About my testimony

[endure4salvation]

Yes, I have been through a whole lot, and yes, Jesus is the only thing that saved me.

Trust me, I only did those bad things because I was hurting really down deep inside. I got into a HUGE fight with my father and my brother the night before dad passed away and we all went to bed extremely angry that night. We were cursing each other and Brian and dad almost came to blows as he tried to leave the house. So the next day I came home from school (I was 14, Brian 16, my dad was 42) and got a grape soda and went into his room to apologize for our fight.

Instead of being able to apologize, I found him on the floor of his room, next to the bed. I just stood next to him for about 5 min. not being able to move or think.

That sight haunted me for 8 long years. I wanted a release from my pain, so I turned to alcohol. At only 14, I became a weekend drunkard, but by the time I was 17, I was drinking every night of the week. That got old, so I turned to other things. Time passed and nothing satsified me in any way. I just hurt more because i was buring my problems deep inside me.

I know what it is like to have no friends and be put into a mental hospital (several times). It is not any good.

But THANK GOD I am set free from all that depression and anybody that wants to can copy my testimony and give it to anyone. You can email me at any time and give out my email address to anybody that would like to write to me. I am here for others. The way I look at it, I died on that horrible September evening in 1997 when I attempted suicide, so this is 'borrowed time.' God has a plan for my life and also yours.

So let us join together and win some people to Christ and give encouragment and healing to those that are in need!!!

Let us love another as Christ loved the Church...there is no other way to live! I love you all.

[JesusisGod2]

Amen Brother,

God is good. Its amazing how God works in ones life, to put circumstances in thier life which to the mind of the flesh is foolish and even sometimes might even seem cruel.

But when we come before the throne and kneel at the foot of the Father, we are able to see the wisdom at the things that He does and then are able with a sincere heart to offer Him praise.

I have found that this is how we find true joy, is by the praise that we offer to the Father through Jesus.

It may start out as a sacrifice of praise, (because sometimes we may not feel like praising, but God says to give praise in all things) but it soon turns to springs of joy and understanding.

God bless you brother, God has given you a very powerful testimony of His grace in your life.

In Jesus

Kevin

[endure4salvation]

Hi Kevin. Thanks for the kind words.

We all have a testimony...it is how Jesus saved us from our sins!!! How He did it individually is just as different as we all are from each other.

The greatest testimony is the one who has never strayed away from God.

My wife was a virgin until we married. You don't find that in a beautiful 25 year old woman much these days. She did it because she loves Jesus...that is a testimony of the awesomeness of God!

[peaches]

thats an awesome testimony and at 14 i think it was a very brave thing to do to try and apologise. i know when i was 14 and i wasn't yet seeing God the way i do now . . .i would never have done so. i would have thought about it but i probably never would have gone to apologise. thumbsup for trying.

one thing i wonder though . .how did ur dad pass . . .and i am sure u know that u don't have to answer to this if u don't want to . . it doesn't change how awesome ur testimony is.

i am not sure when u got married but congrats anyways and i am sure u are both happy esp if God is in the midst of ur relatioship.

[endure4salvation]

My father passed away from a heart attack. He smoked cigs and was a sober alcoholic (for only a few years he was sober). I got married on August 23rd, 2003 at 4:00 PM in a small Baptist Church. Thanks for asking. There is nothing I will hide if anyone cares to ask. God bless.