Part two of my coming to the Lord. *** Please forgive any grammar and typo errors. I am currently undergoing eye injections and I use a lot of speech to text which Likes to often change things. Lol. You can always use hooked on phonics or sound out the words. Thank you for understanding ***
… So I prayed about speaking at the national youth rally and felt to go ahead. On the evening after the meeting as I took it, I was really nervous. I was not a person that like to speak in front of a lot of people, although I was great during one on one!
I remember getting up there and my eye felt like it was twitching with tick tick tick, I felt like I was stuttering, but I remembered the words of my grandmother, and she told me, “when you have to do public speaking, pick a friendly face in the front row, and you talk to them.“ So that’s what I did. My testimony involves some really rough time in my life, including living on the street, and drug addiction to name just a couple.
After the meeting they had a Church social in the basement where you could go and have coffee and mingle, and get to know people. Many people came to me and Shared how much my story touch their hearts. I remember one man came to me and he asked me a question, “what is the one thing right now that you were having difficulty with in your life that you really wish it was gone?“ My answer to him was that as an ambassador for the Lord Jesus Christ, and sharing the gospel, I was still smoking, and I felt that it was really hurting my testimony of what Jesus had done for me.
That man shared with me what God had done for him and how he had got the cigarette out of his life. he said every time I felt like having a cigarette, I took it out of the package and I would pray over it, and I would tell the Lord how much I hated it and I really didn’t wanna do it anymore, but I needed his help. When I went home that night I thought about it, and I thought if God can do it for him, he can do it for me! So the next morning I started. I prayed over that first cigarette with my coffee in the morning. When I went to work that night, I realized that I hadn’t had a cigarette all day, and of course, my body went into frantic mode, and I had to have a cigarette right away. So I prayed over that cigarette and I smoked it.
The next morning I got up and didn’t really realize that I didn’t feel like smoking, and I ended up going all day without a cigarette until I got to work that night and of course, all my coworkers are smoking around me. Of course, my mind and body went into instant panic mode, and I had to have a cigarette! Again, I prayed, and I smoke a cigarette!
The third day rolled around, and I opened my eyes, and I felt so nauseated, I ran to the bathroom and I vomited. But that was different, after the nausea passed, I was healed. I was set free by the power of God and I did not have the craving for the cigarettes anymore.
I called the pastor‘s wife and I told her what it happened and she was so thrilled. What a testimony I could give because honestly, you can be addicted to a lot of things, but smoking is one of the most difficult habits to shake.
About a week later I received a call from the church asking me if I would be interested in going into a girls group home in the city, with another lady, a mom who’s teen girl was in there. I said yes, I would go. So the two of us began praying together and we began to get on the phone every day early in the morning after I got my kids off to school, and we would pray and read the word of God for sometimes 16 to 17 hours a day. We did try to make the arrangements to go into the girls group home however they came back with an answer to us that “they did not allow any kind of religious talk or lectures or anyone from the churches, etc., to come in and talk to the girls that were there“.
The day that they called us and turned down what we really felt in our heart the Lord wanted us to do, the girls rioted, they set fire to the place, and they broke the windows out. they just tore the place to pieces. The group home closed and never reopened.
End of episode two. Please do feel free to make comments and please share your testimony as well. How did you come to the Lord? What are the things that he has done in your life, the children of Israel when they were travelling those 40 years when things would happen that were miraculous or events of God they made memorials by building rocks, a pile of rocks wherever it happened, we don’t build rocks now, but we remember, and we build our memories on the things that God has done in our life and sometimes we need that to build our faith back up to remember ….look what I have done for you.. so please share, let us share a memorials of what God is done for us and encourage others.
… So I prayed about speaking at the national youth rally and felt to go ahead. On the evening after the meeting as I took it, I was really nervous. I was not a person that like to speak in front of a lot of people, although I was great during one on one!
I remember getting up there and my eye felt like it was twitching with tick tick tick, I felt like I was stuttering, but I remembered the words of my grandmother, and she told me, “when you have to do public speaking, pick a friendly face in the front row, and you talk to them.“ So that’s what I did. My testimony involves some really rough time in my life, including living on the street, and drug addiction to name just a couple.
After the meeting they had a Church social in the basement where you could go and have coffee and mingle, and get to know people. Many people came to me and Shared how much my story touch their hearts. I remember one man came to me and he asked me a question, “what is the one thing right now that you were having difficulty with in your life that you really wish it was gone?“ My answer to him was that as an ambassador for the Lord Jesus Christ, and sharing the gospel, I was still smoking, and I felt that it was really hurting my testimony of what Jesus had done for me.
That man shared with me what God had done for him and how he had got the cigarette out of his life. he said every time I felt like having a cigarette, I took it out of the package and I would pray over it, and I would tell the Lord how much I hated it and I really didn’t wanna do it anymore, but I needed his help. When I went home that night I thought about it, and I thought if God can do it for him, he can do it for me! So the next morning I started. I prayed over that first cigarette with my coffee in the morning. When I went to work that night, I realized that I hadn’t had a cigarette all day, and of course, my body went into frantic mode, and I had to have a cigarette right away. So I prayed over that cigarette and I smoked it.
The next morning I got up and didn’t really realize that I didn’t feel like smoking, and I ended up going all day without a cigarette until I got to work that night and of course, all my coworkers are smoking around me. Of course, my mind and body went into instant panic mode, and I had to have a cigarette! Again, I prayed, and I smoke a cigarette!
The third day rolled around, and I opened my eyes, and I felt so nauseated, I ran to the bathroom and I vomited. But that was different, after the nausea passed, I was healed. I was set free by the power of God and I did not have the craving for the cigarettes anymore.
I called the pastor‘s wife and I told her what it happened and she was so thrilled. What a testimony I could give because honestly, you can be addicted to a lot of things, but smoking is one of the most difficult habits to shake.
About a week later I received a call from the church asking me if I would be interested in going into a girls group home in the city, with another lady, a mom who’s teen girl was in there. I said yes, I would go. So the two of us began praying together and we began to get on the phone every day early in the morning after I got my kids off to school, and we would pray and read the word of God for sometimes 16 to 17 hours a day. We did try to make the arrangements to go into the girls group home however they came back with an answer to us that “they did not allow any kind of religious talk or lectures or anyone from the churches, etc., to come in and talk to the girls that were there“.
The day that they called us and turned down what we really felt in our heart the Lord wanted us to do, the girls rioted, they set fire to the place, and they broke the windows out. they just tore the place to pieces. The group home closed and never reopened.
End of episode two. Please do feel free to make comments and please share your testimony as well. How did you come to the Lord? What are the things that he has done in your life, the children of Israel when they were travelling those 40 years when things would happen that were miraculous or events of God they made memorials by building rocks, a pile of rocks wherever it happened, we don’t build rocks now, but we remember, and we build our memories on the things that God has done in our life and sometimes we need that to build our faith back up to remember ….look what I have done for you.. so please share, let us share a memorials of what God is done for us and encourage others.
Part two of my coming to the Lord. *** Please forgive any grammar and typo errors. I am currently undergoing eye injections and I use a lot of speech to text which Likes to often change things. Lol. You can always use hooked on phonics or sound out the words. Thank you for understanding ***
… So I prayed about speaking at the national youth rally and felt to go ahead. On the evening after the meeting as I took it, I was really nervous. I was not a person that like to speak in front of a lot of people, although I was great during one on one!
I remember getting up there and my eye felt like it was twitching with tick tick tick, I felt like I was stuttering, but I remembered the words of my grandmother, and she told me, “when you have to do public speaking, pick a friendly face in the front row, and you talk to them.“ So that’s what I did. My testimony involves some really rough time in my life, including living on the street, and drug addiction to name just a couple.
After the meeting they had a Church social in the basement where you could go and have coffee and mingle, and get to know people. Many people came to me and Shared how much my story touch their hearts. I remember one man came to me and he asked me a question, “what is the one thing right now that you were having difficulty with in your life that you really wish it was gone?“ My answer to him was that as an ambassador for the Lord Jesus Christ, and sharing the gospel, I was still smoking, and I felt that it was really hurting my testimony of what Jesus had done for me.
That man shared with me what God had done for him and how he had got the cigarette out of his life. he said every time I felt like having a cigarette, I took it out of the package and I would pray over it, and I would tell the Lord how much I hated it and I really didn’t wanna do it anymore, but I needed his help. When I went home that night I thought about it, and I thought if God can do it for him, he can do it for me! So the next morning I started. I prayed over that first cigarette with my coffee in the morning. When I went to work that night, I realized that I hadn’t had a cigarette all day, and of course, my body went into frantic mode, and I had to have a cigarette right away. So I prayed over that cigarette and I smoked it.
The next morning I got up and didn’t really realize that I didn’t feel like smoking, and I ended up going all day without a cigarette until I got to work that night and of course, all my coworkers are smoking around me. Of course, my mind and body went into instant panic mode, and I had to have a cigarette! Again, I prayed, and I smoke a cigarette!
The third day rolled around, and I opened my eyes, and I felt so nauseated, I ran to the bathroom and I vomited. But that was different, after the nausea passed, I was healed. I was set free by the power of God and I did not have the craving for the cigarettes anymore.
I called the pastor‘s wife and I told her what it happened and she was so thrilled. What a testimony I could give because honestly, you can be addicted to a lot of things, but smoking is one of the most difficult habits to shake.
About a week later I received a call from the church asking me if I would be interested in going into a girls group home in the city, with another lady, a mom who’s teen girl was in there. I said yes, I would go. So the two of us began praying together and we began to get on the phone every day early in the morning after I got my kids off to school, and we would pray and read the word of God for sometimes 16 to 17 hours a day. We did try to make the arrangements to go into the girls group home however they came back with an answer to us that “they did not allow any kind of religious talk or lectures or anyone from the churches, etc., to come in and talk to the girls that were there“.
The day that they called us and turned down what we really felt in our heart the Lord wanted us to do, the girls rioted, they set fire to the place, and they broke the windows out. they just tore the place to pieces. The group home closed and never reopened.
End of episode two. Please do feel free to make comments and please share your testimony as well. How did you come to the Lord? What are the things that he has done in your life, the children of Israel when they were travelling those 40 years when things would happen that were miraculous or events of God they made memorials by building rocks, a pile of rocks wherever it happened, we don’t build rocks now, but we remember, and we build our memories on the things that God has done in our life and sometimes we need that to build our faith back up to remember ….look what I have done for you.. so please share, let us share a memorials of what God is done for us and encourage others.
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