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wondering through this life, I have learnt to just take one day at a time, taking in each moment and appreciating the small things that pass by my way. i have come to realise that all amazing and incredible things come from above. I am still learning, growing, each and everyday, i have weaknesses, as humans we do, but god is my strength and so no mountain is too tall. He answered when i called out and he continues to do so each day as i wonder through this life...
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John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.
I am Alaina and I have a Testimony. I lived 18 years of my life grasping onto the hope that there was a god, But never 100% sure. I Called myself a Christian, and I prayed to god, in my head, hoping that if he was actually out there, that he was listening to me. I used to get frustrated when I read the bible. Because i remember reading about miracles, Jesus healing people from blindness, water being turned into wine, the parting of the red sea and so on, yet I saw nothing even close to that happening around me at all, not even to people in my church. No miracles, no signs and wonders, nothing. I didn't really get it at all, So although I considered myself a Christian, I never really read the bible at all...I just went to church on Sundays, and hoped that God would be happy with me, and he would bless me. I came to a conclusion that my faith in god would remain blind, because I knew that there was no way that id ever get any proof that he was actually real at all, just hoping that he was real was all I had. As I got older, I drifted away from the god that i thought I knew. I stopped praying. I stopped going to church. I distanced myself alot. I Just let the world sway me where it wanted to, But I still had in my heart that I wanted to do good things, I wanted to be good. But as much as I tried, I actually started to lose myself a bit. I started drinking, which was something i never thought I would ever do. I started conforming to a world that I didn't even Like at all. And even though at the time I probably thought I was happy, I wasn't happy at all, Because I felt like a fake and I felt like a failure and I felt like a disappointment to everyone who I loved, my family, my friends. Including god. I thought that that was the way my life was going to carry on forever. But then everything was shaken from the inside out. My two older Sisters, who I am extremely close to, told me that they found proof. They Both called out to god, and pleaded that If he was really out there and if he was real, that He would answer them, and he would fill them with his 'holy spirit' which is a promise in the bible. (Acts 2:38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.) In the same day, both Naomi and Charlene were filled with Gods Holy spirit, and they knew this, Because They spoke in tongues.
(Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.)
They told me that tongues was a prayer language used to pray to god.
(1 Corinthians 14:2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.)
I freaked out. I thought that they had gone crazy and I told them that I didn't want to hear about it ever again. I was happy that they were happy, But I just couldn't handle what they were telling me. For about 2 whole years I couldn't get God out of my head. I couldn't escape from my own thoughts. As time went by My mum received the holy spirit, and then my Brother did and then a family friend did. It soon became clear to me that The holy spirit was something I needed. I was petrified because for the first time in my life, God was revealing himself...and although I probably appeared intensely rebellious towards the idea, inside I knew it was all true, because My family would not lie. It soon became clear to me that Speaking in tongues was not a gift only given to some, it was the initial sign of receiving the holy spirit. The holy spirit that I needed In order to be right by god, and in order to Know for myself that he was Real, and that he knew me. On The 1st of August 2010, I was baptised by full immersion and the next day I called out to god for the first time with absolute faith that he would answer me, and I wasn't going to give up asking.
(Luke 11:5-13 So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. )
I just prayed with all of my heart and all of my soul. And my first miracle happened that night. God filled me with his holy spirit and I knew it because I burst out in a language that I had never learnt in my life. It was amazing. I didn't know happiness until that moment. Out of all of the billions of people in the world, in that one moment, god acknowledged me, and I knew He loved me. I knew there and then that god was true and he was real and creation was tru and the bible was true, I just needed the holy spirit to know that. And whoever is reading this, you can have it to, infact you need it. You ask and you will recieve. I had nothing to lose and neither does anyone else. There is a god and I know him and he knows everything about me. I pray to him and I know that he listens. Now I see and hear about miracles and healings happening almost everyday, because god is alive and he is moving and he is amazing. and he is The way the truth and The life.
Mark 16:17-20
17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they[a]will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
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John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.
I am Alaina and I have a Testimony. I lived 18 years of my life grasping onto the hope that there was a god, But never 100% sure. I Called myself a Christian, and I prayed to god, in my head, hoping that if he was actually out there, that he was listening to me. I used to get frustrated when I read the bible. Because i remember reading about miracles, Jesus healing people from blindness, water being turned into wine, the parting of the red sea and so on, yet I saw nothing even close to that happening around me at all, not even to people in my church. No miracles, no signs and wonders, nothing. I didn't really get it at all, So although I considered myself a Christian, I never really read the bible at all...I just went to church on Sundays, and hoped that God would be happy with me, and he would bless me. I came to a conclusion that my faith in god would remain blind, because I knew that there was no way that id ever get any proof that he was actually real at all, just hoping that he was real was all I had. As I got older, I drifted away from the god that i thought I knew. I stopped praying. I stopped going to church. I distanced myself alot. I Just let the world sway me where it wanted to, But I still had in my heart that I wanted to do good things, I wanted to be good. But as much as I tried, I actually started to lose myself a bit. I started drinking, which was something i never thought I would ever do. I started conforming to a world that I didn't even Like at all. And even though at the time I probably thought I was happy, I wasn't happy at all, Because I felt like a fake and I felt like a failure and I felt like a disappointment to everyone who I loved, my family, my friends. Including god. I thought that that was the way my life was going to carry on forever. But then everything was shaken from the inside out. My two older Sisters, who I am extremely close to, told me that they found proof. They Both called out to god, and pleaded that If he was really out there and if he was real, that He would answer them, and he would fill them with his 'holy spirit' which is a promise in the bible. (Acts 2:38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.) In the same day, both Naomi and Charlene were filled with Gods Holy spirit, and they knew this, Because They spoke in tongues.
(Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.)
They told me that tongues was a prayer language used to pray to god.
(1 Corinthians 14:2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.)
I freaked out. I thought that they had gone crazy and I told them that I didn't want to hear about it ever again. I was happy that they were happy, But I just couldn't handle what they were telling me. For about 2 whole years I couldn't get God out of my head. I couldn't escape from my own thoughts. As time went by My mum received the holy spirit, and then my Brother did and then a family friend did. It soon became clear to me that The holy spirit was something I needed. I was petrified because for the first time in my life, God was revealing himself...and although I probably appeared intensely rebellious towards the idea, inside I knew it was all true, because My family would not lie. It soon became clear to me that Speaking in tongues was not a gift only given to some, it was the initial sign of receiving the holy spirit. The holy spirit that I needed In order to be right by god, and in order to Know for myself that he was Real, and that he knew me. On The 1st of August 2010, I was baptised by full immersion and the next day I called out to god for the first time with absolute faith that he would answer me, and I wasn't going to give up asking.
(Luke 11:5-13 So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. )
I just prayed with all of my heart and all of my soul. And my first miracle happened that night. God filled me with his holy spirit and I knew it because I burst out in a language that I had never learnt in my life. It was amazing. I didn't know happiness until that moment. Out of all of the billions of people in the world, in that one moment, god acknowledged me, and I knew He loved me. I knew there and then that god was true and he was real and creation was tru and the bible was true, I just needed the holy spirit to know that. And whoever is reading this, you can have it to, infact you need it. You ask and you will recieve. I had nothing to lose and neither does anyone else. There is a god and I know him and he knows everything about me. I pray to him and I know that he listens. Now I see and hear about miracles and healings happening almost everyday, because god is alive and he is moving and he is amazing. and he is The way the truth and The life.
Mark 16:17-20
17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they[a]will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
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And these SIGNS will follows those who BELIEVE: In my Name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, They will take up serpants and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them , they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.
Are you a BELIEVER?
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