I would like to share with you the testimonies that my readers have shared with me and wanted to share with you. These are stories of struggle and triumph and the love of our Lord. All share one thing in common and that is that they have come to Jesus Christ and have found the love that He offers all of us, completely and unconditionally.
I hope you will be blessed with these stories and if you would like to share your testimony please sumbit it in the small form below or send me an email.
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About ten years ago, I was not a Christian and I did not even know the true meaning of becoming a
Christian. My husband of twenty some years passed away. I had been raised Catholic, but had fallen
away from the church. I was not attending church; saw no real reason to start back. Until struggling
with the loss of my husband, my next door neighbors invited me to a Gospel Singing at their church.
I really said that I would go but kept trying to figure a way out of the commitment without lying.
Well since I couldn't come up with a good reason, I went and Betty Jean Robinson was singing that
night. The people of the church greeted me with such warmth and love that I kept going back and two
weeks later I accepted Jesus in my heart and have never been the same since.
Four years after the death of my husband, I remarried a Christian man that attended the same church.
I was pregnant and I miscarried and lost the baby. One day a couple of years later I came home from
work and found a note from my husband. He had just walked away from our marriage and he had
credit cards that I did not know about and they were in my name which he proceeded to run up. The
Lord brought me through the divorce and protected me from the evil that my ex had planned. God is
so faithful. Then last year on June 18th, 1999, I lost my job after twenty five years of employment. The
factory closed due to bankruptcy. On June 2l, three days later I fell and broke my ankle so badly it
had to have a plate and screws put in to hold it together. I have not worked for almost 1 year and I am
completely debt free. Praise God.
I am going to Vocational School adult education classes to learn computers with hope that I will get a job.
My schooling is being paid for. I am so blessed and cared for. He is faithful in all areas; His word is true.
His word says to count it all joy when trials and tribulations come our way. That is very hard to do
sometimes and I wish I could say that I do. I once read that "our adversities are God's universities." The
adversities in my life have caused me to have to rely and trust more completely in His provision and care.
I love Him with all my heart, and sometimes I stray from His path, but He is always waiting for me to
return to His open arms.
If you, the reader of this testimony do not have Jesus in your heart, please make a decision to invite
Him in your heart today.
Praying that you Know Jesus as your personal Savior, because if you do I know that I will meet you
in the Hereafter!
God Bless You,
Karen Diane White
Hi, My name is Kimberly. I am 23 years. I came to know The Lord Jesus Christ as My Lord and Saviour when I was 17 years. I was getting ready to have back surgery. I was having terrible pain in my back. I was getting to the place where I didn't want to live anymore. I wasn't even thinking about committing suicide. But it wasn't getting closer to my surgery, and I realized what would happen to me if I done that. So on January 11th 1994 The Lord Jesus Christ came into my life. He is the best thing that ever happened to me. I would recommend Him to anybody.
God Bless You
Kimberly
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My name is Julie Harrell and I am 22 years old and live in St. Louis, Missouri.
I am going to share a short testimony with you. I was raised by a atheist stepfather
and a not so sure what she believed mother. I did not grow up with Christian
values at all.
My stepfather thinks people use religion as an excuse to get by with things.
My parents were loving, but never gave me the Christian influences I needed.
Luckily, my grandmother and a few caring neighbors took us kids to church
with them on a regular basis starting when I was about eight.
Before that, I had not heard much about God, but for some reason I always
knew He was there. I couldn't believe that there was just no such thing as God.
When I was 11 years old my family and I moved half-way across the
country from Oklahoma to North Carolina. There I met my friend Cindy
and her mom who were good Christians and took me to church with them.
I had never felt more at home or welcome by people than I did at that little
Baptist Church at that time. I attended the church regularly for about three years.
At that time, I thought the key to Heaven was going to church every Sunday. I didn't
understand about being born again.
When I got to high school there was an organization called Fellowship
of Christen Athletes at my school. I started going to that every week.
And in April of 1993 I finally realized what I had to do to receive salvation and
I accepted Jesus into my heart. I was really excited. A year after that my twin brother
accepted Jesus too. I was a devoted Christian all through high school, but
after high school I got involved with some bad people and strayed away from God.
I got involved in sex, drinking, and lots of other sin. Then I moved from North Carolina
to St. Louis to escape all my temptations and try to get back right with God again,
but when I moved here I ended up finding some wrong crowds again and continued to backslide.
I did this for close to three years. I didn't attend church or anything. Then in April of 1999
I started going to church with a friend and started to realize how much I missed God.
I felt ashamed at the things I had done. I started getting back into church and in
October of 1999 at the Billy Graham Crusade, I completely rededicated my life back to Jesus.
I was baptized in December because I had never been baptized as a teenager.
Now I am once again a servant to God. I have stopped all of my sinful things and am trying
to live the life God wants for me. It is the greatest thing.
I believe now that I am stronger in my faith than ever before.
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John 8:32,36 "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed."
Some construction workers left a heap of trash, a seed had fallen into a crevice, and out of the rubbish grew a flower. Who can make a miracle happen in a pile of rubbish? Who can make a trash heap come alive with beauty? The only possible answer is that this was the works of a Supreme Creator. The Lord Jesus Christ. My life was
like that heap of trash, that pile of rubbish for many years. I started out life with parents who did not want me and who put me up for adoption. I was adopted at age two and grew up as an only child. I had everything life could offer materially but I never felt loved. I believe this was due to the fact that my parents gave me everything
in an effort to buy my love. There was however a lack of discipline in my life and I began to think nobody cared.
As I approached my teen years I began to rebel against my home situation, school, and society. I went around with the wrong crowd and eventually began trying different drugs. The first drug was hash and very quickly I began getting into trouble.
My parents felt they could not handle me and contacted our family doctor who took charge its seems. He began to give me pills that made me feel wonderful and like I was in a different world. I had no cares while on these pills and did not realize that they would lead me into a life of addiction. I trusted this physician as anyone would and kept
going back to him. Each time he would give me more pills until I could not live without them.
Some of the drugs I was on were valium and barbiturates. It got to the point that to function I had to take pills morning , noon , and night. Without them I became very ill. With cramps, nausea very spaced out etc.
Twice, I went to the teen challenge center in New York for treatment but left both times. I was not ready for the help they offered or the discipline. I wanted both worlds help and the drugs. This of course did not work. You can only receive freedom from addiction when you are willing and want help. I had not reached that point of extremity in my life yet to gain by any help offered.
To make a long story short, after about 27 years of a life on drugs, I did reach that point of extremity in my life. I had gotten married and have two sons. In the fall of 1979 after having taken too many drugs that became toxic to my system I went on a crime spree. This ended me up in court facing nine charges. After a plea bargain five were dropped and I received time in prison for the other four. One was for attempted armed robbery. I was a first offender and therefore received a short sentence.
While in prison I felt life had come to an end. My family did visit me including my two teen-age boys. This was very difficult for them and for me as well I remember my youngest asking me if I was okay. He was concerned I would get hurt there. I had finally reached that place in my life where I knew I had to have help or life was over. A Baptist minister visited me weekly and counseled me and did Bible study with me. He helped me see my need of the Lord in my life.
One day in my prison cell I asked Jesus to come into my life. I remember praying this prayer, "Lord there is not much left of me, but what there is you can have. Come into my heart and save me. Forgive me of my sins
and free me from my addiction." Immediately, I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit engulf my entire being and I knew that moment Jesus had saved me and set me free. Praise His wonderful name. Tears streamed down my
face as I realized what Jesus had done.
When I was released from prison I knew God had a ministry for me. I had felt his call in my life while still in prison to help those in conflict with the law. However I attended much counseling for the first year. After a time of proving in my life God began to open up doors of ministry and I became a court worker and parole supervisor for the Salvation Army Correctional Services in my hometown. I had received a pardon from the government of Canada and I began to visit the same prison I had been in and to counsel inmates and their families. God gave me favor and blessed me.
I have experienced freedom from drugs in my life ever since. I am now a student of a Bible college and I know God has much more in store for me.
If you are out there and you do not know which way to turn, with your life going no where and you feel helpless, lonely and desperate, then turn your life over to Jesus. He can and will set you free from drugs or anything else that may have you bound. He will give you the same hope that he gave to me. He will give you something worth living for. If I can be of any help to you please contact me and I will, with God's help do all I can to help you find the Savior that I have learned to love and serve. In summation I leave this verse of Scripture with you found in
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
Also there is a story told of a man named Peter Miller who lived in Pennsylvania and Peter had a neighbor in the American Army who was in deep trouble. As a soldier, he had committed a crime and was facing a court martial. General George Washington, who later became president of the United States, was to preside. When Peter heard of this, he waded through snow for 60 miles and pleaded that the General extend mercy to his neighbor. The General was moved by the plea and said, "I'll see what I can do for you friend." Peter Miller replied," "Oh,
he is not my friend, he's my worst enemy." That is the way of love. God loves us far more than Peter loved his neighbor. The God who gave Peter love can also find a way to repair our broken relationship with Him. He wants to save us, to free us form sin. When I found Jesus Christ as my Savior in a prison cell I experienced the greatest
miracle of God's love, the gift of his salvation and my life became a brand new one. I had freedom within my soul; a freedom in Christ that I experienced and that is so real today. What will you do with Jesus? Will you obey Him or reject him? What will you answer be? I hope you will choose to experience God'' miracle of love. God bless.
Phyllis Corbin
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========================================================== This is about how one day God pulled me out of the pit of hell. It all began when I met crack-cocaine, which was the worst enemy I could have ever imagined having. Of course at first I enjoyed the high it gave me and it was kind of like giving me the attention I thought would cover up the emotional pain I'd gone through when the father of my
son had left him and I.
But as time went on, my drug problem grew much worse. Each time I went off to get high, it was much worse than the first one. It made me do things that I didn't want to do. It was controlling me because the temptation was so strong, that the drug became more important than my own family and friends. It was the enemy who had control over my mind, body, and soul at the time.
The enemy is nothing but a liar. He's only out there to destroy people's lives. My prayer goes out to all of those still sick and suffering addicts who are being tormented by this disease we call "ADDICTS." I always keep in mind of those I use to hang around with, praying for them and believing that God has snatched them out of the pit of
hell, like He did for me.
I can't sit here and blame all of this on the enemy because I believe that God gives us choices to make regardless of whether or not we know what His word says. Because even when I became a Christian and started listening and reading about what God says about idolatry and about having other God's before Him, I still would go out and pick up again. I believe with the experience of almost losing my family and spending three months in jail woke me up and opened my eyes up to exactly what was going to happen if I didn't start living up to God's standards. The emotional strain I put on my family and on myself made me realize that I just couldn't do whatever I wanted to because God set before me people who loved me. He doesn't like it when we hurt His children, so I had to choose whether I
wanted to live a Godly, wholesome life or a life of pain and suffering. I chose to press on and to give my all to God and completely and totally surrender all of what the enemy had placed in!
My life. I had to come to God in repentance and lay all of my trials and sufferings on the cross. God has brought me through so much. I know that He has a big purpose for my life because if He didn't, He wouldn't have allowed me to go through what I did to get where I'm at today. He would have allowed for that black male who was pointing a gun in my face at point blank to kill me. I believe God steps in and rescues us from alot of bad things happening to us because not only does He have a plan for our lives, but because He wants us to learn from our mistakes and bring everything into His kingdom, so He can mold us into His likeness.
Well, I'm going to go for now. I hope you've enjoyed my story. I sure did enjoy telling it to you. I pray that this story gets out there and that it will touch lives. God is an awesome God! If He can pull me out of the pit of hell I was once in, He can pull anybody out of the pit they're in. May God Bless and All Glory and Honor Be To OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN! Peace be to you and yours. Have a great evening and a great day tomorrow. Remember, wherever you are, God is right there with you. You don't have to be afraid because God will restore and refresh your soul; just draw close to Him
Anonymous
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My Personal Testimony:
I came to know of Jesus in my early teens as I spent the summer working with a youth pastor's wife. Life quickly got away from me and not only took control of me it also caused me to lose my communication with God. I would go to church on Easter or Christmas, but after a while I even stopped doing that. I actually lost sight to what these important days meant other than Jesus was born, died and resurrected for me.
Then in 2004 I was going through a lot of things, I was engaged to a man that was in prison, about to get laid off from my job, just had my house foreclosed, lost my car, and was now living at home with my mom. I was gaining weight like crazy and the more I tried to take it off the more I gained, I became severely depressed and unhealthy. This once independent woman was losing everything she had including that independance. I hated who I was and tried everything to make myself look and feel better only to make things worse the more I tried.
Then in June I decided to quit my job since we only had a month left to work there and for the first time in about 10 years I walked into a church. I immediately felt God's presence and it was the best I had felt in years. I started attending church regularly, but I was still fighting with my issues on my own and not putting my trust in God.
Then on July 10, 2004 I overdosed on diet supplements and as I laid in my bed hardly able to move and in so much pain He spoke to me and said "Everything is going to be ok, now get yourself together!" Right then and there I asked Jesus to forgive me, said asked Him to come back into my heart.
It has not been all easy, things had gotten a lot worse, in fact for about a year all I had were trials. However, during that time God introduced me to the book of Job, I read that entire book that day and knew that everything was going to work out.
Today, I belong to a wonderful church, Central Fellowship Baptist and much of my time is spent there. I am there every chance I can get and we even go into the community and go soul winning.
I have learned so many things, I now know that Jesus died for me to save me from all my sins and that no matter what happens I will enjoy enternal life with Him.
I know that it is much harder to sin, because He is always letting me know before and immediately after it happens. I know that I receive so many blessings from Him and that I want everyone to know what He can do for them too.
In the past two years I took online courses and learned so many wonderful natural healing therapies, like aromatherapy, relaxation therapy, stress management, and nutritional therapy.
I am self employed and even though business is not as profitable as I would like I know that God has plans for me and when I am ready I am going to be so busy that I am going to begging for a day off.
I also got rid of the fiance almost, he still calls me and tries to win his way back into my life, but I am improving on that. I am healthier than I have been in a few years and finally beginning to lose the weight that I have gained.
Every morning I wake and Thank the Lord for giving me another day, I say a prayer for those I have met along the way and even those who I do not know then start my day. I take at least fifteen minutes each morning, afternoon, and evening to read a chapter in the Bible.
I thank Him for every thing I eat and drink and if I forget, God is sure to stop me before I take that bite or sip. I thank Him for every client, every successful workout at the gym. I take at least 30 minutes in the morning when I know that I can be alone with God and just talk to Him and reach out to Him, thanking Him for everything that He has blessed me with, including the not so great things for I know that with the bad comes the good.
I also have online support groups to introduce people to God who are dealing with health issues and how by putting Him first we can be healed. I get daily Bible study messages in my emails (KJV) and personalize them so that all can understand and get into His Word. I submit that to my support group and several blogs on a daily basis reaching at least 500 people a day so far and spreading the Gospel along with it. I have lead several of these people to the Lord with these messages.
Praise the Lord! Without Him I am empty and void and so lost. Thank You, Jesus for saving me and continuing to use me to be a blessing and a guide to those who are lost and have fell away from you. I know if You can revive this soul that was lost, You can revive all lost souls.
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