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Salty the Rockstar Captain
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 Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:01 pm
Hey everyone.
I used to fight with depression a lot. I hated being home because of all the yelling. I remember one night, I spent the night at a friends house, whom I actually met at church.
Her home was so big, she had her own room. All the family sat down at the table together and they were so nice. Went I got home the next day I opened the front door and I could smell cat urine. I fell on my bed and cried so hard, that was back when only half my room had carpet because we were hoping to replace all of it.
But I just wanted to talk a bit about how God has saved me. I just wanted to give a shout out to how awesome he is, and all the great things he's done for my family.
God has totally freed my home from strife and fighting. My dad has gone from not going to church to quoting scripture and praying for the meals. It's the kind of thing that if you told me a few years ago, I wouldn't believe that it was possible.
We re-modeled, and we're gonna move soon to a bigger house. And I'm really excited about that. God has really healed my heart of a lot of bad stuff I used to deal with on a daily basis.
So. Let's hear it. What has God done in your life?
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:41 pm
We were struggling deeply. There was this lawsuit that my dad got involved in, then the people dropped the suit. We ended up loosing money we were going to use to by a new house on paying the lawyer. Then the house insurance business went down as house prices go up. And my dad being a home insurance dude began to get paid less and less. And finding a reasonable house became harder and harder. The money became really low for us. We had to cut down on some luxuries. I was deeply depressed because i thought that if they didn't have me, things would be different. But, then I began to pray and read my bible more often and really take the church sermons to heard. We finally picked up again, when he got a job at the bank to work with all their financial stuff. Now a year later we're ready to move again, my dad is making more money in his business, and my mom loves her new floor as being a nurse. I really glad that God showed us that through thick and thin he can get us through anything and everything.
smile
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:24 pm
I was always raised in a Christian environment. But I'd never really known Christ. I started getting into some bad things, especially on the internet.
Then I went to a Bible camp somewhere near me, and it hit me while we were singing.
When I was younger, it was like, "Oh, yeah, Christ died for me." But it was always like...a casual thought.
But then, I was singing at camp, and it was like, "Oh my God...You died for me." I started crying, and God's been with me since.
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:58 pm
< Crush>//< Deviant>//< Comment> Questing:This is going to be long...
I was raised in a Christian home, always being told that Jesus loves me, etc.
Fastforward to being a teen-
Things continued, I was told God loves me, made me, etc. and I went along with it because it was all I knew. I recited John 3:16 like it was my ABC's.
Then my best friend, whom I relied on, whom I loved like a sister, slowly started getting involved in things I deffinantly didn't like. One time she was going to do something and I prevented it without her knowing, and I thought she found out (It involved a guy and her being totally alone, and being her best I didn't want anything bad to happen to her. Sure, she's a teen, but then again she wasn't making too many good choices for herself at the moment anyway.) and had stopped talking to me.
I had no idea how to react and starting bawling. I was scared for her, I didn't know what I'd do if she called me up crying, saying she was pregnant. I didn't want her to be hurt like that. I didn't know how I'd protect her as a friend/adopted sister.
I was going to tell all of this to my cousin, but my dad answered the phone and I ended up crying to him. And I NEVER cry to him.
That's how scared I was.
Soon enough we left eachother because she'd changed so much. It was silent, which was the worst part.
I broke down after that.
I was depressed, I felt like I lost the other half of me.
I would break down and cry at random, literally sobbing.
I was driven to cutting, because nothing I felt was real anymore. I thought the only real thing I could feel at that point was pain, so I did.
I began to question things- God, his plan for me, his plan for her...
Through this I didn't feel God's presence anywhere, so I thought he'd left me aswell.
But when I told this to Reborn, and people started praying for me... Things started to change.
Messages from God would hit me over the head.
People would call into the radio with testimonies, songs would come on proclaiming His love...
I remember the three songs that saved me-
Skillet's 'Last Night' and 'Whispers In The Dark', and Lifehouse's 'Everything'.
They showed me just how deep God's love was for me, and I ended up bawling again- this time in shame.
I thought- How could God love me so much?
Why did he do this for me? ME?!
And then it turned into-
How could I have doubted?
Dementia and 'Everything' reminded me that God never left, I did. He'd been calling for me all along.
Salty showed me that people can love and care.
Those Skillet songs reminded me that God will always be there, becoming anything and everything I'd need. I am never alone.
I cry every time I remember these things. I'm not kidding- I'm almost crying now.
Over time more and more spiritual bricks have been hitting me over the head, reminding me of things I've always heard but forgotten the true meaning of. It's only made things better for me.
Oh yeah, and God's blessed me with a wonderful new best friend now.
 See tHe BeNefIts
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:43 pm
You guys have some great testimonies. Mine isn't very exciting. I grew up knowing about God, never doubting his existance, but I wasn't really involved. When my parents divorced, I wasn't angry at him, but I worried about it all on my own, which was pretty silly. and then a couple years back I found this kid's Bible, and I read it, and a light switch went on inside my brain. I really felt for the first time that I actually knew God. Since then, I've been trying to walk in his ways the best I can.
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