Any Testimonies?

[Michael]

Any testimonies? Mine follows:-
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A Life Changing Experience

For the first time in my life I unexpectedly went to a Bible study meeting. During the study most of the scripture mentioned appeared applicable to my life at the time and without warning my legs started to shake slightly; prior to that time I had no problems with nerves. Afterwards I gave a lady a lift home, she invited me in for a cup of tea and I sat on a sofa in the living room.

After we had drunk our tea and discussed some of the things which had occurred at the Bible study the lady asked a simple question, " Do you want to pray? " I repeated after her the sinners' prayer (see below for an example) phrase by phrase and immediately my legs started to shake such that I could not walk for about 30 - 45 minutes. Prior to that time I had never shaken anything like that. Some time later I discovered that I had been born again.

Being Born Again Does Not Depend On

1.denominational church you attend; 2. baptism in water; 3. giving to the poor; 4. whether you go to a Bible study; 5. whether you are rich or poor; 6. whether you are fit or in poor health; 7. the type of past life .

What Must I Do To Be Born Again?

In the Gospel of John (in The Holy Bible) you will find these words: Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (JOHN 3: 3). It is a MUST, it is necessary to be born again to get into heaven (see also JOHN 3: 7 and 1 PETER 1: 23).

In practical terms, as a first step a prayer, which you can speak out ALOUD, is as follows:

Heavenly Father, I come to you now, Lord I am a sinner. I have sinned against you even this day but Lord I come and ask you in the name of Jesus that you will forgive me for all my sins, that you will wash me in the blood of Jesus and I shall be cleansed from all sin and I thank you now for saving me. Come into my heart and into my life and Lord lead me by your Spirit and help me to live for you from this day forth and I thank you now in Jesus' name, Amen.

To continue as a true believer you must follow the Lord Jesus Christ. This involves regularly: 1. Reading the Bible; 2. Praying to God in Jesus' name; 3. Fellowshipping with other born-again believers.

[Michael]

Sharon Bryson

Sharon was stabbed 30 Times.

In May 1999 ( Eight Months Later )
Sharon was completely healed and restored all because of the grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord for his goodness.

for photographs see:-

www.sharonbryson.com/testimony.htm

[Michael]

In 1952, as American evangelist Tommy Hicks was praying, he received a vision of Argentina and its need. Three months later when the word was confirmed in a prayer meeting.

Now sure of God's will, he flew to Buenos Aires. During the flight, the name 'Peron' kept coming to his mind. It didn't mean anything to him.

"Why, that's the President of Argentina," he was told. "God wants me to talk to him," thought Hicks, as the plane approached Buenos Aires airport.

The president had been suffering from a most persistent and disfiguring skin disease - an incurable eczema. It had become so noticable that Peron would not allow himself to be photographed.

Tommy Hicks, an evangelist from the USA was requesting permission from Peron to hold a salvation and healing campaign in the city, believing God had told him to hire a large stadium. The president, interested asked "Can God heal me?"

"Give me your hand", replied Hicks, and prayed. Before the astonished eyes of all present, the Argentinian leader's skin became clean as a baby's!

The eczema disappeared! Permission to hold the campaign was assured.

Hicks gained an audience with the president after dealing with an aggressive security guard in the same way. He prayed for the guard to be healed -and he was!

Huge traffic jams blocked all roads leading to the gigantic Huracan stadium in Buenos Aires during the most electrifying gospel crusade Argentina has ever seen.

Many thousands travelled by any means available from as far away as Brazil, Chile and Bolivia. People were saved, healed and delivered from evil powers daily.

The blind saw, the deaf heard, cripples were walking. Ambulances full of sick passengers were driven to tbe meetings and went away empty!

A boy of three had been unable to walk without heavy steel braces on his legs. When the crowd prayed, the boy's mother took off her son's braces in faith. The child began to walk unaided! Delighted, he ran up and down. The ecstatic crowd shouted cheered and wept for joy. Faith rose in many hearts and miracles began to happen spontaneously all over the stadium.

A doctor who knew the child's case was so overcome when he saw the miracle that he fell down, grabbing Pastor Hicks by the knees. "I want this Christ; I want to be saved."

Thousands, unable to get into the packed stadium thronged surrounding streets and heard the message broadcast through loudspeakers. Many slept in the stadium in spite of the winter cold to be sure of a good seat for the next service.

The crusade which began in Atlantic stadium soon outgrew the 25,000 capacity. But when Tommy Hicks announced that the campaign was due to close, there was a huge uproar. "Let it go on!" the crowd chanted for a quarter of an hour.

It sounded like the the roaring of a restless sea. What could the authorities do in reply to such a demand? The meetings went on - and increased in attendance!

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Source: Cry for me Argentina, by R Edward Miller (Sharon Publications, 1988).

[Michael]

From ian--about hell,

I went to bed one night in 1984 with a violent headache I tried to sleep but i woke in hell.i was in extreme torment that was that bad that i wanted to leave but could not ,then i saw jesus ,and he said to me ,there are people on earth that can only be saved because of you ,do you now want to return to earth? i said yes and immediatley got out of bed .hell is a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth ,please make sure you don' t end up there.

[boj7772000]

Im glad that you?re alright, im ok too thanks, just been making some cookies for a family at church who aren?t well and am now going to read up on my notes from last nights meeting.

As I said last night I do find certain parts of the bible very difficult to understand, but hopefully with time and a lot of in depth study in my own time I will gradually overcome this and develop a greater understanding of the gospel.

The first email you sent was really encouraging, so thank you for that. I know that it will be the best thing that I could possibly do, to give my life to Jesus, as nothing in this life has anything quite so great to offer as that of being a Christian, as I will hopefully experience myself one day soon. Over the past 6 weeks, I have thought a lot about Christianity, have attended all of the meetings at church and have found all of the sermons extremely relevant to how I feel at the moment, which has been very helpful.

I can understand how you were disappointed about the job you applied for two weeks ago, but something else will be sure to come up for you soon. And like you were saying last night on the way home you feel that maybe you would like to do missionary work, or go into teaching which would be good, so at least you now have a better idea of what you want to do in the future for a possible career which is really greatJ

Anyway, id better get on with my reading, I hope that you have a good day and the rest of your week is good too.

Liz

[Michael]

As the men gathered around him he could see the rage in their eyes. He had been a pastor in a Christian Church in Pakistan for many years. His is the leader of
his denomination. They took him away from his family, his friends and his church. The Muslim cleric was enraged at him because he was still preaching the
Love of Jesus to the people in his city. He had been warned. He had been threatened. He had been beaten. Now the Muslims had enough and so they cut off
his Leg and slit his wrist. They then left him for dead. Only the Lord could have saved him. He is healed now and will be speaking at Parkland Revival
Center Tonight. Please come or check in to the site to hear him. You will not be sorry.

More details of his testimony below!

www.annointed.net

[Michael]

We just had a couple of days that seemed like having the apostle Paul in our
meetings. Bishop Daniel is one of the most humble and yet most powerful men I
have ever met. Here is part of his testimony. It reminds me of 2nd Cor chapter
11.

The celebrations were dampened by the large Muslim crowds that had been
gathering out side the church. The local Muslim Clerics had worked their
congregations into a frenzy. What had made them so upset? What had made them so mad? Bishop Daniel Rehmat was back. He had been warned not to come back. You see he had started over 200 church. He has almost 25,000 Christians Converts leaving Islam and following Jesus in Pakistan.

Then it came they stormed the little church. They had done this before. They
took PaPa away. The mob just came into the church screaming and yelling about
devils, dogs and infidels and took Pastor Daniel Rehmat. They pushed back the
men of the church and arrested him. What kind of beating would he get this
time. What kind of punishment would he get for preaching the Love of Jesus
Christ. Almost no one could find out where they were taking him. Something was
different.

They did not take him to a police station this time but a back room. They told
him never to talk to anyone about Jesus ever again. When he said he could not
comply they beat him some more. Then it happened. They started to read from the
Koran. They started to scream. Then they took out a large sword and held Pastor
Daniel down. They started screaming about Allah and then said they were going to
cut off his legs, both of them, that way he could not get around enough to
preach about Jesus. The pain was beyond any imagination. After they cut off His
legs they slit his wrists and threw him out into the street like garbage. They
left him for dead.........

I asked Bishop Daniel if it was worth it. He said Yes. I asked him if he would
do it again. He said Yes. I asked him why. He looked up at me with a little
smile on his face and said: "I will get two new legs in heaven." But a soul I
can not replace.



www.annointed.net

[Michael]

A Muslim man in Egypt killed his wife and buried her with their infant baby and 8-year old daughter. The girls were buried alive! He reported to the police that an uncle killed the kids.15 days later, another family member died. When they went to bury him, they found the 2 girls under the sand - alive! The girl was asked

how she had survived. "A man wearing shiny white clothes, with bleeding wounds in his hands, came every day to feed us. He woke up my mom so she could nurse my sister." She was interviewed on Egyptian national TV, by a veiled Muslim woman news anchor. She said on public TV, "This was none other but Jesus, because nobody else does things like this!"

Muslims believe Isa would do this, but the wounds mean He really was crucified, and it's clear also that He is alive! The country is
outraged over the incident, and the man will be executed. But it's also clear that the a child could not make up a story like this, and there is no way these children could have survived without a true miracle. Muslim leaders are going to have a hard time to figure out what to do with this, and the popularity of the Passion movie doesn't help! With Egypt at the center of the media and education in the Middle East, you can be sure this story will spread. Christ is still turning the world upside down!

"The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life."
(John 6:63)

[Michael]

A Miraculous Vision Leads Church group to a girl missing for 8 days down a mountain please pray
A How important are these prayer requests. A miraculous vision from God led a church group to Laura a missing teen traped 150 feet down a ravine. This Redmond teenager survives 8 days stuck in car wreck with not food or water.


Seattle Times Eastside bureau
Monday, October 11, 2004 - Page updated at 12:24 A.M.
An internet prayer group and a Church would not give up. They just believed God would show them where Laura was.
The King County Sheriff's Office thought Laura Hatch was a runaway.
Pastor Randy Phillips of Creekside Covenant Church said as they came they filled the church to pray. Over 200 friends and members of the church set out Saturday to search for Laura and pray. Without the Lords help it would have been impossible to find her. Laura is a Redmond teenager, who was missing for eight days, was found alive yesterday at the bottom of a woodsy ravine by a member of her church who said a vision led her to the girl.

Laura Hatch, 17, was found in the back seat of her smashed car, about 150 feet below Northeast Union Hill Road in Redmond, according to the King County Sheriff's Office. She was last seen in Redmond on Oct. 2. Family and friends had been searching for her since then.

Hatch was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where she was being treated for severe dehydration, a possible blood clot near her brain, broken ribs, a broken leg and facial injuries, according to her sister, Amy Hatch.

"We were afraid that we weren't going to find her, we weren't going to get her back," Amy Hatch told KING-TV.

"This is the best thing that could happen, because there were a million awful scenarios."

It appeared Hatch was trapped in her car without food or water for eight days, said John Urquhart, King County Sheriff's spokesman. .

[rapha777]

Life After The Fall
My name is Robert. A number of years ago I was living in sin ... smoking, drinking, clubbing and had girlfriends here and there. One of my girlfriends was in fact a striptease dancer!...continued at:-

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[rapha777]

Hello, my name is Thelma and this is my story.

I was born in Liverpool in 1939. That makes me just old Scouser, right? Read on.

My Mom and Dad were not married – quite a thing in those days! I never knew my Dad – me & my 3 sisters all had different dads. My Mom & uncle sexually abused us all. The family told me I was no good - an outcast & I believed them.
When I was 18 I fell in love & got pregnant. My man told me that the baby wasn’t his because I wasn’t a virgin when we met. Well, my Mom had taken it, hadn’t she? My man left me. The idea that I was no good went even more deeply inside me.
When I had the baby my granddad refused to have him in the house and he had to go to Dr Barnardos. I didn’t see him again till he was 15. The only good thing in my life was my Gran . When she died I fell apart and left home.

I began clubbing and got pregnant again, got bored & carried on clubbing. Then I moved to Birmingham, met another man and got pregnant again & again. Well, what else was I good for?

My partner was a gambler & he told me I had to earn money and took me to see 2 women. They were prostitutes. He told me to watch them & learn the ropes. I didn’t want to but he began to emotionally blackmail me, saying ‘ If you loved me, you would……….’

Many bad things happened to me during that time. If I didn’t earn money he said he would find me & beat me, even when I was pregnant.

One day while I was hustling for business, a policeman stopped me & said he was taking me in. He told me to get into the car & drove me towards the police station but then he said, ‘If you give me what I want, I’ll let you go’. He drove far out – away from anywhere. When he’d finished he walked off saying, ‘Find your own way back’.

I was virtually an alcoholic & smoked 40 f*gs a day. Then, I had a nervous breakdown. I was full of guilt & self-hatred.

15 years or so later, after my children, 7 in all, had finally grown up, I was alone. Next door there were some friendly people. They didn’t seem to mind me being rough & out of control. They invited me to go to church & I went because I had nothing else to do. There I had an experience which changed my life. An incredible sense of peace came on me and for the 1st time ever I knew I was loved and valuable.

I thought about this afterwards but I still didn’t understand. How could I, a woman so degraded as I was and coming from my background, feel like this? The answer is that Jesus loves me so much he died an agonising death for me so that I could feel so deeply loved it makes me weep. Why did those things happen to me? Well, there’s evil in the world, but God saw my pitiful state and pulled me out of it. Now I see people every day walking around with pain, fear, guilt, depression and I want to tell them it doesn’t have to be like this.

I’m not asking anyone to believe some airy-fairy idea about God but we all believe in the idea of love, freedom and respect and Jesus is all these things. Without him we only play blindly at these ideas. You don’t have to take my word for it, ask Him to reveal Himself to you. If He did it for me – he’ll do it for you too.

[Michael]

I Cheated Death by Andrew Bowater

Hi, my name is Andrew and this is my story.

A number of years ago I was in to kick boxing and most days would run 10 miles to keep in peak fitness. One day I defended a young lady who was about to be raped by two men. The police were called and they offered me a lift home which I declined because I thought the walk home would help maintain my fitness....

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[andrew]

A lady who lived on her own with a little child who could not talk the lord helped the little child by the grace of god all things are possible .......

One a day a lady had a child who could not talk , the child was about 5 and the lady was out shopping and she brought a mirror with a picture of our lord jesus christ inprinted on it she decided too put it up in the living aera of her house , when she did so the little child shouted out aloud and said HELLO JESUS MY SAVIOUR the lady looked and said what she started crying with amazement and said what , the little child said there is jesus , she the lady said yes thats only a picture but I beleive jesus is here now with us , god bless and from that very second the child could speak perfectly ...... Praise the lord