As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
Proverbs 27:17
I don't really understand myself, for I want to do what is
right, but I don’t do it.
Romans 7:15
“Bent but not broken” is an expression used to describe strong
people who, although encountering great hardship, manage to
maintain their positivity, endurance and spirit.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
Romans 3:23
The church consists of God’s people. IT is not organizations,
denominations, buildings or creeds!
Do not fear! Even in your brokenness, God will give you
strength and hold you up when you can't hold yourself up.
Isaiah 41:10
Church is not a hotel for the Saints, it is a hospital for the
sinners.
We are a community of imperfect believers that exist to share the
message of faith, hope and love through prayer, resources and
testimonies to everyone, everywhere, everyday.
This is not a “movement”.
This is not a “revelation”.
This is an understanding of The Truth!
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
JOHN 8:32
Testimonies
I have told the man that molested me from age 5 to around 10ish that
I forgive him. I forgive him because knowing the free will God gave
him to hurt me is the same free will God gave me to use for peace
and forgiveness. He had served time for molesting another person.
I felt called to give him the gift of knowing I was not holding a
grudge and that I had healed in those 30 some odd years since I had
last seen him. However, in that same moment of forgiving him, he
uttered, "but you know that only happened once" ...which he and I
knew was not true: there was a 5+ year period the abuse took place.
I think he did this because we were in a public place not private
and other family member heard the exchange and he thought he would
look better in their eyes, a Thank You would have been a lot easier
to utter and better received, ...but all the trauma flooded back
in. Giving him abolution and having it belittled in that way...was
very painful. I was wholeheartedly devastated after I reached my
car and was alone, I cried and I cried out to Jesus, because how
dare he reject my forgiveness like that, ... after several days of
thinking about the event, I began to be upset because I knew there
where sin things in my life at the time that I needed to stop, and
sin is sin: No one sin is greater than another, Jesus died for them
all. Him rejecting my forgiveness in that way, awakened me to my
own current disobedience to God and of the heartache I must be
causing Jesus in my own actions, and I immediately stopped making
those sin choices. I still forgive this man, now it is between him
and his God. In a weird way it healed me in more than one way, how
it unfolded. However, where trauma is concerned sometimes when you
forgive someone it is best left between you and God.
Forgiveness Testimony - JH / Indiana
God is the reason I am alive today!
I was stationed at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where I had
a few really close friends, we were truly like family. One day I
made a very bad decision and it cost me some friendships. I had
dwelled on the bad choices that I made and it weighed heavy on me.
These choices had serious consequences and violated military law. I
felt that I could no longer handle knowing that I was the cause of
so much hurt and pain to others. I had been contemplating suicide
for several weeks, thinking to myself, everyone would be better off
if I wasn’t around. One day I started drinking whiskey and the urge
to kill myself grew. I decided that it was time to end the pain and
shed my last tear. As I lay in a bathtub full of water, whiskey
bottle in hand, radio plugged in and sitting on the edge of the tub,
I thought here it goes. Right when I was about to put the radio in
the tub with me, someone busted into the bathroom and moved the
radio and dragged me out of the tub. How did they know what I was
about to do? They told me as they were driving by my apartment, they
had a weird feeling and then God spoke to them and told them to turn
around and check on me. After they told me that God told them to
check on me, I was still in disbelief, Why God, Why me? I am not a
righteous person I still didn’t have the answers but I kept thinking
that He must have something planned for me, if not he wouldn’t had
saved me.
Several years later, after I got out of the military, I was
attending church regularly. I was keeping the faith and on November
17th, 1997 I was saved! I felt the Holy Spirit pick me up and carry
me to the altar and I started living for God. My life was going
well, I tithed as I should and was faithful to God and my church.
Then unfortunate things happened within the church and I turned my
back on church and God. After years of living for myself and
backsliding, God did bless me with a beautiful daughter. I was a
single dad doing the best I could. She was now a teenager and times
were getting tough as I was playing both parent roles. I had always
kept God in the back of my mind and often thought about talking to
Him again. One day after a relationship went bad and things were
falling apart mentally and financially, I starting wondering if I
truly would be missed. So, I started to think about suicide again.
This time I thought of ways to make it look like it wasn’t suicide
so my daughter would have the insurance money. One night I was on
the edge and was ready to leave the earth and thought this time I am
going to do it. While I was walking, I felt very much alone but
during that dark and quiet moment, God spoke to me and said NO, I
started to cry, I ran home and grabbed my Bible, opened it and just
starting reading the book JOB. Suddenly my life wasn’t so bad. I had
wondered, why God, why me? He said why not you?
A couple of years later, I would still pray hard and tried to turn
my life around. I decided to make a move. I prayed to God for
guidance and put my faith in the Lord.
I am alive today and was able to move to this area two years ago,
met my beautiful wife and I am now a member of the Dream Team
through the Grace of God!
Alive Testimony
A few weeks ago I felt God leading me to start sharing Christian
Testimonies on my website. It was confirmed to me when I put a
request out to people that I know and had an overwhelming response.
Everyone’s Christian Testimony is powerful and is relatable to
various different people. Giving your personal testimony is a way to
share God’s redeeming love, grace and mercy with others, by
explaining your personal salvation experience. It gives others an
example of how God changes lives. It can also encourage others to
continue to press forward in their lives.
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