!DC!RevDude - Discuss this Testimony

Most of you guys have never heard of me before which I'm perfectly content with that I praying that God will allow me into a clan that is spearing the Gospel for Jesus to a people of dying people.

This is what Jesus had done for me!

I was raised in church all my life. From the day I was born until this very moment in my life.

At the age of 12 I received a calling on my life. I was to become a missionary. i didn't know what type of missionary but a missionary of some kind.

Not too long after that I got scared of what God had called me too do! So I began to run from God. I ran Hard!!! I began to play video games that had to do with violence, sex, and blood and gores. I also began to watch movies that had sex, nudity, cussing, and other this that was driving me farther from God.

While I was in high school I got proportion to have sex with 5 or 6 different girls. I thank God I never had to had sex with any of them.

Then on Jan 1, 2005 while I was sleeping. God WOKE ME UP! I WOKE UP IN A COLD SWEAT! God TOLD ME JONATHAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING???? WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW ME YOU WILL "GO...TO...HELL!!!!!'

You talking about scaring the Hell out of me I was scared and I turned my life around from that moment on!! I've been baptized in a creek, I've got my license as a minister of the gospel. I've become my pastor armor bearer. Since Jan. 1, 2005!!!

But From my actions of my past, God convicts me of watching just people kissing on movies that I've got to turn it off! That is my punishment of watchiung all those evil videos. I don't mind. For the video games. Halo is about the only online games I play because I'm trying to spear the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost and Dieing world. I want people to know that I'm a person that Has DECREASE THE POPULATION OF HELL!!!!!!

I hope this has blessed ya'll!!!

Your fellow brother in Christ,
Rev. Jonathan Williamson
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!DC!Zion - Discuss this Testimony

Since the age of 5 I knew and talked with God, but not until the age of 12 did I know what it meant to be a Christian. During one morning I was sitting in church with my grandma and the pastor asked if anyone had yet been saved. Shortly after thinking about this question, I broke down in tears and accepted Christ into my life, and repented for my sins in the past. I had never felt like this in my life and I later found out that I had much more to learn.

The first few months were great, but then things began to slowly fade over time. Everything just became a habit for me. I only went to church because my parents or my grandma made me. After a while I stopped going all together, because I was “busy” or “sleep was good.” Reading my Bible was a chore and it would be a miracle if I read it every week. I still “worshipped” and prayed. The prayers went something like, “God thank you for this day, forgive me of my sins, and help me with my math test tomorrow.” When I was in 6th, 7th and 8th grade I started to cuss as that became the norm to do. For a while I had a chance to be a Christian...but I was wasting it.

From the ages of 14-16, I struggled with pornography addiction and lust. At the time I felt no guilt for what I was doing and continued to do it. Once I turned 16, I began to feel conviction from God and began to pray about my situation every day. Eventually my problems with this matter ceased and I began to grow closer with God with every new day.

I understand that I cannot expect myself to be perfect, nor am I anywhere near that. What makes me a Christian is knowing that Jesus died on the cross for my sins and whatever we do, we should strive to be like Jesus. Sin is still a part of my life, but that part of me now knows the difference between a worldly life and trying to live a new life in Christ.

-Eric
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!DC!Samuri - Discuss this Testimony

Hey everyone, David here. Little about me, I am seventeen and I am a Christian. I have grown up in a Christian home all of my life. I recently accepted Christ a few years ago at a Christian camp.

God has opened so many doors in my life and he also closed them too. I am glad he opened the door that showed me !DC! This clan has been great. I joined last year around April or May. I am currently part of the High Council and it is great.

Little more about me, I am really into music. I play guitar, bass guitar, and sing for our worship team for church. I also play the cello, have been since fourth grade and I am going into my senior year of high school.

Last October God brought a wonderful girl into my life. She is always there for me and I think she is the one for me. She is also a Christian so that is a plus.

God Bless and thank you for taking the time to read my testimony.

David
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!DC!TeddyBear - Discuss this Testimony

My whole life I have grown up in a Christian family. When I was about 6 years old, we were at an Xtreme-Team sporting event,when they had an alter call. In my heart I knew I needed to accept Christ into my heart, as my personal savior, to be my Lord. So I ran down to the front, talked about it with a nice lady, and asked the Lord into my heart. Since then I have felt God move me in unbelievable ways.But also sometimes I could feel Satan pushing me to do wrong. From the ages of 12-14ish I had really fallen from God, due to getting addicted to the internet, deaths in my family, and so much more. I was finding ways of skipping church, not reading my Bible, or not praying much anymore; I had an attitude like a bear all the time. No one could stand me, not even myself.

One day I felt this massive tug on me to read my Bible and pray. So i spent about 3 hours just reading and praying to God that He could help me get on track. I realized that I was not being smart by pulling away from God like that and I also realized that I needed God through all hard troubles I was facing day to day. Shortly after I got my life back on track, with God's help of course, I went to a Missions Training Event in Edmonton called PREPARE. There I learned so much about myself. Some of the things I learned at PREPARE that i think will help you too is:

Look for those around you. Look for the person behind their appearance that they project,
Listen to their story. Listen for the meaning behind their words."God called us to listen to people, It is Impossible to care unless you listen"- P.Greg
Learn. Learn to care for those around you, Learn to listen to what God is calling you to do/be.
Those three things I take with me everywhere. They have become my guidelines in life.

Everytime I find myself falling i remember those 3 things, I remember that God still loves me, and sometimes ill start singing..

From The Inside Out- Hillsong UNITED.

"Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades,
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame,
In my heart, in my soul, Lord I give you control,
Consume me from the inside out Lord,
Let justice and praise become my embrace,
To love You from the inside out,Everlasting,
Your light will shine when all else fades,
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame,
And the cry of my heart is to bring You praise,
From the inside out Lord, my soul cries out!!"

I'm Glad I have the chance to be one of His Children, and know that when ever I fall...He's there to catch me, whenever I cry...He wipes away the tears...whenever I feel dead inside...He revives me. Without Him, I would be nothing. He is truely my Savior! =D

-KytaC♥
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!DC!Syco - Discuss this Testimony

Well where do I start, I was born in New Zealand and adopted at the age of 1 week and now live in Australia (all my life), due to my birth mother only being just 17 when she had me and my birth father not being in the picture at all... I got adopted by my current parents and since then have been brought up in a Christian household.

Since I was little I have always been going to church, kids club and stuff like that. At the age of 12 I decided that I wanted to learn more about Christ and started going to a youth group. I think it was later on that year that I made the choice to follow Christ as much as humanly possible...

At the age of 16 I decided to get baptized, and also had a major role in the youth I was attending, only being 16 and running most of the games and entertainment for a group of people from the ages of 14-18 (along with 2 other mates around the same age)...

At around the age of 18 I had a big fallout with my best mate, due to a girl... silly I know... I lost faith for a few months and struggled to get back, I even tried to attempt suicide in that time of my life...

After about 4 months of not talking to my mate at all, we started talking, I started being a leader at the youth I am currently at (had 5 months when the youth was not on due to lack of leaders availability)...

Since then I have been trying to rekindle my relationship with God to what it was. I still lead the youth; it has been about 4 years being a leader and teaching kids about Christ and about 9 years since I started at the same youth group.

Main events that made me come to Christ were the different views of different churches I went to. My family normally spent maybe 2-3 years at a church then left due to it not meeting our needs as a family.... this gave me many questions on how others thought and received the Word.

Also having close Christian friends that I knew so well, they could be a brother or sister, helped in my search and rekindling my faith

So that is my story of how I became a Christian, and a few challenges in my life that made me doubt.

-Stephen
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!DC!Ghost - Discuss this Testimony

Well, I was saved at the age of 10 at our church's Kids Kamp in the summer 8 years or so ago. I don't have a heartbreaking story about an abusive family or an early tragedy in life. I didn't suffer any injury that would make a good story to tell. Frankly, the story of my salvation is normal, except for one small detail : Salvation itself is not a normal occurrence. It is a life changing, earth shattering experience. It is the full realization that an infinitely powerful being, the very same one who created the entire universe, cares enough about this little, small child that He would send his only, perfect son to die for the world... and for me. That something so big and wondrous would care enough to look down and see the small kid wondering around the forests of Texas.

I was born into a Christian home, and into a Christian family that loved me and showed me who God was at an early age. I guess it never quite dawned on me how big of a deal God was. It took some time, but I finally asked the Lord to forgive me of my sins and enter into my life. I was a changed man from that day forth. I noticed I thought differently, and as time passed by, I actually had a yearning to go to church. Now, I am the only one out of my 30 something youth group that even cares to attend church at his own will. It seems everyone else has 'better' things to do. I just hope I never lose the unquenchable thirst I have for God now when I’m 20, 30…heck even when I’m 60 to have the faith I have now... faith in Almighty God.

I came to realize what significance this one Man had in my life, and how through Him, I would someday be able to meet God himself, and bask in the light of His never ending glory forever more. I hope that others around me will see what kind of an impact the Lord had on me both mentally and spiritually, and in how I handle myself in public relationships. The biggest things in the world start from the smallest of questions....

" Plant the seed, and through God, it will grow."
~ Jason Shefstall, City Reach 2008