Since the age of 5 i sort of grew up in a few different churchs. I gave my life to god at the age of 8, but i dont think I knew what I was actually doing. Then my parents moved from the church we had been at to start a church in a country town. We were there for 3 1/2 yrs before my dad got a job as a minister which ah re-hab organisation in 1998. Which is how I got to my current church.
For a while it was going quite well untill 2000 when 2 of my grandparents died within 12 days of each other. About a yr later my parents seperated. It took them 6 months for them to get the divorce. So mid 2001 the divorced and me and my sister began to live with my mum. Everything seemed to be going well for a while.
In 2002 I went to live with my Dad. And we went Church hunting and he couldn't find a church anywhere. So he stopped looking. I ended up going to a Youth confrence in 2003 at Adelaide in Australia, and I felt a burning desire in my heart. It was probably the best confrece i had been to. After the confrence, for some strange reason, i stopped going to church and youth all together. I lost contact with my friends. 2003 Started off with me just not going to church or youth, but as the yr grew on, my mum was begining to attempt to commit suicide. As I was finding out about this, I started to smoke, drink, swear and do other things which i wont mention. I felt depressed alot and was on the edge of commiting suicide myself. I didnt care about life at all. As the yr was drawing to an end me and a mate of mine decided we would start a cult of our own.
In 2004 I finally came into contact with a friend of mine from youth. He invited me to come again, I was a bit hesitant, but I went. That was probably the night that, as i think about it, saved my life. I went and as I saw everyone again, i found the love of christian fellowship, and found the love that God gives. It was the night that I gave my life back to christ, but it was a night that started me on the right path again. Then i went to a Youth camp early on in 2004, and that was that camp know was going to change my life for ever. There was one night were the preacher went into prophetic callings in everyones life. I didnt get one, instead i had a scripture place in my heart as i was crying out for God. It was something that spook to me deeply. It spook of how Saul rebeled against the word of God, and how when he did this he was stripped of his position. And it made me think of what I had been doing, and that I was ment to do something in my school.
Through out all of that yr I had been growing closer to God with each step of faith i took. I was in the youth band, coming in early on fridays after school to set up. At the end of last yr i quite my second last yr and decided that this yr i would come to church through most of the week to help out in the office. I have continued to do this all year. And i thank God for the friendships that have grown, and for the blessings that are on my life, and I thank God especially for this close friend of mine that took that first step to bringing me back to Christ.
This isn't part of my testimony, but I want to say that the greatest thing you could show to a none-christian is love and support. I know that for me when I had my life impacted, I started to impact my world, think of it like the Pay It Forward theory. You may not see any effect on someone that you have been trying to get to christ, but from all the effort that you have put in, know that you have planted a seed in there lives, and all though you might not see it someone else might be watering that seed in ther lives.
Know this that sometimes the smallest things that you do for people can make more of a differance in their lives then something of the magnatude of a christian concert. so dont be discouraged when you see people around you doing huge things. Because the gift that good may have given you may not have been, preaching, or the gift of organisation. i no that i dont have either of those, for me it is the gift of a servant heart.
For a while it was going quite well untill 2000 when 2 of my grandparents died within 12 days of each other. About a yr later my parents seperated. It took them 6 months for them to get the divorce. So mid 2001 the divorced and me and my sister began to live with my mum. Everything seemed to be going well for a while.
In 2002 I went to live with my Dad. And we went Church hunting and he couldn't find a church anywhere. So he stopped looking. I ended up going to a Youth confrence in 2003 at Adelaide in Australia, and I felt a burning desire in my heart. It was probably the best confrece i had been to. After the confrence, for some strange reason, i stopped going to church and youth all together. I lost contact with my friends. 2003 Started off with me just not going to church or youth, but as the yr grew on, my mum was begining to attempt to commit suicide. As I was finding out about this, I started to smoke, drink, swear and do other things which i wont mention. I felt depressed alot and was on the edge of commiting suicide myself. I didnt care about life at all. As the yr was drawing to an end me and a mate of mine decided we would start a cult of our own.
In 2004 I finally came into contact with a friend of mine from youth. He invited me to come again, I was a bit hesitant, but I went. That was probably the night that, as i think about it, saved my life. I went and as I saw everyone again, i found the love of christian fellowship, and found the love that God gives. It was the night that I gave my life back to christ, but it was a night that started me on the right path again. Then i went to a Youth camp early on in 2004, and that was that camp know was going to change my life for ever. There was one night were the preacher went into prophetic callings in everyones life. I didnt get one, instead i had a scripture place in my heart as i was crying out for God. It was something that spook to me deeply. It spook of how Saul rebeled against the word of God, and how when he did this he was stripped of his position. And it made me think of what I had been doing, and that I was ment to do something in my school.
Through out all of that yr I had been growing closer to God with each step of faith i took. I was in the youth band, coming in early on fridays after school to set up. At the end of last yr i quite my second last yr and decided that this yr i would come to church through most of the week to help out in the office. I have continued to do this all year. And i thank God for the friendships that have grown, and for the blessings that are on my life, and I thank God especially for this close friend of mine that took that first step to bringing me back to Christ.
This isn't part of my testimony, but I want to say that the greatest thing you could show to a none-christian is love and support. I know that for me when I had my life impacted, I started to impact my world, think of it like the Pay It Forward theory. You may not see any effect on someone that you have been trying to get to christ, but from all the effort that you have put in, know that you have planted a seed in there lives, and all though you might not see it someone else might be watering that seed in ther lives.
Know this that sometimes the smallest things that you do for people can make more of a differance in their lives then something of the magnatude of a christian concert. so dont be discouraged when you see people around you doing huge things. Because the gift that good may have given you may not have been, preaching, or the gift of organisation. i no that i dont have either of those, for me it is the gift of a servant heart.
