April’s Giveaway Contest!
What a special time of year it is as we celebrate the resurrection of our risen Lord! Jesus’ redeeming love has certainly changed our lives, and we want to rejoice with you as well! This month, we want to hear your story: tell us what brought you to the cross, and how your life was changed when you surrendered to His saving grace. How did God reveal Himself to you, and how has He shown Himself powerful in your circumstances? Share your story, and let’s give God all the glory!
When you leave your comment, you will be entered into the contest; the winner will be chosen by random at the end of the month. The winner will receive “The Passion of the Christ” on DVD. Leave your comment below, and let your testimony bring Him praise!
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Thank you! All glory to our Lord!
That was excellent sister! Glory be to God for what He is doing in your life. I am so proud of you my sister. I know our heavenly Father is too. You are so special to Him and always have been. It hurt Him to see all that you were enslaved to. But today you are slave to Him and righteousness. You will glorify God with your life. Keep spreading the Truth of God’s power to deliver the captives from sin, because that is your testimony. You were captive, but now you’re free.
I recently watched a video that convicted the mess out of me! 1 min and 21 sec into the video and I was just like “I have to let it go”. You see, when I was water baptized I had to give a testimony as to what Christ had done for me. It was a really emotional testimony but it didn’t go into the core of my struggles because I felt that it was no ones business but my own and on top of that I was ashamed and scard of what others would think…..Its like I forgot that Christ died so I wouldn’t have be ashamed…. so here is a poem/journal entry that REALLY goes into detail and I pray that it will be a blessing to you……..
I always say “Lord I give you all the glory and praise!” But am I really…when I keep all that you’ve done for me only to me? I was hiding all my struggles but if it wasn’t for you I would still be under all that sinful rubble. You see, from a young age I never truely loved myself…always comparing myself to others, low self esteem and the kids in school were so mean…one even said in middle school that I looked like somebodys mama….imagine my trauma. Hearing things like that does something to your spirit…it rips and tears it into a million pieces…..so I didn’t feel good about myself, didn’t feel loved….I felt like a baby that never experienced a hug. I went to church but cuz I had to…but didn’t really understand the love of Jesus Christ…..so I filled the void in my soul with lusts of the flesh…I didn’t know at the time that the door I opened at the age of 12 would be the hardest to close. It all started with masturbation then pornagraphy then that escalated to fornication and cyber sex with a dude I never met at the ripe age of 16. You see, lust was my friend… so I thought…cuz when I got my first feel of a man I became an addict. I just had to have it. I can count on one hand how many guys I played around with….it didn’t matter the number I just had to have it. I couldn’t tell you how many times I thought I was pregnant….but by the grace of God the tests always came back negetive. Lust is dangerous because it only focuses on self….I want to feel this , I want to watch that. I can now understand my fam’s shock….I kept this under a double padlock and key.
But a day came when the Lord set me free! I no longer wanted to live for me. All the stuff I was doing never permenantly gave me what I needed so desperately….love…All I wanted was someone to talk to when the kids at school made fun of me, someone to run to when I didn’t feel pretty…..just someone to say you’re beautiful, no matter what anyone else has to say….someone to say I love you in each and every way….
I met a man named Jesus one day….I was invited to see this play(Heavens Gates, Hells Flames)
After seeing how He died for me to set me free from all my sins and all that I held within… how could I not run to Him! I surrendered my life to Him that day and I’ve never been the same! I can now honesty say now, ” Lord I give you all the glory and praise”! ….because I’m giving full account of how you brought me from ground zero. You brought me from one of the deadliest of seven sins.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us. Your comment has entered you into the contest and will also be reposted on our home page and posted on our Facebook as well. To God be the glory. Please continue to share with us and our readers. If you ever feel led to share anything else. Please submit it.
God met me right where I was, in the middle of my bedroom floor on New years of 2009. I broke down, crying and praying like I’ve never had before. That night I realized that I had been living a huge lie. I realized that I assumed and presented myself as a Christian yet my lifestyle proclaimed the exact opposite. I was home from school for Winter Break and was ready to go out and party for new years. I searched for clubs in the Houston area for me and my friends to go and do what we did best. Plans for clubbing fell through and I was left feeling dissatisfied, I mean, I’m 18 years old, It’s New Years Eve and I was determined to get out and go wild. I called up a few other friends who said that they were going to just hang out and drink; I was against getting drunk but I thought I might as well because there was nothing else fun for me to do. Plans fell through for me yet again. Frustrated, I got on the internet and some kind of way ran across P4CM.com. On the site they had videos full of powerful testimonies and sermons all from young people ON FIRE for Christ. God spoke to me through each video I watched and also led me to scripture after scipture that exposed my sin and broke me down to my knees. I felt like I had been lied to my whole life. This whole time I had been thinking that I was a “good Christian” becuase I would go to all the parties, but I wouldn’t drink. I would hook up with different guys and go as far as oral sex, but I wouldn’t actually have intercourse with them. I would listen to dirty music, but thought it was okay because I listened to a little gospel on the side. I was giving myself standards to live by and was not aware of God’s standards. God spoke to my heart and showed me all the things I was doing that hurt him, for the first time they began to hurt me as well. I prayed that he would reveal to me what surrendering my life to him really meant. He woke me up the next morning and I felt this strong urging to go to church. I walked in late, and by the time I sat in my seat, the pastor came out and said “Today we’re going to talk about surrendering your life completely to Christ.” For the first time in my life I knew that God was really real and that he communicates with me on a daily basis.
Since then, I have grown closer and closer to Christ and as I get closer, the further away I grow from sin and my old lifestyle. He is constantly renewing my mind with his truth and chaging my desires drastically. I no longer have a heart full of pride and vanity but now he is working through me and I now have a heart for ministry. I thank God for snatching me up off the destructive path that I was on and putting me on the path of righteousness. My life gets sweeter and brighter everyday I walk with him. I no longer find satisfaction in things of this world like wild parties, lust, men or even material things. I find all that I need in my Father in heaven. He is doing things through me I never thought were possible. All praise and glory be to God