Question for all!

[plum]

What one point in your testimony do you lways find yourself telling each time? Is it that decision moment? Is it the coming-to-Christ story? Is it a person who had an influence in your life? Is it a past sin that kept you down? What common themes always appear in your story when you tell it to others?

keep telling that good news, everyone!! Praise G-d!

 

[destinyhope]

i would have say that i tell people what my life was like before i became a christian and the changes that god has and is making in my life.

 

[suzybeezy]

I agree with destinyhope. Just trying to convey what my life was like before and the astonishment and how amazing God is and the wonderful things he's done for me. I think so many times that testimonies seem unbelievable and I always try to convey just how real the experience is and try to get them to see the process God took me through.

 

[PiousPelican]

like they said, I generally get in the transition between what my life before was like, and how God changed it all. It feels kinda like a Cinderella story sometimes, I was living a dirty, depressing existance, a slave to the world, and the God showed up, dressed me up all pretty and made me a princess.

 

[izlovely2Him]

What one point in your testimony do you lways find yourself telling each time? Is it that decision moment? Is it the coming-to-Christ story? Is it a person who had an influence in your life? Is it a past sin that kept you down? What common themes always appear in your story when you tell it to others?

keep telling that good news, everyone!! Praise G-d!

I would have to say, it's my painful past which includes hardship after hardship. We have such an awsome God!! Because through Him, He makes us new and life gets better walking with Him in our lives. Praise the Lord! "Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless, for he will surely get nothing in return" Job 15:31

 

[tapero]

When I tell my testimony to believers I always say how I came to Christ thru a funeral service, so that they will know how important a funeral service can be.

To nonbelievers I too tell of how different my life was before and after coming to Christ.

 

[jacquidube]

I always go back to the time I heard God speak to me when I was 9 years old and didnt know Jesus until I was 30 years old. God looked after me all those years.

 

[eternal_flame_1988]

I always talk about what led me to my decision to become a Christian. How God led me to Him.

 

[jer2911]

I always talk about how God reassured me that His grace is enough for me and that it's not too late to accept Jesus.
I always think of what I want to say - what I did in the past, how bad it was, how much I've changed etc, but somehow never get to that part. Maybe it's cause God wants the glory. After all only He deserves it!

 

[whatseekye]

I always go back to the time I heard God speak to me when I was 9 years old and didnt know Jesus until I was 30 years old. God looked after me all those years.

Praise God! That's a wonderful testimony. I wouldn't think to say that even though something similar happened to me (not hearing His voice but also being called so young and then falling away until age 30).

 

[AdJesumPerMariam]

You know, it was my diagnosis of cancer that got me really looking at where I was in my life.

 

[Immanuel]

Hi there, that is a very good question. I looked up dictionary.com and it says "Witness or evidence "

So I guess for a testimony is your witnessing God.
For every testimony you tell, you really have to ask yourself what your purpose is for when you tell it.

1. If it is a general testimony, then you might want to state how you were before Jesus, how you accepted him, and how you were after Jesus. (What changed before and after Jesus)

2. If it is a testimony in trying to witness to your friend, then you will have to find something that relates to them. It could be recent or how you came to know Christ.

3. If it is a testimony for encouragement, then you might want to bring up something that God has done for you recently.

So for me, this is what I do. For the believers, I normally share about what God has been doing in my life and is doing. For the unbelievers, I share about how I was before I met Jesus and how I am after Jesus. But I try to emphasis the change. But one thing I always tend to tell people is how God is always calling me, but I kept telling him NO.

Also, it depends on who I am telling my testimony to. For some people, I may want to make it short and to the point. For others, I may want to go more in detail. It really depends on the personality of the person that i am talking to. Plus as the Spirit leads you, you go. You also observe the person to see if they are figiting or not. So yeah that's it for me.

 

[cruztacean]

When people ask me how I *know for certain* that there is a loving God in Heaven, I usually answer that I've not seen Him, but I've seen His work.

John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
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In other words, you can't see the wind, but you sure can see stuff blowing in it.

I understand the doubters. When my third child died as a baby, I had to go all the way back to "Is there a God?"


Yes, there is. More about Jessica in a separate thread.

But I think what I point to the most is the first time I ever saw a preacher have to shut up and let God preach the sermon. We didn't see Him with our physical eyes, or hear Him with our physical ears, but we all knew that God's Holy Spirit was present in the room. The preacher said, "I had a sermon prepared, but I can't preach it." And he shut up. God took over.

After a silence during which God spoke to every individual heart, the pastor stepped to the microphone and counseled the congregation, "Don't be ashamed to cry in the presence of God." Well...I could do nothing else. I for one was bawling my everloving head off. And I certainly wasn't alone.

It is hard to describe that experience. The apostle Paul said, "Spiritual things are spiritually discerned." However, I would answer a skeptic like this: If I had been alone, I may possibly concede that I might have been having some kind of delusion or emotional breakdown. But when a hundred people in the same room all describe the same thing, it is no delusion.

 

[Immanuel]

When people ask me how I *know for certain* that there is a loving God in Heaven, I usually answer that I've not seen Him, but I've seen His work.

John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
​

In other words, you can't see the wind, but you sure can see stuff blowing in it.

I understand the doubters. When my third child died as a baby, I had to go all the way back to "Is there a God?"


Yes, there is. More about Jessica in a separate thread.

But I think what I point to the most is the first time I ever saw a preacher have to shut up and let God preach the sermon. We didn't see Him with our physical eyes, or hear Him with our physical ears, but we all knew that God's Holy Spirit was present in the room. The preacher said, "I had a sermon prepared, but I can't preach it." And he shut up. God took over.

After a silence during which God spoke to every individual heart, the pastor stepped to the microphone and counseled the congregation, "Don't be ashamed to cry in the presence of God." Well...I could do nothing else. I for one was bawling my everloving head off. And I certainly wasn't alone.

It is hard to describe that experience. The apostle Paul said, "Spiritual things are spiritually discerned." However, I would answer a skeptic like this: If I had been alone, I may possibly concede that I might have been having some kind of delusion or emotional breakdown. But when a hundred people in the same room all describe the same thing, it is no delusion.

I know the feeling of when the presence of God is there. It's such an experience of humliity before the throne of grace and there are NO words that can describe or explain it.

For the skeptics, it's really a decision and a matter of the heart for them to believe. Even if God appears in front of their faces, they will find excuses not to believe. It's really a matter of the heart.

cruztacean, I am so sorry about your child, but most importantly and I am glad is that you are back with the Lord =)


Praise God!!

 

[Moriah_Conquering_Wind]

I tend to reiterate the same pieces of the story:
* how I met Christ at 16
* how I was taken over by Satan
* what led up to all that
* how I tried to come back to God but it never worked
* how God finally had to completely destroy me
* how God drew me back to Himself
* my Psalm 139 experience

However, the whole story is so long, so complicated, and so impossible to tell properly without details that I've given up ever hoping to condense it enough to tell it here in a post or two. There's just too much stuff that happened and some of it is stuff most people would not want to hear or be able to understand.

 

[JPPT1974]

God is there
No matter what occurs
And that He will take care of us
Even if we don't feel Him being there
He is always there
Through thick and thin!