Hey! I hope that you were in Sunday School this morning, and I hope you learned how to be sure about your salvation. Well, I want to do something a little different for todays devotions. I want each of you to type out a brief testimony.
Tell when you got saved, what led you to that decision, and what you did to get saved. You can also tell us any other interesting things about your conversion.
I will post mine later on tonight.
Give us that testimony: The story about your salvation.
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Back from Guatemala14 years ago
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HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!
hey guys its Ryan West. sorry i didn't get to make it to Sunday School or Church this morning. i went to South Biscayne with my mom. well anyways. i remember i was like 5 or 6 year old and i attended South Biscayne and it was June 22 and i had learned about god and i knew about hi but i never really believed in him. i then asked my Sunday school teacher more about him and she broke it down for me so i could understand it better and i then learned how jesus died for me to save me so i could live with him in heaven one day and that through jesus christ our savior is the only way to get to heaven or spend eternity in hell. on that day i gave my life to christ. i was very interested and i got into the word. but that soon wore off i started to do other things and i kinda forgot about him and started living my life the way i wanted to. then we went back to Suncoast and i heard evanjalist Tim Lee and through his story of his salvation and what he had been through lifted my spirits and made me realize i needed to put jeesus first. so i then talked to the pastor about getting baptized and everyday i would get in the word and do devotions in a 365 devotionalbook with my dad every day. that is how i was saved. im so thankful jeesus died for me. :]
first time devotions... YAY!!!
see yall on Wdnesdy and ill talk to you all more tommorow.
Ryan
ryan! im so glad youre on here, now ill be on your case to get back on if you dont :] lol
& Pastor Lee please keep praying for Erica, she is doing sooo much better and im so glad. i told her about our devotions and how they kept me focused and gave me doses of the word everyday that just really boosted my relationship with the Lord and asked her to try them. She said she definately would and that she thinks they could help her too; verrryyy exciting!! shes grounded currently :/
but im excited because you should see her on here sometime soon!
Ok so,
testimony time :]
i dont remember everythig, but i do remember how i got to where i am now. since my mom has taken me to church since i was prtty much born, ever since i was wayyy young i knew what church was about but never had thought about it personally until i was maybe 6. i still didnt understand it, but i remember when i first really considered being saved it was plainly because i was scared of hell and what i was told it would be like. i always doubted whether or not it was real and if God was real because at that time it all sounded like a fairytale. so, just to be safe, i figured why not raise my hand and say that prayer in case it was no joke. i remember everytime after, that i was offered the chance to be saved, i would do it over and over again 'just in case'. not until later when i heard more realistic talk rather than whale stories or giant stories and really heard about the parts of bible that were, i guess you could say, more instructional and applicational, did i ever really take it seriously. at that point i knew a lot more and believed a lot more, but was still living like i could just commit to God later, after i had all of my fun. honestly, just within the past year did i decide to wakeup and make later my today and make my Christianity part of my lifestyle and build up a real relationship with the Lord. i remember on the outside looking in it just looked like you had to give up all of the fun to be a Christian, but not until i really gave it all up did i see how great a saved life could be :]]]
I dont really have a big story but i was watching the movie Ghost and the guy went to hell in the movie and i didnt want to go to hell so Jessica took me into my room and Jessica got me saved. I was like 5
Jonathan Massey
P.S.My B-Day is May 24th whoo!
When I was younger I use to tell my mom that my testimony wasn't anything interesting. And she would say what do you mean? And I would respond with that I didn't have a drug problem and God saved me or did something awful like murder someone and then I found Christ but she would say that is the best kind of testimony because it is simple it didn't take a lot for you to want to have a relationship with Jesus. But that is so true. My testimony is simple and now that I am older I know that it is still "good enough" for heaven.
The only thing I remember is it was 1995 and we were living in our old house and my parents had told me that they wanted to talk to me about something important. I was watching Full House and my parents walked over and told me to turn the T.V. off and knelt in front of me. I was only 4 almost 5 but I knew everything about salvation and what it meant. I was a smart kid! Haha… But they explained it to me again, prayed with me, hugged me a lot :) then the next morning I was calling my grandparents and telling them and everyone was excited and happy for me. It was great and from then on I knew that I was going to heaven. A year later when I was 5 years old my dad baptized me at our fist church on August 30, 1996
well when i was younger i got "saved" alot lol
but the one time i thought was real was when we were in the old building we had missionaries and at the end of the service he gave a invatation and i didnt go up cuz i was 7 and i was scared but after i went up to mrs linda and she "led me to the Lord" i thought and that was the one that i always remembered so i was like well maybe that was the real thing and then i got older and wasnt living the christian life and i just wasnt doing good at all and i always had doubts about my salvation and the people i talked to about it was like well its normal for people to doubt its just satan trying to make you think your not saved so i believed then and i was like ok well everyone does is so i guess i am saved and then i got "assurance of my salvation" at the camp with matk and renee and i got baptised when we got back but then still i wasnt living like i was supposed to and i was going back to me the old me so i was like ive got to do something about this.....
on Janurary 8,2007 me and my dad were on our way back from toney (tugger)'s house we were watching the gator vs.buckeye game and on our way home my dad was looking at te sky and we just started talking about how amazing and awesome God is and he gave me his testimony about how he got saved and i tried to hold my tears in until i got home and i did lol but when we were talking i realized that if we got into an accident before we got home and i died that i was going to Hell and it really got me so i went home and went into Heathers bedroom and got her bible and just prayed something like this lol"God please show me what you want me to read and please let it help me and explain to me whats going on right now" and i just opened the Bible to a random page and the verses i read was talking about how much God loved us and that no matter what we do then hell always be here for us and hell never leave idk it was just perfect and it was all God for having me open it to that page so after i read the Bible for a lil while i was in tears and i prayed for about 10 or more minutes and after that i went on to my facebook and told my best guy friend Mack and he told my older sister Heather and yea u know what happens now she told everyone in the world lol and her friend Andrea was so excited she wanted to have a salvation birthday party for me haha
and then after that i talked to Katie about it all and we started decipleship but never finished it cuz she got pregnant and all but what we did do helped alot and then i got baptized forreal this time lol and its just awesome how once you know for a fact that your a christian how your whole life just changes around for the better im a whole new person than i was a year and a half ago and im so thankful for that =]
ph and good news today after church me and amanda were driving in the car with my sister and brothers and she was like Jill i have a question ans she asked me how to know that your saved or not and if you can get baptized before your saved and if you sin after you get baptized are you still a christian and just questions like that so i tried to explain it all to her and then my lil sister Grace buts in and she avtually explains it to her better than i was lol
so i told het to talk to you pastor lee on wednesday =]
i was excited
Well, My story is similar to many Christians who are born and raised in the church. I remember being very curious about my Salvation when I was 5 years old. Now, I have a HORRIBLE memory, and the only thing that I could remember about that time, was me praying with my parents on my bunk bed. (I was on the top bunk, to make sure that God could hear me better) I said a prayer from my heart believing in Christ. From that time on, like many other imature believers, I doubted my salvation. I always wondered, DID I REALLY MEAN IT? DID I SAY THE PRAYER RIGHT? all of these questions always came to my mind, and I did all of the silly mind games like: I would pray on my own, Just incase I wasnt really saved before.
I stuggled with this for most of my teenage years, I believe because no one ever really explained Salavation in a practical but Biblical way. No one ever explained salvation from John 3:14 where John says: "as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness so must the son of man be lifted up".
When I finally found that passage, I finally understood that my salvation has NOTHING to do with whether I prayed the right prayer, But the main question was: DID I TURN TO GOD, Trusting in him with the faith that He would save me from my sins.
And the fact is, Yes! I did!!! The amazing part is this: Knowing what I know now, I believe that I was truely saved wheen I was 5 (THE VERY FIRST PRAYER) because that is when I did what Romans 10:9 tells us to do. I believed in God, and I confessed it to him! (I Believed in God and I told Him about it!)
It is so wonderful to be 10000000 percent sure that when you die, you KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE GOING TO HEAVEN!!!
If you cant say that, get those passages from me, and I will help you understand them.
i got saved when i was 5 at cinco baptist church, which was the private school i was attending at the time. so it was a couple nights before we were to put on our big show of jonah and the whale, i was jonah the star of course. so they were explaining the story of jonah after like a month of rehersals, and i was quite interested about why god would do such a thing to poor little jonah. so later that night i asked IDK and s/he explained what god was all about and that he loved me and that hell was a bad place where i would burn forever if i didn't get saved. so i prayed to god and said all of the bad things I've been doing lately and then the IDK person rudely interupted my prayer to god and said that i didn't have to tell him everything i've done since i was born and then i quickly wrapped it up and SHAZZAM!!! I'm a child of god and i was very happy. Oh and for those of you who may be wondering how i did as jonah in the play, i got stage fright but after 15 seconds in the bright lights with all the 100 people staring at me i was fine.
well it was about two years ago today i came to pastor lee and i asked whats all this about and he said well if you follow god in his word and yor saved you get baptised and then we went before church in the front row and he showed me some passages and i was amazed to hear what i heard and then a week later i got baptized what a blessing it is to be at SUNCOAST YOUTH GROUP i like hanging out with everybody
I dont really know how long ago it was but I was at a camp activity with the youth group and they prayed and asked the people who wasnt saved to raise their hands brian told me to raise my hand so I did and the guy took me to a seperate room and told me what to do. I got saved! Over the years I at least got saved 5 more times just to make sure.
I got saved when I was 5 and then when i was 12 I was very unsure of my salvation so I followed the lord and reasurred my salvation then and I know for 100% sure i am going to heaven when i die or if the rapture comes!!
well when i was 6 i was at the old church in the complex and Pastor Chip was saying anyone who wanted to get saved and know they are going to heaven that they could come up to the alter and pray to ask God into your heart. so i went up to the alter and he prayed and i followed his prayer to accept Christ into my heart. so when we went to that teen thing in Jacksonville about 2 or 3 years ago i wasn't so shure about my salvation and i reassured it then and now i know for shure that i am saved and i am a Christian. i also remember the ABC's when i think about salvation (admit, believe, and confess).
PS. also yester i went to check to see if there was anything like a devo. on the sight but there was nothing and i checked at around 5:00 so i had just missed you Pastor Lee. well have a good day everyone
ohh boy this could get pretty long...the first time i did it i was 5 and my dad and i were watching billy graham on tv and he was giving an altar call and i asked my dad why everyone was doing that. He told me that people were getting saved and explained what that was all about. When he finished i asked if i could do it. Of course he said yeah so he led me to the lord and i was really excited about it. I got baptised in the blowup swimming pool a month later...but when i got older i started to realize that i wasn't really living for god. I went through a really hard time once my dad died and i constantly questioned my salvation because i never really felt close to god the way other people were. So finally when i was 15 we went to camp in Jacksonville...(again i was having some major issues at the time) and i finally got so sick of myself and the way i was living so at altar call on the last night i went forward and got rededicated.
There was a time when i was about my bro's age(8) that i got "saved"...i say "saved" cuz now that i look back on it...i didnt TRULEY mean it...i just didn't wanna go 2 hell...I thought lets get saved & do w/e cuz he'll 4 give me...yeah no...cuz thatz not how salvation goes...
Salvation was never thourally explained 2me & i just passed it by...
it wasn't until i went 2 youth alive in jacksonville that i TRULY got saved & MENT it...It was Russ Lee(singer) who finally had me confess=] He had me thinking & i got 2 meet him personally & the Friday(4days later) i got saved...The song "here I am 2 worship" was playing & over HALF the ppl in the room got up & went 2 the front of the stage
It was from THAT moment that i TRUELY believed & wanted a RELATIONSHIP w/god...id had many issues that im not proud of b4 i was saved...i didnt eat4 11months, i cut myself & i was suicidle...family was fightin & my nana DIED(she was like my BEST FRIEND)
I got saved & all that CHANGED ...Nana didn't come back, but my self harm slowly went away & family issues bettered=] I asked god 2 help me through this & i'd always felt alone...But i KNEW HED ALWAYS b there...
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
i hadn't had the strenghth 2 stop/fix those things on my own...it was my salvation & u guys who kept me goin=]
now im back on track eatin & the whole 9yds...i dont eat 2live...i LIVE2EAT!!!-lol
Getting saved was the best thing 2 happen 2 me...& i credit it 2 Pastor Lee 4 encouraging me 2 go2camp...had u not...i would STILL b lost...thank u VERY much Pastor lEE
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