by Mary | Jul 19, 2025 | Testimonies
I was diagnosed with breast cancer sometime end of May 2020. I had surgery to remove the tumour and the surrounding tissue & lymph node on the 10th June 2020. Even with the initial GP visit, I had an inkling that this was a little different from a previous fibrous tissue lump I had a few years earlier, but even in those thoughts, God’s peace was filling me. On the 16th June, the results from the samples of the tissue & lymph node came back and were found to be negative for cancer, which was a real relief to know it hadn’t spread. The tumour itself, however, was a ‘grade 3’ tumour, which is a fast-growing tumour. I can’t help being so thankful to God that we found it as early as we did. It could have been a very different outcome had we not discovered it, because I still felt my normal self, perfectly healthy. My thoughts often turned to that, and I still find myself being so incredibly thankful to God for allowing us to find it early on, and also for the quick action from the medical profession that followed—and it was pretty quick, from the GP visit to surgery. I give all praise to God for His peace, which sustained me throughout this whole journey. There
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by Mary | Jul 18, 2025 | Testimonies
As a child, my greatest hope and ambition was to become a professional footballer. This is what I lived for, and what I wanted more than anything else in the world. When I was about eleven I made friends with someone who was going to point me to the Cross. At this time my friend was not a Christian but his parents were, and it was through my contact with them that the turning point came in my life. I could see that his parents were different to anyone I’d met before. They had something that was real in their lives; they were honest, truthful and willing to help anyone. I started to go to Sunday school and there I learned more about the cross, and what it meant to be a Christian. In the meantime, my friends’ parents moved to Anglesey, and it was whilst I was visiting them on holiday that I attended a gospel mission. I realised that I was a sinner before a holy and just God and that God was speaking to me. He was pointing me to the cross and there and then I gave my life to Christ and asked Jesus to come into my life and be my saviour. Since that time, instead of my main goal being football, it is now
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by Mary | Jul 17, 2025 | Testimonies
There was a time when Billy Graham was on television being interviewed and he was asked, “How do you become a Christian?” He replied, “You have got to see that you are a sinner, repent of your sin, and just believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and let him into your life.” On hearing this I can remember turning to members of my family and saying, “Yes, I believe that!” A few months later my former Pastor stopped his car in Summerseat and asked me if I wanted to hear Billy Graham at Earls Court in London. I replied, “Yes”. I remember it was a nice day out in London, but it was mainly the evening that I remember: an evening that changed my life forever. We went up to Earls Court, and the arena was massive. The first thing that struck me was the music of the choir. On taking our seats, what we saw was breath-taking: in the main body there were seats on the ground floor, and on three sides there were seats rising up in steps. We were on the left hand side, and as we looked down we could see the pulpit in front of us; just behind this was where the guest speakers were seated and above them was the choir. When the service
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by Mary | Jul 16, 2025 | Testimonies
When I was a small boy, I would pray every night for my sins to be forgiven, but I did not mean it. Because of this, I doubted whether I was a true Christian. But then you might ask, “Why did you pray on your own when no one else could hear or see you?” and my answer to this would be, “I was deceiving myself”. I would do a lot to please my mum and dad, but they were not the only people I was deceiving: I was deceiving myself! I would try and say to myself that I was a Christian, but I knew I wasn’t. I would do lots of the things that were easy for me to do (the outward things), but when it came to the hard things (the inward things), I would fail. That is why I was constantly sent up to my dad to be set right again, but it never had a permanent effect on me. I used to get very angry and frustrated not only at my brothers but also at my Dad, without any good reason. After listening to thousands of sermons and messages, one night I thought about what would happen to me when I was going to die. I often used to have bad thoughts about hell and
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by Mary | Jul 15, 2025 | Healing, Jobs, Testimonies
As a child, the thought of sitting and listening to someone speak for an hour was the strangest thing to me so I never really paid much attention to what was being said, nevertheless, God was giving me a knowledge of the foundation gospel through the church. As a family, we used to go to a place in the summer called Capernwray Hall which is a Bible School during the year but during the summer they do Christian family holidays and once I was old enough, I attended the teenage youth weeks. During one of the camps, something happened which changed my life. During one of the meetings during the summer of 2008 when I was 14, God spoke to me and convicted me of my sin. It was so clear that I was in a state of sin and on the road to hell. I knew this to be true from the years of faithful teaching I had been given at my church but up until that point I had refused to listen before the Holy Spirit melted my heart of stone. I can remember walking out of the meeting building and praying to God and asking for forgiveness for all the sins I had committed and that I wanted to live my life for Jesus. The first thing
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