onlychrist
Loveland, CO
age: 32
| Hi all,
Here is a post that I made on another thread. I have written a lot but I have felt my true life testimony will be of benefit to you. Enjoy!
I hear the pains of your hearts. Let's face it Jesus put a face on God, taught about the Kingdom, invited man to leave his cares about this life behind and seek something greater and surely lasting. Satan seeks to put a mask on God and make you believe that the God who gives you life every day, sunshine, food, water, even prosperity and much more, is the one to blame for the deaths of your loved ones. I was 20 and my brother 16 when he was put in a 12 day coma from a car accident. I prayed not knowing who God was. I prayed and asked God that if it was his will to heal my brother that He would heal him and if not end his suffering and take his life. His life was taken. The same year I saw a clip on the final wrath of God for all who reject his mercy through Christ's offering of himself for the forgiveness of sin. I did not have faith the Christ was the Son of God and could not believe that He was from God. I still had the confusion of evolution and about 128 other religions screaming in my ear. I delved heavily into drugs and alcohol and lived up the sex life, cheating and hurting people. I was out to fill the hole I had side up with all pleasure I could find - even if it was destroying me. I prayed that night I watched that show on the wrath of God and said, "Jesus if you are real and truly are the Son of God and live, if you really have come to save me from wrath then reveal yourself to me. You know nothing happened. Life continued on. But before you say see nothing happened... I want you to hear what did happen. July 4th 1999, three years later, I had totally forgotten about that prayer and was not even interested in God. I woke thinking about all the parties in my college town. Thought about getting laid, stoned, and drunk. Typical thoughts for me for that time of year. I had been partying since I got out of high school. Seeking to get more screwed than before. Extacy, pot, acid... It never brought anything into my life but confusion and heart ache. That Sunday morning on the 4th of July I got invited to church from a girl I partied with. I knew that Christians had loved me before when I went to church the few times I did in the past. I said I'd go because I was needing love. But I said in my heart I don't want to know Jesus or God. I went anyway. My first impression was that I was in a cult. Every body was thanking God for blood of the lamb. I didn't understand Jesus' death on the cross let alone Him being called the Lamb of God. I noticed that every one was full of excitement and true joy. They were free and lived in freedom. They were clapping and dancing and moving about with such ease. I was stiff as a bored and chained in fear. I thought my life was all that! God started showing me that I was bound in sin. About a third of the way through the service I did something I will never forget. I ran to the front of the building and cried out to God to take this junk from me - meaning my sin. Then I prayed a very unintelligible prayer... Jesus enter me! As like lightning a flood of peace beyond anything I had ever discovered, and a presence of love that filled me all the way up was present. I was surrounded by the presence of God. Jesus spoke to me in my mind. Knowing that He was a judge and knew all things, I was expecting to here about my sin. But He said: Billy I love you. Those words were not just words. They touched the deepest pains of my heart. The wounds no one cared about. Things that I had just covered over and went on living with. He knew about my whole life. I could tell he waited my whole life for this moment. These things were evident in His presence. Friends... I know your pains and sorrows, your highs and your lies. God is real and he's not mad at you. The devil wants to destroy you by turning you away from the only hope that exists. Christ defeated death, sin and hell when hung on the cross in place of you. Death is a judicial payment for the sins that destroy you and your loved ones. All have sinned and this world is unholy. But Christ went to the jail house for you, took your sentence, and went to the execution hall for you. Being blameless and born of holy and incorruptible seed he went to cross and died and with his perfect blood payed your sins completely forever and because He was righteous he rose again and judged satan and defeated his power that he has used against man kind. There was a spiritual battle the day Christ died. That is why the earth shook and skies were darkened. The greatest enemy you have and the death he used to enslave men to fear and provoke wars was judged and defeated. Christ took your sins on himself and died with them. You are not judged of God. He has set you free. And if you ask Him He will give you His faith to overcome the grave through eternal life in His Son. There is a new heaven and a new earth to be created after the day of Judgement. God has set His Son to be his merciful hand to pull you from pains of sin and death and to excape the day he destroys all that seeks to be contrary to his will for peace and righteousness exist forever. Will you go on in disbelief and harden your heart to the savior of your soul and let a judged foe drag you into his judgement? The devil will be cast into a lake of fire while the redeemed will live in an eternal habitation. Don't let Satan's lies keep you from the truth. Missionaries have found tribes of people in remote place that Christ has revealed himself to and not man. It's not a man made religion. Christ is alive and active and is drawing men to the creator of all before the final day that is coming soon. The signs Christ spoke of are coming together. The temple that the antichrist will sit in is preassembled right now in Jeruselum. I urge you all to lay down the lives you have lived and find His life that is more rich than gold itself and more precious than anything you know. Christ wants to come and live in you, walk through you, and destroy the works of satan by spreading the truth and displaying his power before His return! I have partied from Rome to San Fran and nothing has ever compared to the life I have in Christ. I don't boast of myself He saved me. His glory has only continued to be manifest in my life. He has taken me to great hieghts in him and has delivered me from great depths. The key of prayer is to know his heart and what is his will so you have the faith that won't waiver to even raise the dead. You need his faith after all he is the author of miracle and not man. Seek him and he will be found if he doesn't find you first. Beside all of creation waits on Him. Ask him to reveal himself to you... Don't be afraid he loves you. Why would I share this if he didn't
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4evr6y
Morgan, VT
age: 66
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 great testimony brother
a long read, but to me worth it...
i won't critique your theology....
no need....
ain't God great! 
4evr
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adameve
Lacombe, LA
age: 46
| Amen   Worship time. JESUS the lover of my soul.
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redddolly
Windber, PA
age: 61
| I MADE A SHORTER VERSION OF ONLYCHRISTS TESTAMONIAL BUT IF YOU HAVE TIME PLEASE READ THE ORIGINAL VERSION...............................Onlychrist.....It looked long but I read it and It brought a tear to my eye. God Bless you on your journey to accepting our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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I was 20 and my brother 16 when he was put in a 12 day coma from a car accident. I prayed not knowing who God was. I prayed and asked God that if it was his will to heal my brother that He would heal him and if not end his suffering and take his life. His life was taken.
I delved heavily into drugs and alcohol and lived up the sex life, cheating and hurting people. I was out to fill the hole I had side up with all pleasure I could find - even if it was destroying me. I prayed that night I watched that show on the wrath of God and said, "Jesus if you are real and truly are the Son of God and live, if you really have come to save me from wrath then reveal yourself to me. You know nothing happened.
three years later
Sunday morning on the 4th of July I got invited to church.
They were clapping and dancing and moving about with such ease. I was stiff as a bored and chained in fear. I thought my life was all that! God started showing me that I was bound in sin. About a third of the way through the service I did something I will never forget. I ran to the front of the building and cried out to God to take this junk from me - meaning my sin. Then I prayed a very unintelligible prayer... Jesus enter me! As like lightning a flood of peace beyond anything I had ever discovered, and a presence of love that filled me all the way up was present.
He knew about my whole life. I could tell he waited my whole life for this moment. These things were evident in His presence. Friends... I know your pains and sorrows, your highs and your lies. God is real and he's not mad at you. The devil wants to destroy you by turning you away from the only hope that exists. Christ defeated death, sin and hell when hung on the cross in place of you.
Christ took your sins on himself and died with them.
The temple that the antichrist will sit in is preassembled right now in Jeruselum.
Don't let Satan's lies keep you from the truth.
Christ wants to come and live in you, walk through you, and destroy the works of satan by spreading the truth .
Ask him to reveal himself to you... Don't be afraid he loves you. Why would I share this if he didn't.
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