2 Corinthians 5:17, reads, "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come.'' I love this verse because it describes by own rebirth. On September 15 2014, I was baptized on September 15,2014 that is when I started to grow in Christ. Through my rebirth in Christ, I have changed from my past, learned to heal become goal oriented, and have also begun to enjoy life.
God had taught me many lessons, and I know there are more to come. Before I was saved, I was partied every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. Any day there was a party, I was there. In addition, the music I was listening to was not encouraging at all. Not knowing God, my attitude was negative, and I was mean, disdain l, and not happy. I had no desire to do anything with my life and did not know what I wanted to do. I just knew that my life was not going anywhere.
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I knew that I had hit rock-bottom. That is the day Christ spoke to me. On September 15,2014 I was baptized. After that I learned to be positive a person. I started going to church every Sunday and Bible study every Wednesday. I started reading my bible more and more. I started listening to gospel music. I even placed myself around positive people. Starting my journey with Christ was a new beginning for me. I started learning who I was. I even learned why I had the breakdown. This was because God allows us to flounder in order to realize we can not make it without him, so having the breakdown brought me to
The first step was receiving Christ and the next step is to become strengthen in the faith so that the adversary cannot steal, kill, or destroy the good work that has been started in one’s spiritual life. There are afflictions that will occur, but with God’s help, we can maintain the righteous lifestyle. Even though hardship may arise, God will keep us in perfect peace, if we can stay focus on Jesus.
Reflect on your current understanding of the Christian faith. In other words, what is the essence of the Christian worldview? How does one become a Christian?
When I was 11 years old, I gave my life to Christ. My generous soul had been apparent to others at my Christian Academy, so me not being saved was a shock to many. As I stood with my
I have learned how to be an optimistic person and spread positivity with others. Recently I went to Puerto Rico to visit my family and there I met a numerous amount of vagrant people who did not have food on a daily basis nor a home to come to after an elongated day. I felt so pleased to be able to bless those individuals with nutrition, water, and clothes. Before I developed into who I am now, I did not have goals and accomplishments, I did not really have a determination in life. Learning who Christ was helped me become more linguistic, kinesthetic and spatial.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new.
Our goal as a church was to go into another community and share the gospel with them but we did it in a unique way, through community service. Together we volunteered in a trailer park to clean up trash, fix gardens, redo roofing, paint and clean trailers. While doing this I meet an old woman who appreciated what we were doing for her and her home and wanted to know why. This gave my small group and I an opportunity to help guide her to Christ and when we left not only did we give her a better and beautiful community and trailer to live in, but we left her with a bible and a thirst to learn more about our God. This experience was important to me because it showed how one can truly make a difference in people’s lives just through serving
Since I was young until now, I have learned a lot of life’s lessons. And some I go by, and some I use once and then get rid of them. But there are ones that I keep for a short time, and keep for a long time, because you never know when they will come in handy.
So I don't really have a big defining moment of my life where everything changed and I gave up the drugs and drinking and turned toward God. I do have a moment where I turned to him but it isn't big and grand. Sometimes I wish this was different, sometimes I wish I had some big grand story. But then again, I have been immersed in God's life for all of mine and I can't complain about that.
It had come to the attention of my family that I had some sort of psychological problem and something had to be done. I was always labeled as a shy and quiet kid, and like my family I had thought nothing more of my behavior. However, now it had become something more obvious. I had told my parents the kinds of problems I was having. Basically I didn't want to talk to anyone or to be anywhere near anyone I didn't know. I didn't really want to leave my house for any reason for fear that I might have to talk to someone. I was so critical and scrutinizing in relation to myself that I couldn't even enter into a conversation. Everyone seems to have a part of themselves that lends itself to thoughts of pessimism and failure, but mine was something that was in the forefront of my mind at all times. Something telling me that everything I did was a failure, and that anything I ever did would not succeed. Through discussion with my family it was decided that I should move out of my parents house to a place where I could find treatment and get a job. I was to reside with my sister Lisa, her partner Brynn, and their Saint Bernard in Greensboro.
The process of becoming like Christ is what Spiritual formation is to me. There are several disciplines and pathways to choose from on the journey to become like Christ. From the Bible, Paul was one of the first to write to encourage many of the first churches to continue to pursue Christ. He wrote to the Galatians, “My dear children. For whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you.”
During my seventh grade year, my church went to a youth rally at a local church on weekend. Because of this rally and the message it sent, I realized and wanted to give my life to Jesus through baptism. It was awesome, I got home as a young teenager and actually talked to my mom about what it really means to be a Christian and to pick up your cross and follow him. So that very next weekend, my dad baptized me in front of the whole church on Sunday morning. It was an awesome feeling knowing that because of Jesus’ grace and mercy, I will be with him one day and spend eternity with him. Although I was on top of the world at this point, I still didn’t know fully what I had gotten into. So the next few years, I live the typical Christian life. I was trying to be the perfect person by doing the right stuff, I would try not to cuss, I would try to wear as many WWJD bracelets as I could so that I wouldn’t have to talk to them about Christ and they could just see it on my wrist, I would not join in on conversations with my friends that I knew were not right, I was just living life on cruise control.
Please describe your recent journey with Christ and how that walk has challenged you to grow deeper with God and others. I have been a member of the Church of the Nazarene for about three years. From the time I was born until I was twelve, my family attended a Presbyterian Church of America. After the move, I discovered not only a gift but a passion for theology. I received my calling towards the ministry in February 2017, which came as a bit of a shock due to my background in a church where women are barred from the pulpit.
WHAT HAS BEEN REVEALED TO ME AT THIS TIME: (Some may not read this or all way through, but those who truly want a change within them will read it all) What I've felt in my spirit is that this is the time of getting intimate with God, meaning getting into and staying a little longer in prayer with God getting closer, yielding ourselves more to Him and the Holy Ghost now more than ever! Building up our most holy faith praying in tongues, so God can advance us in the Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Faith, and Revelation knowledge within our spirit-man. The Lord has been revealing this to me for this time we're in right now.
...rd was trying to tell me this. It was during this time I heard the word ‘seek first the kingdom’. As I heard this word, I cried out to God for the first time in my life to remember me. It was here I made a vow to the Lord in the faith that I would find remembrance. As I made this vow and fulfilled it, the Lord opened doors that I can truly say would not have been opened if I didn’t respond to the word to ‘seek first the kingdom’. Out of this time, the Lord blessed me financially, led me to buy a home and healed my anxious heart. It was here that I began to find testimony before God through offering. This is something I am still finding to this day.