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JORDAN posted on November 16, 2008:
If anyone had told me a year ago that i would be writing this, I wouldn.t of believed them. At this time last year, my marriage was falling apart, I was strung out on pain killers. We were about to loose it all. I guess they call it Rock Bottom. I knew that I needed God. Part of me wanted to give it all and the other part was still hanging on to the drugs, if you ever have took pain killers, the withdraws are horrible. You cant funtion. Its all you think about. Just remember if your afraid to do something, chances are its the right thing to do. God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of peace. The devil will do ANYTHING to hinder you from a breakthrough. I talk to God like I can see him right in front of me.I began to just be honest with God, telling him my fears of getting saved again and messing up, and how my spirit wanted to quit but my flesh didnt, and being scared of people knowing and i knew it wasnt going to be easy. Iwasnt healed instantly, but i can look back and see that when it seemed like god wasnt there he was moving more than ever, He led me thru the horrible fears, I had to withdrawel, but he allowed me to so i would see later how he brought me thru it. And now i can say that he gave me peace, he wanted me to need him again. During that time i prayed so much if all i could say was Jesus, help me. To make a long story short, he healed my marriage, he delievred me from drugs and showed me love again. But the one thing that has stuck with me and is my testimony, DONT GIVE UP!!! Praise him in the storm, if your confused, if your ill and want to bite someones head off, PRAY PRAY, praise him in the storm. Hold on he cares, he meets you were you are, he wants us to come thirsty. He loves us so much that he will get in the middle of the storm and ride it through wiyh us. Hold On!!
Rick posted on November 15, 2008:
I met you guys just tonight on Nov 15 at the Northridge united methodist Church. My story has been told to a few people now but I feel a strong need to tell it to others. When I was little I actually had a great life. Everything I could possibly want my Dad would get me. I worshiped him as much as anyone else. I went to church had it all. Then one day I went to Las Vegas to visit my mother over summer vacation. I didnt hear from my father for four years. He had just abandoned me. Still at first things were ok untill my mother officially got custody.That was when everything went south. My mother didnt care anymore and used me only as a servent. I stoped sleeping because everytime I would fall asleep I would be woken up just to do something or run some errand for her. It just kept going down. She would always tell me I was worthless and would never ammount to anything. She said I would end up just like my father. I started getting into fights.. Being rude and just hating everyone. I stoped going to church infact.. I blamed God for it all. In my eyes God was the reason I was in that living hell. I would even just look up at the sky and start cussing at him. I truly had belived myself to have become Satanic.. I had missed school so often that I was getting Fs in all of my classes. My mother even forced me to Drop out of highschool to get a job just so I could pay her money. And then after I would pay her that same day she would accuse me of stealing from her. I had even been kicked out of churches because of my attitudes. I had been assulted.. attacked with knives.. I was drinking constantly.. even though I was under age. My Aunt Uncle and Grandmother here in Cali called and they gave me a choise. I could come here and live with them. .IF I agreed to get it together and try and go back to school get my diploma.. I agreed. I came here and things started to look up. I felt happy again. I went back to the chruch I was baptized in and I felt at home.. finally I got my diploma and everything all in just a single year instead of the four it should have taken. Now I am a Youth leader in my church and always helping. I actually feel good about who I am and how God is always here to hold my hand and guide me on my journy. And I know he will always be there to do just that
Ashley posted on November 10, 2008:
This past year has been particularly hard for me. One would think it would be easy, seeing that I was graduating from high school, was blessed with every possible blessing conceivable, and was headed to the college of my dreams. Not quite, though. A month before my high school graduation, I fell into a pretty deep depression, considered deeply whether or not I really wanted to be alive, and even seriously thought about committing suicide. I didn't understand a lot of things--I didn't even know that I was depressed... I thought that it was more along the lines that God had rejected me, and I didn't even know why. I just felt like I had betrayed God somehow, and that He didn't want me to be His own anymore. Throughout the year, I never really sought out any help--I just prayed a lot, cried a lot, and pled that God would rescue me and that He would change His mind and want me back again. About a year later, on April 19, 2008, I talked to a lady who knew what I was going through, and she told me how I was probably depressed, and it fit everything I had gone through. To people who haven't gone through what I have gone through, I always feel the need to explain to them how bad depression is, because I am always afraid that they will belittle the absolute HELL i have gone through in the past year and a half, but, now, I know that with Jesus, I don't have to explain every terrible detail, because, though I didn't feel Him, Jesus was through the whole thing, and HE FELT MY PAIN. Today, on the way to my car to drive home from school, I was listening to "Hold On" on my iPod, and I was just rejoicing and praising God, because He brought me through it all. I can't believe it, but I am so psyched that I did hold on, because now life is so much better now. Praise God. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)