My Testimony
Sophia and I
Randie and I
Here's a little of my testimony so you can get to know me a little better... I was saved at a young age(5) and when I was little(even befor that point) I would talk to God(I had never heard the gospel or knew that there even was a God but something inside of me did... I can remember times when I would think about how uncertain life is and I knew that a I could die at any moment and I'd pray that if I did die that God would let me be with him... but as I got older I was just kinda stuck in the children's part of the church and I was never really taught that I had to live for God and read my bible and have a relationship with God.
I backslid later on... I started smoking somewhere around my 6th grade year and I'd cuss and drink with friends. I went out with friends at night, I've been in so many situations where I should have died. I've doen many stupid mistakes because of peer-preasure and I thought it would get people to accept me. I was a hard-core Christian, but at the same time I thought I was a Christian.... no one told me any different... I went to church I asked Jesus into my heart... but I didn't take up my cross and follow him, in all truth I was a servant of Satan and no one can have 2 master. During this time I was always rejected and a loner and I got really depressed and at one point I even tried to commit suicide. I praise God that he is faithful and just and he looked down on me and patiently called me back to him.
My freshman year in high school my friend invited me to a revival in her church and I went(it lasted for 20+ weeks) and got involved in the orquestra... I started noticing that the people at this church had something that I didn't and that they were happy not depressed and hurt and afraid... I started to hunger after what they had. I started to clean up my life... and I started hearing God's voice in my life again. At this church I met a guy and we bacame good friends. At the begining of the school year he invited me to go to the Brownsville Revival... all I knew is that God was moving there and I wanted God! I went in october of '98 and it changed my life... while down there God confronted me... I had never really given up my sins completely... I still had part of me that wouldn't let go of them...and God told me that I was either going to serve him with all or nothing there is no middle area... I couldn't ride the fence anymore! The next night at service I went down to the alter and gave my everything to God, and God came and swept through me washing me clean and I've never been the same.
At this church I met a guy and we bacame good friends. At the begining of the school year he invited me to go to the Brownsville Revival... all I knew is that God was moving there and I wanted God! I went in october of '98 and it changed my life... while down there God confronted me... I had never really given up my sins completely... I still had part of me that wouldn't let go of them...and God told me that I was either going to serve him with all or nothing there is no middle area... I couldn't ride the fence anymore! The next night at service I went down to the alter and gave my everything to God, and God came and swept through me washing me clean and I've never been the same.
Since then I've been through trials and hardships... my parents don't like me being radical like I am they think that as long as you say a prayer to ask Jesus in your heart that you are saved and the you don't have to live for God... I love my parents and I take the persecution with gladness, God is maturing me and giving me patience and a burden for the lost. I thank him that he is making my situations hard at times to smooth out the rough edges of my life.
In November '98 I went back to the revival. On the last night of revival services Steve Hill didn't even preach, the praise and worship was incredible and after that was an alter call then he asked those with back problems to come down into the isles. I suffered from anemia, tendenitis, skoliosis, migrains and depression. I was in constant pain. The doctors couldn't do anything for me and all I could do was take pain reliever... wich lead to addiction to the pain medications. But they got E.T.Corbin up there and he prayed for us. I felt warmth shoot through my body and God just took over. Till this day I have no pain or signs of any of those diseases! God is so awesome! Since then I've gone to Brownsville every chance I get. Each time I go it changes my life.
God has birthed a burden for souls, for my family and my school in my heart and put many oppertunities in my life to changed other people's lives. I thank God each day for taking me off the road of distruction and putting me on a path of righteousness. I don't know where I'd be without him, I doubt I'd be alive. For the future I know that God is calling me into some kind of ministry, but I don't know what... I know that I'll be going to college(my parents wishes) and then to siminary. I plan next year to go to ORU, a christian college here Tulsa and from there I don't know. I plan on going to the Brownsville Revival School of Ministry when I'm finished with college. I'm also planing to stay involved with youth. That's all that God has revealed for me right now. He's revealing more each Day... I just want to keep going after God with all my heart!
I hope this testimony has touched your heart God bless.