Let's Summarize: these are the lessons that i got out of how i was lead to Christ.
1. Everything happens for a reason.
2. When you sacrifice something, think about what you gain rather than what you lose (I lost Taylor, but gained my relationship with Christ)
3. Love nevers dies, it just takes a different form (The love for Taylor turned into the love for God)
4. The journey of how you are lead to Christ does not happen through 1 person or event alone. It requires multiple things. (people: taylor, timmy, marcus. Events: the relationship, the prayer, Sky Ranch)
5. God breaks us down, He lets bad things happen to us, in order to bring us up and bring us closer to Him.
6. Your identity should be put in who you are in your faith, rather than earthly items.
7. God answers all our prayers at exactly the right moment.
8. you don't have to be special to have a relationship with Jesus. Christianity is about having an encounter with Jesus Christ and having your heart changed through this encounter.
Hope you enjoyed!
-DJ
oh my goodness. this is totally and completely AWESOME! I LOVE hearing how our great FAther can draw people to himself like that! and you're so right; not one event or person alone really brings us to Christ! I mean, i guess it could happen but that's not how it did for me, either. I really really REALLY love these posts and thanks a lot for sharing your testimony!!
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Oh my gosh, DJ, you have no idea how much this moves me. I've been a Christian since, well, I guess birth, and I don't really know how I feel about that. You get Christ your whole life, but you don't get a moment like that. It's like, being Christian is being American, or something. So, it's the stories like this that truly amaze me and make me realize how good the Lord is. Thanks so much for posting! For real!
ReplyDeletehaha Erin I totally feel the same way...
ReplyDeleteThis is AMAZING. Thank you so much for sharing :) I love hearing people's testimonies, and I hope more people will share their testimonies on here now that you have!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love what you said in #5, God breaks us down, He lets bad things happen to us, in order to bring us up and bring us closer to Him. That's sooo true. I've seen that happen in my life over and over again. People wonder why there's so much suffering in this world, but if there was no suffering and if we lived in a perfect world, we wouldn't really need Christ, would we? It makes so much sense!
Whenever I go through a hard time, I remind myself that whatever I'm struggling with will only make me stronger in the end. Everything we go through happens for a reason (as you said) and that reason is to build us up and bring us closer to Christ.
this is awesome!!! thank you so much for sharing!
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