Testimonies of Searching and Finding the Truth
Out of Darkness into His Wonderful Light
When I was six years old my father committed suicide and from that day onwards my mother started to drink heavily. It was a terrible time for my brother, sister and I. My mother was drunk almost every day and there was only fighting and shouting. At that time we lived with my mother's first husband and his new family and my grandfather, who were all alcoholics. Often I was lying in bed and dreaming of a real home somewhere where I would be loved and cared for. At the age of 13 I started to think of taking my own life to go to the place I dreamed of; I thought I would go to heaven, although I now know this would not have been the case! Read more
When I Received the Holy Spirit!
A guy gave me a Christian leaflet when I was 16 and I talked to him for a while. The conversation stuck in me as he mentioned that Jesus Christ would return. At the time I found this absolutely ridiculous and mocked him, I was with my sister and we were running late for the cinema. But through all the laughing I was really listening to him. Read more
From Communism to Christ
When I decided to buy “the illegal book” for a quarter of my monthly salary, I met ‘by chance’ some Americans, who gave me a brand new Bible as a present. There was no way I could call it a coincidence! The Americans also told me about having a “personal relationship with God” and this phrase affected me greatly, and I could not get it out of my head… not icons, not “saints”, not even the church – but only Jesus Christ as mediator between man and God. Read more
Convicted by God
All of a sudden while Henry was praying in tongues, I clearly heard him saying „détruire la bastion“ (French for "to destroy the stronghold"). This caught my attention, especially since I am fluent in French. I answered Henry in French and asked him what he meant with this, but I found out that he couldn't understand what I was saying... Read more
Found to God Due to Biblical Evidence
I inwardly laughed, because Christians, as far as I knew, were people who believed in something they could not prove. Hence I told him to prove to me that God exists and he came up with a lot of things I had never heard of before. The first thing that surprised me was... Read more
I Was Always Happy In My Life, but There Is More
I must say I never really believed in God. I thought that somehow there must be something, but I was honestly never really searching. My mum read Bible stories out to us when we were young and she often told us about Jesus, today I know that in doing so my mum had already planted some seeds of faith. I sometimes went to Sunday school with my older sister, but I never really felt attached to the church. I had a fanatstic childhood and was happy in my life but today I know that there is more to life. Read more
Taking the Next Step
I "pushed" the conviction away and at that time I thought "that was it", but I was still feeling a bit uncomfortable. Thankfully a few weeks later, the same conviction came back to me, but this time I knew deep down that this may be my last chance to decide to follow God. Read more
From Confusion to Conversion
I remember my father jumping up and running after me shouting that he would beat me to death. I reached the upstairs bathroom, locked the door behind me, climbed out of the window, jumped into the garden and ran away. Here my odyssey started. I was desperate to find someone who would try and understand me... Read more
Saved out of a Lonesome Life
I would like to tell you how I was saved. Before I became a Christian, I was very shy and withdrawn. When I was a child, bullies crushed all my self confidence and sense of worth. Because of that, I found it very hard to make friends. I tried to change this in my own strength, but it didn't work. I had a very lonely life, because I was so shy and and found it nearly impossible to get into a conversation or to show people that I liked them. Read more
Seek and Ye Shall Find - the Truth!
After being at University, I moved to Glasgow to work at a firm of stockbrokers. I had friends, a good job, a nice flat and a great family. But as life went on, I realised that there was something missing. My interest in the spiritual side of life had brought many questions, but no firm answers. In the end, it boiled down to three main questions... Read more
Saved from Depression and Loneliness
"The following Tuesday I was meant to leave for three weeks to go camping in Bavaria. But what I had heard and seen from those Christians had captured me. I knew they had something which I wanted to have too, and I decided to get baptised. I did not want to leave before receiving from God the same thing as these people had..." Read more
From Bible College to Bible Knowledge
I had, on numerous occasions, as Evangelical churches teach, ‘asked Jesus into my heart', but since that time have not found a single Scripture commanding or exhorting anyone to do that. Now I have no intention of pointing fingers and blaming others: this is a testimony of how the Lord saved me. And yes, despite the churchy background, I was in desperate need of salvation... Read more
I Was Converted from a Dead Belief into a Living Faith!
I had made two resolute decisions: I was going to keep to my Christian morals, even if tempted severely, and was going to learn Russian. Please understand that I grew up in a conservative Christian home and church (Dutch Reformed), and had read and heard the Bible since I was young, yet I knew something was missing in my faith. I knew that the Orthodox faith was not right and that it did not teach the Bible as complete truth... Read more
Saved from a Muslim Background
From childhood on I was beaten nearly every day - most of the time for no reason. I felt worthless, unloved, unwanted and very lonely. Often I wished I had never been born, or thought about suicide, yet, there was a spark of hope that my life might still turn around one day... Read more
Born Again!
I realised that if the Bible really is the Word of God, then I had better do something about it. So I spoke a lot to some Christians whom I knew, asking them questions about the Bible, about how it could be true, about whether or not it made sense and so on, but they couldn't answer all my questions... Read more
Former Methodist Pastor Receives the Holy Spirit!
It was especially during this period that we searched God’s Word and waited on Him for answers. We became aware that we were missing the “power from on high” spoken of in depth in the Book of Acts... Read more
Saved after Healing
I did not want to hear about that, because it meant that I would have to change my life, but I went on studying my Bible; reading about the miracles, such as when Elijah prayed for rain, or when Daniel survived being thrown into the Lion's den. I missed this power in church, where it was rather boring. Read more
Convinced Catholic – Real Power in my Life Now
In this Christian meeting one thing became very clear for me and this was that God did many things for me in my life but that I hadn't done anything for him. I knew that I had to take a decision in my life to either follow God 100% percent or to leave it. After the meeting I wanted to get baptised... Read more
Saved from the Highway to Hell
The next day I bought myself a Bible with the intention to show her that she wasn't right and if God was real and a loving one He would just let us do what ever we wanted, but as I read the Bible more and more over the next 3 months, I got convinced by the Word and day by day I started to think deeply about my whole life, the sins I committed... Read more
God Revealed His Full Salvation Message to Me!
One of my classmates was a Christian, and he challenged me to come along to a Christian school group. I went along a few times, but didn’t really see the point in just sitting around and praying to some God. However, while I was doing my military service, I read a book called “Longing for Holiness”, which really made me think that there was something special about the Bible and the Christian faith. Read more
Searching for a Deeper Meaning in Life
I had not long started a new job in 1985 when I was first introduced to someone whom I was told was a ‘born again Christian.' I immediately thought she would be some kind of ‘bible thumping' religious fanatic so I was cautious from the beginning.To my surprise however, she never actually preached to me, nor did she ram the bible down my throat but she did make an impression on me by... Read more
How I Found God after Years of Seeking
Finally, when I was about 18-years-old, I was sick of seeking. I was very disappointed and even tried to kill myself twice for I saw no sense in existing in such a corrupt and crazy world. Fortunately both attempts were unsuccessful, and after the second attempted suicide, I suddenly knew in my heart… Read more
Self-Sufficient I.T. Consultant – Now Peace and Real Life
While my life was not ‘godly', by the standards of the World it was pretty blameless, although I knew that I could only be ‘saved by faith' alone, not by works. I knew the ‘God' part of my life was missing, my life felt incomplete, even with ‘success' with my career and a busy life. Read more
Physicist Becomes a Christian
After two and a half years of reading the Bible now and then, and studying other material, while also drinking and partying, I saw how the fragments fitted together and formed a picture like a mosaic. I had to make a decision - to follow God according to His Way, or maybe lose the chance of getting saved forever... Read more
God Saved Our Son
God has performed a great miracle in him! ... When Peter flew over to Australia, he was depressed, desperate and unhappy with his situation. He did not have a purpose in his life and even entertained thoughts of suicide... Read more
Leaving Empty Religion Behind
I went to parties and did other teenage things and yet I grew more and more unhappy. I felt that something was awfully wrong in my life. There was a big difference between the things that happened in my own life and in my church and what I read about in the Bible. I felt empty and dirty... Read more
I Sought and I Found
One day, some buses arrived at the church with people from abroad. When they went inside, nobody was looking after their luggage, and I decided to steal it! I quickly went and took three suitcases, before running away as fast as I could... Read more
My God - I thank You!
One morning, when we were having breakfast, I felt like I wanted to cry. Then I realised that I had totally forgotten to take my medicine. I talked to a doctor about the shadows of the past, and about all the medical stuff and what it does to you. I finally realised that I just had to accept God as my healer as the scripture says... Read more
How God Saved My Life!
When I was 19, in the year 1999, I was involved in a car accident in which my girlfriend and my cousin died. At this time, my uncle wrote to me saying I should be happy to be alive and not on my way to hell. I didn't agree... Read more
A World Trip in Search of God
There, in a park, after explaining to my dog that I could no longer feed him and would have to give him to a pound, I kneeled down and cried to the Lord: “Lord, I have been walking this world for four and a half years, please explain to me what life is all about and if you are there, then show me.” Within minutes a gardener stopped by and we had a chat... Read more
After Years of Searching, I Came to Know God.
The same evening, I decided that I need to know if there is a God or not and if He is a God that is “the same yesterday, today and forever,” He would be able to give me a sign to prove He is real. After I had prayed I waited and waited and waited and eventually fell asleep. Nothing happened, so it was clear for me there was no God. However... Read more
From Darkness Into the Light Now I Know I've Got The Right Cards
When I grew older I noticed that there was a difference between the Bible and the life Jesus lived, and the church today. Eventually, I came to a point when I decided that religion wasn't for me anymore – I thought it is all a big farce and God doesn't exist, otherwise he would have answered my prayers a long time ago. Read more
Loner Looking for Eternal Life
I did not have any peace or assurance of salvation... I wasn't 100% right with God and knew something was missing. For many years I lived in fear and asked myself the question “what does it take to be saved on Judgement Day?" Read more
Finding the Meaning of Life
Although I had many friends, I no longer had the joy and happiness in life that I had before this event. At this stage I was really desperate for something positive in my life... Read more
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