Connie Sue
Dec 26th 2008, 12:50 PM
I added my testimony to someone else's testimont. So If you want to read mine it would be on the 2nd or 3rd page. So I writing mine again.
I was rised by my mother and very rarely did I hear my mother talk about God.
I do believe my mother believed in God, but she didn't go to church.
When I was 8 or 9 years old we lived in Ocala Florida in a place called
Lewis's Court. We had to go to church every Sunday. I go to a church today that reminds me a lot of that church.
There was a lady that would come from the church and all the kids that lived in the court would meet in one of the houses and we would have a bible study. I can remember very clearly her telling the plan of salvation.
She had these big colored blocks, black for sin, red for the blood of Christ, white for the washing away of our sins, and gold for the streets in heaven.
I believe it was then that God showed me I was a sinner. My sister Debra had gotten saved and baptized (in a river) :cool:
I was a hard headed child, always so rebellious. And thats the way I lived my life.
In 1984 I was with Debra, there were these two ladies out on visition. (I think) I was with Deb, and for some strange reason we stopped these ladies and asked about a church. I asked Deb when she was here on Thanksgiving and she didn't remember it. So I believe this was God's plan for me. You just know and can see when God has worked something out. Through the testimonies of these ladies and the Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church the Holy spirit brought me to the place where I saw myself as a sinner (again) needing Jesus to forgive me of my sins, and put Him first in my life. God is a jealous God! I'm not saying He is a cruel God. God is longsuffering, gentle, kind and merciful. We wouldn't be here today if he wasn't. But we are not to put ANYTHING or ANYONE before Him. And if we do, thats if you are His child you will be punished.
I have been saved for seventeen years, and the thing I have struggled with
the most is putting my children before God. What I'm saying is that I didn't
want to live if I couldn't have my children in my life.
I was divorced when I was 25 and my husband got custody of our children.
He refused to let me have any part in their lives. This was more than I could handle.
So I turned to alcohol and eventually started using any kind of drug I could get. I was living on the streets at one point, into prostitution just to survive.
I was so messed up, I had losted the most important thing in my life, my children.
I got saved February the 16th (on a Saturday :D) 1991. I was forgiven of my sins that day, but I still had to deal with my flesh. My stubborn old flesh! :B
Through all the struggles an attempts to see my children, I finally gave up.
Not only did I desire to be with my children, I wanted to be close to my siblings. God said if we love Him He will give us the desires of our hearts. I know this is true. He has done this for me. IF! I wait on Him, things will come about at the perffect time.
Wait on the Lord and He will renew your strength, trust in His ways, Be still and know He is God.
God Bless You :hug:
I was rised by my mother and very rarely did I hear my mother talk about God.
I do believe my mother believed in God, but she didn't go to church.
When I was 8 or 9 years old we lived in Ocala Florida in a place called
Lewis's Court. We had to go to church every Sunday. I go to a church today that reminds me a lot of that church.
There was a lady that would come from the church and all the kids that lived in the court would meet in one of the houses and we would have a bible study. I can remember very clearly her telling the plan of salvation.
She had these big colored blocks, black for sin, red for the blood of Christ, white for the washing away of our sins, and gold for the streets in heaven.
I believe it was then that God showed me I was a sinner. My sister Debra had gotten saved and baptized (in a river) :cool:
I was a hard headed child, always so rebellious. And thats the way I lived my life.
In 1984 I was with Debra, there were these two ladies out on visition. (I think) I was with Deb, and for some strange reason we stopped these ladies and asked about a church. I asked Deb when she was here on Thanksgiving and she didn't remember it. So I believe this was God's plan for me. You just know and can see when God has worked something out. Through the testimonies of these ladies and the Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church the Holy spirit brought me to the place where I saw myself as a sinner (again) needing Jesus to forgive me of my sins, and put Him first in my life. God is a jealous God! I'm not saying He is a cruel God. God is longsuffering, gentle, kind and merciful. We wouldn't be here today if he wasn't. But we are not to put ANYTHING or ANYONE before Him. And if we do, thats if you are His child you will be punished.
I have been saved for seventeen years, and the thing I have struggled with
the most is putting my children before God. What I'm saying is that I didn't
want to live if I couldn't have my children in my life.
I was divorced when I was 25 and my husband got custody of our children.
He refused to let me have any part in their lives. This was more than I could handle.
So I turned to alcohol and eventually started using any kind of drug I could get. I was living on the streets at one point, into prostitution just to survive.
I was so messed up, I had losted the most important thing in my life, my children.
I got saved February the 16th (on a Saturday :D) 1991. I was forgiven of my sins that day, but I still had to deal with my flesh. My stubborn old flesh! :B
Through all the struggles an attempts to see my children, I finally gave up.
Not only did I desire to be with my children, I wanted to be close to my siblings. God said if we love Him He will give us the desires of our hearts. I know this is true. He has done this for me. IF! I wait on Him, things will come about at the perffect time.
Wait on the Lord and He will renew your strength, trust in His ways, Be still and know He is God.
God Bless You :hug: