sharing my faith

Faith and belief is a very important part of our lives. A person's beliefs in many ways define who they are -- how they see themselves, what they want out of life, and more. I want to offer a personal account of my own beliefs. I'll describe how my beliefs have changed my life in profound and exciting way. Many of us associate our most deeply-held convictions with a single, life-changing experience. Others have always held certain beliefs sacred. In either case, it is important to talk about our experience and share our story or testimony with others. Doing this I think might change the lives of others. I was introduced to church when I was a child. My parents was not involved in a church, but I had the blessing of having neighbors who were and invited me to join them at their church. I remember visiting with my neighbors alot; they became my second family. I continued going with them to church for several years until shortly after they moved.

Now I would like to tell you about the first time I heard God speak to me, it is a time I will never forget. At the time this happened I was well on the wrong path of my life. Ok now back to the testimony, I remember that my dad was burning some things and my sister and I was helping him, I had some shoes on that were hurting my feet, so I took them off, and continued to help. Well somehow even though I was standing a good distance away from the burn pile some hot ashes fell on my foot; and you can believe it or not but this is what truly happened, I heard "Do you want to feel like this for eternity". Then I felt the burning and no matter what I did, weather it was run cold water on my foot or put ice on it I could not get it to quit burning. After a while it did quit burning and I did not have any blisters or anything there to show that I got burned. So I knew that it was God speaking to me and that I need to straighten my life out. I did do just that, I went back to church and did what I was told to do. Now I wish I could say that I stayed doing that but I didn't I ended up falling out of church again but I didn't lose sight of God, I still talked to him and still looked at things in a Godly manor. As I got older and had kids I started to realize that I needed to get back in church and raise my family in a good environment, so I tossed that thought around for years and kept fearing of finding the wrong church. See I wanted to make sure I would find one that was teaching Gods Word, we all have to be careful because it is easy to get into a church that only picks a few verses out of the bible and turns them around to say what they want it to say.

So after years went by and I moved around alot, my friend, my family and I started talking about how we all wanted to find a church home so we decided that we would look together and we tried a few and they just didn't feel like home until we found the one we are going to now.

I have many testimonies to tell, this was just one I will share those stories with you at another time keep in touch to see them, thank you in an advance.