Testimony Time

[Karijoy]

Hi. This is my first post. I read the board all the time,and am not much of a "poster' yet, but I feel compelled to write this testimony. This happened some years ago when I was 16/17 years old.

I was hung-over again -- a typical night for me, an all-nighter getting wasted and fighting with my boyfriend who was physically abusive. I had walked to the bus stop the next morning to take a bus back home, and feeling particularly bad-- nauseous and just pretty disgusted with life in general. As i walked to the bus stop I walked under a street sign that i should have been able to clear, (i'm only 5 ft. tall) but ended up scraping the top of my head. That triggered something off and i realized just how really pathetic and purposeless my life was and how miserable i was. Instantaneoulsy, i made a decision that i would walk to the end of the street where there was a three-lane arterial highway and would step out in front of the cars and end this horrible mess for a life. As i stood on the corner waiting for the cars to approach-- i noticed on my immediate left a building that set back from the sidewalk behind a small stone wall-- a building that i passed every day-- all the time, that I never took notice of before. It was a church-- And i felt beckoned to go inside, so i abandoned my plan to step out in front of the cars. I tried the front doors of the church and they were locked..then tried another door... that was locked too. Then another -- that was also locked. I had walked around the whole perimeter of the church and couldn't believe I was locked out, and thought how truly pathetic my life was a few minutes ago.. but how even worse it was now being rejected pretty much by God, or so i thought, and saw it as an ominous sign that i should go back to the corner and resume my plan of walking out in front of the cars. Walking back towards the highway, i caught sight of one last door.. and with much faith turned the handle and by God's grace, it opened and I went in to a refurbished basement full of sunday school classes and sat down at a long table and thumbed through a bible that was there. Not long after, a mininster came and asked me if he could help me. i just said "no".. as if i had i had every right to be there!! -- a vagrant off the street loitering in a church i wasn't a member of. But i knew i was supposed to be there, and sat for many hours alone just reading through the bible. Needless to say, I lived that day. And will turn 40 this coming Friday. That was just one of the many times over my lifetime that God came through for me when I had nothing or noone else.

 

[whsbandmom]

Well this past Sunday night the last of our 3 girls got filled with the spirit. She is 11, the other 2 are 13 and 16. It was a wonderful sight to see.
God is Good !!!!!!

 

[whsbandmom]

Update !!!!!
Yesterday was a real Blessing Sent from Heaven. As some of u know we have been fooling for a new place to live. so........

I got the newspaper as always To find for a home. Well It was there. I was reading the new listings and i found a home right here in my community for only $ 891 a month. But thats good but here id the kicker. I called the person who owns the home. We begain to talk and she just said if u will come and meet me at noon i will give u the keys and u can move in now with not a payment untill October. No money down Or anything. I couldnt belive my ears.
So we start moving tomorrow. I have been waiting and praying and walking in Faith that we would find a home. I am so Greatful To God for everything he is doing in our family.
So we start moving tomorrow. I feel as if this is not only a blessing but a breakthrough in my familys lives.

Prayer can solve any problem. In his time not mine.
Gina

 

[amtvball4jesus]

i got saved in may 2002 at a franklin graham festival, and just graduated from h.s. in june 2005. i have been thru a lot from 2003 - 2004. God brought me thru it tho. i am still in the healing process of s/i stuff.

my roomate here laid hands on me last week and now i can speak in tongues in prayer and worship. it is amazing. God is soooooooooooo good. i can know him deeper now.

 

[clareos86]

I became a Christian last year at Soul Survivor (huge Christian festival) and have had a pretty rocky year on my journey with God. I was back at Soul Survivor again this year 2 months ago and while there was just filled up with the Spirit.
During my short year as a Christian I have found it so hard to pray. I would try and try and people would pray for me and recommend Bible verses and so much more but I just couldn't do it! I always felt kinda stupid. I heard about speaking in tongues and I thought 'wow that's what I need: prayer I don't have to think about or worry about!' However, since I was unable to pray, I couldn't pray for it!!
Everything changed at Soul Survivor! On the first night, I started praying! It was amazing! I was just praising God and it was fab
So many good things happened to me! Mike Pilivachi (guy in charge of SS) is incredible, the words that come out of his mouth come straight from God so when he asked if there was anyone in the congregation (10,000 people!!) who wanted to speak in tongues to come forward. This was it! I went forward with 4 of my friends and we all prayed for about half an hour. I was in tears with the effort, so frustrated and embarassed..what if nothing happened? I kept feeling like a bubble was rising up from within me but bifore I even had a chance for my lips to move I stopped myself, thinking "this is stupid" Eventually I just let go and it happened: I praised God in tongues! I was able to do this several times throughout the next week!
I was also able to pray for otehrs, which was such a big deal for me - I had never felt capable of that before! Now I can pray to God at home for my friends and family and it is amazing!!
I feel that I have written enough for one post but so mcuh more happend at Soul Survivor and I would appreciate some prayer from my Chrisitan brothers and sisters. My hands were annointed and I am still scared and apprehensive about this. I want to evangalise and heal the sick with my gift from God so (as though your prayer lists aren't long enough!) please pray that I can trust in our Father and use His gifts accordingly.
Thank you
Clare

 

[JesusPhreek]

Well, let me start off by saying that this is not for the faint of heart, as my testimony will be a little grimy and unpleasant at times.

My name is Gary, and I'm 31 years old. The last 16 years of my life were spent in a private hell of my own device.

I was raised Roman Catholic as a child, was even an altar boy for a bunch of years. At the age of 15 I started heavily experimenting in many things, mostly alcohol and pot. I had already lost my virginity at the age of 13. and had sex in the church in which I was an altar boy. Shows how much I thought of God, huh?
All throughout high school I got into massive amounts of trouble, and got arrested a few times. At the age of 17 I stole my sisters roommates jeep, and went to jail again. They gave me probation, and I turned 18 right after getting out, leaving my parents house, for about the 10th time. This time I was of age, so they couldn't stop me.

I started doing a lot of hallucinogens, engaged in many questionable activities with those of either gender, and ended up back in jail. But, in the state of MN they have to release your from the juvenile authorities care at the age of 19, so I did 6 months out of the 3 years that I owed. When I was released, my parents asked what I wanted for my birthday and I got a bus ticket to Arizona. This is where I really started to go downhill.

I started dealing/doing Crystal Methamphetamine while I lived in AZ, and that drug took me to places I never thought I would go, on both ends of the spectrum.
Throughout the course of time I lived in AZ, I assaulted people, stole massive amounts of things, was arrested on gun charges, and more or less lead a completely sinful lifestyle. When i realized that things had gotten to be too much, I left, ending up in FL.

Now, in FL, instead of stopping doing drugs, I was just introduced to more. I used to pride myself on getting kids that I met started getting high, after all, it meant more profit and more for me to do. My god at that point in time was pleasure, and I knew every way I needed in order to get with him. I honestly thought that I was living out the life that I was supposed to. I got married, had a child and got divorced. I no longer have contact with that child, thru her mothers choice.

After my break up with my wife, I decided I needed to really make some money, and got involved in a credit card fraud operation. Suffice it to say, that didn't end well, with me getting 2 years of probation after I got caught for that. Did I smarten up or even start looking to get out of this lifestyle; of course not. As soon as they let me out on probation, I immediately went back out and started getting high, and doing the things that I was doing. I met a fantastic girl, and got her pregnant. The best thing she ever did, was she called the police to have3e me put back in jail for my warrant.

So for the next 18 months, I sat in the FL Dept. Of Corrections. After I had been there for a little while, I started searching, thinking that there had to be a better way. Needless to say, I did everything I could to avoid Christian teachings, after the years of Catholicism had kinda burnt me out on that entire thought process. I studied Buddhism a lot, and came out of jail a self proclaimed Buddhist.

Not even 12 hours later, I was in the club getting high.

I had probation when i had gotten out of prison that time, and I immediately was violated because I didn't do any of the things that I was supposed to be doing. After a year on the run, I was caught and brought back to prison.

I spent the next 3 years searching yet again for what had to be out there. But again, was completely against the thought of Christian teachings. I studied Islam for a good chink of the time then, but came out of prison lost yet once again. I caught a greyhound bus up here to NYC where my grandmother lives, and tried to start a new life, without drugs.

I attended Narcotics Anonymous meetings daily when I first got here, because I needed to see evidence that people could live without getting high. And I was able to not get high. Until the fateful day that life seemed to much, and the stress that I had mostly imposed on myself got to be too much, and i ate 600mg of Ambien, thinking that death would be a better way out. When I awoke in the hospital hours later, I was afraid. Very afraid.

If you know anything about 12 step programs, the 3rd step was a turning point for me. It reads “We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.” After I had written out the answers to the questions that pertain to this step, I went thru a very hard period of time, where once again life was getting to be too much. I sat one day and prayed, “ I don't know who or what you are, just guide me in how I should go”. About 3 weeks later, I came out of the depression I was in and had a startling realization. Around the next day or 2 after I had said that prayer, my girlfriend had pulled out her Bible, for the first time in the about 7 months we had been together. One thing I did learn in NA was that most things we think are coincidences, aren't, and to pay attention. So I came online and talked to some people, had some long, deep, and sometimes highly emotional conversations. After a Bible study one night, I sat and had a long talk with someone, and gave my life over to Christ.

Now Im just trying to find out where I belong in the big picture, and let God guide me.

 

[Prosperity]

When I was a child, I saved Jesus a place to sleep and spoke to Him every night. I did this as a result of hearing about Jesus in the Methodist Church. Now the people at the Church didn't tell me much about him, but I did see a picture of him hanging on the cross. I had figured out that he must have been a really nice guy that was treated horribly. I also figured out that he was alive and in heaven. I don't know why I invited Him to share my bed every night, but I did. I was a child and there was nothing sexual to this. At any rate I would only use half of my bed for years, saving the other half for Jesus, and I would talk to him just as if he was there. I think that I might have been laying the Ground work for my own salvation, I say this because my biological parents were not saved, neither were my adoptive parents. No one I knew was saved, so how did I get saved if someone didn't pray for me? I really believe that I prayed for my own eventual salvation.

Some years later, after suffering physical, mental and sexual abuse at the hands of my adopted father, and subsequently having just completed two tours in Vietnam as a USMC Infantryman, I decided to go to Kansas State University. I was not a happy camper at this point in time in my life.

I moved into Moore Hall Dormitory at K-State. My roommate was named Ken and Ken was in the Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC). It wasn't long before I hated Ken. He kept saying to me, "Jesus was the answer!" Every time he said this to me, it was as if someone were dragging their nails over a chalkboard. It just sent goose pimples up my spine.

Ken just kept it up and kept it up. He even made little Jesus signs all over our room. I really didn't like Ken. Ken kept asking me to go to the CCC fellowship meeting. I refused because I smelled a trap, but ken just kept persisting. Finally I told Ken that I had had enough of him and I would go to his stupid fellowship meeting under one condition. The condition was that if I went there and found out that Jesus wasn't the answer, that Ken would never bring up the subject again. He said that wasn't a problem.

I went with Ken to a house where the CCC meeting was held. When I walked into the living room, I saw many people sitting around sing praise and worship songs, praying and other such things. I wasn't sure what they were doing, but I new one thing right away. The one thing I knew was that these folks were happy and I wasn't. This just got me angrier because I already knew I wasn't happy, but now I knew exactly how unhappy I was.

I left the house and walked back to the Dorm. All kinds of thoughts filled my mind, mostly bad thoughts. I was so depressed and unhappy that my posture looked as if I were wearing a 100 pound back pack. On the way back to Moore Hall, I decided that I had had enough of what this life had to offer and decided to commit suicide. I figure I'd just kill myself and then go to heaven. I started to feel a little better because I had made a decision that I thought would make things better.

I arrived at the Dorm. The entrance to the Dorm consisted of an outer and inner door. As I put my hand on the inner door, I decided to kill myself by jumping off of the Dorm roof. Within a couple of steps I was standing between the inner and outer door. It was at this point that I looked up and all I said was, "Jesus if you're there I'm yours." Jesus was there. I felt as if I was in a worm shower. I felt all the weight come up off of me to the point that I physically straightened up. I was immediately relieve of all my burdens. I was happy and at peace. I had never know that life could be like this. My confirmation of my salvation was almost immediate. As I entered the Dorm, through the inner door, I ran into an unsaved girl I knew. Without my saying a word, she looked me straight in the eyes and said, "You just accepted Jesus didn't you?" To which I answered, YES!

I went up to my room. Ken returned to the Dorm. I told him what had happened. He was overjoyed for me. Ken looked pretty good to me now. all of a sudden I found my self loving someone who, less than an hour before, I hated with everything that was in me.

Another thing happened too. I was getting failing grades because I simply could not focus on school work. My grades improved and I did graduate from college.

By the way, I received the Holy Ghost and began to speak in other tongues in the parking lot of the Rail Splitter Restaurant in Elizabethtown Kentucky. I was baptized in water about a month later.

 

[Glenda]

Reading all these testimonies have brought joy & tears.. (I always carry my tissues with me.. )

And a relief that there is a place where I can tell my story without someone raising an eyebrow.. thinking I have lost my marbles.. :o


About 2 months ago, I found out that our credit manager was retiring.. and I wanted the job.. I have all the 'technical' ability, but had no 'credit' experience.. so I kept worrying and wondering if I would get the job..

On a Saturday night, God woke me up twice.. telling "take up your cross & follow me.." Sunday morning, I wake up and turn on my PC.. I open up my bible software that is set to open with a random verse.. And guess what verse I get..

Deny yourself, take up your cross & follow Me..

Well.. I knew that God was telling me to surrender.. to quit trying to do things in my way & my timing.. to submit to His Way & His Timing.. and I did just that.. I stopped worrying & gave it to Him..

So you're thinking I got the job.. well not exactly..

Another fellow got the credit manager job.. but my VP added a new job.. I am the assistant credit manager.. I get to do ALL the stuff I like.. and get rid of the stuff I didn't like from the previous job.. and when someone calls who is upset about his account, I get to say.. wait a minute.. let me get the Credit Manager for you.. Isn't God absolutely awesome.. and I got a little more money too..

Then the beginning of October.. Hubby & I went to a conference in CT.. and I went to their Healing Rooms for prayer for my legs.. That night at the conference, the girl I was sitting beside leaned over and asked if she could tell me something.. she said God love you so much... He's healing your legs.. I asked her was she was from.. she said FL.. she had flown up to go to the event.. she had only one way to know about my legs.. God told her.. He knew I needed to hear that.. Awesome.. Awesome.. Awesome God..

And Bob Jones led us to the 3rd Heaven.. where we are seated with Jesus NOW

Eph 2:6 And hath raised us up together and hath made us sit together in the heavenly places, through Christ Jesus.

He said we might see light.. people we needed to pray for..

I saw a tunnel.. winding.. and I felt a light breeze flow across my face.. & I smelled the most beautiful scent of flowers I have ever smelled.. like nothing on earth.. hmm.. heavenly.. that describes it.. and we can go there anytime we want.. to seek revelation.. ohh.. where are those tissues.. i asked my hubby if he felt or smelled it.. nope..

Lately He's been putting 333.. 333.. 333.. in front of me.. all the time.. He awoke me night before last.. I looked at the clock.. 333

Got on the PC... He led me to Jeremiah 33:3

Jeremiah 33:3 "Call to me, and I will answer you; I will tell you wonderful and marvelous things that you know nothing about.

Holy, Holy, Holy God.. Lord Most High.. Thank You Jesus!

 

[TruthSetsYouFree]

I was coming home the other day, and while in the car, I was rejoicing over the Lord calling me into the ministry, and I pulled into a left hand lane at a light to turn... God spoke VERY clearly (much clearer and it would have had to been audible!), and told me DO NOT PULL UP TO THE LIGHT, OR YOU WILL BE HIT... BECAUSE A CAR IS ON IT'S WAY RIGHT NOW AND WILL COME RIGHT INTO YOUR LANE... Needless to say, I hit the breaks... and SURE ENOUGH... here came this old truck HEAD ON towards me in MY lane!!!! Had I not listened to God's voice... BAM... a 100% guaranteed accident!!!!

Needless to say, I spent the rest of the trip home shouting things like "I'm covered by the Blood of Jesus!"

 

[milestone]

hi there.


one testimony (of many) i can share is of a time I was in a prayer meeting at my church, and a young man next to me was crying. I put my hand on his back, and said "Jesus will get you through this" - he looked straight at me, and in a voice not his own said "Jesus will not look after him. I will" and laughed outloud.

I just called out to him "in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth I command every demon to leave right now"

He rolled around on the floor, screaming and i called out again. with the loudest scream i ever heard, it left him, and he was silent.

To this day i don't know who the demon was, or it's assignment.

But i don't think thats bad for someone saved for all of 3 weeks!

 

[c1ners]

A couple of years ago I was missing my late husband very much. I was alright until my church played that song "one more day". I totally lost it after that. We were having our church bon fire that night. It was pretty cold for my part of the world, and my daughter was really excited about going. All I could do was hide in the bathroom and cry. I finally told her that I didn't feel like going, and she agreed to just go with her boyfriend. But first she wanted to build me a fire in the fireplace. That's usually my present husbands job, but he was away for the Holidays. Anyhow, we tried and tried, but that fire would not light. Finally her boyfriend came over and I told them to just go, I would get the fire lit by the time they got back. Well, as soon as they left I allowed myself to cry. As usual, in my despair, I begged God to please allow my late husband into heaven. I reminded him that it was all my fault for not answering his question on how to get to heaven, and if anyone should be punished it should be me. I begged and begged and begged. Finally I heard this voice say to me: "Why child have you never bothered to ask"? I responded by telling him that I ask everyday, but than I understood what he was saying. In all these years I never asked God if my husband was with him. So I asked. Of course, I didn't expect God to answer me, so I asked him light the fire if my husband was in Heaven, or keep it out if he was not. Needless to say, I started on that fire right away. I did everything I could to get it going, but it was no use. It just wouldn't stay lit. There was my answer. My husband was in hell, and it was all my fault. I went to the restroom. Sat myself on the floor and cried until I didn't have any more tears left. I cried so much that my ribs hurt. Finally I figured it was almost time for my daughter to come back home, so I stood up and washed my face. I kept hearing a noise, but in my despair I ignored it. When I opened the bathroom door, the hallway was lit up. When I got to the living room there was the most beautiful fire I'd ever seen. (In the fire place of course). Yes, the tears came again, but this time they were tears of joy. I could here God scolding me. "My child, you asked me to do something yet you took over. Once you gave up and gave it to me, I took care of it for you.

When my now husband came home he told me that I made a mess in the fireplace. I just smiled. I haven't cleaned it to this day. It still has the oil on it that God left. Isn't he wonderful?

 

[c1ners]

I have more........

A few months ago my sister helped me get a job working with her company. A month later she became very ill. About a month ago she started running high fevers, and she was unable to go to work. The doctors told her it was just the flu. The fevers continued until she was unable to even get out of bed. Finally the doctors did blood work and she was told that she had bacteria in her kidneys. They gave her some antibotics, but that didn't help either. She went back and they did more blood work. By this time her fevers were up to 104, and we were very worried. This time when the blood work came back the doctor told her she had to go in for emergency gall bladder removal because her gall bladder was full of bacteria. The hospital did there own blood work and informed us that her gall bladder was full of bacteria, but it was not abstructed, so they did not have to do the surgery. What they were worried about though was her liver. It too was full of bacteria, and they thought that maybe she had a life threatening disease. I was very upset. My daughter and I thought it would be nice to go shopping and get her a nice nightgown for the hospital. While we were there we ran into our Pastor. I told him the situation, and he prayed for her right there in the mall. I was almost to the hospital when my cell phone rang and it was my sister. She told us that they had sent her home! The blood work had come back and it wasn't life threatening! The next day (Sunday) I stood up for my sister in church while everyone prayed around me for her healing. When I called her later she let me know that she had actually gotten out of bed and taken a shower. Her fever had started to come down, and she was feeling better! She came back to work last Wednesday and she feels almost 100 % better! God is so Good!

 

[c1ners]

One more and than I'll be done. I don't know if I posted this here or in another section, but I will post it again just in case.

When I was a little girl I was very shy. I wanted to be saved so bad, but in our church you had to walk down the aisle in front of everyone. For months I prayed to God for the strength to do this. One Sunday my mom came to church. When it came time for everyone to close their eyes I started praying to God once again. I felt discouraged because I still didn't feel strong enough to walk in front of all those people. I felt a hand on my shoulder and thought it was my mom. I looked up to smile at her, and in my amazment I was half way down that aisle! There was no one beside me, but the hand was still on my shoulder! I was only eight years old at the time. It amazes me that God could love me so much that he would actually walk with me down that aisle. I praise him with all my heart and soul!

 

[faithandglory]

Here is my testimony...

After praying that I be filled with the Holy Spirit for quite some time I finally got it Sunday Dec. 10th 2005. I was speaking in tongues and did not want to stop. it was wonderful. there was not a feeling there that I thought would be there but I am just glad that I got it!!!!!

Praise God for His mighty works and miracles!!!!

Remember Jesus is the reason for this season!!!!

 

[faithandglory]

One more and than I'll be done. I don't know if I posted this here or in another section, but I will post it again just in case.

When I was a little girl I was very shy. I wanted to be saved so bad, but in our church you had to walk down the aisle in front of everyone. For months I prayed to God for the strength to do this. One Sunday my mom came to church. When it came time for everyone to close their eyes I started praying to God once again. I felt discouraged because I still didn't feel strong enough to walk in front of all those people. I felt a hand on my shoulder and thought it was my mom. I looked up to smile at her, and in my amazment I was half way down that aisle! There was no one beside me, but the hand was still on my shoulder! I was only eight years old at the time. It amazes me that God could love me so much that he would actually walk with me down that aisle. I praise him with all my heart and soul!

that is a great experience. I thank God that he heard your heart and guided you through that time. Isn't God great!!!!!

 

[J0nDaFr3aK]

i was 14 when i got saved. my family and i went to this Christian camp where we would be blessed tons. the guy who used to hold the meetings during that week was Mr Cava, a teacher at FIRE School of Ministry in North Carolina. that was my very first time i heard him preach. that week was the best one i had ever been through all that far. after a week i got baptized in the Spirit and the day after i got baptized in water.
when i got baptized in the Spirit i didnt have any kinds of manifestation we all are used to seeing like speaking in tongues for hours. well, while talking to this bro he told me that it never happens the same way. sometimes you get people speaking in tongues for long time when they get baptized in the Holy Spirit but it can also happen that you dont start speaking but you have weird words waying on your mind which actually happened to me. at first i didnt want to pronounce those words constantly popping to my mind. then that very night young people were prayed for to receive fire from God and then we were asked to pray for the old generation. and as i started praying i spoke up and started saying weird words but it was awesome. God was really there. Praise God. Thank you Lord for saving me. what im amazed at is that he already knew i wouldnt always do well ever since then but he did still want to save me and bring to His Son's light.
Blessings

J0nDaFr3aK

 

[SharonL]

I have so many testimonies but can't recall them all at the moment - but here is a couple of the latest.

My daughter lives 400 miles from me - she lives alone and has 3 acres, a mobile home, horses, etc.

She lives in what they call Tornado Alley in Texas - a storm came upon her suddenly - she had not been watching TV and did not know it was coming.

She called me and when I answered - she screamed - pray mom, pray a tornado is headed for her and it was hailing so hard she could not go outside.

I had not prayed in tongues in front of my husband - he is of a different faith and did not understand the spirit filled walk. I started praying in tongues and my husband walked in and said "whoa - and walked out" - my daughter said the floor in the kitchen was standing about 3 inches up - she was about to take flight - I kept praying until she said it had calmed down.

Her next door neighbor had run and laid in the ditch for protection - he saw the whole thing - the tornado came up to my daughters trailer and split and went around her - only the skirt was ripped off her trailer - it took out the trees around her but she was safe.

Another weather related one.

We were moving - my husband was in front pulling a trailer with the furniture - I was in a van with the animals. It was raining so hard you could not see 5 feet in front of you.

I had a flat tire and my husband could not see I was not behind him - I figured he would not miss me for awhile and called for service to come fix the tire.

My husband drove up as the service man drove up - it was raining so hard you could not even open the door on the van.

I spoke to that storm to stop and dissipate - the rain stopped - my husband and the service guy fixed the flat tire - he got back in the car and the heavens opened up again - pouring down the rain - his eyes got big and he just said "well I'll be d___" - I can see a big difference in what he believes now - he has always been a big believer, but was just never taught the Spirit Filled walk.

Here is a cute one - we lived on the coast - we had company and went for a boat ride. They got to talking about dolphins and our company said I would love to see a dolphin. I just said outloud "Lord can we see your beautiful dolphins" - my company said "yea sure - I'm sure God doesn't have anything better to do than show you dolphins" - about that time - 3 dolphins appeared on both sides of the boat - we could almost reach and pet them. My company's eyes got huge and they only said again those famous words "Well I'll be d___" - God has a beautiful sense of humor.

 

[THOMBULL]

My path to God has been quite curly. I wasn't really raised any religion in particular, I guess we were Christian by default - we went to Church on Christmas eve and that was about it. I started to go to church in high school though and got quite involved before going through a teenage-angst-driven rejection of all things 'establishment' and walking away from the church. I became a follower of Yoga philosophy, worshipping Krishna, chanting and wearing lots of baggy cotton pants for about five years. Then, random general religious talk with Christian friends of mine over the course of a few years gave me a better understanding of what God is like than I ever had before. I started thinking more and more in Christian terms, and then, aided by a catalyst in the form of a dodgy trip to India to stay in an ashram in Rishikesh, I came back to Christianity with much better understanding of what it was all about. Now Jesus is the lord of my heart and I'm coming to terms with a love that I never thought possible. Its amazing the people and experiences that God put in my life to gradually lead me back to Him. I still occasionally wear baggy cotton pants though

 

[c1ners]

Isn't it wonderful how patient he is?
Thank you SharonL and Thomull. Those were wonderful testimonies.

 

[DanTheMan777]

I'm the webmaster for a Christian organization and I'm trying to start a forum specifically for testimonies....

www dot victoriesinchrist dot org slash forum/

It's essentially non-denom as an organization, although most of the attenders are from the Assembly of God.

I might post some, but I'll probably read some of these first