R
Ryu Wilder
Guest
Hi all! The name is Ryu Wilder, and this is my intro topic, lol. Well, for starters, the real name is Joe Zigmund, age 23, Ohio USA, male (as if the name wasn't obvious), and most of all, I have a fire in my life for God. My hobbies include drawing, collecting DVD movies, and I love to do what is called Pantomime, which is an act of worship, using hand movements to songs. RIght now, I know "The Cross" by The Crabb Family, "Shout To The Lord" by many artists, and "Orphans Of God" by Avalon, which is actually my newest one.
I've been serving God for about 4 years almost now and well, my story is a pretty amazing one, as well as one that is truly worthy of the title "Amazing Grace", because it was sheer Grace that got me through a time in my life that I thought I was about to die. When I was young, I got involved with the wrong crowd, at a very young age and I did some things that I'm not proud of, and well, at 20, it finally caught up with me and I was placed in a situation involving terms of life and death. And to make matters worst, my parents divorced last year in 2006, the day after Easter.
My ex stepfather walked out on my mother and 5 yr old brother after 21 years of marriage, being a minister in the COG (Church Of God), leaving her for her best friend who he was sleeping with 2 months before walking out. What made this matter worst is that this man also tried to use the things that I had done against me as a leverage over my mother. This man has been the most evil person in the past year and ahalf.
But back to my testimony, when I saw how severe my situation had become, I cried out to God and about a month afterwards, after very hard praying and turning my life and soul over to Jesus Christ, God spoke to me and said "My Child, I have seen your tears and heard you cry in the night for deliverance. I see that you are truly sorry for what you have done and now I will honor your prayers and your cries."
"This is my covenant to you: I shall deliver you from the situation you have placed yourself in, only if you will devote your whole self to me, then and only then will I help you. Behold, you will go through a period in which you will begin to doubt my promise to you, but it is in the darkest hour that I will prevail and come to your aid, making it so you never again have to face this trial, and you will emerge victorious and unscathed."
"Now is the time to pick yourself up and live on in your life, enjoy the new life that you now have and remember that I am the Lord your God, who saves and delivers you even to this very day. You have been in tears for too long, now pick yourself up off of the ground, because I have a plan for you and your life. I Love You." Upon hearing these words, I then knew that God was with me and that I had been forgiven.
Surely enough, like He had said though, I had to face a time in the whole circumstance that was indeed very rough on me, and I remember at one point in my life almost overdosing because I couldn't take the pressure or the pain that was being caused to me, since my dad was using my past as a leverage. I was in so much pain that I would break down and cry in public stores, scared that I would never see another day.
Finally, God came through, about 2 months ago, in September when my father tried to turn me in for my "crimes" as he called them, and everything was investigated, as the final verdict came in: I had committed no crimes whatsoever, which was unbelievable for me, because I knew pretty well that I HAD done wrong, but it was like what I had done was never even done in the first place. Shortly before the "Hearing", I gained an incredible boost of faith.
4 months ago, I stumbled onto the song, "Orphans Of God" by total accident, but I was feeling at the lowest of times. I had begun to wonder if God's Grace had run out, or if He had forgotten His Promise that he had made to me, and well, I was listening to my "comfort songs" as I like to call them, and just wasn't getting any comfort whatsoever, it was like Satan was gripping me as tight as possible.
Then when I accidentally clicked on the Orphans Of God link, and heard just the first part of the first verse, I had tears just streaming down my face, and I knew right then and there that God wasn't done with the situation just yet. Shortly after, He came through for me, but before then I made a vow to Him that I would send Orphans Of God to every new person I met online, hoping that they would know He loves them.
You see, God Loves each and every one of us. No matter who we are, what we are, what we've been, or are going to become, whatever we say or do, He knows it all as it happens before it even happens. And like the song says, "There are no strangers, there are no outcasts, there are no orphans of God.", meaning He will always Love you, no matter what. I hope this testimony touches you as it has others. Thank you for reading this and I hope to meet new friends here.
I've been serving God for about 4 years almost now and well, my story is a pretty amazing one, as well as one that is truly worthy of the title "Amazing Grace", because it was sheer Grace that got me through a time in my life that I thought I was about to die. When I was young, I got involved with the wrong crowd, at a very young age and I did some things that I'm not proud of, and well, at 20, it finally caught up with me and I was placed in a situation involving terms of life and death. And to make matters worst, my parents divorced last year in 2006, the day after Easter.
My ex stepfather walked out on my mother and 5 yr old brother after 21 years of marriage, being a minister in the COG (Church Of God), leaving her for her best friend who he was sleeping with 2 months before walking out. What made this matter worst is that this man also tried to use the things that I had done against me as a leverage over my mother. This man has been the most evil person in the past year and ahalf.
But back to my testimony, when I saw how severe my situation had become, I cried out to God and about a month afterwards, after very hard praying and turning my life and soul over to Jesus Christ, God spoke to me and said "My Child, I have seen your tears and heard you cry in the night for deliverance. I see that you are truly sorry for what you have done and now I will honor your prayers and your cries."
"This is my covenant to you: I shall deliver you from the situation you have placed yourself in, only if you will devote your whole self to me, then and only then will I help you. Behold, you will go through a period in which you will begin to doubt my promise to you, but it is in the darkest hour that I will prevail and come to your aid, making it so you never again have to face this trial, and you will emerge victorious and unscathed."
"Now is the time to pick yourself up and live on in your life, enjoy the new life that you now have and remember that I am the Lord your God, who saves and delivers you even to this very day. You have been in tears for too long, now pick yourself up off of the ground, because I have a plan for you and your life. I Love You." Upon hearing these words, I then knew that God was with me and that I had been forgiven.
Surely enough, like He had said though, I had to face a time in the whole circumstance that was indeed very rough on me, and I remember at one point in my life almost overdosing because I couldn't take the pressure or the pain that was being caused to me, since my dad was using my past as a leverage. I was in so much pain that I would break down and cry in public stores, scared that I would never see another day.
Finally, God came through, about 2 months ago, in September when my father tried to turn me in for my "crimes" as he called them, and everything was investigated, as the final verdict came in: I had committed no crimes whatsoever, which was unbelievable for me, because I knew pretty well that I HAD done wrong, but it was like what I had done was never even done in the first place. Shortly before the "Hearing", I gained an incredible boost of faith.
4 months ago, I stumbled onto the song, "Orphans Of God" by total accident, but I was feeling at the lowest of times. I had begun to wonder if God's Grace had run out, or if He had forgotten His Promise that he had made to me, and well, I was listening to my "comfort songs" as I like to call them, and just wasn't getting any comfort whatsoever, it was like Satan was gripping me as tight as possible.
Then when I accidentally clicked on the Orphans Of God link, and heard just the first part of the first verse, I had tears just streaming down my face, and I knew right then and there that God wasn't done with the situation just yet. Shortly after, He came through for me, but before then I made a vow to Him that I would send Orphans Of God to every new person I met online, hoping that they would know He loves them.
You see, God Loves each and every one of us. No matter who we are, what we are, what we've been, or are going to become, whatever we say or do, He knows it all as it happens before it even happens. And like the song says, "There are no strangers, there are no outcasts, there are no orphans of God.", meaning He will always Love you, no matter what. I hope this testimony touches you as it has others. Thank you for reading this and I hope to meet new friends here.