Testimony Time

[cherokeehippie]

I have something I have to share--over a year ago, I lost a family picture--it was a picture of a sister of my great-grandmother. That sister--Minnie is standing in the picture with 3 of her friends--teenage girls. This is a side of my family I don't know much about and been trying to do research on. Well, in the picture, looking at Minnie, not only she looks like there's Native American blood in her, but also even African American! Triracial! It's possible since there was a lot of triracial mix in South Carolina(her mom, my gr-gr-grandmother was from South Carolina). Well, I lost that picture over a year ago! I was soooo bummed out. I looked all over the place for that picture and feared I had accidently given it away with other stuff that I gave to the Humane Society thrift store here in town. Or that some racist acquaintance might have seen the picture and stole it out of spite. Well, just THIS FRIDAY, I went in this little shop that's next door to the Humane society Thrift store and I was just hanging out with the woman who works in the store. She offered a seat for me behind the cash registar as we were talking. All at once, I looked up and I couldn't believe my eyes!!!! There was MY PICTURE!!!! Up on a shelf, leaning against the wall. "MY PICTURE!!!" I cried! I was so blown away! I couldn't believe it! I realize, Abba led me back to my picture!!! I had just been thinking about it the day before, too! Well, I found out that Mary, the lady who runs the shop, had bought it for 25 cents next door at the thrift store and was going to frame it. She loved the old picture. I was soooo estatic to get the picture back---I was in tears. It had been gone for over a year! Well, I'm making a copy of that picture and I'm going to go give it to Mary! She's still gonna have an old time picture to frame and enjoy!!! The LORD is AWeSome!

 

[Blessed2003]

We don't do this in my current church, but a church I use to go to had testimony time every Sunday Night. I LOVED testimony time. . . people had such wonderful and unique testimonys. Some were BIG and some were little but none the less something that God had done for them.

So. . .please share any and all testimony's you have. Past and Present. I'll share some of mine later. . .my lunch break is up.



I'm so excited. . .I just love testimony's of God's goodness

Well, where do I begin. God has done so much for me. I grew up in "church" and knowing God existed but never could grasp the fact that Jesus died for "me." I always felt less than, I can't remember a time in my life when I ever felt worthy of God's forgiveness. God saw my broken heart, and He is healing it. In April of 2003 (Easter Sunday, and my deceased dad's b-day by the way) I was working, having left the church after some really hard times, I felt rejected by the people in the church, by God, by life, at this point. Anyway, I felt hopeless, but I never stopped believing in God, or praying to Him for answers. God chose that day, April 20, 2003 to speak to me for the first time in my life. I can not tell you the bliss I felt, especially after thinking my whole life that God no longer spoke to us these days. He reached His loving arms out to me, through Jesus, ofcourse, and saved me, because no one else would. (SHow me love or forgiveness, that is) Anyway, I can not credit my salvation to any single event other than knowing my Father loves me, He told me so. I now know I am not good enough, that's why Jesus had to die, and unfortunately, I'll not ever be while in this body, but God knows that too, and He shows me mercy. I struggle with my "flesh" it is still very hard, I long to do God's will, but am overtaken at times by my own evil desires, but my God's grace is sufficient. Thank God, Praise God, He has shown me mercy, love, compassion, forgiveness, and is teaching me how to live. I asked God during the low times in my life to take me life, instead, He chose to give me life. Life eternal ( I argued at first, but hey, God know's whats best!) What a merciful God we have. God is indeed good.
B

 

[crystalpc]

Amen I agree with New Creation Ian. Good testimony! Praise God!

 

[schwartmrs]

Oh, goodness! Where to start???

I was raised in a Mennonnite church, but it really didn't "stick" with me. My father left us when I was almost 4, and I never got over that overwhelming feeling of rejection...afterall, your parents are supposed to stand by you when the rest of the world won't, right? I felt like the most unlovable and unloved person on the planet. I never knew my father's side of the family...I never knew any family history. My mother's family has a rich history...pioneers, Cumberland Gap, covered wagons, abolitionists, Mennonite...but I felt like half a person.

When I left home, I left the church (a lot of hurt and baggage in that) and turned my back on God. I went to college, failed college, became homeless for 2 years. I was drunk most of the time, and usually on drugs as well. I paid for my alcohol, drugs, food, and accomodations with sex. By the age of 19, I was anorexic, suicidal, dealing with drug addictions, alcoholism, and STD's. I ended up in a mental hospital on a suicide watch.

BOY was I unhappy!! Sober and straight for the first time in 2 years! I couldn't run anymore...I couldn't hide. I had no one else to turn to, so I finally turned to God.

I remembered the sermons of my childhood. I remembered that God had made me, and God had the power to fix me. So I cried out to God...all night, I cried out. In the wee hours of the morning, the Presence of the Lord fell in that room and He spoke to me. He said "what do you really want?" And I said "I want to not be ME anymore! I want to be someone else! I want to die and start over!" and He said "I can do that. If you don't want your life, give it to Me, and I will re-make you." And I said "If You can do anything with this mess that is my life, You can HAVE IT!!!!"

In that instant, my life changed. Everything about me changed. Even my favorite color changed!! I mean EVERYTHING!!

That was almost 18 years ago. I am married to a wonderful Jewish (Messianic) man, I have 3 beautiful children, I have peace, joy, fulfillment...I teach Old Testament Studies in my church, and I have a knowlege that I AM lovable...because God loves me.

2 years ago, I did some research on my father's side of the family....are you ready for this???? I found out that my father's family is Jewish!! Not only do I have family on that side, but I have what is arguably the largest single family on the planet!!! And family history????? OH, p-u-u-l-e-e-z-e!! God is so good!!!! He is so caring! Especially in the details!

My life is my testimony. People who go where I went, don't end up where I am...only God can do that!!!

Shalom

 

[cyberwing]

Lovely testimony Schwartmrs!! It was a blessing!
~Cyberwing

 

[Trish1947]

I have to share this. Last week I went and saw the Passion. It moved me greatly. I'm still not over it. I raise my grandson, he's 13 yrs old. I was debating with myself on taking him to see the movie, but he told me he wanted to see the movie and I told him how violent the picture was about the suffering of Jesus. He said I can take it, and I'll bet you 5.00 that I wont cry. So I took him tonight. Well I wound up having to hold him in my arms at the show, while he sobbed uncontrollably. I thought maybe I have made a mistake, maybe I shouldn't have brought him. When the show was over, and we walked outside, he stopped me and said, what do I have to do to be saved nana?? I want Jesus in my life right now. I said ask Jesus into your heart right now, and repent and ask for forgivness. We prayed right there on the sidewalk. When we got into the car. he pulled 5.00 out of his wallet, and said I have to make our wager right. Then I started crying. NO, I didnt keep his 5.00.. I am floating on air, and full of praise for what the Lord has done.

 

[crystalpc]

Trish,
Praise God! Praise God! What a beautiful testimony! We ask the Lord to protect, and guide your grandson, and work mightily in his life.

 

[cyberwing]

Trish!!! Hallelujah!!! What a tremendous blessing!!! This is WHY Mel Gibson did the movie. We need to pray for him to blessed abundantly for being obediant and making this film. BLESS YOU MEL GIBSON!!! And may the Lord bless your entire family for your obediance, Trish! Thank you Sister for sharing that thrilling testimony! The angels are rejoicing and so are we!
{{{HUGS}}}
~Cyberwing

 

[AlabamaMan]

What a wonderful testimony Trish!!! I love hearing wonderful news like this!!

 

[SpiritPsalmist]

Y E A H ​

 

[his_star]

hey every one,
any ways my life testamony is way to long to give all the ways God has saved my life. When i was 18 months old i was diagnosed with stage 4 neroblastoma (a childhood cancer). It was all over my body. it had even begun to eat away my left shine bone. i had a 13% servival rate. i under went cemo tharapy and i had to have a bone marrow transplant. many miraculas things happened during this piont intime of my life. One night when i was in radiation the nurses had to come in and out through out the night to check my blood so instead of re sticking me constant ly i was on an IV well 1 of the times the nurse forgot to close the IV so i was bleeding horrably. in fact they wouldn't have even noticed that i was bleeding if they haden't doublr checked on me when they did find me i had bleed all over my blakets they where soked in blood. then ate another time i was toxic with cemicals they where using to treat the cancer. i was to go in and have more cemicals for treatment the next day except some one called in the middel of the night and canceled it. later we find i could have died if i had gone in for treat ment that day. there are so many other things that took place i just can't remeber right now. i was the 3rd servivor of this cancer.
then last summer i was goign to go on a mission trip but i was diagenosed whith diabeties when they tested my blood it was 500 which is dangeriosly
high. if i had gone on that trip not knowing i could have easily died.
God is an awsome God!!!! We may never know how many times satan has tryed to take us out but God stepped in and said No.
there is so much more to say but so littel time and space.
(sry for bad spelling)

 

[SpiritPsalmist]

AMEN his_star Thank you so much for sharing that.

 

[his_star]

yeah theres more to it but never can remeber it all i should right it all down some time

 

[mrversatile48]

From www.charismanews.com - by permission

Former R&B Star's Deliverance, Healing Ministry Makes Impact : Women of God Changing Lives Thru Christ!


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She was once one of the top R&B stars in the country, but Perri Reid is known today for her preaching, not her sultry dance tunes. Known as "Sister Perri" to the hundred or more followers who visit her service each week, Reid is leading sinners to Jesus from her ministry base in Atlanta.

"God rescued me, and now I have a responsibility to bring others out," Reid says of her transformation - which began seven years ago when a personal crisis led to her conversion.

"I didn't try to commit suicide, but I felt my soul dying. I felt empty," she told "Charisma" magazine in the March issue, out now. The full feature on Perri Reid can be found in the magazine.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Reid was known to the world as Pebbles, a stunningly attractive, award-winning songwriter who quickly claimed stardom. Her string of releases include "Love/Hate," "Love Makes Things Happen" (recorded with Babyface), "Girlfriend," and the co-written hit songs "Mercedes Boy" and "Whip Appeal."

But her life took a disappointing turn in 1995 when her marriage to the former president of Arista Records, Antonio "L.A." Reid, began to crumble and later ended in divorce. In the same year she was embroiled in a very public contractual dispute with singers from TLC, the popular girl group she founded.

During this time of what Reid calls "demonic oppression," she didn't understand that the devil was trying to destroy her, she says. Out of desperation, she reached out for help from a psychic but received no benefit.

"I remember lying on my bed breathing my last breath," Reid recalls. "I tried to reach for the phone to ask for help but couldn't. That was the day the enemy tried to take my life, but that was also the night grace stepped in."

She found her answer in Jesus - and experienced supernatural deliverance from demonic power. From that point on, the singer went on the offensive against the devil.

In 1998, God prompted her to start Women of God Changing Lives Through Christ, a deliverance and healing ministry that aims to rescue both believers and unbelievers from spiritual bondage. Reid walked away from fame and money.

"I've been a celebrity before - that's not why I'm here," Reid says. "I'm here for two reasons: obedience to God, and because I have a charge to see His people free."

Reid is not a Lone Ranger in the ministry. She recognizes the need for mentors and spiritual oversight. Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of the 25,000-member New Birth Cathedral in the Atlanta area, licensed her as a minister in 2001.

And Bishop Paul Morton, leader of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, a growing network of churches, serves as Reid's spiritual leader and covering.

Says Morton: "When [Reid] was in the world she made an impact, and now that she's in ministry, she's making an even greater difference in the body of Christ. Her impact on women is huge."

 

[Lexi]

The other day I was driving to see The Passion Of The Christ and it was snowing out. The roads were slushy and terrible, so I was driving slowly and was pretty scared because my car kept slipping. So I started to pray for God to be with me and keep me safe. I was praying for five minutes when my car hit a really bad patch in the road and it spun around twice and had my car covering both lanes. I could have gotten into a terrible car wreck but no cars had been coming nor did the car behind me hit me. I spend the entire rest of the way to the theater thanking God that he had kept me safe.

 

[mle]

Wow!!
That is awsome. That sounds like some timely paga prayer happening there! Thank you Lord for your protection and for your wings of protection that cover your children.

 

[kidsminister]

"Well, duh" Lessons from God this week:

The first is that He knows exactly what He is doing. My best friends and I just had an AWESOME prayer meeting last Sunday, and when we got to talking, realized how intricately God had planned for us to meet and begin ministering together under our pastor. We're talking plans three years in the making! I'm just pumped about what He has planned.

The second one I learned this morning is that I have authority over the devil. I have been a Christian since I was five, so I always knew that, of course, but...today, I was really tired and dragging and my defenses were a little bit down, and I started having some negative thoughts about one of my friends. I all of a sudden realized that satan (no, I don't even think his name is worthy of capitalizing!) was the one feeding me all those thoughts because this was one of the friends I had just prayed with on Sunday. I told him, "satan, I refuse to be attacked by you anymore. Go away in Jesus' name." And he left. I was, and am amazed at the power I have access to as a child of God.

 

[Andrew]

Well this is not really a testimony. I just want to thank God for blessing us with a trip to Israel last Jan. And wld like to just share some of my trip's photos. You can view them here if you want to:

http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/andrewtanwb/album?.dir=/b32b


God bless! And may you walk the Holy Land some day soon too!

 

[SpiritPsalmist]

The pic's are nice Andrew. . .thanks so much for sharing them with us

 

[SavedByGrace3]

Yes, thanks for sharing Andrew.
Makes me want to pack a bag and head out!!!