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Registered: 05-2007
Location: Minnesota
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Re: Your Testimony


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Order ofMelchizedek ...

Uh.... hello? No one else has a testimony?
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C'mon, some of you only need to copy and paste it from somewhere else! What's the hold up?

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ok ok fine.... (dont blow a fuse!!)

(this is the first time I have actually written this out, or told it to anyone in that matter, so mamy things I am sure are to be forgotten or not making sence...)

well I guess you could say untill I was about 10 years old I grew up in a christian home. however it was that time that my parents broke up and got a divorce. I can still remember church back then. I think sundays were my favorite days. I got to sing, I got to play games and read, plus I got to see my grandpa! (and grandma too of course,) but even though I have not been to sunday service with him in years, I can still hear his low voice echoing the chorus to "The old rugged cross. (to this day it is still my favorite hymm)

When my parents divorced my brother and I began switching houses, between my mothers and my fathers. my dad now had no motivation to bring us to church, and my mom, I think she was, and is, too ashamed to return to our church. She however did encourage my brother and I to go, my father told me driving to church was a waste of his gas money (inall honesty I was not treated well by him in my life ever, though tankfully his new wife has been telling him when he was... when he didn't notice how cruel he was being). It was then, at the age of 12 or so by this time that I started to drift. I still went to church camps, but I began making up excuses to get out of going to those weds. services (we stopped going to sunday church by then all together.) I got mixed up with friends. Though compared to the rest of our school they were good, yet they got me mixed up in things that no person shouldl mess with. (not going to give details, though it was nothing illegal) I was in about 6th or 7th grade. from that time on, perhaps I went to church camp. for a day or two a spark was lit but too quickly it would burn out. and my addiction to the Harry potter series (And yes I literally ean addiction, like one would have to ciggarets) woudl regain controal of me.

when I was 14 I asked Jesus into my heart a second time at one of our church's winter retreats. I knew that I needed him back, I wasn't dumb. all the time in the last 3 years or so I knew what I was doing was not favorable in his sight and I realized that I needed to do some changing and quick! I found a great christian radio station which I have listend to every day since (listening to it right now in fact...) And also I has a great friend (S.T.) who was also a christian. we had been friends for a while but never had talked about religion

Life was soaring untill this last year when things began to way too heavy in my heart, I was slipping again. Though this time I knew I couldn't let it hapen. My mom worked so those few times I could get to church were now gone, I also had school and then I work for about 4 hours after that, plus I have homework. I never goet it done. I would fall asleep in the middle of it (at about 2 am) . My grades were slipping. my father had continued to make comments about my faith that were greatly taken offence to. my faith... I don't know what happened but it became as if a burden in it self to pray. Not a laying troubles down, but something that added to my troubles.

I was seriously nearing my breaking point. I wanted to just start screaming at any time during the day. life was just getting to heavy, and I could give that burden to no one.

That is when a few weeks ago (wow is it really not that long ago...) I was randomly clicking things on the internet when I came across a website (ablaze) I am not quite sure how I got there but I know it was meant to be...

I didn't know why but I posted a plea for help and prayer on one of the forums. I got a responce from bruno. What he told me seriously brought me close to my sences, though it took a while for it to completely sink in (I read his post at least 10 times before moving on...)

I am not certain how long after that it was but it was late at night, I was attempting to do my homework at 1 in the morning when it hit me. WHAT A FOOL I WAS!!

I was bringing so much of the stress completely upon myself and yet I was blaming the world for it? I started laughing. Laughing as I prayed and praised. It was as if most every thing had been lifted off my shoulders all at once. My grandfather gave me a car and now I can transport my self to church schoo,l work.... although my schedual of homework and work and school have not changed I no longer fell the stress of it waying down on me. Even my fathers rude comments, they still hurt but I don't want to get back at him, or the rest of my family on his side. (I want them to se his grace too!!)

I can not even begin to express my gratitude to this site. (or garygc/bruno who led me here) I pretty much live in the internet. it gives me so much incouragement. And a hunger for knowlege that I have never had before in my life. ( I find myself sitting though classes daydreaming about reading my bible... now how many teens do you know like that? it almost scares me....)

and I am up to present day so tada!! ( you now officially know more about me than many of my friends do)

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Registered: 07-2006
Location: Washington State
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I feel blessed that you shared your testimony with us. I really love reading peoples testimonies.
What a great story of God's faithfulness. Peter too gave up on Christ at one time, but God reeled him back in. The Lord is faithful.

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Skys ...

( I find myself sitting though classes daydreaming about reading my bible... now how many teens do you know like that? it almost scares me....)

( you now officially know more about me than many of my friends do)



If you can share your faith with them, maybe even more teens will be daydreaming about reading their bibles. What a great blessing that would be.
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