Testimony: How Jesus Changed My Life..only By His Grace

Natalie's testimony "How Jesus Changed My Life..only By His Grace" on 8/08/2013, 3:23pm...

My testimony:
I grew up in church all my life and I heard about Jesus. The thought of being saved never really crossed my mind. Then one day as I was walking around my neighborhood, i was around 10 at the time. And I got stopped by these missionaries, they were going around telling people about Jesus. They asked me some questions I told them that I go to church and everything so I thought that I had Jesus. When they were ending they said one thing that never left my mind. They told me that Jesus is knocking on the door to my heart and asked if I opened the door to my heart and asked him in. I said "yes" at the time but inside I examined myself and I never recall asking him into my heart. They ended and said "if you don't have Jesus in your heart you won't go to heaven." After they said those words I was scared of going to hell so every night I would ask him into my heart and life.

Time went by and we move to New Orleans, I was around 12 or 13. We started looking for a church to go to and we found a couple, but we really like this one church. The church was different in a good way. The pastor would lay hands on people and the people would get touched by the power of God and fall out on the floor and receive the Holy Ghost. I grew up in churches similar to that, so I thought it was Normal. But at the same time I was curious, I seen everyone else speaking in tongues, drunk in the Holy Ghost, laughing, crying and etc. So after seeing that I wanted to experience it and wanted to feel what they were feeling.

Little by little I would go the front and get prayed for but I wouldn't feel anything. But that didn't stop me I kept seeking God and want to experience that. Time went by and I started to feel God's presence for the first time. later on I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost and I started to have visions and dreams often. I wish that I could end here and say that was my testimony but after experiencing all that I didn't change.

I loved God but I wanted to see what this world had to offer. So I was living half way in the world and serving God. I would go to church and say I love him but then I would step right back into this world. I started to backslide and try to keep God out of my life. Every time I would do something wrong I always felt guilty but I used God's grace as a way to sin. I had a fear of God in me so I would ask him to forgive me afterwards. My life was just a repeat, I seemed to be going no where. The road I thought would bring pleasure actually left me broken, hopeless, empty.

So many times I tried to get back up after my fall but I ended up back in my mess. Then all the sudden it was like reality hit me, I was at my rock bottom. I looked at life and I said to myself I'm going nowhere, I can't live like this anymore. I finally put my foot down and stopped running from God. That day I went to church and I just gave it all to God, i remember tears running down my face and asking for Jesus to truly forgive me. With tears rolling down my face i made up my mind i'm living for God to the fullest and I'm not going back but I'm moving forward. I surrendered and gave him my whole heart, and as I did that I felt FREE, peace, joy, pure love. It was a feeling that I never felt before, I felt everything leave me. Every desire I had for this world and sin just left me. That day I was so full of the Holy Ghost I could barely walk, my parents had to carry me to the car.

For the first time I felt true freedom and I had this desire and p***ion for God like never before, something just changed in me that day. It was the best day of my life, the day that I discovered nothing can ever satisfy you like Jesus can. I tried to fill that void in my life but everything i tried didnt Complete me, it was only when i accepted jesus that the empty place was filled. What I was running from was the answer all along, I was just blinded by the devil and my own sins to see it. I just thank God that as i was starting to go down the wrong route he looked ahead and saved me from what i could've went through. I wasn't a bad person, i was just lost and needed a savior. Now this is my testimony, and it's only by God's amazing grace that I'm saved today! And theres just so much more God's been doing in my life, salvation is only the beginning! this experience was 2 years ago and im 15 now. Ending revelation 12:11says that...we overcome the devil by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony...

 

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