I Survived

[PhileoBildad]

I thought it might be neat to get a thread going where we can all post our VARIOUS life experiences, ones where we questioned how we would ever make it through, and God has prevailed and helped us survive. Some may be more pain filled than others, but God has brought us all through every type of situation. Life is not usually rainbows and butterflies, but there is still much to be joyful for.

Let us encourage each other with our testimonies of what God has done and give Him praise.

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I survived a year and a half of moving around the country, living alone, and working myself into sickness to pursue a degree in a field that I never wanted to be apart of, all to follow what I believed to be the Lord's leading which escalated into a year of questioning the character and purpose of God Himself and recognizing my self made weak faith. I learned that while my life may not resemble what I ever wanted it to be and may never, I would never choose my own way over His, because then I would truly, truly have nothing.

Last month I graduated, marking the end to the most grueling year of my life (so far) and also a year that shattered my faith forcing me to ask the HARD questions that I had always swept under the carpet. Here's to rebuilding from the ground up and just loving Jesus.

I survived because He rescued me.

What about you?

 

[RobertMerton]

Praise God!

 

[Mrs. Luther073082]

I survived Lyme disease at the age of 6. I survived a serious car wreck in 2003. I survived a drug reaction that resulted in me being hospitalized for like two weeks in 2005.

 

[hiTy5]

I moved to a new city to begin a business career in a company I felt I was made for. This is my time I thought, my skills, my background, everything puts me here and I am going to evangelise this company - ...it has a good/pure service and it just needs to focus on that and none of the other stuff - its close, but ill help clean it........
1 year later...
whatever character I had previously....lost
whatever leisure i enjoyed.....lost
the more i tried to push through the gospel, the 'dirtier' and bigger the company got
the company became my life
i was down
i havent got back up yet, but i can see where i was wrong
im still down over a few things which i shouldnt be
im still in that company and i dont have time for a complete change of attitude
i heard a sermon about how God restores - with His restoration beyond the literal meaning of bringing back to its original condition, but He mends and improves if you allow Him to with your belief - the pastor spoke of when Jesus couldnt do much miracles in a city due to their lack of belief - the pastor concluded that if we allow God to take full control of a situation and believe that He can do something great from here, we could see a miracle with our lives...
i really felt that sermon yesterday - although today i was on the internet googling at top speed trying to get myself out of the hole ive dug for myself, in vain....telling myself i cant just sit and wait, i have to do something....new information comes in, overload, still in the same position....

 

[redeemedbygrace24]

Amen, for this testimonial thread.

I survived years of childhood abuse and I've recently survived depression. The Lord is very faithful, and ALL the Glory goes to him

 

[mandelduke]

I have been shot stabbed hung and left for dead, but here I am.

 

[PhileoBildad]

Beautiful stories, everyone. Thank you for sharing your heart!

To those who who haven't posted, don't be afraid! They dont have to be near death experiences or sweeping acts of trying heroics, just a time or situation where you wondered who you would make it through.

Like with my financial struggles now! I have become to have dreams about finding ways to get money any way I can just because I have been so worried about the little bit of money that I have and the ever little amount that I am bringing in. Its depressing. Ive decided just this last week to trust. Though its frustrating, I trust. He has always cared for me and always will. Today is no different than yesterday.

Share with us! Encourage one another.

 

[morethanenough06]

One of my biggest fears in life was watching someone I loved suffer in pain. Sure enough, I was forced to face that fear in 2006 when my husband was diagnosed with cancer. He was a strong, very stubborn man, but I told him from the start that he was going to have to let me take care of him and dote on him if need be! Watching him in pain was the hardest part for me, and I made sure the doctors kept on top of that. His pain tolerance was incredible, but I struggled with having to watch him suffer. Possibly harder than that, was watching a young, strong father deteriorate and age before my eyes. His weight dropped from 175 lean, healthy pounds, to about 100 pounds. He had no strength, little ability to care for himself, but a resolve like no one I've ever seen. It was, of course one of the hardest things I've faced, but my faith blossomed during that time and hasn't been the same since. One of the hardest times of life became the sweetest season I've lived through. God truly carried me, carried my husband, and shone through him as a testimony of his incredible faithfulness and love. I wouldn't trade away that time for anything.

I have many, many more stories I could tell of God's incredible miracles in my life!