Came From Backslidden Past

Came From Backslidden Past

by | Sep 12, 2025 | Testimonies

At 14 was born again. A year later I backslid which lasted for approx. 10 years. The night my life changed – 4 am, the Lord put a thought in my head: “If you die tonight where are you going to go?” I answered: “straight to hell”. Then the Lord put another thought in my head: “It will have to be an all-or-nothing decision, not half-hearted!!” Shortly after this incident, I surrendered my life and soon after the Lord gave me a dream which went something like this: I found myself standing looking down at an area of open soil. I stuck my hand in the soil and pulled out a bat which had a verse on it: EPH 5. When I woke I read the verse and the part that jumped out was the verse that declares that one should have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness but reprove them. Almost 20 years later, by his grace am still following him, having been through many deliverances (that is another story) The Lord has shown me many things regarding deception in the world and the body of Christ. 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

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The Morning God Became Real

The Morning God Became Real

by | Sep 11, 2025 | Testimonies

Early in my childhood, I accepted Christ as my Savior. With a child’s mentality, I’m sure I did it to hopefully make God happy with me, and so I wouldn’t go to hell. There was a lot of turbulence in my home-life through those years. Because of the turbulence, I was attracted to whatever would make me happy. Wherever alcohol was available, I sought after it. Drugs were not readily available like they are today, so drugs were not an option, thank goodness. After high school, I enlisted in the Army. Through little choice of my own, I was “volunteered” to become a prisoner-of-war interrogator and was sent to Vietnam. In the name of “war” I tortured prisoners to get information. Before going to Vietnam, I got married. I came back from Vietnam twisted by the war: hard-hearted and a heavy drinker. My marriage began to go downhill soon thereafter. My youngest brother, Dale, the black sheep of the family as far as I was concerned, also had a powerful born again experience. And it was seeing the incredible change in his life for the better that began to make me take a more serious look at my comprehension of Christianity. When I would talk with Dale, all he would tell me was to forget about my hang-ups about Christianity and organized religion,

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I Blamed God For Her Death

I Blamed God For Her Death

by | Sep 10, 2025 | Testimonies

In July of 97, I lost my best friend to a car accident. After that, i really went downhill. I blamed God for her death, she backslid and was living in sin. The guy she was with was my ex-best friend, she got mixed up in the wrong crowd. She used to be the best witness and she knew her Bible, I was always shy and wouldn’t witness but when I met her I started to come forth. But when she died I couldn’t take it. I don’t know if she made it to Heaven or not. Well for the rest of that year, I partied and went with a lot of guys. I almost went to jail for vandalism, there were so many times I could have been killed. In late 98 I got back in church and rededicated my life. At the beginning of 99, I met this wonderful guy at a sing whom he played the guitar for. Well I and that guy are married now, he still plays for that group and is active in our church and has a 2-month-old little girl. I never knew how much I could love someone until I had her. And now I realize how my mom felt all those years I rebelled. I thank God that I am alive

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My Parents Were Disappointed and Upset

My Parents Were Disappointed and Upset

by | Sep 9, 2025 | Testimonies

So I grew up in a Hindu family. And we had a shrine in our house with images of the different gods and goddesses that we prayed to regularly, asking them to bless us. And we would strive to live a good life and do good to others, so that the gods would bless us even more. And I first heard the Christian message when I made friends with some Christians at university. There was something about their lives that was just distinctive, and I was intrigued. They encouraged me and another, Buddhist, friend of mine to investigate Jesus for ourselves. And we both reluctantly agreed to go to a Christianity Explored course. And it meant going along to a house of a guy called Ed. We’d have a meal together, and then look at the Bible together. And it felt just a bit – when I first heard it, it felt a bit strange and awkward, which is part of the reluctance. We didn’t really want to go. And in fact, I missed the first couple of sessions altogether, and when I finally made it, I turned up late. But once I was there, I was hooked. I knew I needed to find out more. I remember getting pretty heated at one particular event when I discovered that the

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I Didn’t Think I Was Cut Out To Be a Christian

I Didn’t Think I Was Cut Out To Be a Christian

by | Sep 8, 2025 | Testimonies

My wife asked me to go on the Christianity course. She’d been on it two years ago. But I was rather reluctant to go on the course. However, by going to church I’d spoken to people – Christians at church – who’d said it was a good course. And I’d also noticed how happy and contented Christians seem to be. So I thought perhaps there might be something in it that was worthwhile for me to go and see. So I rather reluctantly agreed with Maureen yes I’d go along. I found the Christianity course very interesting. It was informative, it was well structured and well organised, but most importantly it answered many questions that I had. The two major questions that I had was whether I could believe the Bible – that it was an actual factual representation of what happened. And the second one was whether I could believe in the resurrection. And the minister and the Christian leaders who were on the course were always able to go to the Bible to give me the answers, and the Bible always provided the answers to me which I found pretty conclusive. The second part was whether I could believe the resurrection, and I was given other references to read which helped me to understand the proof behind the

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