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Today I had the opportunity to share my testimony.  I was having a conversation with someone asking about her perspective on some specific things and before I knew it I was sharing what I wrote in the very first blog post, "Seventeen Years Ago Today". 

"It has been 17 years.  It has been 17 years to the day since I asked Jesus into my life. He is my Savior. He is my Friend. He is my Provider, my Comforter, my Leader, & day by day becoming my Everything.  On March 27, 1995 just a few months prior to turning 17 God radically changed my heart. I could love again, rather truly love for the first time, because that day I received the ultimate Love, which is God’s unconditional, extraordinary, supernatural, overwhelming True LOVE! His Love is different than the way I experienced love before.  2 Corinthians 13 defines His Love for us: “ 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (NASB, Bible.com).  It took about 3 months of a few different friends, who I’ll be eternally grateful to, witnessing to me for me to finally go to God.  Looking back, I think I stopped receiving love into my life because I stopped trusting it some where a long the way; after all human love comes with a lot of heartache and disappointment.   The same is not true of God. During that 3 months I learned that God is a friend who sticks closer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24), who goes ahead of us so we do not need to be afraid (Deuteronomy 31:8), who is there even if/ when parents leave (Psalm 27:10).  I began trusting His Love, the Love of God, the Creator of the Universe is unmatched!! When I received Him into my life I could then sink into His Love like a ocean and He gave freely and constantly and now I could give that same Love to others (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).

17 years has passed since that day, and a lot has happened (I’ll get to that). There have been periods of tremendous faith and periods of confusion and doubt, each brought on by either obedience or disobedience to Him sometimes brought on my tremendous grief... and even falling out of Love with Him.  The periods of disobedience sadly led to an abrupt halt of receiving His all powerful Love, He continued to pursue me through it all.  Finally, just this month, March 2012 I am truly recognizing and receiving His Love in my life again after several years of doubt.   He wants you to receive His Love in your life too; go to Him declare His promises of Love in your life (John 3:16, etc..) and ask Him to come into your life too, it is a gift He freely gives"


If you like, please share how God changed your life forever in the comments here on blogger or on my facebook  page under the link for this post. <3  Hearing/ Reading testimonies is amazing and a true testament to God that He can redeem us!!