Somebody oughta testify!

[kclee4jc]

I have noticed a great diversity of opinion on this forum (not knockin). However, i have noticed the common denominator is that most here believe the oneness of God and at least some form of Acts 2:38 experience. I'm just kind of interested in hearing how some of you came to where you are today in your walk with God. How God has led you and how you received whatever revelation of truth you have received. So if you feel comfortable doing so why don't you share your testimony!

[sandie]

I have noticed a great diversity of opinion on this forum (not knockin). However, i have noticed the common denominator is that most here believe the oneness of God and at least some form of Acts 2:38 experience. I'm just kind of interested in hearing how some of you came to where you are today in your walk with God. How God has led you and how you received whatever revelation of truth you have received. So if you feel comfortable doing so why don't you share your testimony!

We overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.

I was raised Jewish. As a young girl my father took me to Temple but we weren't really practicing Jews other then my father taking us out of school for Rosh Hashanah and I belonged to B'nai B'rith. But, it was instilled in me, "we are Jewish".

So, I didn't think I could have a relationship with Jesus, but somewhere in my heart I knew He was real and He was God. So, I carried on, what I call, a secret love affair with the Savior. I couldn't tell anyone and I was rather convinced it had to stay a secret. I prayed to Him, I thought about Him, but only He and I knew. Somewhere in my young mind I thought He couldn't really respond as to make me a Christian, but I could talk to Him anyway.

Fast forward to being 20 and working with a girl whose father was a preacher, at a nursing home. We were taking care of a young man in a vegatative state. I said to her one day, "well, at least he'll go to heaven". She asked me how I knew that and I told her it was because of his physical condition. She corrected me and she began to talk about the Lord. She said God would speak to me, I said, no He won't, He can't. She said, yes He can and He's talking to you right now!
My world changed with that once sentence. God was talking to me...I was shocked and thrilled beyond measure at the idea that God could really talk to me afterall!

She arranged for me to meet with her mother the next day, we prayed together and when we were thru (cannot remember what we prayed), I knew I had been touched by Jesus.

They invited me to a Foursquare tent revival a few days later. I went and soon after arriving I began to mimic others by raising my hands and singing and worshipping and the next thing I knew I was speaking in tongues as the Spirit gave utterance. I had never heard of the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues, the people I was with had to explain to me what had happened.
I was a newlywed at the time, my husband got a transfer to another state so my spiritual beginnings suffered a set back as I could not find another church like that one.

A few years later I was at home and a knock on my door came, it was a UPC bus ministry inviting any children I had (I had none but was pregnant with first baby) to church. He left me a brochure of the church and I saw the word, "Pentecostal", so I knew I wanted to try it.
I went and a few days later was baptized in the wonderful Name of Jesus!

If you've read this far: :highfive

[Liberal]

I have noticed a great diversity of opinion on this forum (not knockin). However, i have noticed the common denominator is that most here believe the oneness of God and at least some form of Acts 2:38 experience. I'm just kind of interested in hearing how some of you came to where you are today in your walk with God. How God has led you and how you received whatever revelation of truth you have received. So if you feel comfortable doing so why don't you share your testimony!



Nope sorry, I'm just not in the mood. After reading that thing about the horrible things that are about to happen, I'm just too depressed to testify.

Ps....every Christian on the planet believes in Acts 2:38. Even I do.

[Hoovie]

Absolutely.

"It was while I was Mennonite, at age 16, that I first remember getting transparent and serious with God concerning my salvation.

I was given some cassette tapes by someone who knew I was hiding a cassette player. They were tapes from “Because of the Times,” with speakers like G. A. and Vesta Mangun, and Jeff Arnold. I listened to some of the sermons, but what I found most interesting was the way they all prayed together—out loud. ..."

The rest is here
http://ninetyandnine.com/Archives/20071029/testimony.htm