Just over a year on December 21st 2010 my life compltely changed, as I had accepted jesus christ as my lord and saviour.
I grew up with atheist parents with the odd one or two people in my family who were religous but mainly believing in the old testement not the new testement. At around about 10 I found out my auntie became a believer in christ alongside my grandmother, which shocked me as not knowing who this jesus was it started to come to my mind to who this person was. After talking to my auntie she told me he was the messiah the saviour that she had been looking for and that god had promised throughout the old testement.
When I was at secondary school I completely lost faith in God and went my own way, as my father sated it is the best way, as god does not exist. During my time at seondary school on some afternoons the christians would meet up and discuss this jesus, which made me angry, so me and my friends would go into the room where they were preaching and we decided to throw anything we could get are hands on at them and give them abuse; yet what was amazing they did nothing; they just carried on preaching and watching.
When I was at university I randomly decided to study Christianity and Islam. Throughout my studies I found some unbelievable evidence that just couldn't be put to one side, as the evidence to this man Jesus was incredible, as writings outsde the bible from jewish and roman sources quoted him. After a while I came to believe that there could actally be a god and soon later after really enhancing my studies on Islam came to believe that this belief was not true, due to errors on the christian belief and historical errors, sch as the denial of jesus dying on a cross, which through my study was one thing I considered to be an historical fact.
Throughout my study not everything I thought was reliable was actually unreliable and it was not until I accepted that it actually daunted on me; but God really spok to me and showed me the correction.
Then on December 21st 2010 I thought to myself how on earth did this movement just begin if jesus never rose again? I mean why would they die for a lie? These 12 disciples apart from 1 and thousands upon thousands of christians killed for this belief, as it was illegal under roman law to be a christian. This study on the evidence completely changed me and that night I prayed and accepted christ into my life not knowing anything on what would happen to me after.
The next day I felt like I had completely changed and was in another world. When I loooked at the people I knew it felt weird and strange and was just completely confused, it was like I was an alien, but I felt amazing and at ccomplete rest. I knew from that moment on that this change in my life was me being born again through the blood of christ and the hly spirit was within me, that was the change and I just wanted to tell everybody about it.
Even though I had gained so much, I also lost a lot. Just a couple of months later I lost my girlfriend partially because of the beief in christ. My friends at home didn't really want to know me anymore. My family were not as close to me and thought I was weird and an idioit. At home now I am not allowd to play gospel music out loud. I can't leave bibles out they have to be put away (hidden). I'm not allowed to talk about God to my brother or sister. I'm not allowed to talk about God to my friends if the family can hear me otherwise I will be told to hang up the phone. On a daily basis I am moked by certain family members for believng in Jesus. I lost a lot of my life. From having loads of friends to none. From having an amazing girlfriend to loosing an amazing girlfriend. To have lost close faimly relationships with my parents and other family members and to be moked by your own family even tough they still teat me the same they aren't as close with me and just completely mock what I believe. It has put much sufferng to my life and a very hard first year and harder years to come.
YET MY LORD I REJOICE IN YOU, MY SALVATION IS IN YOU AND I TAKE UP MY CROSS AS YOU TOOK UP YOUR CROSS TO DIE FOR ME . I GIVE YOU MY LIFE TO YOU AND FOREVER I WILL PREACH AND DEFEND YOUR GOSPEL BY YOUR WILL THROUGTH ME BRINGING YOU THE GLORY. MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. GLORY BE TO THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB. FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPRIT MY GOD.
I grew up with atheist parents with the odd one or two people in my family who were religous but mainly believing in the old testement not the new testement. At around about 10 I found out my auntie became a believer in christ alongside my grandmother, which shocked me as not knowing who this jesus was it started to come to my mind to who this person was. After talking to my auntie she told me he was the messiah the saviour that she had been looking for and that god had promised throughout the old testement.
When I was at secondary school I completely lost faith in God and went my own way, as my father sated it is the best way, as god does not exist. During my time at seondary school on some afternoons the christians would meet up and discuss this jesus, which made me angry, so me and my friends would go into the room where they were preaching and we decided to throw anything we could get are hands on at them and give them abuse; yet what was amazing they did nothing; they just carried on preaching and watching.
When I was at university I randomly decided to study Christianity and Islam. Throughout my studies I found some unbelievable evidence that just couldn't be put to one side, as the evidence to this man Jesus was incredible, as writings outsde the bible from jewish and roman sources quoted him. After a while I came to believe that there could actally be a god and soon later after really enhancing my studies on Islam came to believe that this belief was not true, due to errors on the christian belief and historical errors, sch as the denial of jesus dying on a cross, which through my study was one thing I considered to be an historical fact.
Throughout my study not everything I thought was reliable was actually unreliable and it was not until I accepted that it actually daunted on me; but God really spok to me and showed me the correction.
Then on December 21st 2010 I thought to myself how on earth did this movement just begin if jesus never rose again? I mean why would they die for a lie? These 12 disciples apart from 1 and thousands upon thousands of christians killed for this belief, as it was illegal under roman law to be a christian. This study on the evidence completely changed me and that night I prayed and accepted christ into my life not knowing anything on what would happen to me after.
The next day I felt like I had completely changed and was in another world. When I loooked at the people I knew it felt weird and strange and was just completely confused, it was like I was an alien, but I felt amazing and at ccomplete rest. I knew from that moment on that this change in my life was me being born again through the blood of christ and the hly spirit was within me, that was the change and I just wanted to tell everybody about it.
Even though I had gained so much, I also lost a lot. Just a couple of months later I lost my girlfriend partially because of the beief in christ. My friends at home didn't really want to know me anymore. My family were not as close to me and thought I was weird and an idioit. At home now I am not allowd to play gospel music out loud. I can't leave bibles out they have to be put away (hidden). I'm not allowed to talk about God to my brother or sister. I'm not allowed to talk about God to my friends if the family can hear me otherwise I will be told to hang up the phone. On a daily basis I am moked by certain family members for believng in Jesus. I lost a lot of my life. From having loads of friends to none. From having an amazing girlfriend to loosing an amazing girlfriend. To have lost close faimly relationships with my parents and other family members and to be moked by your own family even tough they still teat me the same they aren't as close with me and just completely mock what I believe. It has put much sufferng to my life and a very hard first year and harder years to come.
YET MY LORD I REJOICE IN YOU, MY SALVATION IS IN YOU AND I TAKE UP MY CROSS AS YOU TOOK UP YOUR CROSS TO DIE FOR ME . I GIVE YOU MY LIFE TO YOU AND FOREVER I WILL PREACH AND DEFEND YOUR GOSPEL BY YOUR WILL THROUGTH ME BRINGING YOU THE GLORY. MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. GLORY BE TO THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB. FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPRIT MY GOD.
