So i thought i would give y'all a bit of my Christian faith background :) I go to Kings Community Church (KCC) which is part of the New Frontiers family of churches! I was baptised on Easter Sunday this year (24/04/11) which was such an amazing privilege to be accepted into God's family and truthfully one of the best days of my life! So thought i'd give all you beautiful readers a snippet of my life in the version of my testimony, as read out at my baptism!
I was born into a Christian family so i have always been familiar with the idea of God. As a child, i knew no other, coming to church was a routine thing and how much i enjoyed it depended on what we did in Sunday School, or God's Gang. i never questioned Christianity but i never endeavored to find out more either. In both Primary and Secondary school, i declared to people that i was a christian, but i never followed a Godly life outside a Sunday morning service.
Last August (2010), both my Great Aunt and Gran died. This was a big shock for me and it really confused me. I had never been connected to death - unless you count my two cats - so i didnt really know what to do. i had so many emotions inside of me i couldn't control them. i felt excluded from my family and was very alone. i rebelled with everything, including religion. instead of turning to God, i turned away. With the influence of a lot of my non-christian friends i stopped my trust in God. Being away from God was horrible. I was living in arguments and was feeling down most of the time - to the stage of depression. i hated coming to church, i didnt believe it so what was the point in me being here; but i didnt have a choice, which made me hate it even more!
In early January i was listening to a youth talk at my church one Sunday by one of my youth leaders called Tom. I didnt think much of it at the time and just tried to not listen! But in the following days after that i just felt different, i felt touched by God. So i got in contact with Tom again and i was placed into a cell group (a group of about 10 people that meet weekly). Since then my faith in God has massively increed and continues to increase daily. i know that God is someone i can rely on and he will always be my family. i am getting to know God more and more each day.
At the Youth Weekend away in Avon Tyrell, Ben (our main youth leader) was encouraging us to get baptised. God gave me a picture of a small white bird flying upwards whilst carrying someone, but the person fell and continued to fall until a bigger and better bird came and took them upwards. I felt as if God was saying that i needed to trust in the big white bird - a metaphor for him - and by doing that meant being baptised :D
So that is my testimony and since the day of giving my life over to God i have never looked back! I dont pretend now that i'm a Christian that everything is dandy and life is easy, because its not! And if that's what people believe being a christian means they need a hard reality check! But i do know that whatever may be going on in my life i always have someone there. God! He is always there for me and will always be there for YOU! He has planned everything out! And what happens in your life at the time is just a tiny spec on glass in comparison to the great things he has planned for me!
Jeremiah 29:11 says this - "For i know the plans i have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
God bless ya!
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