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Salvation

Delivered from a Confused Mindset

January 29, 2012

My name is Maeshell Matthews. I was born on a southern plantation 68 years ago. My parents were sharecroppers. Our parents were seldom home and us kids had the run of the house. There were eleven of us children. Me being the fifth child between seven brothers helped me to become a rough tom boy. Our home was always noisy, something was always happening. Daddy and mudda (we called our mother “Mudda” were often cussing and fighting each other, we tended to do the same. When our parents fought we would stand huddled together in fear. I was always afraid ...

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The Light in My Darkness

January 29, 2012

I was nine when I started in a long, downward spiral. It would take two years to hit rock bottom, but I did. I am afraid (yet thankful) that, if I was not so protected, I would have been in a lot more trouble. But, I did not know what was coming nor did I notice the gradual slope down.
It started at home. My mom yelled at me for the tiniest things. She always criticized me. I had no one to talk to about their, either. I kept it bottled up inside. Every night I would cry for about two ...

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Scarred for Life

January 29, 2012

There I was in the church sitting in the pew. My hands start to sweat as I was very fidgety. I couldn’t stop looking at others as they stood up with there hands lifted up toward God giving Him praise. Not only that, it felt like there was a beam of light shining right on my forehead. I hesitated for a while and then I stood up and ended up in the middle isle, heading toward the altar to accept Jesus Christ as my Savior. The preacher spoke and asks me to repeat the words ...

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My Road to Damascus

January 29, 2012

For decades I tried just about everything to find happiness, self respect, love and the answers to the questions, why am I hear and what is life all about. That journey led me from having most everything I wanted and still not being happy, to pain, sorrow, loneliness, homelessness, hopelessness, alcoholism, drug addiction and thoughts of suicide. After years of trying and when the pain was just too much to bear, I fell to my knees and asked God to either end this miserable life of mine or show me how to live the right way. I asked him to ...

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God Changed Me

January 27, 2012

I’m 16 years old, TRULY living for god. I gave my life to Christ about 1 year ago. Being 15 year old, empty inside looking for things to complete me in all the wrong places. Hurt by a broken family, parents divorced, brother passed away, grandparents passed.
I use to look to be filled with love by having boyfriend after boyfriend after boyfriend. I use to drink, and smoke marijuana, all of this just made me feel worse and more lonely. One day, i was giving up. i prayed and asked god to help me and to ...

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Hope is Coming

January 26, 2012

I was saved by God’s grace towards the end of July, 2010, and I thank God that he saved me at that time when he did. I wasn’t a teenager going around drinking and smoking, but I had a lot of problems and things happening in my life that I never thought I could overcome.
Growing up I never went to church and none of my family were Christians, but my friend invited me to a gospel concert her church was holding, and I decided to go along, at this time I had no intentions to accept God into my life. ...

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The Prodigal Son

January 26, 2012

As I accepted Christ in my life last year God has never left me even when I thought he has. Last year I turned myself in for a crime I committed a while back. The day I turned myself in, just so happened the Police Officer that picked me up was a Member of the Church Of Christ. We started talking about God and how amazing his Grace is (I KNEW RIGHT THEN AND THERE GOD PUT HIM IN MY LIFE ). Anyways he told me everything was going to be alright and I did the right thing by turning ...

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Your Struggles Make You Stronger

January 26, 2012

About a year ago, I was feeling a void, feeling no love, like I had nothing left to give. One thing I knew was I did not have the self sufficiency to run this race alone. My sister invited me to Church and I went. Three years earlier, my sister and nieces gave their heart to the Lord. On my second visit, I received the greatest gift of all. I gave my heart to the Lord and I was filled with the Holy Spirit. It was an amazing feeling. The weight I had carried with me was lifted. My focus ...

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God Saved Me

August 17, 2011

I am a teenager and during my past years that I am not yet a Christian, I was called to be the “LOST SOUL” they say. In short I am walking in Darkness and everything that I did is all unpleasing in the eyes of God.
One Day, God sent a Christian into our house.  “It’s my uncle who is a believer” and he was preaching about GOD and I was so blessed then he let me go into their place for me to know more about Jesus and to learn more about him.
After many days that I spend my time ...

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Roman Catholic to Christianity

August 8, 2011

Right after I got back from my honeymoon in March of 2003, I remember that I had figured that I had about two weeks before going back to work. I had quit my job a month prior to getting married, so I needed to get back to work. I remember I had one week of getting out my resumes and that I had two full weeks of really having a chance to read the Bible for hours on end when the kids were in school. I had stopped reading the Bible when i started revolving my life and most of ...

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