CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY ..
CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY ..
My name is Mark and I want to tell you what God has done in my life.
I come from a family in which no one ever spoke of the Lord. We did not know anything regarding God, only what little it took to understand the doctrines of Catechism. Only my grandmother, who being a Jehovah's Witness, tried to encourage me to read the Bible, but at that time I did not care of it because, I was young having other things to think of.
My family my parents were too busy worrying about the our serious financial problems, rather than being present in me and my brothers lives, so we ended up growing up without any moral values and parental guidance.
Over the years I became accustomed to many types of common teenager habits, so I began smoking cigarettes and joints, eventually progressing to heavier drugs.
But sex in particular, was my obsession and weaker point. I was constantly doing it with any girl. One day I was given with the opportunity to hire a prostitute, and from that time onwards, this became a regular feature. It got so bad to the point where I would even get a big thrill from just the payment in money, for the sexual favors. While all this was going on, I unknowingly was enslaved in evil.
I have always been skeptical of any form of Spirituality. I did not believe in anything that was not physical and could not appear before my own eyes materially. I had the same opinion for religion, and I just could not believe that a God existed somewhere. But from the year 2010 onwards, following strange events, I was forced to broaden my understanding of all that is invisible to the human eye.
That is, me and my girlfriend decided to move in together. From the outset, however, I kept my sexual addiction secret. But being engaged to my girlfriend, it became difficult to continue hiring prostitutes, and so this addiction was eventually substituted by “CYBERSEX”.
Every time I tried to give up this adiction, I was over powered by a voice, that continually hammered me in my head, and told me that I could not live without it. This caused of many fights between me and my girlfriend, but despite all this fighting, I could not it up.
In half a year of living together, and much quarreling together, we then realized that at home strange things were happening. We began to notice that more and more often, some objects were always out of place from their usual positions in the house.
At first, we thought someone was secretly sneaking into our house and was playing pranks on us, but we soon realized that this was not the case. We then realized we had a GHOST in our house. We were then even further convinced, when the phenomena became even stranger and more complex such as, when framed paintings that were glued to the walls with strong silicone, would suddenly fall from the wall. Or in the more stranger manifestation, actual writings would appear on the mirrors. We tried communicating with this spirit, but it just continued to lie to us. It was then that, in the light of these events, I had to change my mind, and convince myself that the invisible realm existed, and all of a sudden, as a consequence then I realized that God had to exist!
I was overcome by fear, and so I began to recite the Catholic “Our Fathers”and the “Hail Mary” prayers, as well as reciting the rosary. We also came together with my brother to read the Bible together. I kept on reading it, but it just did not convince me, so I just did not take it seriously.
Meanwhile, the ghost’s pranks continued and became more intense, and I had sleepless nights mixed with fear and anxiety. One night this poltergeist, even drew signs on my girlfriend’s body, while she was asleep, and it was then that we decided to leave the house once and for all!
This was a clear decision, and we were fed up. But at that time we had a financial problem, being that my girlfriend had recently lost her job and so we did not know where to go. We were in a helpless situation. We asked my father in law if he could put us up for a while, and luckily he accepted.
We lived with him for a year, then for various misunderstandings we then went to stay with the my girlfriend’s grandparents.
In the meanwhile we continued to pray in the way we thought was right. Then after awhile I even gave up reading the Bible, but further on I then regained the desire to reconsider it again. So once again I began to read the Bible, but instead this time the effect it had on me was much different from the first.
I suddenly realized that I could see the Bible in a different perspective, and so I gained pleasure reading it, believing everything that is written in it. So I continued reading, little by little, day by day, and I began to feel a change of inner peace in me, and suddenly I realized that all my old addictions in which I was enslaved, were completely disappearing, from the largest to the smallest one, including my smoking.
So reading on ahead in the Bible, I found a passage of scripture, in the Gospel according to John.8.32 -36 that said…“32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”….and so, I realized that just by believing the TRUTH, I had been freed from the bondage of sin. This did not do this by calling upon the Name of the Lord, but God felt my heart and came to my aid.
IN FACT THE BIBLE SAYS in Romans.10:9-11 “9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.”
Then my brother told me, that the Lord revealed to him that the Catholic “MADONNA” or the “BLESSED VIRGIN MARY” was not Biblical, and that idolatry was a serious sin. So then at home I got rid of all of the icons and statues that I had of the “MADONNA” or the “BLESSED VIRGIN MARY”.
My brother then kept on telling me about an Evangelical Church, where he had found people who were praising God in “Spirit and Truth”, so I then decided to attend as well.
The impact at first, was very strong and moving, and I had never seen anyone praise God with such passion. So God came into my life giving me many blessings, He also gave me the joy in getting married. Then through many prayers He even gave me a house.
These blessings have continued, including the most important one, in which I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
All the glory goes to God and our Lord Jesus Christ …. So I say to you, accept Jesus as your personal Savior, and you too will see the glory of God in your life.
FOLLOWING JESUS IS NOT A RELIGION.
A RELIGION CANNOT GIVE YOU SALVATION, ONLY JESUS WHO HAS DIED ON THE CROSS FOR US HAS TAKEN AWAY ALL OUR SINS FOR OUR SALVATION. BUT WE MUST MAKE THE EFFORT TO TOWARDS HIM AND SEEK HIM, AND THEN HE WILL SAVE US..
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