Our forgiving Father has given me a second chance at life! He has blessed me with a negative HIV test. Praise our Lord for giving me this second opportunity. Through God, I feel born again and alive for the first time!

By: Ashleigh

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Praise to my most awesome, most holy master and creator and provider of all; His Glory is great in all the earth and his greatness is unsearchable and I offer him all my thanks and praise in the name of his son Jesus Christ, who sits at his right hand in Heaven for his grace, compassion and all his tender mercies towards my family and me.

Since I joined the sabbath keeping Church of God a couple of years ago my circle of friends began to shrink until eventually all that was left were probably one or two who thought I must be going quite mad and were waiting for me to have a meltdown.

Pretty much everyone disappeared, except for my parents and my Heavenly Father all because I’ve become so consumed by zeal for my God, his truth and his sanctuary. And even though I have found I need no other friend but my saviour, he still provided through the members of his church.

It’s always a pleasure to meet every sabbath after church to study his word and discuss with eachother all the challenges of the past week as well as all the marvellous ways he touched our lives – and in times of trouble, to pray together for relief from our burdens.

Sometimes when I think about how far removed I am from what I was before he touched my life I am so overjoyed I’m brought to tears because I now have the most beautiful circle of friends I could ever hope for. Hallelujah! I know it was only through the intervention of my loving holy savior and advocate Jesus Christ that I am so blessed so offer up all my praise and thanks my heart could muster… and even that is not enough. I will bless him and praise his name forever and ever.

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To everything, there is a season, and there is a reason for every season. Things will occur in our lives that are above understanding or comprehension. However, when we have done all of that we can its time stand on the “The Word” and “God’s Promises” knowing that 1) God never fails us. 2) Hope never disappoints 3) Faith is my shield and 4) the devil is a liar. I am going to Praise him during good times & during bad, when my heart is heavy or fulfilled. God is my rock and my fortress I trust in Him even though I may not understand all things that come my way, I know that my life is in his hands….

Ecclesiastes 3

Everything Has Its Time

A time for every purpose under heaven:
2 A time to be born,
And a time to die;
A time to plant,
And a time to pluck what is planted;
3 A time to kill,
And a time to heal;
A time to break down,
And a time to build up;
4 A time to weep,
And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn,
And a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones,
And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace,
And a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to gain,
And a time to lose;
A time to keep,
And a time to throw away;
7 A time to tear,
And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence,
And a time to speak;
8 A time to love,
And a time to hate;
A time of war,
And a time of peace.

By: Mya

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The average eight year old can be found outside, enjoying company with friends or playing imaginary wars with action figures and developing their foundation in life. But I struggled with identifying who I was as a young man and after being abruptly molested, my life was tattered. Those circumstances became door ways anger that turned to rage, molestation that turned into a relationship, and lust that turned into an strong addiction to porn.  Fighting with those issues, I fought for the attention of an absent father and a relationship with a mother that was raising me to the best of her ability. With secrets within me, I knew that I would have to make a choice one day. It would be between who I was and who I desired to be.

I began to use my body as I pleased and although I wasn’t on a street corner, I was still prostituting. Once I came out and told my loved ones about my choice of lifestyle, I was unstoppable. Even with my decision of how I chose to be, I knew there was another choice that had to be made. I began visiting churches seeking answers and deliverance. I only found myself in deeper sin as I began to sleep with members of the church. There was no shame, from pew to pulpit the relations continued.

I knew that there was no way I could receive deliverance from man if they themselves were dealing with the same issue. So I turned back to the world feeling like a used product instead of a person, damaged goods. I started living for the thrill of things that made me happy, sleeping promiscuously, stripping, looking for love on the chat lines, and internet. It became a game to me. A challenge from day to day. Another obstacle to conquer. Another trophy on my shelf. Then I was introduced to the greatest challenge of them all, from the D.L (Down Low) to the D.L. (Delivered Lifestyle) .

I was then introduced to God at the Upper Room later to be known as The Burning Bush Church. There I received true deliverance and understanding that with God, what the world says is impossible (someone being delivered from homosexuality) is possible. Some might ask “how do you know your delivered?” It was not because of anything I did but what Jesus did 2000 years ago when he died on the cross, not only just for me but for you . I stand on his word “therefore if the son makes you free, you shall be free indeed” ( John 8:36). It didn‘t say if others agreed or not with me being free; “therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away behold all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17) and there is nothing left out of all.

Yes that’s my mind, thoughts, desire, feelings, and my perspective to His precepts. I never knew or seen a change like this before. Don’t get me wrong, churches speak of this change but you don’t see or in my case receive it. Many people get a dose of do better, they say they want to change and even give it up for awhile but to keep this deliverance we need power from on high. Yes power! Two months after giving my life to Christ on February 12, 2003 I received the Holy Ghost (Acts 1:8). I call him my KEEPING POWER.

By God’s grace and mercy I started my journey from brokenness toward holiness. God knew I needed a few more things on this journey so he sent me a wonderful wife, two stepdaughters and a son Cameron Jr. At first it was hard to believe that someone could look pass my past and love me for me. When I first told her about the old me, she said she serves a God of Deliverance and on September 3, 2005 we married. Now walking forward in the things of God, I minister to other men and women who are bound by this disease to please. This powerful ministry, A Street called Straight: helps administer true freedom to an audience on how to stay delivered through the keeping power of the Holy Spirit.

Deliverance can come in a moment, but you must walk in it for a life time.

By: Cameron Brooks

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I just want to share what God has done in my life with everyone. Recently I met a guy and we quickly became friends. He mentioned to me that he is married and because I was uncomfortable spending time with him he told me that he spoke to his wife about me and she is fine with us being friends and that she even wanted to meet me. And, since we were only “just” friends anyway I didn’t see anything wrong with us just hanging out once every couple weeks. But the Lord spoke to me several times in my dreams, warning me that something was terribly wrong.

I was in spiritual turmoil for the past months over the dreams I was having but thought they couldn’t have been about my new friendship. That is until two days ago when I discovered his wife didn’t know anything about me at all and that he was actually sneaking to see me.

Moreover, his intentions for me were for our relationship to develop into much more than just kicks and giggles. In shock and anguish over my sin I quickly ran to my saviour Jesus Christ and asked him to deliver me from this guilt and this unholy friendship that must end immediately. And to thank my Almighty Father for his great wisdom, mercy and loving kindness towards me. For protecting me from the enemy and for keeping me from being further influenced into some adulterous relationship.

I know now that God is the only friend and companion I’ll ever need. He will never deceive me. He is the love of my life and he gives complete rest to my soul. Glory to him in the highest, through Jesus Christ his son. Hallelujah!

By: Sim

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Satan has set out to destroy me from a very young age by molestation, childhood curiosity and homosexuality. I became sexuality active at age seven and it caused me to feel un-lovable, un-clean, un-worthy, un-desirable and I felt like I never fit in anywhere.

I actually think that the molestation started long before I was seven by my uncle who had later in life found out he had messed up mind about sex. I had spent a lot of time with my uncle and his wife when I was a child and I truly think that he did things to me then. I loved my uncle and when I realized that he was doing things to me I thought this was they way you showed love.

My father passed when I was seven and my mother rented a room to a family friend to help him out and to help make some extra money. We did not have a lot and my mother was raising my teenage brother, two of my sisters and myself and she didn’t work out side the home because she had to take care of us.

On day I found myself in this mans bedroom and the molestation by him started from there and it lasted through my teenage years. Satan used this man to try to destroy me for the rest of my life. Because I wanted attention and to be close to a male to fill the void of not having a father I was being used by him to meet his needs sexually. Again by doing these thing I thought this was they way you got the attention you needed.

From here I found myself doing things with my playmates & childhood friends my own age.

When I was around the age 10 a family moved into the neighborhood that had three sons ages 10 to 13 and the youngest which was my age we became friends and things started happening between us and then there were others a well. Satan had gotten a hold of me and I felt that I was doomed forever. None of these guys were really my friends it became what I could do for them. This stuff went on for years with these guys until we were all out of school and a couple even longer. But I was the bad one because I had fallen into homosexuality.

But through all this time that I was growing up the family friend that was sexually molesting me started calling me names and all then all the guys started calling me names and that just drove my unworthiness even deeper. It came to a point to where if I knew that none of these guys were really my friends and all of them were making fun of me. I did like girls and i even had a couple girl friends as a teenager but the homosexuality had such a hold on me I couldn’t get free. I didn’t know how to get free from it. I used to beg God to take it away from me but I didn’t know how to let it go and let him work in me. Satan would always lie to me and tell me God didn’t love me and I would believe the lie over and over.

If you were a homosexual you were going to die and go to hell because God didn’t want you. Every preacher I ever heard mention homosexuality condemned you to hell.

When I was nineteen I met a very special woman and we started seeing each other we started living together and we were planning to get married but I was living a lie i could not stop the feelings and desires I was having and I had to tell her about my homosexuality and I did but she still wanted to get married and we did. I tried to walk away from homosexuality but it just came right back at me. You see i was trying to do it on my own. Always trying to do it on my own. But I had to leave because I could not live a double life. So after a little over a year of marriage I walked away. I didn’t immediately go back into the life style but I did fall back soon after. I was 21 when I divorced my wife.

I then found myself going out partying with other homosexuals at bars and clubs in Greensboro having little flings with other guys but never have been able to be committed to a long term relationship with anyone.

At this time in my life I was making excuses and lying to myself saying that God made me and God does not make mistakes so I was born this way all the time knowing I was lying to myself.

You see I had been to church from my childhood, in my teenage year and as an adult and I knew homosexuality was wrong the problem was I had not had the right teaching to know that if I let God take control he could do what I could not do and that is change me. I thought I had to change myself and get my life straightened out before I could go back to church.

So I continued on down my path of destruction and I let Satan lead me around from place to place always feeling depressed, lonely unfulfilled, unworthy and never really fitting in anywhere.

In the eighties around 1985/86 I met a guy who was one of the nicest people you would ever want to meet. Always happy joyful and seems so full of life and we had a very brief relationship and decided that we would rather be friends. Shortly after so I assume our relationship ended he contacted AIDS and in 1988 he died due to complications from the AIDS virus. I often wondered and ask God why he took him and not me. I was always unhappy I didn’t really feel worthy of being in a relationship because of my early sexuality. I couldn’t understand why God would want to keep me and take him.

I know now that God did not take him it was Satan that robbed him of his life and he was trying to do the same thing to me. During this time I had met another woman and I was going back to church and we were planning to get married and again it didn’t work out. I still didn’t know how to let God work in me to change me so again I was out and gone.

God has protected me for so many years and has kept me safe from so much harm. I don’t deserve the mercy and the grace that He has shown me. The love and protection that He has bestowed upon me through out my life. The only thing I can think of is when I was 5&6 years old a family that was our neighbors used to take me to church and it was a spirit filled church and there was a calling placed on my life then in the early sixties.

God has protected me to bring me to this place where I am supposed to reach out to anyone that is hurting from sexual abuse to let them know that there is a God that loves them and He loves them right where they are and He is reaching down to pick you up and love you and heal you of all the hurt and pain that you have ever felt. God wants to restore you and give back to you everything that has been stolen from you in your life.

So Satan had won it seemed like I was entering into my late forties and I still didn’t know how to get out. I had to take a step of faith not even knowing that that was what I was doing and return to God and ask Him to forgive me from my past. God directed me to a church where I met a pastor who told me it did not matter where I had been or what I had done and that I did not need to tell him anything about my past because the one who need to know already knew everything about me and He was willing to open His arms and receive me just like I was and to forgive me of all my sins.

Six years have past sense I met this pastor and God has been working in me and though it has been some tough road it has been worth every minute of it. Last year in 2009 Satan tried his best to get me to turn away from God and run as far as i could away from my church. But I kept asking him where would I go? what church would I run to because I didn’t know of another church where I would be feed the way I am being feed. I told him that going back out into the world was not an option because there is nothing to go to out there.

God is calling the church into restoration and he is preparing us to go to battle to take back what Satan has stolen from us. god is call us to help everyone that is crying out for help to show them that He love them the same way He loves us and He wants to do the same thing for you that He has done for me.

God is no respecter of person and what he has done for me he will do for you. There is not a need so deep that He can not meet it. There is not a hurt so deep that He can not heal it. All any of us has to do is:

First: Admit to God that you have a problem.

Second: Admit to God that you can not change or solve your problem.

Third: Give it to God and let Him take control of it.

Forth: Yield one hundred percent to God and let Him heal you and restore you to a whole and complete person.

Fifth: Confess the love and forgiveness God has given you and walk in the righteousness of Jesus Christ because of who He is you are righteous, you are pure, you are clean, you as white as snow with out spot or blemish.

Submitted By: Dean

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Satan had set out from a very young age to destroy me by childhood curiosities to molestation and on to homosexuality in my teenage and adult life.

I was seven years old in 1964 when I lost my father to cancer. Shortly after his passing is when I remember the men that I was looking up to to fill the emptiness I had were sexuality taking advantage of me. My uncle who I would later in life learn was really messed up when it came to sex was the one I think I was the first molest by. I don’t have a clear memory of him making me do things to him other than touching but he did do other things to me. I know that I spent a lot of time with him and my aunt when I was young. Things could have actually started with him at an even earlier age than I remember.

Submitted by: James D

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And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. (Mark 16:15, NKJV) When I was 14 years old I was studying in a convent school in Pakistan. I belong to a Muslim family.

My parents had forced me to learn the Qur’an by heart when I was seven, and so I did. I had a lot of Christian fellows (or acquaintances) at school. I was surprised to see them studying because I had always found Christians to be of low profile in the society.

I discussed and argued a lot with them about the accuracy of the Qur’an and rejection of the Bible by Allah in the Holy Qur’an. I always forced them to accept Islam. Often my Christian teacher told me not to do so. He said,”God may choose you as he chose the Apostle Paul.” I asked him who Paul was because I knew Muhammad only.

A Challenge

One day during our discussion I challenged the Christians, suggesting that we each burn the other’s Holy book. They should burn the Qur’an and I should do the same with the Bible. We agreed: “The book which would burn, would be false. The book which would not burn, would have the truth. God himself would save his Word.”

The Christians were not ready to do this because they were frightened. Living in an Islamic country and doing such a thing could lead them to face the law and meet its consequences. I told them I would do it by myself.

With them watching, first, I set the Qur’an on fire and it burned before our eyes. Then I attempted to do the same with the Bible. As soon as I tried, the Bible struck my chest and I fell to the ground. Smoke surrounded my body. I was burning, not physically, but from a spiritual fire.

Then suddenly I saw a man with golden hair at my side. He was wrapped in light. He placed his hand on my head and said, “You are my son and from now on you will preach the gospel in your nation. Go! Your Lord is with you.”

Then the vision continued and I saw a grave stone, which had been removed from the tomb. Mary Magdalene spoke to the gardener who had probably taken the body of the Lord. The gardener was Jesus himself. He kissed the hand of Mary and I woke up. I felt very strong as if someone could strike me, but I would not be hurt.

A Rejection

I went home and I told my parents what had happened, but they did not believe me. They thought the Christians had me under some kind of magic, but I told them that everything had happened before my very own eyes and that many people were watching. They still did not believe me and they turned me out of my home, refusing to accept me as their family member.

I went to a church close to my home; I told the priest there all about what had happened. I asked him to show me the Bible. He gave me the Scriptures and I read about the event I had seen in the vision with Mary Magdalene. That day, February 17, 1985, I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior.

A Calling

My family rejected me. I went to various churches and got more knowledge about the Word of God. I also followed many Bible courses and then I went into Christian ministry. Now, after 21 years, I have had the joy of seeing many people come to the Lord and accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

Thanks to the Lord, I am now married and have a Christian family. My wife Khalida and I are involved in the work of the Lord and have been able to share the miracles God has been doing in our lives.

Even though it is not easy and we face many hardships, we feel like Paul who went through hardships and suffering for the glory of his Savior, Jesus, who himself suffered during his walk on earth and his time on the cross.

We thank God the Father for sending his Son to this earth and giving us free, eternal life through him. Likewise, we thank God for his Spirit who encourages us day by day to live for him.

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I’m now 23 years old. I have been a Christian since I was 8 years old. When I was 15, all I want is to be well-known around my Asian community. I was a gambler, I took my parents money to go gamble without notice many times. I was a cheater, I had 2 lovers and I lost both of them on the same night. I was in darkness for many years.

When I was 19, I found a way to win money in gamble. I can make thousands of dollars each week and this skill is ever with me. At this moment, I have been going to church for more than 10 years already. I never wanted to go to church but my parents forced me to go every Sunday (I never listen to the message).  But this one Sunday, my pastor was preaching on the podium, he said, “Don’t gamble”. Right away in my head I said, “Why?, why God said this? I don’t have to work or go to school anymore because I make so much money already, why does God say this?”

On Wednesday and Thursday that week, I started to test on his word to see what happen if I listen to his word and stop gambling. I saw that my life on that two days was very PEACEFUL, I felt a lot of HAPPINESS, and seen like everyone around have COMPASSION toward me. I love this feeling so much, I sense that there is something going on here. I started TO chase after God since. I quit gambling and started to work back again because the bible said, “You eat with your sweat”.

My life started changing since; I have stopped gambling for 3 years now. I went back to school, God forgave all my sins, I teach the youth sometimes at my church, I shared my testimony at a winter Christian camp, and to many other people. He blesses my life in many ways. I will continue to follow him and the rest he will take care. Please pray for me so that I can hold on to Him forever and ever.

IT IS ALL THANKS TO GOD. May this testimony touch people life and get to know the LOVING God.

Submitted by: Carson Nguyen

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With God in your life you can “Make it happened like a Captain”.  There is no time like the present. There will always be wars and hard times, but what does that mean. God expects you to keep moving and keep doing… The father determines the final curtain call.

Religion is not what God wants us to focus on. What God wants us to focus on is “his word”, keeping “his commandments” and “loving one another”. When Jesus preached to his disciples at Mount of Olives he never mentioned religion at all. In fact there are times when religion can be out right dangerous. Knowing and understanding that there is One God, One Son, And One Holy Spirit is key to spiritual wisdom.

Many reject Jesus and in return reject you for loving Jesus but the word of God says reject me before man AND I WILL REJECT YOU BEFORE MY FATHER. And personally I do not knock anyone for what they believe in, but I stand as a living witness that Jesus died, Jesus rose , Jesus Lives and Jesus works for me. In fact “HE” is like my American express I don’t leave home without him.

I know what faith can do , I am living proof. God reigns, Jesus lives and Jesus is Lord.

By: Mya @ www.christianhearts4u.com

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