto. I've been going to church all my 16 years of my life. I've never really met Jesus till a month ago. That was so amazing and I am very thankful. But just a week ago I felt the Holy Spirit. It was a friday fellowship with my youth and we were praying. I had been praying for him to be real with me for awhile and i wanted his presence. Oh boy did he give me more than i barganed for. And as they say "ther is power in prayer" and power did heshow me. My freinds prayed for me and my pastor, they were speaking in tongues and the spirit just entered me. It is the most amazing feeling the world. Better than any high you'll ever get, better than any rollercoaster. Since he's been so real to me, it has been so much easier and fun to praise him and follow him. All you got do is want his presence and you'll get it. You'll get more than you are expecting. He will hit you hard and how good will it feel. Thnx for your time. God bless you!!!!!!!!
I would like to give all praises to God for relieving me of alcohol. I hope to keep faith in his name I know all things are possible. Please pray for me and my family to go stronger in the Lord, Jesus Christ.
While not looking for the Lord,my father had a man witness to him. While the man was witnessing he prayed for a rabbit.The rabbit was on it's side,foaming at the mouth. You could see it's side heaving as it gave it's last few breaths of life.After the man had prayed for the rabbit the rabbit not only got right up but also went and ate and drank!This got my father's attention.When my father told me it got my attention. Because of one man and one rabbit over 40 people have been saved the Bible way. As it says in Acts 2:38. Repent,(to tell Jesus you are truly sorry for your sins)Be baptized in Jesus name for the remission of your sins, and you shall recieve the gift of the Holy Ghost.(by speaking in an unknown language) I praise the Lord for the man that told my father!
We all can rejoyice this year because the church of satan is falling apart and it is all my fault.Years back I became a christian and I would never be taking my fathers place as the black Pope when he died.because of that strong stand for christ the church of satan is with out a leader for all their churchs.there will be no more black Pope past on to son.Now we all need to pray that my fathers satanic bible is off the market,by anton Lavey. sign--Anthony Lavey
Hello, I give all praise and glory to God for he is truly the head of my life. I am a single young woman who is saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost. Being a single young woman has opened many doors for the devil try and come into my life and bring his junk with him. I have battled with a serious problem for years and years. I was addicted to lust, lustful thoughts, and the thought of sex. This problem tormented me because I knew it wasn't right. I tried over and over to deny that I had a problem and I wouldn't talk about it with anyone because I felt too ashamed and I felt like it was not natural to have these types of feelings. Over and over I would commit these sins then ask the Lord to forgive me. This became a cycle for me. I would find myself crying at night because I didn't know how to overcome this because it seemed as though this problem had me trapped. I felt like slave. I would cry out to God and ask him'why? Lord, why?' I didn't want to give this up, but I knew it was wrong. I found myself asking 'Lord, why did you give me this feeling knowing I can't do anything with it until I am married?' Everyday I would vow to stop and I did, but it didn't last long. As soon as a movie with sexual contents came on, I was back in the same situation. Afterwards, I would always feel like I wasn't saved anymore and I would find myself repenting over and over. I repented so much until sometimes I was too ashamed to come to God and ask for His forgiveness because I thought that he would be like 'NO, YOU SAY THE SAME THINGS ALL THE TIME AND YOU FALL BACK INTO THE SAME SITUATIONS'. But that's what the devil wanted me to think. So that I could just throw in the towel. But God had a special plan for me. One day I read a booklet on addiction and as I was reading this booklet, it felt like I was reading my life. I was shocked, I was scared, I was ashamed, I was also happy. The reason why I was happy was because I finally realized that this was something out of my hands. I finally realized that something had a hold on me and it was going to take a miracle for me to get away from it. Now I know that this didn't excuse me from my actions because God won't put more on us than we could bare. When those temptations came upon me, I was the one who gave in to them. I was the one who allowed them to come in. After reading this book I felt relieved. Just like a person who is sick and goes to doctor after doctor and they all say that nothings wrong, but you know that something is wrong and you want to know what it is so you can go through the proper procedures in curing your condition and stop putting water on something that needs alcohol and a bandaid. Well, that's how I felt. And when I realized what was wrong, I went throught the proper procedures to fix it. I told God that I was sorry and I told him that I didn't want to be an addict and I didn't want to be a slave to sin. Today, I have the testimony that I am saved, sanctified, and filled with the precious Holy Ghost. I thank God that I didn't throw in the towel. I thank God that he didn't give up on me. I can say without a doubt that I have been delivered. I haven't had a desire to go back either. Thank you Jesus!
I came to Jesus on Sunday the 6th November 1999. I had before then been going down the wrong tracks. I hated myself. The Church annoyed me so much, i was constantly picking upon teenagers in my school who were believers. One day I attended an non denominational meeting called the ALPHA COURSE. half way through the course of GETTING TO KNOW GOD, I saw people crying, then straight away i gave out a cry and tears began to flod down my face. The holy spirit made his first touch on my life never to be forgotten. Since then i am not wanting to become an evangelist, telling people about the goodness and beauty of Jesus Christ, he saved me, Without him i am naked. Praise the Lord
For over 36 years I wandered the wilderness of spiritual forces opposed to God. Thinking I could be one within myself, evil realms push me beyond the level of discernment till the aftermath was the anguish of my soul. While these forces had a great deal of influence in the world that controlled my life, Satan's deception couldn't deceive the revival of reality that our Lord already knew. Jesus was at the door of my life and even Satan's deceit couldn't deny the Truth. Through a day and night of circumstances I found myself looking at a stranger who told me I couldn't go that way. So I turn and went the other direction that led to the steps of a church where I humbled myself before Christ with emotions that filled me with a passion for His presence. A presence that wasn't mine but I owned it. Sense that time I have been through many trials and tribulation. And as I reflect back on it all, I have come to realize Satan is so deceiving he even deceives himself. When he took me down so low that Jesus lifted me up, Satan unknowingly crucified me with Christ. God is beyond compare and has no worthy rival. He keeps my faith progressive in His Divine Presence.
God has a plan to develop our faith. He takes our limited trust and grows it into a strong and mighty faith—one that has the ability to conquer life's most powerful foes. Often this is why He allows us to face adversity and challenges—good and bad. In times of extreme pressure, God stretches our faith and deepens our dependence on Him. Without a strong, abiding faith, we can quickly yield to temptation and fear, especially when the trial or difficulty is intense or prolonged.
Whatever we think and do may not be right at all time. Ask God to reveal the truth. We have only one chance in our life. So be serious about it. It all ends with our death or Christ's Second Coming whichever is earlier. Once upon a time I was criticizing salvation. I was against baptism. Please read my testimony below.
My name is Simon. From childhood I had the desire to know God. But too many religions really confused me to which God should I believe. Each religion claim truth in them. Because I was born in a Christian family, so I heard about Jesus. What about others who did not born in Christian family nor did not here about Christ? For them no salvation? These were all the confusion in my mind. Because I am born in a Christian family so I don't wanted to believe Christ. I wanted to taste Jesus personally.
I was an active member of the church. (That was only to get a good name, but had no personal relation with God) I had that emptiness in my soul. After my college education I moved to Mumbai in search of job. Later I developed my own business. God started blessing me. I became very proudy. Not afraid of anybody. So many times God punished me.But I did not change. At last God catch me. In January 22nd, 1993 I was admitted to hospital for some heart problems. A pain started in my heart. A thought of death came to my mind. I realized that if I die today definitely I will be lost. I cried with a sincere heart, if there is a God existing, heal me today. God, give me a chance to know you, your existence and to know the truth.
With Gods grace I am miraculously healed. I got my life back. (God's Holy Spirit is able to enter into each and every part of our blood cells.)
As per my commitment I Started searching God, other religions, the word surrender, the death of Jesus for our remission of sin, resurrection, eternal life etc., When I was searching to know God, so many doubts came to mind. I struggled almost for 3 months with confusion in mind. But Holy Spirit clarified all my doubts. In between God arranged so many mediators to clarify my doubts. By hearing Jesus name or birth in Christian family is not the answer for salvation or eternal life. There is no difference between others and you being Christian by birth. In this stage you are worldly like others. But anyone in spite of his religion, if root a relation with Christ that is the beginning. I started reading all religious books in search of thirst for God. But my soul is not satisfied.
At last my search came to Bible. That was the real time when I sincerely started reading bible. There is a quote in proverbs. "Those who seek me, will find me". When I started reading the Gospel of St.john small tiny lights started twinkling in front of word of God. Definitely it was the work of Holy Spirit. That experiences are lasting till today. Always I find these types of tiny lights in the form of stars move around me. It is a wonderful experience. I found great relief while reading bible. I felt like God is personally talking to me.
Based upon the findings of the Bible, at last I decided to surrender my life to Jesus. I wanted to invite Christ into my heart. I cried like a child, who lost his loving mother."Jesus, come to my heart, forgive my sins, I believe you died for me". I brought all my sins in front of Jesus and asked to forgive me. That day Jesus did not come to my heart. I did not feel any changes in me. The emptiness of my heart was not filled. I felt very sad. Again for few days I cried before Him and asked Him why you are not coming to my heart?
At last Holy Spirit revealed to me the reason. Still dirt was there in my heart. I had enmity with 3 people and I had some documents kept secretly with me as a future evidence against one person in case he creates any problem to me. God's Holy Spirit revealed to me, this is not right. I met all the 3 guys and reconciled with them. And I destroyed that secret document also.
That night was a wonderful night in my life. Again I went back to Christ for surrender. I started crying before Lord. Tears started flowing into my cheeks continuously. I bawled like a baby. I cried like I'd never cried before in my life. I cried like a man whose heart has been broken and of course, that's just what was happening.
When I finish all I felt a sudden release of tension, and burden from my body. My body became light. I felt like sailing in the atmosphere. My life melted down and transformed into a new creation. Peace entered. With a great relief I went to sleep. Within a minute I became unconscious. I don't know what was happening to me. My lips started uttering a new language. I heard the sound of heavy wind blowing into my room. A light came towards me and touched my forehead. Immediately I got up from my vision. Yes, my surrender was complete. I experienced the Holy Spirit entering into my soul. Really it was astonishing.
Later I took baptism. Baptism is not only essential but it is also an outward expression of an internal change. It is commandment of God.
Now I am not afraid of death. Because my foundation is strong and confirmed. I am trying my best to be holy. God has brought me here in Middle East to discipline my self. He taught me so many lessons with various incidents.
Dear friend, just think where you will be if you die today. Is it possible to die and see? Thank God, Jesus is not yet come, and you are still alive. Take a decision right now. Today is the day of salvation. We don't know what will happen tomorrow. Remember that our surrender should always be unconditional. Jesus will not enter into a heart if we keep something for us. Don't keep condition to Christ to come to your heart.
My everything is Jesus. He is king of my heart. Always I think about Jesus. You can share with me your burdens. Are you blessed with this testimony? If so spread this testimony to others. Be a partaker in spreading the good news of salvation.
Yours in Christ
Simon
Angry and separated from my family, left a big hole in my life. Seeing the changes that Jesus made on people close to me, I thought, why not? What could I lose? It wasn't what I could lose, but how much more I can gain. So on the 27th of September 1998 I gave my heart to the Lord. From that point on GOD turned my life around and started to fill that hole. To start my new life, GOD wiped out my old life. Starting with my job, which I sent 12 to 14 hours a day. Only GOD can sale a business in three days of putting it on the market. Then came the band I was in, which played in pubs and clubs every weekend. We had been together for over a year and suddenly they didn't need me any more. Yea right,they came against me because I believed in GOD. So with a good feeling inside, a GOD feeling, I left the band. So that's where most of my time was, work and in the band, which didn't give me much time to sleep or with my family. Not a very nice guy to be around. Hence my wife and I separated. So with my work and band gone, which was most of my history, GOD still hadn't finished, this was just part of his plan. It was GODS time for me to start my new life back with my wife and children. That's right GOD gave us a new beginning, a new start, a new life together in him. Our son,who hadn't lived with us for the first five years of his life, suddenly he wanted to come home. We were finally a whole family. There was one more physical thing left from our past. It was our small farm block. We put it on the market and it sold within weeks. Now with nothing left behind us and everything in front of us, we are much happier now with GOD on our side. GOD is still dealing with things in my life, so I can be closer to HIM. I believe HIS plan for me is not finished and I look forward to where HE'S going to take me. GOD IS AWESOME AND HE HAS GREAT PLANS FOR EVERYONE.
Praise the Lord! I won't go into much detail but I have been to the grave and back! I was killed by a drunk driver and was dead for 3 days! My sister contacted our pastor who has the gift and he came to the morgue and raised me back up! I have witnessed the resurrection! God showed me this because I used to have doubts. I always heard men of the cloth claim to have the gifts of the spirit but I always doubted because one of the gifts they never exercised was the gift of the resurrection. Since Jesus and his apostles resurrected people along with curing the sick I often thought that men today were fraudulent because they never claimed to bring back the dead. I reasoned that if they do have powers it must not be from God but from his adversary because the Devil always appeares and an angel of light to decieve the masses. Even in the days of Moses, Satan helped the Egyptian priest to duplicate all of God's miracles but the one he could not duplicate was bringing back to life the firstborn of the Pharoah. Since the Devil doesn't have the power to give life I immediately assumed that men who claim to have the gift today are simply being fooled by the Devil. Jesus mentioned that in the last days many men would perform powerful works in his name but would actually not really be from him. But now I have seen different. I was made alive again! Everyone was shocked in disbelief but I smiled at them and said BELIEVE! I am proof that God was working through our pastor!
I WOULD LIKE TO PRAISE THE LORD FOR GIVING ME TWO BEAUTIFUL BOYS. KYLE IS AGE 7 AND MATT IS AGE 2. I TRIED FOR SEVERAL YEARS TO GET PREGNANT. I WENT TO THREE DIFFERENT FERTILITY SPECIALISTS AND ALL THREE TOLD ME THAT IT WAS MEDICALLLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO CONCEIVE. AFTER THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AND NO LUCK I DECIDED TO TURN IT OVER TO THE LORD. I WENT TO MY CHURCH, HAD PEOPLE LAY HANDS ON ME AND PRAY, AND TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT, THE LORD HEALED ME. SOMEONE PROPHESIED TO ME THAT THE LORD HAD ALREADY HEALED MY ORGANS AND ONE MONTH LATER I FOUND OUT I WAS PREGNANT. GOD IS SO GOOD TO ME. I HAVE TWO BEAUTIFUL LITTLE BOYS THAT I KNOW THE LORD MADE JUST FOR ME. I THANK HIM AND PRAISE HIM FOR BEING A GOD OF IMPOSSIBILTIES. THERE IS NOTHING TO HARD FOR GOD. PRAISE THE LORD!
Whatever we think and do may not be right at all time. Ask God to reveal the truth. We have only one chance in our life. So be serious about it. It all ends with our death or Christ’s Second Coming whichever is earlier. Once upon a time I was criticizing salvation. I was against baptism.
My name is Simon. From childhood I had the desire to know God. But too many religions really confused me to which God should I believe. Each religion claim truth in them. Because I was born in a Christian family, so I heard about Jesus. What about others who did not born in Christian family nor did not here about Christ? For them no salvation? These were all the confusion in my mind. Because I am born in a Christian family so I don’t wanted to believe Christ. I wanted to taste Jesus personally.
I was an active member of the church. (That was only to get a good name, but had no personal relation with God) I had that emptiness in my soul. After my college education I moved to Mumbai in search of job. Later I developed my own business. God started blessing me. I became very proudy. Not afraid of anybody. So many times God punished me.But I did not change. At last God catch me. In January 22nd, 1993 I was admitted to hospital for some heart problems. A pain started in my heart. A thought of death came to my mind. I realized that if I die today definitely I will be lost. I cried with a sincere heart, if there is a God existing, heal me today. God, give me a chance to know you, your existence and to know the truth.
With Gods grace I am miraculously healed. I got my life back. (God’s Holy Spirit is able to enter into each and every part of our blood cells.)
As per my commitment I Started searching God, other religions, the word surrender, the death of Jesus for our remission of sin, resurrection, eternal life etc., When I was searching to know God, so many doubts came to mind. I struggled almost for 3 months with confusion in mind. But Holy Spirit clarified all my doubts. In between God arranged so many mediators to clarify my doubts. By hearing Jesus name or birth in Christian family is not the answer for salvation or eternal life. There is no difference between others and you being Christian by birth. In this stage you are worldly like others. But anyone in spite of his religion, if root a relation with Christ that is the beginning. I started reading all religious books in search of thirst for God. But my soul is not satisfied.
At last my search came to Bible. That was the real time when I sincerely started reading bible. There is a quote in proverbs. “Those who seek me, will find me”. When I started reading the Gospel of St.john small tiny lights started twinkling in front of word of God. Definitely it was the work of Holy Spirit. That experiences are lasting till today. Always I find these types of tiny lights in the form of stars move around me. It is a wonderful experience. I found great relief while reading bible. I felt like God is personally talking to me.
Based upon the findings of the Bible, at last I decided to surrender my life to Jesus. I wanted to invite Christ into my heart. I cried like a child, who lost his loving mother.“Jesus, come to my heart, forgive my sins, I believe you died for me”. I brought all my sins in front of Jesus and asked to forgive me. That day Jesus did not come to my heart. I did not feel any changes in me. The emptiness of my heart was not filled. I felt very sad. Again for few days I cried before Him and asked Him why you are not coming to my heart?
At last Holy Spirit revealed to me the reason. Still dirt was there in my heart. I had enmity with 3 people and I had some documents kept secretly with me as a future evidence against one person in case he creates any problem to me. God’s Holy Spirit revealed to me, this is not right. I met all the 3 guys and reconciled with them. And I destroyed that secret document also.
That night was a wonderful night in my life. Again I went back to Christ for surrender. I started crying before Lord. Tears started flowing into my cheeks continuously. I bawled like a baby. I cried like I’d never cried before in my life. I cried like a man whose heart has been broken and of course, that’s just what was happening.
When I finish all I felt a sudden release of tension, and burden from my body. My body became light. I felt like sailing in the atmosphere. My life melted down and transformed into a new creation. Peace entered. With a great relief I went to sleep. Within a minute I became unconscious. I don’t know what was happening to me. My lips started uttering a new language. I heard the sound of heavy wind blowing into my room. A light came towards me and touched my forehead. Immediately I got up from my vision. Yes, my surrender was complete. I experienced the Holy Spirit entering into my soul. Really it was astonishing.
Later I took baptism. Baptism is not only essential but it is also an outward expression of an internal change. It is commandment of God.
Now I am not afraid of death. Because my foundation is strong and confirmed. I am trying my best to be holy. God has brought me here in Middle East to discipline my self. He taught me so many lessons with various incidents.
Dear friend, just think where you will be if you die today. Is it possible to die and see? Thank God, Jesus is not yet come, and you are still alive. Take a decision right now. Today is the day of salvation. We don’t know what will happen tomorrow. Remember that our surrender should always be unconditional. Jesus will not enter into a heart if we keep something for us. Don’t keep condition to Christ to come to your heart.
My everything is Jesus. He is king of my heart. Always I think about Jesus. You can share with me your burdens. Are you blessed with this testimony? If so spread this testimony to others. Be a partaker in spreading the good news of salvation.
Yours in Christ
Simon
My testimony is that God has given me a great contry, a nice home, wonderful parents that aren't seperated, cloths on me and most of all friends. And even if I didn't have phisical freinds he has always been there for me. And for whoever reads this never give up on your faith and hhe will never let you down.
Amen
l testify to the glory of God.l wanted to come over to the state to join my husband after a year of been apart . l prayed and l ask God for his favour,and l went to the embassy and l was given a visa .lreally thank God because of his favour on me . despite all the ups and down and the battle with the devil and the enemies.