What Jesus did for me

Hello all,

I am new to this site. I just wanted to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about who I am.

This is my Testimony:

I own a deck restoration company. I have 3 kids and a wife, so you could say that I am over the hill. When I was very young my father started to attend church. One day, he was out hunting and a man started shooting at him for about a half hour. My dad returned fire but the man was using a .22 caliber which goes much farther than the bird shot that he had in his gun. Even so, my dad shot back to enable himself to get away. The next day my dad accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior. I was about 2 at the time, and my dad took me and my family to church all my life. When I became a teenager we had moved to a new church where I didn't "fit in" with the kids. One thing that I noticed was that alot of small groups of people tend to "shut out" new comers. What ended up happening was that it drove me away from church and I started hanging around with un-believers and maybe people who say they believe in Christ, but didn't live the biblical life. I began drinking when I was around 15, partying, smoking weed, sex with my girl friends, ect. I was not living the way that God wanted me to. When I was young, I could feel God's favor on me, because I tried to stand up for what was right. When I began to live in sin, I felt that favor turn into disapproval. I felt guilty all of the time for what I was doing. I didn't have peace with God. I met a girl when I was around 22 and wanted to marry her. I began to go back to church in an effort to get my life right with God. The problem was that I had already gotten my fiance' in the habit of going to the bars. She didn't want to quit. She began going with her "friends" and began cheating on me. I met a guy at the church who was supposed to be a sunday school teacher and he ended up sleeping with my ex-fiance. (Don't put your faith in man, only in God) I stayed at a house that the people said was possessed by demons (ghosts) I didn't really believe it but I did later. I was sleeping and very strange things would happen. I had Christian music on and every time that it would talk about Jesus Christ and the Cross or the blood, the tape player would shut off. Over and over this happened, something poked me through the mattress several times, the lights wouldn't come on. The guys family was NOT religious but they would tell me stories of things that had happened to them. I believe them. The daughter was literally pulled off her bed by these demons.

On top of losing my fiance', staying in this hell house, all of my friends turned on me all within a couple of weeks. My family was never there for me, they didn't really care. They pretty much abused me by neglecting me. We still don't really see each other anymore much. It was the most stressful time in my life. I stopped going to church and I went back to the bars, this time alone. I made new friends but could not get close to them. My life stunk, I hated my life and one day I came to point where I couldn't take it anymore. There was a shotgun in the next room and I told God that if anything else happened to me that I was going to stick the gun in my mouth and pull the trigger. I could feel God's presence standing over me, looking at me. Thank God nothing else happened to me. Somehow, I knew that things were going to get better now. Things slowly began to get better.

I met my wife. This is where the story begins to get weird, yet all I can say it that I am telling you the 100% truth from my heart.

I began to rent ufo videos out of curiousity. I wanted to study the cases and see what they were all about. I watched one after the other, night after night for about a week. I was laying in bed up stairs in the attick where no one could come up there without making a rucus. My wife was facing the wall and I was sleeping on the outside of the bed. I entered into a "concious sleep" I was aware, yet I was sleeping. It was all black, something grabbed my arms and squeezed them. I recognized this as a demonic attack and resisted, I felt pain in my wrists. When I woke up, my arms were tired as if I had truly been struggling. I woke up and told my wife. The next day, I had bruises on my wrists. The only logical explaination is that it was a spritual injury. I tell you that there is NO WAY in the world that any person did this. I could not have done this to my self.

Anyway, because of what happened, I stopped watching ufo movies and began to seek God again. I started listening to Christian radio where any nut can come on there and preach if they claim to be in the name of Christ. Sometimes, when I lay in bed, I can feel evil spirits when they come into the room. I usually look at them and say "The Lord rebuke you" and they leave. There have been hundreds of times throughout my life that I have been tormented by demons when I slept. They have done things of a sexual nature to me, grabbing me and actually hurting me in the males most sensitive area.

I began to study Systematic Theology by Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer. These are doctorite level theology books. The first book was on angelology, which was very deep and caused alot of "spritual energy" when I would read it. I could feel a spritual struggle that I could not understand, except that I refused to stop reading.

I began to look for a church to raise my family in, my kids were 1 and 2. I wanted to go to a church with more modern music, an upbeat church. I visited a few and had my mind made up which one I liked. I deceided to visit one other church that I had never been to before, a baptist church. It was an old fashioned church, strict, just like I was raised in, totally the opposite of what I wanted. As soon as I met the pastor, we began to argue. It was clear to me that we were completly opposite and that I didn't like him.

I filled out the visitors card and they came over to visit me. The date was September 26, 2001. September 11, 2001 had just happened. My 30th birthday was September 9, 2001.

A guy named Larry came over to visit me. I thought "they can visit me, but I am not going back there ever again"

Larry said "Why don't you come back to our church"

I said "I don't think that this is the church for me, how do I know that this is the church that God wants me to go to"

"Well have you asked Him?" Larry asked

"No"

"Why don't you ask Him, pray and ask Him and I will be going" He said

So I prayed half heartedly to God. "Dear Lord if this is the church that You want me to go to please let me know....in Jesus name amen"

That night, I was laying in bed thinking about weather I was going to go back there or not and I had deceided that I would NOT go back to that church.
At that very moment, I felt God's Holy Spirit move into the room. I could not see Him with my eyes, only in my mind. I somehow knew who He was without Him telling me. He came and hovered over my chest and I felt Him look me in my eyes for a few seconds. "I want you to go back to that church" God said into my mind with a meek, humble and kind way. There was no sound. This was surreal. I said "Ok Lord, if that's what you want me to do then I will do it, If that is what you want me to do then I will go back there." Then I began to weep. I couldn't look at Him, I looked away and told Him that I was sorry for my sins and that I was going to serve Him from now on. He heard me out and then I felt Him move out of the room slowly as He came in. The next morning as I was waking up, I heard a voice "I'm gonna get your kids" it was the devil. A few months later I was fighting spritual warfare which I will not get into now.

I went back to the church and somehow I didn't know that I could sing, but I became the song leader, Jr. high teacher, lot's of things. This church prints of millions of gospel tracts (little booklets that tell people how to get to heaven) I feel a burden in my heart to pass out tracts and tell as many people about Jesus Christ as I can. Message boards are just one way for me to tell people. I didn't do it, God get's all of the credit.

That is the reason that I came here. I came on this message board, not to be pushy, but to proclaim the Gospel, so that whoever will accept Jesus Christ as Savior, would. That is my goal, because that is what God wants me to do and I don't want to see anyone go to hell. Hell is an eternal place of torment and I guarentee that there is not a single person there right now that doesn't wish that they had trusted Christ as Savior of their life so that they didn't have to be there. This is why I urge you to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. What He did for me, He is willing to do for you also. He will do it for anyone who is willing regardless of your situation or past.


You can be 100% sure that you will go to heaven when you die.

DO YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS AND ROSE FROM THE DEAD FOR YOUR SINS? DO YOU ACCEPT WHAT HE DID FOR YOU TO PAY FOR YOUR SINS?

If you are willing to receive Jesus Christ as your Savior please pray this from your heart to God,

"Dear LORD JESUS, I believe that YOU died on the Cross and Rose from the dead for my sins. I realize that I cannot get to heaven any other way other than to trust YOU as my SAVIOR. I ask you to forgive me for my sins and take me to heaven when I die. I receive YOU as my Lord and SAVIOR. Thank You for Saving me in JESUS name amen"

If you prayed that prayer from your heart to God, and meant it with all of your heart, you are now a child of God and will go to heaven when you die.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS I WOULD LOVE TO ANSWER THEM FOR YOU IN THE DISCIPLESHIP AREA.

Thank you,

Scott

 

thank you for sharing!
god never leves us or forsakes us even wen we are abandoned by everyone we know!
remember that nobody can every take away your testemony remember it when you have times of doubt!!

 

This is an amazing post....very inspirational...thank you...Roly.xxx

 

amen to dat!!!!!LOL
testemonies are very powerful,i am using my testemony in ym final art project.ohhhh exciting!

 

You put alot of effort in that!
It almost sounded like an ad in a way!
That's proof that you're saved, sibling!
God bless you!!

 

testimonies are the most powerful sermons. thumbs up.

 

Right. Jesus Christ IS like having fire insurance. Nice point.

 

I will never die, for I am the one known as Nosferatu!:X

 

whats with the …'s

 

Well ya know...

When in Rome...

 

Ga 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Joh 15:2; Ro 15:14; 1Co 13:7; Eph 5:9; Col 3:12; Jas 3:17
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

 

No Jesus, no peace; Know Jesus, Know Peace.

 

Jesus Christ is Lord.

 

Congrats to you for having the power to actually write down your testimony... I'm still trying to get the courage to tell the entire thing to my boyfriend/preancee (engaged to be engaged).

 

Haha, preancee. That's awesome.

 

I know... he's more than a boyfriend but not yet a fiancee... so that's what we call it. Still got a year till I can replace pre with fi... holy shit (and yes holy as in holey... I'm tired) those rhyme.

Frodo sorry I went off topic with this... just had to reply to freaker.

 

Oh yeah... other reason I have no testimony... it would have to start in second grade for it to really make sense.

 

then jsut think about things that god has done in your life that has made you who you are!what he saved you from personaly,each testemony is unique and powerful i its own way!

 

haha,mines not really a testimony [meaning its doesnt involve any hardships or stuff like that...] its quite lame acctually

 

trust me... my testimony would probably end up taking enough space I'd be forced to separate the posts into probably 10 sections.