In this You-tube recording they talk about how women suffer in Afghanistan, now even more then before the United States of America set them free.
There is always the tendency to blame the one who takes action and tries to do something good. If it works, fine. If not, everybody accuses and blames. I liked a lot what one of the women in the tape said: “I don’t want anyone coming here to deliver me. If I can’t stand up for my own rights no one else will be able to deliver me.”
That is true. Even God cannot save those who don’t want to be saved. One thing is clear, though, the women in the Islamic States are suffering beyond measure. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night praying for a solution and salvation for those women and nations. We as the Western world are not able to evangelize in those countries and help those women. If we stand up here in the Western world, and speak up against the brutal unrighteousness of what is going on in the Islamic countries, we only get accused by Christians, Muslims and many, many others.
In fact the truth is, Islam is a threat to our Western society and to all mankind in general. And here I say to you women: Look at the videos! Do you want to live like this? Look at it and look well, because if we don’t do anything, this is coming our way!
And here I say to the Muslim women: If anyone can help your sisters it is you! You have to stand up and speak up, out loud, about what is happening in the Islamic nations. You have freedom here and you enjoy it and you should. The freedom of speech, the freedom of education as a woman, and many more. Honestly, how can you thank your God Allah as you live under the protection of the only living God who created this nation the USA? This is still a Christian Nation. Men died for this freedom we all enjoy. We cannot take it for granted.
You must stand up and speak against the crimes that happen in your home countries together with us. Muslim women in the Western world you have to join us and speak up!
Are you safe here, or are you not? Maybe you are not safe. But you have a chance to escape! Islam is of the devil, no matter where you live! We can help you to break free and we can help you to help the women in Islamic countries. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel is the only living God. He sent Jesus his son to save the world. Only in Him is salvation! Break out of your prison and free your sisters! We need you! We need your support! It is not too late , but soon it will be!
Call on Jesus, He can save you. Repent for your sin and He gives you freedon here on earth and eternal life in Heaven.
My name is Stephanie Sapp. I was born in Florida and have lived here, in the United States, all of my life. I was not familiar with Islam at all until our church put up signs in our front yard that read “Islam is of the devil”. Suddenly, Islam was not just the hot topic on the news anymore. Islam became the a part of our daily conversation. We found that the goal of Islam is actually total world domination by reading articles on the internet, watching videos on youtube.com, and reading parts of the Koran.
The war against Islam may seem very far away to us. As women, we are very busy with our lives hustling and bustling from home to work, from work to pick up the kids, then shuttling the kids to their latest after-school program or sports event. Once we are at home, there is dinner to cook, clothes to wash, the house to clean, the kids need help with their homework…..and so on. The war against Islam becomes only a subject of political controversy that we catch every now and then on a news program because its the hot topic for the week. Otherwise, the subject of Islam blends into the blur of everyday life. We only take notice at such times as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
The 9/11 attacks show the extreme points of Islam. We fail to realize that part of the plan of Islam is to convince nations, including the United States of America, that life is terrible and hopeless….and at the same time, Islam is using its Muslim women to take over continents. Do you think this is a far-fetched idea???? Take a look at Europe, take a very close look at England and Germany!!!! Those countries are not being over-taken by terrorists who attack and destroy. Instead, Islam is breeding out the British. The schools in England are being filled with devout Muslim children. Muslim fathers give over their daughters, who are as young as nine and ten years old, to be married to old men and get pregnant by them. Muslim men rape their women and beat them into submission!!
Even the liberal public schools of in America are teaching our children that Islam and the words of the Koran as factual information while we keep ourselves busy with grocery shopping, paying bills, or play-dates for the kids.
We have made a decision, as a church, to take a stand for the truth of the Bible. This also means taking a stand against Islam while there is still time. Since we posted the “Islam is of the devil” signs in on the front of our property, we have received e-mails from secular organizations who tell us that the Christians are the ones who must stand up to Islam. These e-mails are from organizations that have been actively fighting against Islam for years!!!!
Taking a stand will not come through educating ourselves and others about Islam. It will only take place when we are willing to put our lives on the line and fighting for the Kingdom of God! It will only come when we dare to tell others about the violence of Islam, the endless abuse of Muslim women, and the killing of innocent young girls who choose to leave Islam and turn to God. We must take the risk of being disliked or even hated by our families, friends, and co-workers so that Muslim women can to come to Jesus and be rescued from Islam!!!!
My name is Amy and I want to encourage you to say No to sex before marriage!
We live in a society where its normal. Everybody around us is doing it.
Its part of the music, its on television, in the magazines…everywhere.
Saying no to sex before marriage is a decision you have to make as a Christian girl - before – you get yourself into a tempting situation.
I grew up in a Christian home. My parents were pastors, but this is not a ticket for staying a virgin till marriage.
When I turned 12 my parents gave me this fat book called “Why wait?”. It was a book full of stories, statistics, poems, bible verses and teachings on why to wait with sex till marriage. I read lots of it. I wanted to read it. I tell you, after reading story after story of young people sharing how they disobeyed and what the results of their actions were, I had no desire to disobey God. I made sure I never even came into a situation where I would be tempted. But this is a decision you have to make. If you don’t make this decision the devil has an open door to seduce you.
The world tries to brain wash us with lies and deceit. Why not brain wash our minds with the Word of God, with the truth, so we can withstand the temptation of the enemy?
Why trade in some cheap Wall-Mart jewelry that breaks after a short while for the diamonds and gold God has in store for us?
God does not give us rules to punish us or take away our fun, but because he loves us!
He knows what we as women really need. We want and need security, protection and commitment and this is not something you will find outside of marriage!
I waited with sex till I found the right guy and until I was married. I also waited for my pastors to agree with the man I wanted to marry and listened to their advice to wait a year (we wanted to get married after just a few months *smile*). And God blessed that decision. My husband, Dave, is the most wonderful man I could ever ask for. He never looked at me in a dirty way before we were married. He respected me and my decision to wait and we both married as virgins.
I tell you there is a blessing and strong bond that comes with this obedience to Gods word! Its worth waiting! Don’t give into the pressure of your friends or of guys. Resist and let God fill that need till its the right time!
We are now married four years and have an 8 month old son who is adorable. Every year of our marriage has become better and our relationship stronger. God has someone special for you too. So wait!
My name is Heike. I have been married for 18 years to my wonderful husband and we have four sons. We are from Germany and have lived in the USA since 2005.
As parents of four boys our main goal in raising them has been that they live their life for God and the Kingdom. Our oldest son is 17 years old. He was born and raised in the church in Germany. And he loved it. The church was big and he had lots of friends. When he was 13 , we moved as a family to the USA. My husband had quit his job, we sold our house and stepped into the training for the full time ministry in our church.
Our life changed completely. For the boys it meant they were no longer in a big church. Friends were not always around them. Then two years later we became Pastors and moved to New Orleans to start a ministry in the area of the City most devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The boys experienced life in a way they had never known before.
Since we had given up our good old German lifestyle, we also experienced lots of disagreement and accusations from our family in Germany. After moving back to Florida our home church started in a new ‘old’ way to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that Jesus is the only Way and there is no other. We also put the focus on Islam and how deceiving and violent this religion is. On 9/11 we did a march to remember the victims, to proclaim the truth and call the nation back to God. All our sons took part in it with their whole heart.
During this time our oldest son had to write an assignment for school. They had the task of writing a poem with the theme “Where I come from!” This is what Andreas Terry wrote. It touched my heart deeply and I pray that it will touch yours as well as it encourages you to take a stand for God and His Kingdom
By the way, Opa means Grandpa in English, Dorsten is a town in Germany and gans means goose. My father used to cook it for christmas.
THE CHURCH WITH THE SIGN
I am from the streets of Germany, from the factory of beer surrounding my home
I am from NOLA, Where drugs and violence have become a common thing
I am from 8 o’clock curfews, for If you’re white, who knows when the bullet will find your heart.
I am from the trashed neighborhood, Where McDonalds hires the oh so smart college students.
I am from Opa Dorstens gans, sadly a thing of the past
I am from his last breath, luckily in peace.
I am from my family becoming my enemy,
As in the words of my cousin, “You have become a monster.”
As Jesus was hated and persecuted, I wonder if the same will happen to me,
For whoever gains his life will loose it,
But who loses his life for my sake will find it.
I am from the memories,
no matter if happy or sad,
Only left in my head,
But now I am here loudly proclaiming with a joyful voice
“I AM FROM THE CHURCH WITH THE SIGN!!!”
If you want to find out more about us and the church with the sign click on www.doveworld.org
My name is Heike. My mother gave birth to five children. I am the oldest daughter. When I was 2 ½ years old my Mom gave birth to my sister, Marlies. I am a mother now, and I can hardly imagine the pain my mother suffered during the delivery. The birth was very difficult and at that time medical help was not so advanced. My mother suffered intense birth pain.
After she finally gave birth, the doctor told her that the child was severely disabled and would not survive. Today surely the doctors would have suggested a late term abortion to my parents. But I know that even if they would have known they would have rejected this way, because they have a deep faith and trust in God.
So my sister was born in pain with more pain and grief following for my parents. My father took me to the hospital to show me my sister. I remember this clearly. A nurse held a bundle on the other side of a window. I could hardly see the face but I loved my sister. She lived 3 ½ weeks. Seeing her through that window is my only memory of her and my early childhood. I don’t remember my parents crying. I don’t remember the funeral.
I also don’t remember any early conversations about her or the year later when my Mom was pregnant again. This time she gave birth to my second sister, a healthy baby. Two brothers followed a few years later.
We were a happy family. My parents were busy taking care of us. The times were not easy, money wasn’t big. We children didn’t know about these things. But we knew about our sister. We didn’t talk much about her, but sometimes, and it was always with joy. We girls imagined often how it would be to have another sister.
When I got married and had children of my own, I began to realize what my parents had gone through. I started to ask questions about Marlies. My mother told me how she cried and grieved years later when she attended a church service where disabled kids were confirmed into the Lutheran church. My sister would have been among them. When there was a special event or birthday in the family we always thought about her.
Now my mother is almost 80 years old. She knows her time is coming. She is battling breast cancer and with the second occurrence she knows that she doesn’t have much time. But she holds firmly to God and tries to enjoy every moment. She is thankful for what she had in life, though it was not an easy life. My parents were married more than fifty years. All their four children are married and they have fourteen grandchildren.
Since the cancer came back I have talked with my Mom a lot about eternity. She has a deep hope and she knows where she is going. Sometimes we cry together, but there is always this eternal hope and joy that Jesus made a way for us and that we will spend our future life with Him. Sometimes she is scared when she thinks of her death, but then she trusts in God again, that He will give strength and grace when the moment comes.
Our conversations have become more and more precious. But the biggest comfort in thinking of this moment of entering eternity doesn’t come from her husband or from us children. It comes from her disabled daughter, Marlies, who died shortly after her birth. My mother told me that she is convinced and filled with a deep joyful expectation, that this child, this woman, Marlies, is already waiting at the heavenly gate. And when my mother will cross the border to the heavenly realm, Marlies will run towards her and embrace her. They will be together in eternity with Jesus and all the pain and grief will be gone.
What a picture! Every time I think of this my eyes are filled with tears and my heart is filled with joy and the fear of the Lord. What a tremendous hope, and what a great calling my sister has! This picture also gives a great joy and strength to my Mom in dealing with everything she still has to go through.
There is no life without a purpose and a calling. If my parents would have aborted Marlies, my mother could not run in joy to her. God is great and He knows what is best. Let us not think that we know better then God. Let’s trust Him even in difficult times.
After I first wrote down this testimony, my father got sick and passed away after only 6 weeks of illness. It was hard time for all of us, but he spent his last days praising God. He took Communion and was ready to meet Jesus. My father never liked coming home and finding that no one was there. He never liked to sit at the table alone. Now he is the one who has met his daughter, Marlies, first. Praise be to our God!
Forgive. Not easy but it is the most import truth that you need to get hold of for your life. You need to be forgiven for your faults and sins by others, by God. And you must forgive those who have done you wrong.
Why? Sin brings destruction and death. In our own lives, un-forgiven sin separates us from those around us, from God and His love. The good news, the gospel of Jesus Christ, is that you can be forgiven through the blood of Christ shed for us on the Cross when you repent and ask God for this.
And because of this forgiveness from God, Christians can also completely forgive others. They may not be able to forget what happened to them when they were wronged, and the wrong actions are not justified, but Christians know they can leave the consequences of each person’s sins to God. He is the final judge of both the living and the dead. He can have mercy, if those people repent, and he can condemn, but that is up to God. We are not small gods in this world, and we must not try to be.
That is why the nation of Turkey was stunned, in March 2008, when three women published an article saying they forgave their three husband’s killers. The women were Christian. Their husbands had been cruelly tortured and murdered by Muslim men in the name of Islam, simply because they were Christians.
“On the day of the killing, the young Muslim men had arranged to meet the Christians at 10 am to learn more about the Bible.
“They had gathered guns, breadknives, ropes and towels – they knew there would be a lot of blood – ready for their act,” the Washington-DC based human rights group International Christian Concern said.
ICC described the horrific ordeal in excruciating detail, which will only moderately be described in this report.
“They arrived, and reportedly, after Necati read a chapter from the Bible the assault began. The young men tied Ugur, Necati, and Tilman’s hands and feet to chairs as they videoed their work on their cellphones. What followed in the next three hours is beyond belief,” an ICC release has said.
ICC then continued to describe the nature of the torture, which included disembowelment, emasculation, and the slicing open of various orifices.
“Tilman was stabbed 156 times, Necati 99 times and Ugur’s stabs were too numerous to count. Finally, their throats were sliced from ear to ear, heads practically decapitated,” ICC reports.
Here is a youtube report on the case from CBN.
So, could you have done what these women did? The world is not getting any more peaceful, so the challenge may be coming to your life, whether you hide as a Christian, or not as a Christian, or are a bold Christian that speaks up for the truth. You might think you are safe in the West, in America, but Islam is growing everywhere, and oppressive evil with it.
Islam’s father is the Devil, the father of lies who comes to steal and kill and destroy (John 10:10). If we do not speak out against Islam, stand up for the laws of our land, the freedoms we now have in America, we may soon look like the nation of Turkey.
The following are the words of Father Jonathan Morris in a Fox News report. He traveled to Turkey soon after the murders of the three men to speak with a local Pastor.
“Looking for a Christian church in Turkey is like finding an apartment in Manhattan — not because there are so many of them, but because they literally look like ordinary apartments. Here, there are no high spires, beautiful facades, or church bells to draw you into Christendom. The churches just blend into their surroundings, so you have to have the exact address to find one.
We almost missed it. The entrance to the church looked more like that of a prison — a closed iron gate, behind which stood a stern guard with a clipboard to welcome you … and to take your name.
Pastor Behnan met us on the street. There were no formalities, and barely an introduction. “This can’t be the man I’ve been talking to on the phone over the last few days” I thought to myself. “He would have greeted me in a different way.” But it was. He was just nervous. “Come with me,” he said.
The church was in an upper room. Once inside, it could have been a Methodist, Lutheran, or Baptist church in a small town in Middle America: white walls, a simple cross, big lectern, and dark wooden pews.
“Where do you buy church pews in Turkey?” I wondered to myself.
The crew set up the portable lights and camera as the two of us chit-chatted. “When everyone comes, we are about 150 people,” says Pastor Behnan, who is now much more at ease.
When I got the word that things were ready, I asked the pastor if we could start filming. He put on a tie. “No problem.”
“Okay, so how is your congregation doing in light of the recent killings? Are you afraid?”
He didn’t hesitate even a second. “Not at all! Jesus is our strength. I’ve been jailed many times, and beaten.”
“Beaten?” I replied, with emphasis of surprise. “But I thought it was legal to be Christian in Turkey?”
“It is,” he said, “but the police don’t know that, or don’t want to know it. They take us in, question us, sometimes rough us up, and then after a week or two, they let us go.”
“And why do they let you go?”
“Because they know if the case goes to court, there will be no law to incriminate us.”
Pastor Behnan repeated several times that he has nothing against the government. He is a loyal Turk, pays his taxes, and is grateful for the freedom of worship Turkish law permits. “Turkish law is good,” he said. “We can worship, and we can even translate and offer Bibles for sale. We never push them on anyone; but they can buy them if they want.”
But in practice, things aren’t so good. On account of widespread rumors, large percentages of the Turkish population are convinced Christians are a threat to national unity. Conspiracy theories abound that promote an environment of mistrust and fear of all non-Muslims. One rumor I heard from several Muslim Turks, for example, was that the CIA has trained and sent 40,000 Christian missionaries into the country to prepare an overthrow of the government.
I asked Pastor Behnan if the killing of the three Christians (whom he knew personally) was a random terrorist attack that could have happened in any country, or if, on the other hand, it was representative of a national problem. His explanation was clear, but not simple.
According to him, while physical acts against Christians have been rare, it would be inaccurate to say this was a random and isolated case. Ten young men worked together for many weeks to plan and carry out the torture and murder. They even pretended to be interested in Christianity to gain the trust of the men they would later kill. Pastor Behnan says this premeditated barbarism is fruit of the misinformation being spread to the masses by some Muslim religious leaders and even some high-level government officials. He says these men are purposefully creating an environment that promotes hatred of Christians, and as long as this sentiment spreads, people on the fringe will continue to carry out acts of violence in the name of religion and national unity.”
Ask yourselves why these men were murdered in this way?
“the perpetrators committed no crimes under Islamic law. They were merely emulating al-insan al-kamil (the perfect man) and the uswa hasana (model of conduct), the ‘prophet’ Muhammad.”
And another point, in Germany there was very little comment on this crime from the media there, or from the German government. Why? Even though a German citizen was so horribly murdered, the Germans did not want to offend their Muslim population, so the news was kept quiet.
We have a sign in front of our church that speaks the truth: Islam is of the Devil. And another one, this week: Mohammad is a false prophet.
Stand up, join us, support us.
Written by Fran Ingram, a proud member of Dove World Outreach Center.
Jesus is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to me. I truly know what it means to be saved. I have this salvation in my heart – not just in my mind and with empty words coming out of my mouth. I have experienced the saving grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus more times than I can count.
I should be dead. When my mom was pregnant with me she was so sick that she almost died more than once. She had to stay in the hospital the whole nine months. She was only allowed to come home for a few hours on the weekend. The doctors told her every day that she should have an abortion because there was no way that I would be born alive. My Mom feared the Lord and decided to take a risk and she gave birth to me.
I grew up in a violent and abusive alcoholic family. My father was in and out of prison and my mother was sick, and we were very poor. I was often raped at a very young age and throughout my childhood as a young girl.
I have committed many crimes, been in many fights and I almost committed murder. I have done many drugs at a high level and have been involved in drug trafficking. I have had many sexual and homosexual relationships. I have been involved with witchcraft and the dark powers. I have had to deal with an anger problem that could have turned deadly at any moment because I couldn’t control myself or my attitudes. My life before Jesus was a horror worse than any R rated film that you can imagine.
The interesting thing about all of this is that I grew up in a Baptist church. I knew deep in my heart that one day I would serve God and be a pastor or a missionary. I did a lot of extra work at the church and I volunteered my time there. My mom got so angry because I would spend all of my free time in the church. I took the preaching to heart and I loved God with my whole heart. But I didn’t really know Jesus. I only knew a religious routine, a little tiny bit of Jesus. I didn’t know how real he could be and how powerful the message of the Cross really can be. I didn’t find that out until some years later.
I cried every night that God would save me from my family, and from life. But there was no miracle and my life got worse. When I was 15 my Granny died and my parents got divorced. My Dad left and then was in prison again.
I visited a different church called Dove World Outreach Center. I started going to that church because I saw something different and I was unsatisfied from the Baptist church. I was accused by my family and coworkers of being in a cult and I was forbidden to go to that church, so I stopped going to church all together.
So I went back to my old life, a fast track to Hell. Deep down in my heart I knew that God was gonna do it and he was gonna save me – but this didn’t stop me from living a life of sin and death. I would talk to God in the middle of the drugs and everything going on around me – as if my life was all fine and my world was in perfect order. My Mom found out about the kind of life that I was living and she threw me out of her house. And I was alone – to face the world… for three years.
At the end of the three years I was finished. One night I prayed, but this time it was different. I cried to God with my whole heart. I said to God, “Please God, save me. I don’t want to do this anymore. Please God, save me and I will serve you with my whole heart –just get me out of this mess and off of the drugs.”
Some days later I got kicked out of my apartment because of all the drugs and parties and I had not paid the rent for eight months. My Mom picked me up and told me I could live with her until I got back on my feet. Right away I felt a change. I knew the drugs were over and this life that I had lived was just a thing of the past.
About a week later on a Friday night I went back to this church – Dove World Outreach Center and I got really saved. God spoke such of a powerful word over my life and I decided that I was gonna give it all. Soon after that I went the first time to Germany for three months and God really opened up the doors in my life for the calling, the vision, and for true salvation.
I had a lot of counseling and have experienced a lot of healing and freedom. I know that this only came because Jesus is real. I did not try to work these things out myself or try to pretend that my life was in order. I was hurting and in very bad shape. I needed Jesus. He was my only hope. I believed that He died on the cross for me – to save me, to forgive me and to heal me. I grabbed a hold of that with my whole heart. I did the best I could do to obey the leaders that God had put over me. I have seen from one day to the next how God has opened doors in my life and put me into a place and a position that I would have never dreamed about.
I am happy and fulfilled, but that is not enough. I want to reach out to the people that are hurting, especially to the women of Islam and tell them about Jesus, that he is real. He is not just a religious Sunday morning thing, but he is alive and waiting right now to save, heal and forgive.
The Bible says that if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation- the old is gone and the new has come. This is the truth. When Jesus comes in you will never be the same again.
We live here in our western society and usually no one is thinking about very much how women in Islamic homes and countries are treated. How they suffer, how they feel? Though the fact is not a secret that many of them are being abused in the brutalized way. If you search the internet, the evidence is overwhelming.
How can we as Christians ignore this fact? How can we hide behind liberalism and humanism and say, the Muslim in the United States of America are different. They are good people and peaceful neighbors. There is no Muslim who would speak against another Muslim, no matter what he did. They are loyal to their system, no matter where they live. Muslim women who are tortured and abused are scared to death to speak on their own behalves. The Muslim women who are living in freedom under our law that provides protection especially for women more than in any other country should use the freedom they live under not to sue fashion stores like the 17 years old Muslim teenager who sewed a clothe store:
Abercrombie ‘won’t hire’ because of scarf
in this article:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32913991/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001
First of all, fashion stores must have a prestige in order to make more money. That’s what they do. So the people working there need to submit to the rules and carry the vision of the store. If this goes against their faith or religion they should work somewhere else. The second point is even more important. The Muslims who are living here in freedom protected by our law should use the Freedom to stand up against the unrighteousness that happened to those women living in Islamic countries being tortured and abused. Instead they misuse the Freedom of our country, because they feel being treated unfairly. No Muslim is standing up and speak against the abuse of women and in general the abuse of their religion through terrorism or the Islamic governments in the east. Are they scared like the western society? Or are they playing friend until the Islam has majority here like they already have in Europe and then unmask their real face?
If we keep on doing nothing, sooner or later we will find out.
It was a Saturday afternoon when I went out for a walk with my little 6 month old Baby and another 6 month Baby I was taking care of that day. My goal was to share the Gospel about Jesus with somebody who is not saved. Just earlier that day my Pastor talked with me about evangelism and she said something that really grabbed hold of me: “if you don’t find someone right away, you need to keep on looking and searching until you find someone”.
That really made me realize how easily as christian you can slip into a lazy attitude when it comes to evangelism, because of course it is not a very comfortable thing and you always can find excuses why you can’t do it. I was pretty convicted about my own attitude and made the decision to change something about it.
So I put one baby in a sling and the other one I put in the stroller. It was raining slightly. While I was heading to the nearest park, I thought to myself, “I won’t find anybody in the park, when it is raining!” As I came close to the park I was surprised when I saw from the distance a group of people sitting in the park. It looked like they had a kids birthday party. Right away the thought popped up “You can’t disturb their birthday party, that is rude, you are a stranger!”. I pushed the thought aside and just kept heading into their direction. Having two cute babies definitely makes it easy to get in a conversation with people. So as I arrived we started having a small talk.
It turned out it was a family birthday party that was already over. Left were a young mother, my age (27), with her 4 kids (one of them was the birthday kid), her mom, her grandma and her sister plus her kids. After a while we came to the subject of church. As I told them I’m from the Dove World Outreach Center I could see on their faces that they had heard about our church and our fight against Islam. I shared with them about the church and gave my own testimony.
They were all listening carefully and seemed to be Christians. In the end I asked if one of them would like to have prayer. The young woman asked for prayer. She has 4 kids, not married and has a bad job. I asked her if she is saved. She said “No. I know if I pray today the prayer, tomorrow I will anyway mess it up again.”
I told her that this exactly why she needs to be saved, why she needs Jesus, because she can’t save herself. We all need Jesus everyday!! Being saved does not mean to pray one time the prayer and that’s it. It means you acknowledge you are lost without Jesus and you repent. Repent whenever you mess it up, everyday”. You could tell she was so hungry and ready for a change in her life. When I asked her if she would like to get saved, she said YES and we prayed together. She gave her life to Jesus!!! Today she came with her whole family to the Sunday service!! God is good!!!
And I ask myself how many more people are out there waiting for someone to tell them about the salvation power of Jesus Christ.
School started here in Gainesville, Florida. I have a young friend going back to High School and I shall be praying for her to stand strong as a Christian. During the summer Emily and I had a chance to talk about life in the schools and the lifestyles most teenagers lead. When I was in High School, in the 70s, many teenagers were sleeping around and did not care about the consequences. It took a strong faith in Christ and fear of God and His Word to resist temptation and save myself for my wedding night, which I did and have a blessed marriage of 28 years because of that decision. But today the pressure is much greater.
Emily is an outgoing friendly girl, and talks to a lot of people. She told me that in all of her acquaintances and friends she has met in the schools she has attended, she knows of only three girls, including herself, who have not been sleeping with boyfriends since Middle School. The other girls who have kept themselves from fornication are extremely shy and awkward socially. This is the world we live in today. So much freedom and open acceptance of this lifestyle starting so young! But a radical teenager standing for the truth and God’s Word, and living it, has an amazing testimony and witness. Emily will make an impact and bring many to Salvation through Christ.
We need to pray for and encourage the next generation. The world is changing fast and we all need to stay in the fight for God’s truth, which never changes.
