Personal Narrative: I Am In Christ

HI so for some reson I felt the need to share my testimony with you today and I hope that it is because you could grow and help someone with it and if you have the want to share it with someone you have my my permishion to do so.

I am an atheist, but it wasn't always that way. My entire life there was a constant pressure on me to accept that there was a supreme being that created all. Even at a young age I couldn’t bring myself to fully believe this. I continued grasping for straws because, just like every other religious person, I was scared of the “consequences” that would come with not believing. My Non-Denominational Christian Church promoted telling this to everyone, even children.

Growing up as a teenage girl in the world with the state it's in, it's often hard to not want to please everyone. That's something I struggle with, especially as a Christian. I want everyone to like me. I feel a pressure to please everyone, show my love for Christ, and a burden to never slip up..always be perfect. Once entering high school, the need for everyone to want to be my friend and like me grew. I would do anything to please these "friends." Often more times than not, these things that pleased them ceased to please God. Looking at those people I had in my life, I got to thinking what were they doing for me. Yes- that may sound like a selfish question, but really what were these people I was trying so hard to please doing for me? The answer was

As two days ago, I join new office in kunduz one of my neighbors suddenly has seen me in office around and last evening he spread this in area that I am working with Christian people and this guy relatives have link with Taliban and others Group so I see my life in danger in future as regular office attendance ,

I study the bible , pray and worship God, it's my favorite thing to do every day,besides teaching everyone I know what I have learned from Gods word. I have two grown daughters from a previous marriage who inspire me always to continue in the word of God. I am blessed to be married for the last 25 yrs.

Think of the best thing you have ever done, the thing that just makes you feel happy inside for doing it. Maybe you went on a mission trip and helped someone struggling in another country, or you secretly gave someone struggling some money to help them out, and you didn't do it for the recognition, or maybe you just did something as simple as making someone who was sad smile, and feel a little better. Regardless of what it is you made a big impact on that person or people. Some people do these things on their own, but if you are a Christian you probably did it because the Holy Spirit inside of you moved you to do it. The Holy Spirit, or also referred to as Christianity, is a powerful force that will always bring good to those who accept

After years of being under religious manipulation and control, I a rerouted myself into a path of new adventures and learned to have an authentic relationship with God. My life changed, I found a new identity. I obtained the courage to break through the binding religious chains and experienced a new life. My experience stirred a new vision to voice messages that shine light to those blind spots- things or people that become a blockage for living our life with purpose. In my case, the constant condemnations, the judgement, the control of my emotions and thoughts I allowed others to have over my life, robbed me from living to my full potential. I no longer had a unique identity, I had become a religious puppet at a very young age. Fortunately,

Faith. I have a certain amount of trust in people, but I can depend on someone that I know won’t let me down. During my younger days I was outrageous and had a bad rap on my name by doing stupid things. Such as cursing bad, dealing with boys, and selling weed. What finally made me change was when I realized I didn’t want to hurt my parents. The image of my parents crying over my body in a casket broke my heart. I don’t want to ever put them through that. After all I’m their baby girl. Ever since then I started doing right and as of now I’m trying to find my way with God. It’s been tough because of the temptation of going back to selling weed. I’ve managed to control myself and continue to do right.

I was born in Colombia, South America and moved to United States fifteen years ago. I was raised Catholic but looking back I did not have a close relationship with Jesus. When I was living in Colombia, spirituality was not of much interest for me. Now I could say that the gospel I lived was a “gospel of sin management” as Dallas Willard described in the Divine Conspiracy chapter 2. Transformation of life and character was no part of the redemptive message.

I remember in the early hours on May 2, 2014, I woke up with a little voice inside my head telling me repeatedly to paint the vision that I witnessed back in 1997. I wasn’t at all convinced that I could accomplish this task, considering that I had failed in the past, yet the voice never ceased until the moment I snatched up a large canvas and began to paint.

Prayer can be a sincere and compelling way of fostering and enhancing a faith community. Just as Jesus did with his disciples, “ he taught them how to pray,” we must do the same. (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2008, p. 59) Prayer life is a component of our Catholic faith that should be a foremost priority. It’s a unique way to communicate with God personally or with a group. Praying is that free gift from God, which can bond and inspire others with few words. After reading this assignment, the first thing I thought of was an experience with prayer, but since prayer is such a considerable part of being a Catholic, I had a difficult time settling on a single prayerful experience, so I prayed upon it and there it was. For me, the simple idea of praying for others and including the faith community, can be seen in my experience at a local diocesan

“FLY IT LIKE A MUSTANG!” he shouted, so I shoved the stick all the way over and a view of the earth completely filled my right window as we came around. Oh man!

Growing up as a Christian, I was always told that we were in the middle of a war, with God on one side, and Satan or the Devil on the other with no middle ground. This, of course, was not an actual war. Yet, during the summer of 2012, I felt as if I was fighting the devil.

My journey with God started in February of 1993, when I went to a ladies’ conference in Columbus, Texas. It was while the speaker was explaining that she knew there were some of us out in the audience, who felt guilty about something they had done in their past, and they did not feel that God could forgive them for it. But then she quoted from God’s word; “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, not principalities, no things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:38-39 NASB) The speaker continued on to say that all we need to do is

Interviewing several pastors can be eye opening in that you will begin to see different character qualities, disciplines and where they are in their spiritual journey. My intention was to interview several pastors, however, I was unable to obtain the responses needed to complete a study such as that. I did get to meet with one pastor, and I believe that it was truly difficult for him to answer most of the questions even after giving him some time to think about each question. My interview was with a very intelligent and spiritual man named Les Harvey. He is currently serving at the Church of the Highlands Greystone campus under many great leaders.