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My Testimony

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Where do I start. So much has happened in the past two years, I hope that by sharing this Im able to help someone who doesnt have the will to live or just someone who is going through a rough time. When I went through all this I never thought I would ever be happy or continue with my life.
Not too long ago I had the perfect life. Good job , extremely happy with bruce and my kids.Good home and enough cash to live on and so many friends. I considered myself christian even though I prayed when I felt like and only when we werent busy in our life did we attend church. My life was my family. Then he was shot and I felt like I was responsible and my whole world turned upside down. What was suppose to be a good evening turned out awful. He was shot on new years eve at ten to twelve. We took him to hospital and a few days later thought he was coming home when he fell into a coma.He was in a coma for fours days and died the fifth day. On the fourth day his doctor called me and told me he wont make it but there is something worse that he needed to tell me. The ill ness which I thought was Leukemia was actually HIV. I felt like all the time we shared together was a lie. I was hurt , betrayed and very saddened.I got tested and was negative.I left my job and couldnt have cared what happened to our belongings and with that family and friends took advantage of the situation and I ended up with nothing. I sent the kids to live with my mom and moved from our house. Three months later I tried killing myself. I that had never taken drugs before managed to get a hold of 50 exstacy pills, which is a street drug and took all 50 at the same time. I missed him so much and was so hurt by the lies. I found out his family knew and everybody lied to me. I realized how selfish Id been and prayed for forgiveness. As the months went by the money I had left finished, I was left with almost nothing.I didnt want to do the work I loved anymore and all I did was sit around and cry and wasnt meeting bills anymore.After a year I had gotten my life back on track was back doing the work I loved when an exgirlfriend of his told me she had HIV. A friend I met on My Space convinced me to get tested once I told him and I found out I was positive.This doesnt happen to me, it happens to people who have affairs and others not to someone who has been faithful. I couldnt deal with the lies. When I thought he had Leukemia he got so sick and I stood by him through out this why did he lie to me and endanger our health. So many questions, no answers. I decided to be open about my sickness and lots of people turned their backs on me, people I thought were very close to me.Part of me blamed God why is all this happening to me. It was then that I turned to God. I took my daughters back from my mom and without any income it was hard. They used of luxury and not, not having. They stayed with me without lights, one night we went to the church for food and that was the most humbling experience Ive been through. I drew so close to God and gave him total control. My lights were switched off again and I prayed for them to be turned back on and they were. I self destructed not in a sense of drinking or drugs but in that I just was always alone. I didnt want anyone around me. Financially I was suffering , no job - no money , and then one day I reached out to god and I will never forgetthe feeling I felt. Things didnt change overnight. I struggled for a while. I got the kids back with me and was unemployed and had to go to a church one day for dinner but the worse it became the more I reached out to God and today I am blessed with a good job and have my kids back. Sometimes I still hurt concerning the people who I say are from my former life and turned their backs on me but its at these times I turn to God. He is bigger then anything and there is no problem that he cant help wiht. All the pain that I go through I turn to him. Whatever decsion I need to make I ask him. I know whats important and it had to take me to lose all that was near and dear to me to realize that what I thought was important was not. I still hurt a lot today is one of those days but I know that Im not alone. No matter how big your situation or your problem remeber that God is always there. He has pulled through so much for me and yet I still let him down. I dont know what the future holds for me , Before I was big on planning things that has changed because in a period of three months I lost all and my life was turned around. The one thing that has remained the same is the Gods love for me its through this love that Im able to still be here. Provers 3.15 says " Trust int he Lord with all your heart and lean not onto your own understanding" I get depressed often but verses like these , prayer and people close to me, get through.Romans 8:28
 
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leanne708 said:
Sometiems I still hurt concerning the people who I say are from my former life and turned their backs on me but its at tehse times I turn to God. He is bigger then anything and there is no problem that he cant help wiht. All the pain that I go through I turn to him. Whatever decsion I need to make I ask him. I know whats important and it had to take me to lose all that was near and dear to me to realize that what I thought was important was not. I still hurt a lot today is one of those days but I know that Im not alone. God Bless you and remember there is nothing that God cant overcome.

Your testimony is beautiful. You are right; people hurt one another. Christians hurt other Christians. We are flesh, and we will never be perfect. Yet as you say, we are not alone in our struggle. God walks the darkest valleys with us. He brings us through the toughest trials. Even when it seems He does not care, He does. If we hold onto our faith in Him, we will overcome through His precious Son, Jesus. I thank God for your victory and your testimony.
 
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Leanne one thing you wrote on another thread was 'Is there anyone terminally ill' and showed a link to this, I've read it and am amazed with you Love. I am also terminally ill, but I have cancer, but can not yet manage to write all about it, the feelings of suicide, the desperation. I'm proud of you, I just wish I could talk to you.

God Bless you!

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leanne708 said:
Where do I start. So much has happened in the past two years, I hope that by sharing this Im able to help someone who doesnt have the will to live.
Exactly one year and a few months ago I had the perfect life. Good cushie job , extremely happy with my husband and kids.Good home and enough cash to live on and so many friends a close relationship with my inlaws. I considered myself christian even thoguh I prayed when I felt like and only when we werent busy in our life did we attend church. My life was my family. Then my my husband was shot and I felt like I was responsible and my whole world turned upside down. He was in a coma for fours days and died he fifth day. On the fourth day his doctor called me and told me he wont mkae it but there is something worse that he needed to tell me. The ill ness which I thought was Leukemia was actually HIV. I felt like all the years we shared together was a lie. I was hurt , betrayed and very saddened.Myself and the kids got tested and was negative.I left my job and couldnt have cared what happened to our belongings and with that family and friends took advantage of the situation and I ended up wiht nothing. I sent the kids to live with my mom and moved from our house. Three months later I tried killing myself I that had never taken drugs before managed to get a hold of 30 exstacy pills t which is a street drug and took all 30 at the same time. I missed him so much and was so hurt by the lies. I found out his fmaily knew and everybody lied to me. I was in a coma for two weeks and awoke to my daughters praying next to me. I realized how selfish Id been and prayed for forgiveness. After a few days of being in hospital the doctor told me I had HIV. This is three months after I lost what I thought was my world. This doesnt happen to me, it happens to people who have affairs and others not soemone who has been faithful to one person their entire life. I couldnt deal wiht the lies. When I thought he had Leukemia he got so sick I stood by him through out this why did he lie to me and endanger our health. So mnay questions no answers. I decided to be open about my sickness and his family only supported me if I kept it a secret to date the family I thought was my own no longer speak to me.Part of me blamed God why is all this happening to me. As the months went by the little cash I had left finished. I was left with nothing and no job. Not that i cared. And all I did was sit and mope and cry and be angry. My lights were cut and I couldnt find a job. I moved into an apartmen of family members and still couldnt meet bills and it was then thta I turned to God. I took my daughters back from my mom and without any income it was hard. They used of luxury and not not having. They stayed with me without lights, one night we went to the church for food and that was the most humbling experience Ive been through. I drew so close to God and gave him total control. My lights were switched off again and I prayed for them to be turned be\ack on and they were. To date I ahve no idea how.Leukemia was actually HIV. I felt like everything we based our lifes on was just a lie.Most of his family turned against me in my quest to be honest about the HIV and I was close to most of them so that hurt a lot. I lost my job gave up my home sent my kids to live with my mom and couldnt believe that in a space of two months evrything close to me was lost. I self destructed not in a sense of drinking or drugs but in that I just was always alone. I didnt want anyone around me. Financially I was suffering , no job - no money , and then one day I reached out to god and I will never forgetthe feeling I felt. Things didnt change overnight. I struggled for a while. I got the kids back with me and was unemployed and had to go to a church one day for dinner but the worse it became the more I reached out to God and today I am blessed with a good job and have my kids back. Sometiems I still hurt concerning the people who I say are from my former life and turned their backs on me but its at tehse times I turn to God. He is bigger then anything and there is no problem that he cant help wiht. All the pain that I go through I turn to him. Whatever decsion I need to make I ask him. I know whats important and it had to take me to lose all that was near and dear to me to realize that what I thought was important was not. I still hurt a lot today is one of those days but I know that Im not alone. God Bless you and remember there is nothing that God cant overcome.
 
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Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church. Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
(1 Corinthians 4:1-21)

May these words cleanse and refresh your mind.;) :thumbsup:
 
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Im-revived said:
Leanne one thing you wrote on another thread was 'Is there anyone terminally ill' and showed a link to this, I've read it and am amazed with you Love. I am also terminally ill, but I have cancer, but can not yet manage to write all about it, the feelings of suicide, the desperation. I'm proud of you, I just wish I could talk to you.

God Bless you!

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I will keep you in my prayers. We never know why things are the way they are but God always has a plan. God has a plan for you. I pray you have always have comfort in knowing that God's plan is always the right plan and his plan for you must be very special!

God Bless You!
 
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