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iannassah

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Hello there!:wave:
This is my testimony....

i grew up going to church--almost every Sunday & Wednesday for about 13 years. i thought that i was a Christian & i thought that i was a "good" :angel: person. i read through The New Testament once then here and there. i thought i knew what i was supposed to do.
Not long after i was married, my husband told me that there were contradictions in The BIble & convinced me that there was one contradiction in The Bible. He showed me a small part of a story that didn't seem to add up. What faith i did have was shattered. i'd thought that i had the truth but now i was lost & determined to find the truth. Needless to say i tried many different things like astrology, tarot, past live stuff, witchcraft, numerology...many many other things until satanism (self-worship). My husband i were both into satanism...for awhlle. To make the story short he had never touched The Bible & didn't want to. He became very disgusted & angry whenever i talked about Jesus & wanted nothing to do with Him:mad: ---one day (about 6 years into married life) he started quoting scripture; saying things that were not a part of his vocabulary & certainly not a part of his character. He told me to get my Bible (which i had acquired, again, in my spiritual search) and it turned out that he had just quoted scripture. Then he started saying other things that were foreign to my ears (coming from him)....i had a choice to believe right then or not... you know what i chose:bow: !!!
After that i read the part in The Bible that i had believed to be a contradiction--but this time i read the whole story---nothing was missing or contradicting itself !!! i read more and more of The Bible and all the things that i had learned from false religions & teachings suddenly were exposed for what they were... L-I-E-S!!!

Jesus is not a vegetarian::amen:

"So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb, And He took it and ate in their presence."
Luke 24:42 & 43 .
We cannot earn our way to heaven, or meditate our way there... have you ever heard of someone actually doing that:idea: ...any real life documentation?--- Try reading the book of Romans, it's all about salvation.
--Buddhism talks about love but doesn't teach about it!

Human wisdom is just that---"human" & flawed, and most of the time it doesn't make sense!!!
Any plans that i've ever made have never worked out the way i though it would, so how can i make magic work:doh: ---how 'bout you? The bad guys want us to think that we have power or that we can obtain it. It isn't theirs to give so they can't give it! It reminds me of when the bad guy offered Jesus "all the kindoms of the world and their glory" Matthew 4:8 God created the heavens and the earth and everything belongs to Him so what in the world is satan doing? who is he to try to give what is not his!?!:confused:
since Jesus came into our lives i really started to think about the 10 commandments. I put myself in the place of the person that would have been sinned against.... imagining what it would be like if others didn't love me:cry: , respect me, someone telling me that they would do something with a promise or oath and not do it, going to work & never having a break or a day off:help: , knowing that someone that i loved dearly being brutally murdered, someone sleeping with my husband, someone stealing from me, my husband lusting after another woman... Sheez!!! No wonder this world is messed up!!! :tutu: No wonder people have mental problems, depression :( , trust issues etc.... i could probably go on for days!!! God gave us rules, that aren't meant to be broken---for good reason!!! We have rebelled against God by disobeying his laws and He only has our best interest in His heart for us!!! :clap:

Eventually The LORD showed me that that "I" was the cause of my own problems :swoon: -- it was "my" choices that landed me in bad situations & caused me to lose everything over and over and over & become so messed up, but God in His grace refused to leave me that way!!! i was so numb & dead inside....i wanted to die so many times. Even still, i wanted love & i wanted to see love so very badly & i knew that it was there but i just couldn't see it. God heard my heart & opened my eyes to see love--His Love....through my husband, parents, sister and others.... love is the truth!!! And God is Love!!! Not worldly love----God's love is unconditional !!! He has saved me & you & everyone!!! But---here's the deal, He's not going to "make" you or anyone love Him... that's up to you & he will never turn you away--- No matter how big of a mess that you've made!!! The bad guy will try to tell you that God doesn't care, why would He listen to you or look at what you've done... basically the bad guy will make you feel like trash!!! The serpent will do anything to keep you from The One who loves you so much that He would die for you... in your place, taking on your guilt, shame & punishment so that you could be free from those things that weigh you down.... He freely offers what we can never do which is save ourselves & change ourselves-- He is a gentleman, He has given an offer & will leave it up to you to choose... all you have to do is accept it!!! And He is wanting & waiting to hear from you!!! :thumbsup:
 
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This is a beautiful testimony. I rejoice and glory in what God did in your life. It is our choice, but He wooo's us like the person who loves us so much!

Keep studying, keep reading. Make prayer part of the very core of your being. The first place you go, in challenge, or in happiness. Search the scripture deeper and deeper. Seek God's face.

Praise God!
In love and service,
Ron
 
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