I Felt Compelled to Find Out More

I Felt Compelled to Find Out More

I was born into a close knit church community, and spent my first ten years attending church and Christian schools. But God was never talked about at home. I knew the rules and commandments. I knew the Lord’s Prayer forwards and backwards. I could recite many psalms and hymns. But I still didn’t know who God was. When my family left the church, we didn’t just leave the church behind. We no longer prayed, read the Bible, or even talked about God. We quickly adjusted to our new lives, leaving our faith behind us. We turned our backs on God, and embraced the appeal the world seemed to offer. As a teenager I rebelled greatly, against my parents, against life, and against the God I kept trying to out run. I couldn’t believe in a God I couldn’t see. I didn’t want to be the fool. So much of the world shouted that he didn’t exist. Evolution seemed to prove it. But I couldn’t shake the feeling I had deep down inside of me that just maybe there was something to this whole God thing. What if God was real? And why couldn’t I stop thinking about him? I couldn’t help but pray to a God I couldn’t see, and ask him to open my eyes. I wanted to know

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Delivered From Heroin

Delivered From Heroin

I grew up in an atheist home: I never went to Sunday School, we never went to church. And I lived life on my own terms without any reference to God. I lurched from one disastrous relationship to another, looking for love in all the wrong places. And when I was thirty, I got involved with a guy who was five years younger than myself. When I found out he was doing heroin, instead of leaving him I started taking heroin as well. That began an 18-month ordeal as I tried to come off the drug, but it is incredibly addictive; and life just went from bad to worse. I was staying at a friend’s flat, and I remember rummaging around in the drawers for some matches, because one way of taking heroin is to light a bit of it and inhale the fumes—it’s called chasing the dragon. And while looking for the matches, I found a little Gideon New Testament and while high on heroin I started reading this little New Testament. I’d never read the Bible before, and I just read there that I was in real trouble—that there was a living God to whom I owed an account for my life, this life that I had just trashed. And suddenly I realised that I couldn’t commit suicide—life

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I Had A Kind Of Opinion About The Bible

I Had A Kind Of Opinion About The Bible

I grew up on a council estate in south-east Essex. We were a single parent family: my dad was an alcoholic and he died when we were young. It was a difficult environment and we had to really put on appearances and make sure that we looked as though we had it all together. I think my mum was worried that if we didn’t brush our hair and wash our faces when we went out, we’d be taken into care. I got into tai chi and yoga, and then into things like Buddhism and meditation and all different kinds of prayer – really, New Age things. I was just taking all the nice bits of all the different kinds of religions, and they really speak into your life and to issues that you have. So I felt that I wanted to do more of that and I went to an interfaith seminary where you learn about the five major religions. You try and kind of put them all together and see whether we can all live nicely together. And that was great—but while I was there I made a friend, and she got breast cancer, and she was dying. So we got together to think about her funeral—she asked me to help take her funeral. She wanted to say something

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God Announced Him to Them

God Announced Him to Them

My hubby got called for another contract, he didn’t apply, he was just remembered (His equipment was taken on a lease)…..he was called and initial payment was made immediately, God announced him to them. Hallelujah!! God is watching over his word and confirming it back to back in my home, I give him all the glory. Try God Also Read: Understanding God: He is Quick and Dispassionate Nehemiah’s Leadership Playbook: Zeal He Was God Backed Saved from Idol Worship and Death An Easter Reflection You can now partner with the Daily Dew Ministry by clicking here

I Had A Smooth Pregnancy

I Had A Smooth Pregnancy

In November we received a word that God will water our seed until harvest. I got pregnant 7 months after suffering from preeclampsia and losing the baby. To the glory of God who keeps His word, I had a smooth pregnancy and easy delivery with no raised BP even for a day. Try God Also Read: Understanding God: He is Quick and Dispassionate Nehemiah’s Leadership Playbook: Zeal He Was God Backed Saved from Idol Worship and Death An Easter Reflection You can now partner with the Daily Dew Ministry by clicking here