Almighty Heavenly Father, Your name is Great and I exalt you above all oh Lord. Only you are holy and worthy of praise and I come before you in the name of your son Jesus Christ, my loving redeemer, who sits at your right hand in Heaven for your unparalleled mercy towards my family and me. A few days ago my brother fell ill with what appeared to be a simple case of the flu, but grew progressively worse as time wore on. He was taken to the hospital where he received treatment and was sent home only to deteriorate again hours later. We began fearing the worst; that he might have contracted dengue fever or worse, the dreaded swine flu. But I called on Jesus Christ, the one person I knew would help and he never let us down. After days of suffering tests revealed that he has neither of the diseases and I just want to lift offer praise and thanksgiving from the depths of my soul to my loving saviour Jesus Christ. My God is great and greatly to be praised. Be exalted oh God! In the name of your son Jesus Christ!
Healing
By: Simone Simmons
When I was 14 and a freshman in high school I was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. Osteosarcoma is a cancerous tumor located in the bones of a femur or other areas of the body. All my life I had trouble with my right leg but because I was growing doctors thought it was a growth spurt problem. Until one day I woke up and I couldn’t move my right leg – it was basically dead. I got rushed to the nearest hospital.
My Testimony of God’s Amazing Grace
By: Shelia Holcomb
Before I begin my testimony I feel it is important to give you some information on my childhood, so you will be better able to understand some of the decisions I made in my life, however good or bad they may have been. But every decision I have made during my lifetime good or bad is what has brought me to where I am now and I am very thankful for the mountains and the valleys.
FROM THE UNIMAGINABLE
To have this testimony make sense to a general population who does not know me and keep it under 350 pages, allow me to simply state two quick facts without all the background details. Then I will get on with it
#1. About 18 years ago I was in a very frightening situation and needed to cling so tightly to God that I asked him to show up in all sorts of places [and He did] one place in particular was when I said “Lord, every time I see “GLY”_ _ _ on a license plate I’ll know it is you saying to me “God Loves You”.” I was amazed and encouraged at the timing and frequency of those license plates.
Just watched some video’s of old preachers and how God was moving back in the 60’s . I seen many healings and the power of God. It caused me to wounder why we don’t see that stuff as much any more. I have seen God’s power I saw a deaf man be healed and could hear. I’ve seen miracles and I have felt the power of Jesus and had the holy ghost moving in my life, but lately I haven’t seen many major healing miracles. I know its because of us Gods people because the bible says in Heb. 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. So he hasn’t changed. If he healed back then he will heal today. If he saved then he will save today. If he rasied the dead then he will today. We just have to believe. God people have been going through the emotions of serveing Jesus but have been slack on the living we don’t pray like they did back then we don’t fast like back then therefor our faith has got weak with all our morden day fixes we don’t call on him like we should. You don’t cry out for healing from God untill the doctor has done all he could and your going to die with out God. He has became the last hope when he should be the first. His word says to put him first in Ex.20:3 says Thou shalt have no other god’s before me. He wants to be your first and only hope. There is nothing or no one more powerful. Jesus still the same he can and he will its up to us lets get back in our prayer closet. Now days people don’t want to do anything if it don’t bring them money or fame, but His word says that if we pray in secret he would reward us openly. If we pray and believe and were praying for the right reason not for show God will more let me encourage you to pray really pray daily. If you need some one to believe and pray with you, Please write, email, or text me I’ll pray and believe with you the contact info will be at the bottom of this page and on our contact page. Thank you and God bless.
Mat 6:4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall rewardr thee openlypenly.
Mat 6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Masturbation. This is the thing that many people do but don’t really talk about, especially women. It’s looked on as not ladylike and not pure. It’s a shameful thing for many women and men alike. I struggled with masturbation for many years but this wasn’t the only sexually immoral thing that I was enslaved to. I started masturbating as early as 7th or 8th grade, but overall my imprisonment to lust started as early as 4 or 5 years of age. When I was a little girl, I had a friend that I played with. Something must have happened to her because it was from playing with her that I had my first sexual experience. After this one time experience, I wasn’t the same , and I developed homosexual tendencies as well. The seed of lust was planted and grew to maturity in my heart. I went from “humping” the floors, to sexually stimulate myself, to full on masturbation, which became my most shameful secret. The frequency to which I masturbated and the degree to which I did it was so bad that I actually ended up tearing the tissue on my clitoris. This sent me into depression for months because I thought I had mutilated myself. I had contemplated suicide because of it but I still didn’t stop. The real battle began for me when I desired freedom.
In the summer of 2005, while on a mission project, God began to work in my life. When I was there, I met a woman named Kate, who shared her testimony of being delivered from masturbation. This was huge news for me because, until that point, I had believed that I was the only one in the world who did it. Somehow I bought into the lie that I’d never be free and that if I ever told anybody what I’d been doing nobody would love me or at least they wouldn’t look at me the same way. I had a lot to confess. You see I was enslaved not only to masturbation but to pornography, sexual fantasies, and a lot of other things I wanted to keep on the dark.
During the days that followed, God was pressing me to bring it to the light, to confess it. Fear was also there with me. You see, I was afraid to expose myself. This fear wrapped around me like a boa constrictor in order to keep my mouth shut. I was so shamed and afraid of being condemned that I’d be scared to write my struggle with masturbation in my journal because I feared someone would find it. I was in torment. I heard a message that talked about keeping things in the dark. That was the word I needed and I had courage to tell somebody. The first person I told was Kate. Next, I told my roommate and few other girls at the project. I later confessed it my own sister, but this confession was only half the battle.
Then I tried to break free, I found that those same desires tracked me down like a Mississippi Slave catcher. I had never had so much temptation to sin by masturbating in my whole life. I kept giving in and giving in. It was hard to last one day, much less two, without doing it. This lasted from June 2005 to September 2005. Until for 2 and half months, I managed to stop. Temptations were strong. There were times I’d have to run out of my dorm room or find a public place to be in because I couldn’t be alone when I was tempted. This was huge for me because I was used to falling to this sin daily. However, I backslide due to unforgiveness. Sin had a snow ball effect in my life after that because an old habit had revived. Old habits revived because old reasons why I masturbated revived too. I’d masturbate like people eat comfort food. I’d do it because I was bored or upset. It was like how an alcoholic drink is to a drunk— I’d do it to forget.
When I fell after a time of victory, I was constantly taunted with: “See you’ll never be free. You’re always going to be like this.” This sin would seduce me to lay with it then condemn me when I did. I’d struggle trying to go to God. I felt so dirty and so full of despair after I gave in to my own sinful lust, that I’d pull the cover over myself to hide. I didn’t want God to look at my filth. I hated it. It was like an abusive relationship that I couldn’t get out of and didn’t know how. I was losing hope. This lasted from late December 2005 to May 2006.
After this, I run into a ministry that talked about being free from sin. The victory for me came one day as fear was telling me “you may have stopped for now. But you will fall” But God helped me realize something that I hadn’t before when He told me “You never have to do it again.” I never knew I was free from sin. That I actually had a choice. Therefore, I never had to do it anymore. The reason why I have that choice is because of Christ who has made me free from sin. I didn’t have to perform every whim of my own sinful desires. Now I’ve been free for three years. I’m free to talk about it. I thought I’d go to my grave with this sin.
I started drinking in my teens and as I got older it progressed into drugs I felt like know one cared about me or loved me and I wasn’t good enough I thought that those things would make it all go away but I was wrong the devil had me like a puppit on a string I felt all alone and that nothing would ever get better but one night at a old fashion tent revival God came into my life I felt something like I’ve never felt before a love for me like I was the most important thing. God cut the strings that had ahold of my life. I thank God for his mercy and grace his deliverance and healing power for all that he done for me since that time God gave me a beutiful wife and 9 great children that bring so much joy to my life. I don’t care what you may have done or the pit your in God can lift you out and turn your life around drugs and alcohol are just temporary but God is forever, when no one else is there, God is he gave me a new beginning. I’m so thankful, my wife and I have a desire to do something for the lord all for his glory and not ours if you would like to know more about us please visit our web site at www.newbeginningholiness.faithweb.com God can and God will make a differance in your life just give it to him from Danny…
