How The Lord Saved Me From Suicide 15 Years Ago

How The Lord Saved Me From Suicide 15 Years Ago

February 6, 2008, my life forever changed. It was just days before my 19th birthday, and I had just started college as a freshman. While that sounds exciting, I never felt so worthless and miserable in my entire life. In fact, I wanted to take my own life because of how miserable I was. But it is only because of God and God alone that I am alive today 15 years later. That being said, today I want to provide my testimony so that we would bring God the glory and that we would be encouraged to move forward and live for Him because He meets us right where we’re at, even when we are at our worst. Growing up, I was already involved in church. I had parents who believed in the Lord and taught me about the Christian faith at a young age, in addition to Sunday school and the first few years of grade school since the school was Christian. For the most part, my life was good, almost perfect. There were many happy times until things changed as I entered public school, where I was exposed to a secular environment for the first time. Despite growing up in a Christian household, I felt like the most worthless person in the world. Growing up, I was bullied

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God Saved Me From Bondage

God Saved Me From Bondage

The church took me in and helped me grow as a Christian and the rest of the staff. I even got a job as a custodian for four years. The seeds of faith were planted, and my roots were more noticeable through the things I learned in God’s word over the years. The experiences that God allowed in my life, both good and bad, gave me the awareness of my urgent need for God in my life! The rest of my story is a series of ups and downs, but God was in my life this time, directing me and teaching me how to love Him, love others, and enjoy myself. My born-again faith started on June 25, 1986, when I finally gave up drugs and alcohol, giving me a new opportunity to live my life for Jesus Christ. Try God Also Read: Expecting the Unexpected The Benefits of Wisdom: Triple Advantage Entities in the Bible: The First Surrogate Parent Lessons From the Geese Jesus, the Living Word You can now partner with the Daily Dew Ministry by clicking here.

Alcohol And Drugs Were Thorns In My Flesh!

Alcohol And Drugs Were Thorns In My Flesh!

There then was a period when I got serious about my faith because God orchestrated that I would end up in long-term drug and alcohol rehabilitation for two years, during which I got the help I needed. I attended AA and NA for about ten years, yet even though it helped me, I found the church, which was the point at which I started to thrive. God used the church because the church caught my eye through its open basketball program. Back then, Basketball was fundamental to me and was the carrot that got me into the church again in 1989, shortly after I got out of long-term treatment.  Try God Also Read: Expecting the Unexpected The Benefits of Wisdom: Triple Advantage Entities in the Bible: The First Surrogate Parent Lessons From the Geese Jesus, the Living Word You can now partner with the Daily Dew Ministry by clicking here.

God Gave Me Faith To Believe

God Gave Me Faith To Believe

Like many people in the world, I grew up with no faith and no knowledge of God. I walked with no regard for God, who created me, and I was comfortable with the things of this world. I regarded the things of the Bible as foolishness and vain imaginations of people desperate for something to comfort them. I am sure that I would have remained in this state of ignorance without God’s intervention. God opened my eyes to spiritual realities during my last year in Finland before I moved to the UK to study economics. It was at this time that I found myself asking questions that I had never asked before. Providentially, God brought into my life a Christian classmate who spoke of the things of the Lord to me. I was curious about the things that she shared with me, but I could not just take her word for it. As I started reading the Bible, I read about things that I had never heard before. I thought maybe these words are true, yet I struggled to accept that this really is so. I remember asking God for supernatural signs to prove that He exists. He never gave me one, but instead He gave me faith to believe what I was reading. This Word – the inspired Scriptures,

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Coming To Faith Through Success and Failure

Coming To Faith Through Success and Failure

I come from humble beginnings, and my parents did everything they could to provide me with every opportunity to succeed. Neither of my parents would let my sister or me get away with not saying please or thank you. We would attend church, say grace before dinner, prayers before bed; God was in my life, but I didn’t fully know him. I grew up active. Participated in sports, played games in the yard, and had sleepovers with my friends. I was a good student with decent grades. I made the high honour roll and even earned the prized possession of a bumper sticker proclaiming this. My athletic career was also blessed. I was the leading running back my freshman year, and by my junior year I was a star on the football team. As my popularity around campus grew, the student body voted me to the homecoming court all four years of high school. Amid what I imagine was a life that many kids would dream of, my struggles began. I look back and think that, perhaps, if I had known God was to thank for all that I was blessed with, my life would have been different. In addition to my success in football and the classroom, I fell in love for the first time. I felt like I

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