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Testimonies
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When my dad died of cancer I dropped out of church activites. I never was much of a go'er anyway. My son started getting involved in a scout organization so a friend of mine perked my intrest in working with his scout troop. Just so happened to be sponsored by a church. As I became more active in the troop it seemed natural to get involved in the church. So as I became intrested in teaching scout skills and merit badges to these young folks I learned some skills myself. One skill was CPR. I took my family on vacation and one the trip we made a side trip to a state park in Florida. At the park was a spring with cold water about chest deep and the size of a large swimming pool. Some folks were playing when all of a sudden they started yelling for help. One of thier ggroup had caught a cramp and drowned. Using the skills I learned just 2 days before I was able to bring the guy back. Scary feeling. My family was amazed, my son and daughter asked where I learned to do that, my wife said thank God you were here. Then it hit me. What I learned, the reason I had joined the scouts, become interested in the church was to teach scouting skills, I didn't know much about how to teach Jesus skills. That day changed my life. I recognized that Everything happens for a reason and that absolutely everything works as God plans it. That was almost 30 years ago. I remember everything about that event and when I can I share this with the young folks in our youth program. I am not a hero. God put me in a place to learn and skill and then used it to teach me a lesson. He gained a worker in the vineyard, I gained enternal life.
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An unbeliever saved
Kirk’s Testimony
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I was an unbeliever well into my 30's and would readily argue against christianity by insisting that without physical proof, you could not say there is a God,Jesus,devil,heaven or hell. I went on without any faith and couldnt identify with people of faith,I had a hunger inside for something missing and turned to a native american friend for spiritual mentorship.My time learning the sioux way eventually ended and again I was needy.I am 39 now and 4 yrs ago I took a chance on the God that I didnt put any stock in and prayed sincerely that if this was the way my life was to be,please end it . 2am and I had just had a vision of Jesus at my side and he held my hands and said I belong to him,I was wide awake at a time when I naturally should not have.I praised him and cried while doing so.So since then I have been trying to learn as much as possible about how to lead my life and being much more aware of the temptations in my life. I look back on my life before being saved and can see how sin didnt matter to me and that there werent as many trials in my life, but I thank God for that change.
Kirk Monigold
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Peace 4 The Missing.
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Maria's Salvation Testimony
Maria’s Testimony
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He touched me and made me whole.
Margaret’s Testimony
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How many wasted years. I didn't come to accept Jesus into my heart until I was in my forties. What a difference He has made. I used to be full of anger, resentment, bitterness, jealousy, meanness. Yikes, what a total crummy person I was. Once I decided to give it all up, Jesus has made me a new woman. I'm full of joy, love, peace and goodwill. I've become a Sunday school teacher, YOUTH leader, lay speaker, conference choir member, and just a downright nice person who professes her love for her Savior and shares the message.
Thank you, Jesus, for loving me first.
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A Turn of Heart! Thank You Daddy!
Abigale’s Testimony
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But anyways... I was that "Christian" until the day that I hate but am almost glad to say happened. On December 27, 2003 my dad walked out of our house and never returned. My parents got a divorce later that year.. after trying to fix the relationship. I remember crying harder than I ever had before. I tried drinking to get rid of my pain. I drank too much and was sexually abused. I couldn't tell the police because I was afraid I would get in trouble because of the alcohol. That guy never got in trouble and I later actually found out that he was sexually abusing other girls while they were intoxicated. I felt abused and hurt. Alcohol wasn't the option though. It didn't help. So I turned to over exercising and not eating enough. so pretty much anorexia. It went on for awhile until it got to the point where I was out of energy and couldn't play basketball. I finally turned to God after all of the other attempts of finding something to get rid of the pain. I had a hole in my heart I NEEDED to fill... and fast! So I began staying after at my church talking to my youth pastor about the hurt and pain I was feeling. I cried almost every wednesday night. But that wasn't enough to make me realize that God was what I needed. So more happened.
I played basketball on a inter city basketball team and I was sexually and mentally manipulated into a relationship with a girl that I didn't want and I wasn't okay with. I finally got myself out of it and was even more hurt. I once again turned to God. But this time I took that extra step.
I began seeing that Jesus was who I needed to fill my heart! I asked him to come into my heart and make me feel whole and to push out all the hurt I was feeling. A weight was lifted from me and I felt whole. I'm not just making it up either. I felt a wholeness and well being for once in my life! I felt as if no one could touch me no matter what.
Well I began talking to Jesus everyday and realizing that it doesn't matter what others think. It just depends on what God thinks. I began to be a nonconformist at school. I didn't drink or do drugs. I didn't have sex. I still have not had sex. I was sexually abused but not far enough to take away my virginity. I have asked God to forgive my past and to give me back what was taken away. I feel as if I am still a virgin and that God has replenished me for the things that have been taken away.
Anyways back to taking the extra step. I began to learn more about Jesus and read the Bible more often. I love God with all my heart and would stand up for him any day! I now volunteer at my church youth group as a leader and I have began my walk in Christ as his follower. He is the ultimate Lord and Savior! Without him I would be nothing. I took the step of becoming a "Little Christ" instead of the the "Christian" that others are. Following Jesus is what I am made for and I have now committed my life to sharing the word of God with others. I love to talk about Jesus and getting spiritual highs! The Bible is my book! I take it almost everywhere I go. I have so much more to learn and so many more people to share the Word of God with. I cannot even say enough about how much I love God and how much he's made me love my life even though my past remains the same. I don't think about the past only build upon it! It's about the future and Jesus forgave me. He is my Daddy!
So thank you Lord for this opportunity to share others how you brought me to see You! I love you Daddy! Amen.
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Martha's - I was saved in my early 20's after living a pretty riotous life. The Lord delivered me from alcohol & drugs. There has definitely been mountaintop times and valley times in my walk w/ the Lord. Recently I went through my lowest valley ever but I can tell you one thing - My GOD did not give up on me!!! It's just so good to be saved and to know I really do have VICTORY IN JESUS!
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I grew up with Christian parents but, they weren't really the type of role models a child should have growing up. I grew up with drinking, anger, lying, swearing, gossiping, and sometimes drugs were a very normal thing in my house. I soon started to drift away from my parents because the things they were doing were beginning to take a toll on my life.
Soon, that love and support that came from my parents was hardly noticable if at all in my house. But, I still longed to me loved. I still longed to be cared for.
I was in about the 3rd grade at this point and I suddenly realised - being popular means that everybody at school loves me. So, my friends and the choices I had to make to become popular became my entire life. I finally felt loved and accepted. These people would never let me down.
After a couple years I started swearing in every sentance,lying about everything, gossiping about everyone and always tried my hardest to get guys to like me and notice me. God had been gone from my life for so many years, I didn't even care what He thought anymore.
Soon, I became involved in sexuality, hatred, rebellion, and many other things that were always consuming my thoughts. I still wanted everybody to love me. I would do whatever it took.
Then, one year, I started to really like this guy in my class. He was popular, outgoing, good-looking ... what more could I ask for? But when I started to talk to him he told me that he was a Christian and believed that Jesus Christ came to die for his sins and for mine. Well, I told him the same. What was one little white lie?
But, everybody could tell that my Christianity thing was fake. I needed to make it seem more real. So, I began looking into it more. I started going back to Church on Sundays, going to my youth group again, I started listening to Christian music, reading Christian books and going to the Christian Bible camps I used to love so much.
Well, long story short, in the midst of trying to make this guy love me for being a Christian, somehow, by the grace of God, I fell in love with Jesus once again. About nine months ago, I commited my life to Christ.
I still struggle with trying to be the most popular one and I many times struggle with feeling unloved and uncared for. But the thing that keeps me going everyday is what I know in my heart. The true love, that thing I had been searching for, for so long, that true love comes from God alone.
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TRUST HIM - OBEY HIM
Frank’s Testimony
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I am a Chicago Firefighter and member of New Joy Divine Full Gospel Church, in Chicago, Founded and Pastored by Apostle Aaron L. Royster and Prophetess Mable L. Royster. I am an Ordained Minister facilitating the church’s Men Servants Ministry and publishes the weekly e-mail newsletter
“CONNECTIONS” that has announcements, news, recommendations, articles, and other information helpful to men in their spiritual growth. He is a member of the Trustee Board and plays guitar in the Anointed Voices of Praise Band.
New Joy Divine has been the church home for my wife Linda and I since 1997. Linda served as the president of the Usher Board for a few years and is an ordained minister as well. I am an active Advisor for the Oak Lawn Lighthouse of Aglow International, an interdenominational organization of Christian women in 137 nations around the world.
I have a heart for Men’s Ministry and believes that until men come to a full understanding of their spiritual role in the household, their family’s true potential will never be realized. To that end, I founded “Path Of Life Ministries”, a Web Ministry with articles and links to resources to help put men on the Path Of Life.
Now all of this sounds fine & good now. But where did I come from?
From a "bottom" in 1990, God took me on a journey to learn how to trust and obey Him.
I don't have a "rags to riches" testimony. God did not perform a miracle healing in my body, nor did He speak to me in an audible voice. I can tell you this; God saved my marriage from my infidelity. God delivered me from nearly losing everything as a "functional alcoholic." Two years after a corporate "down-sizing" God spared my family the pain of foreclosure with an "11th hour-59th minute" financial miracle. God moved hearts and minds to finance two vehicles in the midst of bad credit with the finance officers stating that they didn't know why they approved us. God is a good God!
There are many more "acts of a God kind" that I could recite, but, there is a message: God requires only two things from us TRUST HIM and OBEY HIM. That's the simple version, we can play around with the details all we want but, that's my bottom line.
God Bless You!
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I was so lost, doing so many horrible things, disobeying God and disrespecting myself over and over. But, by the grace of God, I found him.
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