How did you get saved? I would love to hear your testimonies!
2007-07-20 06:50:35 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He loved me first. Hallelujah!!!!
I was His enemy yet He died for me
Oh how this drew me to want to know Him. Who is this wonderful Person.. loving me so utterly and willing to become a man to die for all my offenses..
I just had to know ... Had to find out what He was all about.
Through His mercy one of those who loved Him shared in detail His full Salvation.
The walls of my heart melted away... The Lord put faith into me through the hearing of the Word and gosh.. it was quite an amazing realization.
I have God in me!! I am a child of God!!!
It was alltogether His doing. I am just so thankful to Him each and everyday of my life
i am not longer walking around in darkness.. hitting my heart here and there...getting brused by satan and damaged
Jesus has me in the Light because He is IN the Light...
Praise His name forever!!
Loving Jesus
sandy
2007-07-20 07:02:12 · answer #1 · answered by Broken Alabaster Flask 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's rather involved, but I'll try to make it brief. When young, I got sucked into a cult and thought I was a true Christian, and all others were false.
After half a lifetime, I came to realize I had been deceived on some issues, and started studying carefully. I had a degree in Theology, but had not been taught the proper methods of Biblical scholarship, which I gleaned from the internet and libraries.
I came to see that nearly everything I believed was wrong, so much so that I could not bring myself to believe what I was learning from Scripture was true. After all, how could I? What I firmly believed to be true was a lie, therefore no matter how convincing something else was, I realized I could still be wrong.
When I got to studying the gospel, the same theme kept coming out over and over again; faith only in Jesus. One day I said to myself, "can it really be this simple?" Right then, the sound and sensation of a wind blew over me and a voice declared, "yes, you have it right."
It's been a new life ever since. And what a life!
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2007-07-20 08:47:14 · answer #2 · answered by Hogie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(First, what a great question! I can't tell you how encouraging it is to see all these amazing testimonies for those that are truly in love with their Savior! I look forward to meeting you all in the kingom of Our Lord one day!)
I grew up in a Christian home, and first accepted Christ when I was 5. But I don't really think I knew the full depth of what I was doing. Then the summer just before I went into 8th grade, I was on a retreat with my church, and we were all worshipping God through songs of praise. I can't even explain what it was, but while I was singing my heart out, I suddenly felt overwhelmed by every wrong thing I'd ever done, and how I had taken God for granted. I just fell to my knees sobbing, and all I could say was "I'm sorry, Lord, I'm sorry!" But then this incredible peace flooded over me, and all I could feel was this incredible love pulsating in me, as if God were saying "I know what you've done, but I died for you anyway." Right then and there, I re-gave my life to Him, and ever since then, I've been growing so much closer to Him! He's been so faithful to me! I came very close to having an eating disorder not too long ago, but He was there with me and helped me stay off that road. I've been reading His Word daily, and even though it's been so much harder (after all, the closer you get to God, the harder the enemy tries to pull you away), I've never been this close to my Jesus. I want to be used by Him through the rest of High School and the rest of my life to further His kingdom and do His will, even if I have to die for His truth!
I want to encourage all new believers out there to hold on when the going gets tough; God uses those valleys to bring us closer to Him, and they are such a gift! Also, to all those who have decided to hold onto their life for a while longer, please, get alone with God in a quiet place, and even though it might feel like you're talking to the ceiling at first, just tell Him that you don't really believe that He's there or that He loves you, and ask Him to show you who He is. He is faithful to answer us when we call on Him!
God bless you!
2007-07-20 17:25:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can tell you how I was born again...
I had been living a life full of anxiety, depression, resentment; I was using drugs, tobacco, and alcohol regularly. I was on the verge of getting a divorce. Then God called me back to him. I submitted myself to God, there was a whole process of submission, humility, and accountability that I went through, at the end, the person I was died, and I had become a reborn follower of God. Immediately I stopped smoking, drinking, and using drugs. I haven't touched them or thought about is since. More importantly, the man I thought I would divorce, is the man I am more in love with than ever before.
God has saved me from myself. I am my own worst enemy.
2007-07-20 07:02:13 · answer #4 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
With your permission I will email it... as my website is off line.
I was 53 when I came to God 7 years ago... I was not looking for God on that morning when I got out of bed... I was a mocker of all things religious... 4 hrs latter I was drafted into God's Army... now I am a lifer and in for eternity.
I had my testimony posted on my site and can still copy it for email for those who ask about it... just need the address to send it to.
2007-07-20 06:59:32 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well, I always thought that since my dad was a preacher, I had an "in." when asked if I was a Christian, I would reply: "My dad is a preacher." One day someone asked me if I was a Christian. I said my stock answer and then the person asked me if I was a Christian. Not if my dad was, but if I was. To be truthful, I was and wasn't. I started to pay attention more to God's word. but every day I have to deal with staying on the straight and narrow. I believe in God and trust in His word.
Years ago, I was extremely depressed. I was going to go home after work and kill myself. As i was going to the bus stop, I saw this lady in a strange outfit. I kept walking and saw a flock of pigeons. She came up to me and said, "See these pigeons? they can be silly." Then she said, "God takes care of His own." I stopped dead in my tracks. She disappeared.
Since then, I have tried to stay on the straight and narrow for God. It is hard but I try. I still get depressed (like right now, for example, due to work) but I know that God loves me very much.
2007-07-20 07:42:40 · answer #6 · answered by tonya j 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was a freshmen in high school, I attended a Harvest Crusade by Pastor Greg Laurie in who pastors a church in Southern California. My aunt took me with her and when I heard the Good News about Christ, I knew I needed to make the decision to ask for forgiveness. I was on fire for God, and read the whole Bible front to back twice, over the course of two years. I am still serving God and am fully blessed.
2007-07-20 07:01:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was my brothers fault. We were grade school age and were fighting like we always did and we ended up ripping down the drapes and we kept at it. WOW my mom was mad.
She yelled we would start going to church until we learned some manners. I'm still going to this day! I hated it at first. Seemed boring. Old people with the life sucked out of them went there in my opinion. I wanted nothing to do with it.
Then I started meeting people that actually had found the joy of their salvation. Apparently, Christians aren't supposed to look like they eat lemons for breakfast! Some do though... too bad.
When I was 14, I went to a Leon Patillo concert. He had lots of joy and it showed. He had lots of love and it showed. It was also obvious that he accepted himself. All of those things he attributed to God. I wanted all of that, so that's when I asked Jesus to forgive me and be my Lord.
After that, I actually like going to church and learning about God. I even forgave my brother, since it was obviously his fault and he needed forgiveness :-)
2007-07-20 07:25:37 · answer #8 · answered by MikeM 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has a story, an experience in life. What you need to discover is whether your subjective experience lines up with the objective truths of the Bible, the Word of God. Let me very briefly share my own experience. I was raised Catholic, but I was a full-time sinner. My sin began ruining my life, so I did what lots, perhaps most people do - I blamed God (see Proverbs 19:3). I told God to get out of my life. Scary thing was, He did. He left me to myself and I began to exist in a kind of Hell on Earth. I couldn't laugh, nothing was fun or funny anymore. I felt every day like my soul - the inner "Me" , was sinking into a bottomless Pit as a stone in a pond. But I refused to turn to God. Then one day, when I couldn't maintain my "Cool" anymore, I came home fell on my face in my living room, and a voice spoke into my heart saying "Maybe Jesus really did die for your sins". Instantly, I felt myself transported from the lowest Pit to the Highest Mountaintop. Light, Life, Peace, Joy, Love, and Understanding flooded my soul. I realized for the first time that this Gospel story wasn't just a lot of empty words, but that it was the Truth! Nothing but the Truth could have had such a profound redeeming effect on me. I knew Jesus was alive- that he loved me - that it was for me that he had died on the Cross. I knew instinctively that I was "Saved" - though that was not a word that was ever much stressed in my Catholic background. Still, it wasn't until perhaps a year later, when I started reading the Bible, that I realized that the experience I had - and I didn't know anyone else who had that experience - that it was in the Bible all the time! In John Chapter 3 Jesus described to a man named Nicodemus something called being Born Again. I realized that was exactly what happened to me - I was born again. My nature changed in an instant, from a hater to a lover, from a liar to a truthful person, from a scoffer to a believer. Since then I have come to see that my personal experience, in order to be reliable, has to line up with the revelation of Truth contained in the Scriptures - the Bible. Now I know that when I share my experience, it is not just a matter of opinion - which can be a very dangerous thing when you are speaking on matters of what will affect people's ultimate destiny; but that my experience is based on the proven realities revealed in the Word of God. I have also received the Holy Spirit - in measure when I was born again - in fullness through the baptism in the Holy Spirit, as described in Acts Chapters 2:1ff; 10:44-46; 19:2-7. It is the power of the Holy Spirit in my life that enables me to understand and testify to the truth of God's Word, as written in the Scriptures and experienced in my own life, with boldness and confidence. I hope this gives you some sense of direction into what is needed in your own life - Jesus said once to the Sadducees " you are mistaken - understanding neither the Scriptures nor the power of God" (Matthew 22:29). Make it your determination to know both - the Scriptures, and the power of God. "For the Kingdom of God is not in (mere) words, but in power" (I Corinthians 4:20). Then you will be able to say, as Jesus said "Truly truly I say to you, we speak that which we know, and testify to that which we have seen...) (John 3:11)
2007-07-20 07:00:17 · answer #9 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is amazing how people who don't know what you are talking about, DO NOT KNOW THE FEELING >>> WHEN JESUS COMES INTO THE HEART! You Know, THAT YOU KNOW, there Has BEEN A CHANGE!! Praise God! And It Is Good, And Real! >>>>>I ask Jesus into my Heart at 6 yrs old>>>But Made Him "LORD OF MY LIFE AT I6 Yrs. Old! ( Many of you know what I am Referring to.) He says I will Never leave you or Forsake you, and He Never Did ! >I Have Walked with Him Many Years and Loved every Moment. He has been there to Carry me thru Heartaches, Disappointments, Deaths, and Many Valleys.....THE LOVE OF JESUS IS SOMETHING WONDERFUL........YOU Must Try Him Before YOU Will ever Know, What He Is Really Like. (smile) + + +
2007-07-20 07:14:17 · answer #10 · answered by minnetta c 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋