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Re: This is long, but its the truth!!!

Apr 17, 2014, 12:24 PM

I'm a Christian myself now. But before I turn to Jesus, I didn't won't anybody, family members, friends, absolutely no one preaching to me about God, Jesus, Heaven, or H&ll. That was actually the best way I knew for anyone to keep me away from them b/c I would shut them out. The reason for that I guess, I knew what would be expected of me if I was a Christian, and I didn't want any part of that. I knew that I couldn't do what I believed was the best part of my life. I wanted to be able to go out drinking, smoking, and whoring around. That was the things that a good Christian people didn't do, and without the bad things, life to me would have been so boring. I refused to see a reason for living if those bad things wasn't in my life. I would tell people that I was an Atheist, and that the God thing and the Bible was just a game to try and keep most of society in check. But a time came in my life when I really needed a miracle b/c the Doctors told me that Hepatitis C was killing me, and that I was on a 2 year or less plan. I was Scared to death of dying, and I had already knew that something inside of me wasn't right. My peepee had already smelled rotten every time I use the toilet, and my doodoo was a different multi color everyday. I knew that I was on the less than two year plan. The doctors ask me if I wanted to start the treatment that they had at that time, and that only 5% of those people that went through that treatment for 6 months survived or was cured. I said no b/c the treatment was awful on you, and I didn't want to be sick to death before the liver damage started getting me sick to death. Anyway, the day that I refused the normal treatment. My ride home was nothing but crying and praying. I asked God forgiveness for everything bad I could think of that I had done for 50 something years. And things that I never thought of anymore was visual in my mind, a lot of things. I got home and me and my wife cried and prayed some more. I was crying while telling my neighbor I didn't have much time left. My neighbor is a Christian man, and he prayed for me. And the door that he had been trying to open for years, was now open he figured. He invited me again to come to his church for the next couple of months. Then one Saturday I ask my wife if she would go to church with me, and we went the next Sunday. It was OK, I didn't feel nothing special. We went the next Sunday also b/c I figured I would ride it out there until I died and my wife would have a preacher to bury me that we knew. The next Wednesday my neighbor and the preacher shows up at my house, and the preacher was talking to me about the Hepatitis C. And out of no where here come that question, the preacher ask me if I was to die that day if I thought I would go to Heaven. I said I didn't think so even though I had been praying an awful lot. He then ask if I wanted to be save in the name of Jesus Christ, and you got to know I said oh yes. Me and my wife both repeated the sinners prayer with the preacher. Honestly, I didn't feel nothing really special with that either. I really didn't, but I did feel a little better about it. A few weeks after starting going to the church every Sunday service, and some Sunday nights and Wednesday nights. On one Sunday service, I was setting there just a praying to myself, and I didn't know what the preacher was preaching about. But while I was praying and going over all my confessions to God again and asking for forgiveness, call it what ever, but I call it the spirit of Jesus going through me like a train. Tears started flooding down my face, the current running through my body so hard that it was a struggle to stay in my seat and not start screaming and yelling out Jesus name apologizing for how wrong I had lived my life to that point. I have never even to this day ever felt what I felt that day in that seat, NEVER. The feeling was uncontrollable, and the most amazing feeling I've ever felt in my life went through my entire body. It was so hard that it felt like it should have been painful but it didn't hurt. I became a Christian that day at New Life Baptist Church, and it fits better everyday. Moving along. Duke had developed a new hepatitis C treatment that my Dr. ask if I would enter the blind study on the drug, and I jumped on it. In a blind study only a couple of people at Duke knew who was actually getting the new drug for 6 months. About a month after taking the new drug, I told my doctor that I thought that the drug was working, and that it had already cured me. He laughed and told me to keep up the positive thoughts. When the study was over my DR called me in and told me that it was good news. He said that Duke's Lab reports showed that there wasn't a trace of the Hep C virus in my body after the 3d week blood vile was tested. But nobody had known that until my blood had been tested after the 6 month trial was over, but I knew. And nooooooo body can ever convince me that there isn't a real live God in Heaven b/c I know there is. God had already put me in that trial way before anybody knew that I would be even ask....

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Allorange, thank you for sharing my brother! I enjoy hearing how people came into relationship with Christ! It seems like early on there's always some amazing story of a healing or blessing...almost like God wants to let us know he's there and in control!

I lost my Dad at 13 and my mother right after high school leaving me without any family. I was not raised in church but I picked up a Bible at 19 y/o and what I read made sense. I asked Jesus into my life one night alone in my bedroom, not because of church, a friend or pressure from anyone. My conviction was from God's word and the Holy Spirit. (It was awesome!)

I then started attending Church and one night there was a call for prayer. I was diabetic and the preacher asked if I believed God could heal me. I said yes and was prayed for...well I felt nothing and returned to my seat.

Well here's why I'm sharing this, you said you felt the Spirit going through you like a train....I've been there!!
I went back to my seat and suddenly it was like I was on fire and plugged into an electric outlet!! You used uncontrollable to describe what you experienced...spot on brother! I did jump out of my seat and I was a shy kid back then! I was excited, frightened and not sure what was happening!

Long story short...I went to my family doctor the next day. I asked for a full glucose tolerance test and didn't tell him why. I said I'd explain it after the results were in. That night at 6 pm he calls and says my results were perfect! I shared my story and he said as my doctor he couldn't say I was healed...but as my friend and a Christian, he would say I should thank God because in his opinion, I'd received a miracle!

That was twenty some years ago and I'm still as healthy as can be! We serve an awesome God!

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Great stuff! My story very similar so both testimonies

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