my-testimonies

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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:44:08 +0100

Why Testimony

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:05:50 +0100

Today, I am using this testimony page in a bit of a different way. Rather than writing the testimony after it happens and giving God the glory after he has released his blessings, I am going to write this in advance in faith that the blessing will come in God's time. The bible says in Proverbs18 v 20 -"The tongue has the power of life and death" therefore there is power in your tongue and in what you say so we should use it wisely and to show ourfaith in God. Also another lesson that had stuck me was that when Jonah was swallowed by the fish and he prayed to God he not only asked for help but also gave thanksgiving for his salvation before it actually happened.

So my story today is that a couple of months ago I was working 2 jobs and getting very tired indeed and worst of all hardly spending any time with my family at all. So my husband and I made a decision that I ould stopa nd he would get his business going to make enough money to make ends meet. We also recently decided that we will start making it a point to tithe without any excuse. So meanwhile I finished working in one job and am only working part time and Kingsley (my husnband that is) started travelling more often for business and has been away for 3 weeks now waiting for someone to pay him money that he owes him. This person has so far kept on postponing payment and it has now come to the day when we have to pay our rent and bills and the money we need has not yet been released.

My family and I have been praying and we have left this in God's hands as he's promised to make ends meet and not to leave us lacking if we are faithful and obey him by tithing and repentance for our wrongdoings. I am confident, with not the slightest doubt in my mind that God our Father in heaven who is always faithful will see to it that it will all turn out well and that this family will not lack, even for one day. And once all is said and done this family will give testimony after testimony about our Lord's great works in our life.

So thank you Lord for all that you have already done in our lives, things things that we know of and the things that we don't know of and also for what you are about to do in our lives. We honour and we praise you in every possible way. There is nothing on this earth that I desire but you and I will praise your name for the rest of my days and forever more. In Jesus' name.

Amen.

WINNING THE GOD LOTTERY

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:59:45 +0100

Having complete faith in Christ is not always easy. We say that we have faith and that we believe that God exists and that he watches over us. BUT would you put yourself voluntarily in the situation where you absolutely had to depend on God for your next meal? Would you give your last cash to charity to dying children and then leave it in God's hands to ensure that you have enough for your own life? What if it happens out of no choice of your own and you found yourself in a situation where you have no money to pay your bills or buy your next meal? Would trust God by doing your best and leaving the rest to Him or would you worry and blame God for your situation angrily?

I was in a situation recently where our money ran so low that we didn't even have enough to buy gas and electricity. We managed to borrow some money which would last us another few days, after which we would face the same desperate situation once again. This had happened before when I would just run to my family for money. But I had done this for long enough but this time it was different. My husband Kingsley and I were in a more difficult situation, financially, than we ever were before yet even though we were facing this situation and were extremely stressed as we also had a little boy to take care of we put our faith in God. Kingsley always had this type of faith alive in Him but when the tough got going I would get upset and almost expect God to ignore our situation as though He wasn't really a LIVING God but an existing one. This time it was different because I maintained my faith and knew that God was hearing our prayers and working on them. We prayed and fasted together several times in the day and only spoke words of faith with our lips.

The money that we had received to help us out was now running low and we needed nappies for Zane. Kingsley went to buy nappies but he didn't have money, he went out with a debit card and credit card to see whether the ATM would give him something by mistake as he knew that the account was completely empty. He tried the card in the ATM and it disn't work, so he tried it a second time and again the screen read "insufficient funds". Desperate because we needed the nappies, he tried using the card in the shop to pay for the nappies but it declined the card once again. Feeling defeated but still hanging onto the one thing he had at this point, his faith he prayed for a break. As a last attempt before giving up, Kingsley decided to try the card in the ATM machine one more time. Then for no explained reason the money came he needed to buy the nappies came out and he went back to the shop to but them. When he shared the story with me we thanked God and were amazed and felt so blessed that God was looking after us so closely.

Still having no money left we continued praying and an unexpected phonecall kept meon endge. The bank was trying to contact me. I was afraid to answer and ignored the call twice as I didn't feel that I could stand hearing the bank ask me about the overdraft in my credit card account and current account. Then my husband advised me to answer the next call just to get it over and done with. The person from the bank was very nice but proceeded to ask me a lot of questions about my job, household income and outgoings and why the accounts kept on going into overdraft on a monthly basis and so on. I felt so deflated but felt good that I was dealing with it and couldn't wait for the conversation to end, when she suddenly asks me whether the 1500 pounds deposit into the account was a one off deposit. I asked her to repeat because I was sure that I had misunderstood her. But no I had understood perfectly well. The money from HMRC had been deposited into our account. We were expecting some money from them, but not for a few months and we were only expecting 200 or 300 pounds not 1500. I almost started screaming on the phone with joy and relief, but I managed to keep my cool until I ended the conversation. I then ran downstairs and informed my stressed husband about the great news. We were both shocked and overjoyed. I was shaking and crying and dancing and excited all at once. We had just gone from being desperate and stressed to being comfortable and able to sort some things out in our life that we thought that we would not manage to sort out for a long time.

Thanks to God's intervention we were able to pay back some debt in our accounts, stock up food and gas and electricity, stock up on baby essentials, buy sofas (as up to then we had no seating at all in the house and spent most of the day sitting on the floor) and a coffee table. We were also able to buy a bed for the second bedroom, which allowed my family to be comfortable when they came over in christmas, and a wardroble to put our clothes as most of them were on the floor on a towel in large piles as we had nowhere to store them. It basically allowed us to stand up on our own two feet again and relieved so much stress from us and we could not be thankful enough. Till this very day when I look back on this amazing miracle it just reminds me that I could trust God completely and that He really is a living God not as some people may think. He knows all that goes on and all He wants is your faith and trust and most importantly LOVE.

INFECTION CONTROL

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:48:53 +0100

After over a year of constant recurrent infections and doctor's visits poking around in places that should be kept private, and test after test and treatment after treatment using any possible drugs in the form of creams, tablets, gels and anything else you could think of I had given up on getting rid of the damn infections. Doctors also seemed to have given up just saying that there are no other explanations for the infections and that there's nothing else that they could do. So being at my witts end with all this I was venting teh frustratons and telling Kingsley (my husband) that I'd just had enough so he commented that if we were in Nigeria a pastor would pray for me and I'd be healed in no time at all. My mind instantly told me that God is everywhere and that I didn't need to be IN Nigeria to get healed so I asked him to call a pastor that he knew to pray for me.

So he did that and the pastor gave me a few scriptures to read and to keep saying and praying over throughout the day plus some affirmations of faith to keep repeating that I am healed in Jesus' name and that satan will not stop my healing in Jesus' name. I did this using annointing oil 3 times a day (which is blessed oil). I did this and the pastor prayed for me and he told me not to give up but to have faith as daniel wiated many days before his prayers were answered. I believed and continued my prayers. After a couple fo days I was watching a christian movie (facing the giants) that quoted a scripture from the book of revelations, so out of curiosity I opened my bible to continue reading where the scripture was taken from and as I was reading I came across a scripture that said that the devil will put you in prison and test you for 10 days and that whoever makes it to the end even to the point of death, will be given the crown of life.

I decided to take ti literally by faith and I brought out my diary and counted 10 days from the start of my prayers and I marked in my diary "today is the day that I am healed in Jesus name". I also told God in my prayers that once this happens I would give testimony in church the next day, which happened to be Easter Sunday. I continued my prayers and at first the infection eased up in the first few days and was better than it had been in months. But then on the 9th day it started to get much worse again and on the 10th day it was really bad and painful. I kept telling myself that it was all a test and that nothing will take my healing away from me. It was my right as a child of God.

On the day of healing I woke up in the morning excited that this was my day but scared that I might find that I would find things to be exactly the same as the previous few days, BUT sure enough the infection had cleared completely from one day to the next. No medication or anything whatsoever just faith. I hadn't been clear from infection for months at this point and the feeling was completely overwhelming.

When I went to church that Sunday it took a lot of courage to stand up and give testimony about what God had done for me but I did it and with testimony you overcome the bible says, and that day I overcame thanks to the one and only living God. My God. The infection remained cleared and at times I would wake up and feel as though the symptoms were coming on again, and my first reaction was "damn! the thing's coming back" but then I would realize that it's all a test and would say a little prayer and the symptoms would just go away instantly.

Now THAT is my God!

MY LITTLE MIRACLE

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:36:25 +0100

This is a testimony that I've given several times before now and that has been published in the chruch newsletter and read out in other churches and i'm going to share it here now.

For as long as I've known, i have always wanted children. The thought of having my own children would fill me with delight and excitement. So when I noticed at a young age that my menstrual cycles weren't normal or regular I was worried and went to see a doctor. I went from one doctor to the next and after a number of tests, no one could tell me exactly where the problem was. Their reassurance was that there was no problem as such, UNLESS I was trying to have children. However, needless to say, this WAS a problem, greater to me than most problems. So this left me quite worried and somewhat anxious.

Eventually when the time finally came, when my husband, Kingsley, and I decided to start our little family,the months were passing with no results. However, our attitude towards the situation was that we would leave it in God's hands and that he will give us what we want when the time is right.

So one Sunday while in church we were asked to pray for our individual wants and needs while pastor Jide prayed for us. So I started praying to God with all my heart that I would fall pragnant. Now as soon as I prayed that in my heart, the pastor while praying for us aloud, with his eyes closed and hand up asked God to let those who can't have children bear a child. The coincidence fo timing startled me and in reaction I opened my eyes to notice that his hand happened to be over me..again by coincidence. From that moment something told me that this month...this month my dreams would come true.

Sure enough, praise God, the following Thursday, I found out that I was pregnant. Finally we were going to be parents.

I later told Kingsley about my prayers and about what had happened in church the previous Sunday and surprisingly enough he had his own little story to tell me. A week or two before then, he was having a conversation with pastor Jide, who just casually asked my husband how his son was (knowing full well that we didn't have any children). Kingsley took it as a joke and laughed it off saying "not yet sir" but the reply to that was that he was mistaken and that God is sending him one sooner than he thinks. While he was telling me this I was astonished and overwhelmed because at that moment I had no doubt in my mind that this was a miracle from God for which I could never give enough thanks.

Today Kingsley and I are the proud parents of a healthy boy named Zane who was born on the 2nd of march 2007. And incidentally the name Zane means gift from God.