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  • Steve Brown - 1 year ago
    In 2011 my life was not going as intended. I realized that High school didn't prepare me with the answers to the questions I found myself asking, like, "Where are we from?", "What is the meaning of life?", etc.

    I set out to question everything... and so, one night I searched online, "What is the truth?", and (since the algorithms of today were not existing) I was confronted with the idea that a minority of people pull all the strings behind closed doors. These people, they hate Christ and they write history for themselves. I quickly watched/read/heard that Jesus Christ IS the Truth and that there are powerful people that hide this fact from the masses in various ways. There is a war on children, a war on Christ that my eyes had been opened to. Having not been raised in the church, my compass was quite "open".

    For many years since 2011, I professed Jesus as my Lord and Savior but had not been with the brethren in any way at all.

    I was not secret about my new found faith, but it was never truly exercised. in 2018, after recovering from a workplace injury, going to school full-time while raising my son... the stress of this life began to grow. I heard the preaching of the Gospel online and was made aware of my hypocritical nature. Smoking a cigarette in one hand and then watching the preaching of Jesus Christ in the other... I broke down.

    Instead of going out to drink, smoke and have relations outside the sanctity of marriage... I felt the Fear of the Lord come upon me. I shook and trembled, locked myself away for 3 days... I was in fear for my soul. I pleaded to God to save me, to help me, knowing full well He had the power to do so. For roughly 8 years I lived as a false "new age" Christian convert, and then I had come to realize the true nature of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    Praise the Lord! He gave me new desires! He showed me things that I knew not! He's now had me walking in the truth.

    Our God is mighty to save. Without Him, I'm wretched, cold, poor, blind...
  • Chris - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Thank you Steve for sharing your wonderful, God-glorifying testimony of His saving Grace in your life. It seems clear that the Holy Spirit of God was right there at the moment of your readiness for a spiritual renewal. That you "felt the Fear of the Lord come upon you...shaking and trembling" for the magnitude of your sins, and for the destiny of your soul, can be nothing else but the Work & Power of God in your life.

    It seems that you went through stages before this mighty encounter with God, but now in hindsight, you can be confident that the Lord hadn't left you all this time to grope around in the dark, but one day have His Glorious Beam of Light shine into you dispelling the darkness & ignorance. I hope you have been able to connect with a good Bible-believing, Bible-preaching Fellowship that you may be encouraged in the Word & Faith & also be a testimony to others ensnared by the evil one. The Lord bless you & guide you richly brother.



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