What Happened? and How did it change you?

Wow that happened to me too....oly i wasn't pagan wiccan fro 7 years it was less than a year, and it wasn't at a university...i started reading the bible, and then knew that it was the truth....

I was on my last Primary School Year (in Venezuelait's the 6th grade) and I went sick of this weird fever. It was not the flu 'cause I didn't have any cough and I did not sneeze either just the fever (high temperatures though) I was delirious. I started to think that I was going to die that week. I felt as people in my house didn't realize I was there, sick!

-By the way, it was my fisrt week of Summer Vacations!!!

(I have to mentione that my mom at that time was a believer and my oldest sister to, so they were worried about my life and since I was a child they took me to the Church and Sunday School for me to learn about God's Word and Christ as well)

All my life passed through my eyes one of those days and I just stared crying asking God to forgive me for all my sins and for another chance to change.

I started getting better almost at that very time when I ask Christ come into my life as a Savior and Lord! It was 20 years ago and I steel have the feeling that it was yesterday when I got this awesome gift. Every single day when I open my eyes I can see God's mercy in my life.

I really thanks my Lord for giving me such a not deserve gift!

 Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share how I became a Christian.

God bless you and His Holy Grace be with you and your family generation after generation.

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Oh, my eyes instantly teared up when I read Kimberly's message. You know the angels in heaven are still rejoicing over each and every one that enters in the family of God.

I remember what life was without Christ. Dark, empty, scared, and alone. I had on and off believed in Jesus. My mother was Christian and my father an atheist, they were divorced so I went to church when I lived with my mom but with my dad I didn't. I did get baptised when I was 11 and had a close relationship with Jesus then. Soon after I moved in with my dad and lived a wild life. My father abused drugs and encouraged me as well. At 13 I was kicked out of school, active with boys and on a bad road. I ended up moving in with my grandparents for my father became homeless. At my grandparents I cleaned up and started missing my mother. I moved back with her and my step dad and agian messed up my life. A year later my mother and step dad divorced. I got my first job and was pretty down for my father would call and beg me to return to California in one sentence and turn around and forget who I was in the next. I quit school and continued working. My mother had quit church years prior, but had found a small church that was close. She would ask and plead with me to attend with her. One day I did. I was so uncomfortable, I did not like it. A short time later at church, a girl my age befriended me and would anwser some of my questions. One night after church I picked up a little book of John and in my bed I read. As I came to the Samaritan at the well. I was ready to give everything I had to Christ. I was so dry and dead. Living water from Jesus sounded so good. Could he really love me after all I did? I wonderd. I prayed so hard. Everything changed from that moment when I was 16. My desires, my taste in music, my dress, my language, & my heart. I was a new person. I have found no greater friend, no greater love in my life. Jesus is my all. Rich or poor, bond or free. Jesus is with me.

I have fallen along the way, but Jesus has always picked me up. I am now 30 and have seen God's hand at work many times in peoples lives. Nothing thrills my heart more. With God all things are possible. Hearts can change no matter how mean, how distant, or cold. 

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Jesus has always been with me..... I know it....I accepted Him in my 20's. All i will say is there was alot of evil around. I had been on my own since i was 12. My father said you can work? i said yes..And he told me to leave. After living the street life, the night life, the party life. I was touched, touched by grace.And then Jesus used me. For this i am blessed.

Jesus is my friend. and I know i can trust Him. and so you see i am saved. But forgive me if i don't share the details. Its between Me and The Lord.

I don't look back, unless there is a story that i can tell that someone will relate to, and then be saved.

I know ..This isn't much.But there is really nothing. Only the Lords Love., and it shines down into the darkest depths, where the sun does not shine,where death seems more pleasant than life.....

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I was raised with my dad being a lutheran pastor - over here in Germany it is different from what lutheran is considered in the united states. well, he always asked us - me and my sister and brothers - to join - he never forced us. he only said he would be happy if we did and that made us go to church and join a lot of other groups related to that. we always were free to choose - and i am glad that i was raised that way so I always have had the possibility to make my own choice and i chose to be with God.

Love and Blessings

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I have believed for as long and as far back as I can remember really

The Lord Is My Shepherd

I am nothing but lost without Him

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God and His love are the most impotant things in my life.I feel His attencion everyday. I first believe when I was five years old.

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                  SHOCKED by a MIRACLE 
                 
                   I turned off Religion early in
                  my life & developed finally to a FANATIC Atheist & VERY Anti
                  Christ & the Bible.i would pick on Christians to Attack them &
                  try to Disprove their faith & convince them of the Non
                  Existance of God & that there is no life after death & that we
                  all came about through Evolution (i was affected by Darwinism
                  & Neo Darwinism). Deep inside though, i was Really Searching
                  for a meaning in life & thinking that Since Death is the End,
                  why live Longer...I mistook Pleasure for Happiness & immersed
                  myself in that...But All was Temorary & the more the more
                  depression. One day i met a Young Vibrant Christian Believer &
                  as Usual started attacking his faith & to prove a point i was
                  making against Christ,i took out a Big Anti Christian Book i
                  had & wanted to quote from it Against Jesus.... But when i
                  opened this Book....SUDDENLY ALL THE PAGES TURNED
                  WHITE....Even my Handwritten anti christ Notes at the Books'
                  Margins...WERE ALL WIPED OUT...I Was SHOCKED (even NOW my
                  hair stands on end). It was as if the God i SOO much Hated was
                  telling Me:" Gasen, who do you think you are to try & Disprove
                  ME, i WIPE out ALL your so called Proofs". i lay awake All
                  night thinking" then there IS a GOD & the BIBLE IS TRUE &
                  JESUS IS REAL  after all..." And then i made my Decision &
                  told HIM: GOD i don't know YOU & have attacked you always ,I
                  am NOT Good ...I DO NOT DESERVE Your Grace...But Please Do
                  take over My life & Forgive Me for all the Bad things i did."
                   Instantly i felt The Great Presence of GOD in the Room
                  FILLING me With JOY JOY i was Floating from Happiness...And I
                  felt JESUS coming & Hugged me.....I slept then & got up
                  A NEW PERSON....Life,the World ALL looked Good ...Everything
                  fell into place. I went around to my Friends, relatives
                  Telling them that THERE IS A GOD...they were STUNNED ,since i
                  was always trying to prove the opposite...Many Came to Christ
                  in time...Including both my parents & Also  my Atheist
                  Brother(DR Surgeon)..That increased My Joy a lot.
             

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I'm a cradle Christian.  Some of my first memories are being in a church.  I was lucky my Pa's family are methodist and they ministered in Japan and were sent back to the United States because of the war.  My other father is also a Christian and he always believed that we should learn the life.  The only thing was finding the right pastor, one that I could trust that knew the Living Word, who was honest and true to God and his congregation.  When I was 29 or 30 I got tired of looking for the right church and asked a local congregation if they would do my baptism for me, even though I wasn't a member.  Then I got lucky, I was victimized by a few criminals and moved to a different city so they wouldn't hurt my ex and some other people.  Well, when I moved to this new city.  I received a sort of revelation.  You see my ancestors are Jewish, they are what is known as secular Jews, due to the World War I and World II the Jews that had moved to the United States became Christian.  I had always wondered about my heritage.  Well, I received the revelation that Jesus was Jewish.  We were always taught that to know that Jesus was the Messiah meant you couldn't be Jewish.  Well, I got really lucky the Good Lord lead me to a congregation that was Messianic.  Jewish followers of the Messiah Jesus Christ.  So, I couldn't be happier!

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AND I BELIEVED IN HIM..........

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