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Testimonials

This page is dedicated to those of us who have gone through ‘valleys’ in our life. If you are a Christian, I’m sure you’ll know what I mean. It’s that low point in our life where we feel like we are all alone in our problem and it seems like no matter how we try, there’s no way to get out! Even though we pray, our world continues crashing down on us. But, through our faith in our Lord Jesus and persistence in prayer, we see a light at the end of the tunnel and finally stand on solid ground again. Through it, we gained closeness to Him, strengthened our faith, patience and knowledge, and are now a living testimony of what the Lord has done to anyone that will hear.

 

Our testimonies help others that are going through valleys. They will see that someone has made it through a similar situation and that there is hope in Jesus Christ. If you have a testimony that you would like to share, email it to info@royalbaptist.com.

 

 

The Lord Is In Charge

My family has never had a need for anything. My wife and I have been saved since we were teenagers and are very fortunate. We have always run a successful business, we have a few cars parked in the driveway, our home is paid for, and we usually have extra money to take nice vacations. We could always do pretty much what we wanted. We took pride in knowing that we accomplished these goals on our own. We weren’t bad people, by no means, and we never thought we were better than anyone else. Anytime we saw a family in need, we would always be the first ones to help.

 

Our son had a bad situation to happen to him at school that later led him to the Lord and he got saved. At that point, we realized that we needed to start going to church. And we did. We enjoyed it so much that we went every Sunday. Several months later, our daughter gets saved, too. Finally, we could serve the Lord as a family.

 

We became close to our church and to the Lord. We started getting involved and tried to be present every time the doors opened. We made a commitment to the Lord and prayed that He would take full control of our life, family, and our business. We wanted to serve Him.

 

Things in our life started to change. Our comfort zone began to crumble. Business slowed down, our income decreased; bills began to pile up, things around our home were breaking like our stove, dryer, and our furnace. We even had a burning smell coming from the fuse box that could’ve burned our house down if we hadn’t been at home that day.

 

We began worrying and wondering why God is allowing this to happen to us. Is this what happens when you serve Him?

 

Eventually our workload came to a complete stop and all the money in our bank account quickly started running out. All we could do is pray. Our business contacts couldn’t help us, our families couldn’t help, and we didn’t know of any one that could bail us out. We were helpless, but we kept praying. The Lord was our only hope and all we had was faith.

 

One morning, my wife was on the phone in tears telling my mother about our situation. She felt that the Lord had let us down and I was feeling the same. I was downstairs on the Internet looking for work when I received an email. It was a job! It was just enough to pay the bills that were overdue. I couldn’t wait to show her. It was a blessing!

 

Over a period of a couple of months, prayers were getting answered:

  • We discover that various people were paying some of our bills.
  • As an early Christmas present, my mother in-law buys us a new stove.
  • We get a call from our deacon that a company is coming over to repair our furnace.
  • A sweet family from church gives us a dryer.
  • The vehicle that was broken and was diagnosed with about $500 worth of damages miraculously fixes itself.
  • More jobs would come in just in time to pay our overdue bills.
  • People from church helped us through the Christmas holidays.

 

We are not completely in the ‘clear’, but the Lord is answering our prayers in His own time. Through this whole experience, we have learned that we are nothing without Him. And the things we have are because of Him. The Lord is in charge!

 

 

My Blessings

About thirty years ago my son became a Christian, and then shortly afterward I did, too. I have a message for those people who are waiting until they are ready to give themselves to God.

 

I was brought up in a fire and brimstone church. I was afraid of God. To me He was a big monster who was going to send me to Hell, no matter what I did. I use to think if I could make a list of do's and don’ts, I could win my way to Heaven. Oh, then I would hit my brother, and I had to get saved again.

 

The preacher was a good man, I know, but it was my childish understanding that made me afraid. I went to the altar when I was 12, but I did this only because my friends did it. I even got baptized, but I did not know the meaning of what I was doing. I participated in an old fashioned "foot washing”. I learned how to shout. We children had a "rock altar" and every Sunday night, we took a stone, put it on the pile. I had no idea what this was for, but I knew I wanted to get back to the church before that “Holy Spirit" (ghost) came. I hated going to church. Every time the preacher said "Someone here needs to come to this altar." I remembered the terrible things I did that day like talking back to my mama. My sister and I would run to the altar and get saved again.

 

I found out very early just how easy it is to live for the devil when you do not have God inside of you. The flesh is always in a battle with the Spirit, as most people know. But when you do not have the power of the Spirit to fight this battle, you can get yourself in deep quicksand. There is pleasure in sin for awhile. The devil shows you a beautiful picture of the world and what it has to offer.

 

The Holy Spirit can show you that you WILL go to Hell if you don't give your life and soul to Jesus. There are people who have no problem knowing there is a Heaven, but they don't believe there is a Hell. There is a Hell and a fire that will never stop burning. Can you imagine in your mind how horrible that can be? Everyone has been burned in some way - a finger on the stove, a hand on the iron, but there is no measuring the kind of pain you would experience if you go to Hell.

 

One day when my son was about 14 yrs. old, he came in from school, went straight to the restroom. When he returned, he said "Mama, do you remember when you told me how to be saved?" "Well, it has happened." I wasn't living right, so I felt very awkward. A few nights later, I was in a place I shouldn't have been. The Spirit came to me and plainly said “If you die tonight, you WILL go to Hell." I got home as soon as I could get there. I got on my knees and I begged God to forgive me. Now, I know what salvation is all about. God gave me His grace and mercy.

 

I still do things that are not acceptable, but God does not take me out of His Book of Life. He does not have a big pencil adding and erasing my name everyday.

 

Even though, I had been in church all my life, I was not saved. Mama tried to teach us what was right, but I just couldn't get it. When you feel the Holy Spirit tugging at your heart, please do not suppress it. I could have waited and if I had died that night, yes, I would have gone to Hell.

 

I was raising my son alone, but when God found me, He took over our life. We stayed in the Word, prayed earnestly, and asked forgiveness when we did wrong. God loves me and I know it way down deep in my heart.

 

I felt that there may be someone who needs to hear my testimony.

 

 

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