sushilp3585
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I became a believer in 2004-2005; I do not remember the exact date but I know it was around there because I had just ran away from home during my senior year in high school and was staying at a friend's house. As I was looking for a job, my friend had told me that he would ask his friend if he knew of any work that I would be able to get. The next morning, I met his friend's friend and we had a talk and to make the story short, he convinced me to not run away from home. A year later, I met him once more through a business offer and went to a convention with a group. On the last day of the convention, they held church at the same building with the same group of people and did an alter call (At least I think that is what it is called; I am not sure but it is where they call people to come up front and confess your belief in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior). Even though I felt the holy spirit hovering over me, I did not go forth and proclaim Lord Christ Jesus as my savior and just sat on my seat. Couple days later, I was having a coffee with my mentor, the person who convinced me not to run away from home during my senior year of college, and was talking about the scripture. You see, at this time, my self esteem was very low to the point where I was depressed. We got to talking and either he asked me a question or I just blurred out "I want to become a believer"; I do not remember which it was. Either way, we had another conference and I proclaimed my belief that my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, did indeed die for me in the cross for my sins and got baptized in a backyard pool in my mentor's friends house. Now, for what ever reason, I dropped doing drugs, smoking, and drinking out of the blue; Never touched it once!! At least for the first 8 months of my Christian journey. I slowly began to pick up smoking and then drinking and doing marijuana as my drug of choice. Not only that, my faith was slowly falling by the way the world was running. By the way, I only read up to the story of Noah in the bible and never touched it again because it was hard to understand. Now, this should have been a hint that I need to attend church right? However, I fought the idea and thought that it was just for gathering and I did not need to attend. Stupid, but that was my thought at the time. Nonetheless, I fell down hard and was wondering why I was going through all of these things and became bitter, prideful, angry, and thought that I was better than most people. After that, I hit my second depression. During this time with all my complaining, I decide to do some research on if the world is really bad as I thought it was from the beginning? Or did wo say and hopefully he uses me as an example to let those people know that you can always e loose our way and became bad. And what do you think I started with? The Bible; and found out that it was true. The world is a godless place from the beginning and at all the things I was angry with became truthful through the word of God. I hope this helps the people who are unbelievers and are going through some problem and the believers who haven't really started walking with God and think that it is too late or God is angry with you. I am here tmake a change even if you have done some wrong things. I have done some very sinful things that I should be burning in hell for rather than being shown grace by my heavenly father. Therefore, I hope you share this post if you think it will help someone and I hope God will be glorified so that everyone knows that he is the true God and he is a God of grace. God bless all my brothers and sisters in Christ.
thank you for sharing your wonderful testimony!
