I Thought I Was a Good Christian Until this Happened (Testimony)

These type of Christian’s seem to go to churches and meetings and worship meetings …. But none of them seem to get out on the streets witnessing to the unsaved never heed go into all the world and stay on foreign fields for decades with no intention of coming home ….. they seem to think attending a church building with meetings is the be all and end all and if they do go to a foreign country it was for a week or two but not to stay and win these ppl Christ …. It seems to be all about self betterment and that’s it

thank you so much for this testimony, thank you God for this message.

I dont hear how Jesus saved him in his testimony. I hear about relationships with others but where is the personal relationship with Jesus?

In 2014 I cried out to God to help me because I was being tormented by demonic entities that did not give me rest day and night. I opened a door to them through unforgiveness toward my mother whom I had a turbulent relationship with throughout my life. The poison of unforgiveness was eating at my heart and soul causing me to be bitter, sad, depressed, angry and lost. At that time I did not know much or anything about Jesus. Then one day it got too much for me to handle and I cried out to God to help me. I was desperate.
In the next few months my life began to change. I felt the presence of Jesus in my room asking me to forgive my mom, and to also forgive myself because I too caused much hurt. Coming from a Jewish background, it was almost taboo to speak about Him. During the time of my unforgiveness and bitterness I was being harassed by demonic spirits that I could not see but I could sense. They caused me to have sleep paralysis, be depressed, angry and kept me up at night. One day someone had dropped off a flier at my door and I just took it and put it by my bed, not thinking too much about it. Then in the evening when I was feeling so down, my eyes glanced over this flier and there was a scripture about the love of Jesus. It was a short and to the point scripture verse but the words were so powerful, my soul knew it was the truth. And when I read those words, they penetrated through all the pain and confusion and there was a glimmer of hope beginning to bubble up in me. So during my sleep paralysis, I heard a voice inside my spirit telling me to pray to “Jesus Christ, Yeshua”. I could not move my body or my mouth, but as the words “Help me Jesus, Help me Yeshua '' formulated in my mind, whatever entity was pinning me down to the bed lifted off immediately and I was able to move again. I ran outside and called my husband on the phone crying because I had never experienced anything like this. This began my journey with the Lord. He spoke to me in my spirit and told me to “Arise” out of bed when I was so down and depressed. He showed me that there is hope and His name is powerful. It was a process and a journey of sanctification and as I began reading about Jesus, and his life, the more I fell in love with Him. I knew He is the Messiah our people (the Jewish people) had denied for so long. I still did not have a bible at that time and did not give my life to Him at that point, because I just didn't know what I needed to do to be saved. During this time of being unsaved, the devil tempted me in so many ways and I ended up committing sins that were atrocious and an abomination. BUT GOD ALMIGHTY, JESUS ​​CHRIST did not give up on me. In 2015 I felt His presence even stronger and I began repenting of my past sins and the Lord began closing doors that needed to be closed and opening new doors that needed to be opened in my life. In December of 2016 I felt in my spirit the Lord speaking to me asking me to get baptized and to get a Bible and to start reading His Word. And I obeyed. After I was baptized and received the Holy Spirit, I began to be guided into all truth. Things I was oblivious to previously as being sinful, God was showing me through the Holy Spirit that I was deceived and I needed to let them go so I could serve Him. One example was the participation of Halloween. As a saved believer, I could no longer participate in this demonic occult practice. It was like a sharp sword of conviction in my heart.
I LOVE the Lord so much because He transformed my heart and life completely and in such a gentle loving Fatherly way. I am a completely different person today than I was 10 years ago because of His Love for me. I desire to please Him and to obey Him and to spend one day eternity with Him. He gave His life for me and for many people and He wants to save us from being separated from Him for eternity and from going to the pits of Hell. I just give Him the Glory, Honor, Power and Blessings for the miracles He has done in my life and the miracles He can and wants to do in every person's life. To God be the Glory. Amen

That part at the end about not running away. That hit me. Thanks so much for sharing Art!

I can relate and I grew up in the church! Recently I took my relationship with Christ more seriously

*Only after true salvation in Jesus Christ alone will Jehovah God lead us.* It's about a close personal relationship with The Lord Jesus Christ.* **See John 3:6-7

I feel him!

This was beautiful ❤

This blessed me so much. Thank you for sharing

A dramatic conversion experience is NOT required for evidence of salvation. I believe this is a problem in the mainstream western church; there is a tendency to put all this emphasis on emotional Christianity and religious experientialism. That's not to discount others' experiences or mark them as invalid, but you are saved whether or not you FEEL saved. Do you believe in the Son? Do you believe that Christ gave His body and blood for the forgiveness of sins, and that God raised Him from the dead? Then you are saved.

This is how I came to Christ when someone brought it to my attention that I wasn't really a Christian. Then I thought well thats not good then. Let me seek God about that and I then had a transformation by the Holy Spirit 🧡.

I felt that we are all called into something for God's glory

The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska has given me motivation and insight to invigorate my relationship with Jesus Christ. The Divine Mercy Chapel is a source to obtain to Our Lord's unfathomable mercy. Entry 1190: + Jesus. -- From all My wounds, like from streams, mercy flows for souls, but the wound in My Heart is the fountain of unfathomable mercy. From this fountain spring all graces for souls. The flames of compassion burn Me I desire greatly to pour them out upon souls. Speak to the whole world about My mercy. Entries 687, 796, 1146, 1541, 1731 are truly inspiring for the souls feeling desolate.

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
‭‭Acts‬ ‭4‬:‭12‬ ‭KJV‬‬


JESUS IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE US! JESUS LOVES YOU ALL🙏🏽

I know that I'm a bad Christian.

Thank you for sharing your testimony. God bless you brother

Dynamite comes a small packages.... Short but soo sweet!

Don’t compare yourself to anyone. If you have been a Christian all your life you are more blessed than someone who has sinned and over come

Everyone’s walk with Christ is different and is what fits them best for their life it’s all part of God’s divine plan some people will have a specific date for some people it will be gradual and their is so many other different ways. We are all different but all God’s children and part of this huge nation wide church 💗 God bless everyone. And those who haven’t given their life to the Lord yet I pray for you!

There's A LOT OF TRUTH THAT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE ON PURPOSE, WE ARE POWERFUL, SPIRITUAL, ETERNAL BEINGS.....CHECK OUT THE "BOOK OF THOMAS", not in the Bible, YET THE WHOLE BOOK OF THOMAS ARE DIRECT QUOTES OF "JESUS CHRIST" ( YESHUA HaMASHIACH)

Glory to the Lord

Here we are at the end of time as in prophetic with but one very important prophecy to take place and men are still taking scripture out of context for gain. This man has no idea where Jesus is in the sanctuary yet claims hes a Christian.

Yes, we can always go deeper .⚘💕

God bless this man 🤍✝️🙏 what a powerful testimony

His closing statement of "Trust God Trust Relationship" I think explains what the Gospel is supposed to do. We grew spiritually when we die to our own desires.

I really learned a lot from this testimony! Thank you for sharing.

This is called psychosis but ok.

Me too it's been gradual. I didn't have a pivotal moment. It made me question if I was really saved? It still makes me question my salvation sometimes because I didn't have a pivotal moment?! My journey to unite and be with God and his good grace has been a struggle to say the least. I know in my heart that God knows what's best for me and that I have to surrender everything to him. That's hard to do when Iam so used to this world in its sinful ways. Please pray for my struggle to have confidence in my salvation in Jesus 🙏

The editing? I'm just wondering? Do you have to "cut it shorter" sometimes?

"You have to make a decision without all the details."❤

I think it is easy to be discouraged as a Christian. Most people are looking for results to guide them on whether they are on the right track or not. This unfortunately relies heavily on interpretations and guessing where one situation causes you to believe you are following God and another feels like you missed the mark. One person can have everything go wrong and believe they are with God while another has everything go great and believe God is missing. It's not like dieting and exercise where you sort of know what you need to do and understand it takes time to see the results but they will come. The feeling people seek and hope to gain by following and trusting in Jesus has no real path to follow and people who do gain that feeling do so in numerous ways, then there is the maintenance of maintaining those feelings. Without the feelings, you are just a robot believing out of fear. We like relationships because of the feelings they produce. When we have bad feelings about a relationship, we either try to fix it or abandon it. Christianity is about having a relationship with Jesus, the discouragement comes from not knowing where you stand in that relationship because Jesus isn't literally going to tell you.

Very encouraging, thank you

Jesus is my Savior,my healer,my friend,my Mother,father,Brother,my friend,my life❤He saved my life so many times..Once I surrendered whole my life to Him,I VE never been so happier,so in peace,so loved.
Jesus,my life is in Your Holy hands✝️♥️

Do you remember where in proverbs the mentioned quote “wounds from a friend “ is found?

REPENT AND FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST BEFORE ITS TOO LATE 🔴،،

What is the meaning of the word, "delafé?"

I watched many testimonies, but there’s something really special in Art… he’s pure. Really, really love it. ❤

I hate they gave Karamo a show. Television wants to always show black effeminate males which the Bible clearly speaks against.

Steve Harvey, heterosexual black male, loses his show but a gay man gets a show?!

Karamo needs deliverance .

The alphabet agenda is so tiring.

Art you said exactly what I needed to hear! Thank you Jesus

I love these testimonies of the trials and growth we experience as Christians. Salvation is just the beginning.

Thank you so much for your testimony, it is simmilar to mine, and the last words really were for me, all the Glory to Jesus for using your life to speak into mine and so many more people I am sure

Art your testimony was a blessing to me!!!

very relatable. Thank you, Art, and Eric!

Unfortunately, there are a lot of things currently in the Bible that aren’t true because the Bible is being changed.

Those who know, know what I’m talking about. For example, Luke 17:34 is a homosexual reference in direct contradiction of Leviticus 18:22.

God please help us, in Jesus name, amen.

Hello everyone, I am please asking for prayers… I am pregnant. Really early… I have a five year old (soon to be 6 by the grace of God). When my daughter was 2 years old I ended up getting pregnant with my 2nd daughter. When I was 25 weeks old I sadly found out my daughter was really sick from a kidney disease. This made her kidneys in large and shrunk her little lungs. I prayed everyday. I had faith the lord was going to make a miracle happen and my baby would come home with me. Fast forward I delivered her at 39 weeks. After 14 hours. After a full tank of oxygen and her on machines; her heart started giving up. I believe God was ready to take his Angel back… so I let her go in peace. I was. Broken. Yet I somewhat understood. It just broke me so much. I was copping with drinking and going out.
I ended up getting pregnant again after that. Maybe 6/7 months after. I was SO scared. I was so stressed. With the same person and I just knew the Lord wasn’t going to allow it because of the domestic violence situation that was going on with my partner at the time. Well I made appointment. They confirmed and I waited for my actual obgyn appointment. I was 12 weeks and I had a miscarriage. When I went to the hospital and they checked the baby. The baby had stopped developing at 6 weeks old. My body just didn’t understand it till 6 weeks later… again broken… yet I had faith and remained strong and I got to know the Lord more and I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. And I am trusting this pregnancy in Him. Even though I stepped out of my heart desires for my flesh desires and I have conceived a baby.
I PLEASE ASK FOR PRAYERS.
Prayers for clarity in this process.
Prayers for a healthy baby.
Prayers for Gods will to be done for this human being…
If you’ve read my comment… thank you SO much and MAY THE LORD BLESS YOUR HEART! I love you so much. I pray over everyone in this comment section. 🙏🏽❤️

thank you

I read the Bible when people are BAPTISED in the Holy Spirit and they start speaking in tongues or have other manifestations. When I chose to believe I was just 16 years. Was later sprinkle "baptised" but around 30 submerged baptised. I was laid hands on, to receive the Holy Spirit. I felt really humbled but never 'felt' that big manifestation. I had all kinds of special things that happened and I think I was used. But that particular event, I never had. I spoke with Christian friends that told me seeing Jesus, another one hugging the Father! Not people who tell 'stories' I still hope those things, but I just "believe"... ❤

I also can’t point to a certain date that I can say that I was saved. But I can point to the day when I prayed and asked that God changed my desires for drinking. I grew up Christian and we did Bible studies in the living room, my parents talked about it alot and I’m grateful for that however we were never consistently in church. So after 21 drinking really took hold of my life and became the norm because I was working at a bar and all my coworkers did it and I could easily meet women. However, my life slowly got worse and worse from a DWI, to losing my job, and bad hangxiety. Now while I was drinking 5 nights a week I still prayed, went to church sometimes and felt a strong urge that I needed to just quit and live for God. And I finally hit rock bottom and just woke up one day with the worst hangover and decided I was done. So I prayed that God would break the chains of any addiction and change my desires. 100 days sober and walking with God. He is so gracious. I’m glad he left the door open long enough.