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Jasmine shares her story,

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

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