Hey there, peeps in Christ!
I have been a believer for almost two years now, but I just got baptised on the 3rd of April 2005. Here is the actual testimony that I've read out to my church:
I came from Jakarta, Indonesia, and I grew up with my Chinese Buddhist family as I went to a Catholic school. As much as I lived in a culture that embraces many ways that will lead to one truth, I happen to fell in love with the god of the bible.
I fell in love with the god who gave Moses the power to divide the red sea and to David the power to slay a giant with a sling. As I pray, I call out to Our Father in heaven.
Unfortunately I grew bitter and confused in my early youth as Ive been misunderstood and mistreated by people around me, including my own family. I decided to put all the blame on god and spent my teenage years in decadence and withdrawal.
But the god who delivered Noah from the big flood also delivered me from one of the darkest periods in Indonesian history. In May 1998, a massive uprising broke out in Jakarta. My family was fortunate enough to be able to escape to Malaysia after having two shops burnt down. I then spent the next year and a half in Kuala Lumpur, feeling even more withdrawn from reality and attracted even more misunderstanding from people. I realized that Ive wandered too far from God, and vowed to find ways to fix our relationship.
I then moved to Melbourne in January 2000, and my spiritual journey here was filled with many twists and turns, until I find out that Ive been missing the key to the relationship in the first place. Ive known the father god, but I did not necessarily believe in his son. Jesus the son of god said, I am the way and the truth, no one comes to the father except through me. It was two years later where I decided invite Jesus Christ to be the Lord of my everyhing. From that point on my life had undergone gradual yet radical transformation, as I grow more and more in my newfound faith.
Nonetheless, as I entered first year university I started walking away from the relationship once again. Yet the Lord is faithful and delivered me from an accident that might have had robbed me of my joy of salvation. While innocently joining a bible study service provided by some overseas missionaries, I stumbled upon a dangerous Christian cult without realizing. In some bizarre turn of fate, I ended up going to South Korea to attend their retreat services, only to witness demonic spiritual activities happening all around me. I survived the experience, but I lost so much of faith and trust in the Lord. It was then through John 6:29 the Lord told me that ALL I need to do is to believe in the son. I decided to accept the bible as my true and final authority, and my life continued to be healed and changed by his mighty hands to this very day.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil:
For thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies;
Thou annointest my head with oil; My cup runneth over.
I have been a believer for almost two years now, but I just got baptised on the 3rd of April 2005. Here is the actual testimony that I've read out to my church:
I came from Jakarta, Indonesia, and I grew up with my Chinese Buddhist family as I went to a Catholic school. As much as I lived in a culture that embraces many ways that will lead to one truth, I happen to fell in love with the god of the bible.
I fell in love with the god who gave Moses the power to divide the red sea and to David the power to slay a giant with a sling. As I pray, I call out to Our Father in heaven.
Unfortunately I grew bitter and confused in my early youth as Ive been misunderstood and mistreated by people around me, including my own family. I decided to put all the blame on god and spent my teenage years in decadence and withdrawal.
But the god who delivered Noah from the big flood also delivered me from one of the darkest periods in Indonesian history. In May 1998, a massive uprising broke out in Jakarta. My family was fortunate enough to be able to escape to Malaysia after having two shops burnt down. I then spent the next year and a half in Kuala Lumpur, feeling even more withdrawn from reality and attracted even more misunderstanding from people. I realized that Ive wandered too far from God, and vowed to find ways to fix our relationship.
I then moved to Melbourne in January 2000, and my spiritual journey here was filled with many twists and turns, until I find out that Ive been missing the key to the relationship in the first place. Ive known the father god, but I did not necessarily believe in his son. Jesus the son of god said, I am the way and the truth, no one comes to the father except through me. It was two years later where I decided invite Jesus Christ to be the Lord of my everyhing. From that point on my life had undergone gradual yet radical transformation, as I grow more and more in my newfound faith.
Nonetheless, as I entered first year university I started walking away from the relationship once again. Yet the Lord is faithful and delivered me from an accident that might have had robbed me of my joy of salvation. While innocently joining a bible study service provided by some overseas missionaries, I stumbled upon a dangerous Christian cult without realizing. In some bizarre turn of fate, I ended up going to South Korea to attend their retreat services, only to witness demonic spiritual activities happening all around me. I survived the experience, but I lost so much of faith and trust in the Lord. It was then through John 6:29 the Lord told me that ALL I need to do is to believe in the son. I decided to accept the bible as my true and final authority, and my life continued to be healed and changed by his mighty hands to this very day.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil:
For thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies;
Thou annointest my head with oil; My cup runneth over.