Here is my testimony of how I came to know Jesus Christ.
Every one of us has different testimonies as to how we came to have a personal relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ, and this is mine. I give God all the glory and praise! Amen.
I definitely want to share my testimony, and this is very personal for me so that I can help others know our Lord Jesus Christ in the way that I do. This post is inspired by the Christian movie “Play the Flute.”
I was born in Mississippi, America and then moved to England when I was 2 and a half/3 years old, we were okay for a little while with my first stepdad and then he became very toxic and abusive, always putting my Mum down at every turn and creating messes just for her to clean up, we lived with him until 2010, moved out and stayed in the place where we moved to for 2 years and came back to America in August 2012, he wouldn’t allow my family and I to have any meat in the house and if we did, he would take pictures of it, he was not a nice person.
Then throughout my school life, I was bullied. I was hoping to not get abuse in our house, but we couldn’t get away from it, I tried to stand up for myself online, but it didn’t work, and I wasn’t very confrontational in person, it was hard for me. I couldn’t ever find the words to tell people that I wasn’t going to put up with their abuse any longer, but it was no use. Then I developed a lot of anxiety, depression, I felt down all the time and I just wasn’t myself, I felt very miserable and then the music I tried to listen to was somewhat uplifting but dark at the same time, then whatever I did listen to, my first stepdad made fun of me for it and mocked the songs. I get they were silly, but I enjoyed them at one point in my life, but they weren’t praising or glorifying God, I get that now.
All of us have suffered with many different sins, the one that I struggled with most was lust.
And when I had left my family to go to Texas, I felt so bad for leaving them and everything went downhill. I enjoyed my job there, but the first roommate I lived with, he was really narcissistic and abusive, he tried to make me ruin my relationship with them and it sort of worked for a while, but then my family and I got back into talking again. Then he went onto a dating app and got a girl he was dating to move down to where we lived, so she did, and he treated her like she meant nothing to him. We both worked at the same place, she drove us both to work and we talked about what was going on with him and how he was treating us both badly. When I was getting ready to move out and go to Kentucky the next morning, he treated me badly, yelled at me and punched me knocking me to the wall and choked me for a few seconds until his girlfriend stepped in and stopped him from choking me even more, then afterwards he blamed me for leaving and expected me to pay him for the rest of the time that he had the lease, I wasn’t going to stay there because he kept being abusive towards me. When I got to Kentucky and I stood up to him, I blocked him after that and had nothing to do with him any longer.
Dealing with this woman in Kentucky was a struggle, I told her on the bus that I have a problem with expressing myself in person, then at the house, she asks why I don’t communicate, I told her beforehand. I wanted to play the video game “Rocket League” which we met on with her and she got really mad and said she asked me why I left my game to go to that one and wanted to play with her friends, then she flirted with someone on the phone while we were still together and didn’t want anything to do with me after that.
I went to go live with my grandma for a couple of weeks and I enjoyed seeing her again, I would’ve wanted to stay with her for a bit longer now that I look back on the moment. Family is important most definitely, but I missed my job in Texas, and I kept in touch with her though.
I met someone while working at the university in Texas who helped me get away from my former roommate, then she came to get me from Iowa to back to Texas and then I got my job back that I left from, I stayed with them along with working at the university for 7 months. The roommates I was living with got mad at me as well, I felt like they were going to kick me out and she almost did one time, then I felt so down because of that and I felt suicidal at that moment, but I didn’t want to commit suicide, just felt it because I was stuck and didn’t know what to do, we had no money for food, I prayed to God to help me and save me from that pain which He did, and I really am thankful to Him for helping me. That was the lowest point in my life, the place that was rock bottom for me.
So, I worked really hard to make money so I could go back home to my family. I still had anger issues from the experiences I had while I was out for the year when I left in June 2018 to September 2019. Then my family and I really started to get to know our Lord Jesus Christ as we started reading the Bible, we all accepted Him as our personal Lord and Savior and everything changed after that, my family lead me down this path and I have changed so much having faith in YHWH, knowing that I am a sinner, following His will and not my own, having Bible study with my family, doing YHWH’s work, following His commandments and doing my absolute best not to break any of them, repenting of my sins daily, and always proclaiming the truth about everything along with God’s message for the truth. I never want to be like the devil who constantly lies because he is the father of lies. I am a child of YHWH who wants to tell the truth always. I get a lot of abuse from people who I preach the gospel to who call me names and laugh at me, but I’m at peace with that, that’s on them if they don’t want to hear the good news of how to get YHWH’s free gift of eternal life. I pray for those people, and I do my best to be kind to everyone, because we never know what people are going through.
Thank you for hearing my testimony and I’m praying that this testimony will help anyone out who needs help with anything that you are struggling with. Don’t worry, you’re not alone and prayers will always go out to anyone who needs them. Always have faith in YHWH and wait for His will in your life, that’s what makes me humble because I don’t ever want to follow my own will any longer, but the will of YHWH just like Jesus did when He was on the earth. Always talk with YHWH about anything that you’re going through, He will always help you, comfort you, give you peace, give you rest, give you strength, give you courage and help you strengthen your spiritual armor to help you fight against the enemy who wants to always harm us. Don’t ever forget that you are loved by YHWH very much because He sent Jesus down in human form to die on the cross for you and your sins, so that we all can have His free gift of eternal life for those who want to accept that gift. Praise, honor, glory, gratitude and thanks always to YHWH for everything He does for all of us. Turn to Jesus Christ right now, because tomorrow is not promised at all for anyone. God Bless everyone!
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. - John 3:16.
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