Thank you for sharing that amazing testimony. I love your transparency. Welcome to our family were we increasingly rest in God's grace not only for our justification but like you said for our sanctification :)

Wow, thank you for sharing, sister! New sub here!

+Petra Renatus Praise the LORD great video, sister Petra. God bless. Agape love

I love you sister. Good job

I too am very lazy. Lol So when my mom explained to me that it's all grace and not works I thought "well that's good because I know I can't do any of that, God's just going to have to take me as I am". Thank God that it was easy to believe that because so many have been beaten over the head with works. I tried going to church a couple of years ago and nobody would talk to me. I couldn't believe it, I thought I would find fellowship there. But it all worked out because they were calvanist and I didn't know it. I have always sought out acceptance from others, it hurts and it's confusing when I am rejected. It's so wonderful knowing that we are fully accepted in Christ and will never be rejected. Thank you for your transparency!

@petrarenatus1464

2 жыл бұрын

Churches can be very painful places. When it comes to God, laziness is an advantage! 😄

Thanks for sharing your testimony Petra. I know this was 3 years ago but you have blessed me this morning. God is so faithful and good to us. He leads us to Him through all the valleys of life until we rest in His green pasture. It is an amazing place of rest, nourishment and peace. Praying God will bless you and strengthen you today.

Thank you for sharing! What an awesome testimony🙏🙌💙💚🌈👑

Thanks for sharing i understand rejection to. I also went through pentacostal for 2 years. Everyone was speaking in tongues but me. I felt the same. Never fit in this world and glad to find out we are not of this world. Praise Jesus!

Thank you for sharing your testimony sister, you have had a rough walk through the legalism. It’s always rough (your story is heartbreaking) but you are a real blessing. God has really worked discernment into your spirit and I’ve been blessed and guarded by your videos and I’ve learned some good doctrine! Thank you my sister in God!

His grace is enough 😷

You were on a journey & found GRACE.. The LORD BLESS & KEEP YOU..

thank you for your testimony all can say is PRAISE JESUS HE ALLWAYS HELPS US, I really like David he has helped me . love you sister, Heather

Thank you for sharing sister!❤💕 God bless you!!!

Thank you sis for sharing your testimony ❤️. I got caught up in the Assemblies of God crew in college and other Pentecostal churches that pushed tongues as the primary evidence of being baptized in the Holy Spirit. I remember praying so hard for the gift of tongues after having hands laid on me. It didn't happen for so long. But it was unfortunate that the focus was placed so much on the supernatural, and I spent most of my Christian walk chasing the supernatural experiences. Wanting so badly to have these outward expressions of the gifts of the spirit. It seemed if you didn't heal thr sick or raise the dead, or get out into the mission field attempting all that, you weren't doing following Jesus right. It really put so much demand on me and I felt helpless. Until I was told by the Spirit to just REST. Lol, what a relief to hear that! I'm the lazy type so I was getting so stressed with this Christian walk. I thank God now more than ever for the Grace of God.🙌🏾😊 Love you sis and I pray to hear more from you and that your channel grows.🙏🏾

@petrarenatus1464

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the people that have the gifts often don't realise the pressure they are putting on people to be the same as them. The gifts are good, but they definitely should not be put above simply resting and growing in grace and understanding our identity in Christ.

I’m glad you’re making videos! Someone else good to listen to! I’ve never even been around people who have those spiritual gifts, except the people on KZread that I listen to who say they have them. It’s definitely possible to live a Christian life without them! All the good, faithful, grace believing believers I know don’t have them either. A good relationship with Jesus is what is important to me. And He accepts me without ever even thinking of asking for those things.

David Benjamin told his viewers about you and I can see why! Thank you for sharing your testimony with all of us. Praise Jesus we have been saved and set free by His grace. I have been to many churches and there is so much legalism and mixture of grace and works. I never understood what was wrong, but I knew something was not right. The Holy Spirit will guide us to the truth. I know this because our flesh would have given up after all of our church and religious experiences. I too, heard Renee and Ultimate Mordecai and finally heard the truth of God's word. Now I fellowship with many grace believers here on Utube and feel more connected then I ever did in the "church".

Great testimony! I sometimes think that my own laziness has kept me safe from too much of a legalism. I know what it feels like to feel rejected and humiliated in the church camp, lol, with no aparent reason whatsoever. And I too am one of those christians without any supernatural gifts, but I do think it’s not without a reason, maybe our gift is faith without seeing? So here you go - 2 gifts, a saving bit of laziness and faith without seeing. 😉

@petrarenatus1464

5 жыл бұрын

Yes I think Jesus will reward those who believe without any supernatural experiences. And laziness is not all bad!

I enjoyed your testimony and how honest and real you are. thank you for letting us into your life. God bless you!

Im so glad those bad feelings have left you now, your right everyone does have everything they need as long as they have the correct gospel! David is an amazing teacher, ive learned so much from him. Thank you sister for sharing your testimony.

You are a beautiful soul!

💙💜💚❤

Ya I love Renee the first time I ever heard the real Gospel of Grace was from her , I didn't receive it yet but it intrigued me so much that I started researching it and stumbled across Hank Lindstrom then Yankee and received it from them Praise God 🙌. The Lord used Renee mightily a lot of people got saved or released from legalism through her it's an amazing thing to have witnessed. Great testimony Petra , I love testimony videos , I find it so interesting how Believers came to know Grace. I'm thinking about making a testimony video myself 🤔🤔 hmmm maybe . Thanks Petra

Hi Petra! I was very moved by your testimony. I think we can all relate to the struggles in our Christian walk. it's funny, I have the gift of tongues, but am always praying for dreams and visions! Lol! our Father knows what we need and how to use us. Love you, sister

What a beautiful testimony sister Petra. My testimony is similar to yours except I came from a large family of 10. However, even so you can be around many people and still feel like you are alone. Thankfully, our precious Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has a way of taking all of our life experiences and bringing them unto Himself so that we can understand the pure undeniable LOVE that He has towards us. So happy that we are seated in heavenly places with our Lord. You are in Him and He is in you. You are a blessing. ❤

You have such a powerful testimony and great insight. I'm so glad you mentioned Motivating U2Win (sister Sharon). She is so dangerous. I use to listen to her until I realized she teaches lordship salvation and preaches against eternal security. God bless you sister!

I have much to say about your journey and similar to mine and would need to make a very long video of my journey. Especially seeking salvation one

Oh Sister Petra! By the grace of God, I have found your channel! My journey is similar to yours in many ways... I too, thank God for Sister Renee Roland! Why, I had NEVER heard anyone explain grace the way she did! And I knew it was of God bc for the first time, I felt free! And not free, like I wanted to go sin but free to love and live for Christ!! Awww, thank you for this testimony! God bless you and yours!🙏

@petrarenatus1464

4 жыл бұрын

You're not alone!

I'm so glad that you got set free from being hurt by not having tongues. I went to one church that taught that if you didn't have tongues you weren't saved. There were people that tried and tried to get tongues and to no avail. I felt so bad for them because I knew it was wrong. I left that church not very long after I heard them teach that. I could only imagine the fear and rejection those people must have felt.

I'm sorry you had to go through that, Petra! I never received tongues either and it got me worried and confused for a while because people would say that you just pray for it and God gives it to you. I relate to being a bit lazy too, never liked doing any sort of work, but I think in the end all my shortcomings led me to grace! Praise God!

I was just about to ask if you had found Renée she is so incredible, so happy for you I can relate to your experience somewhat. Blessings for your future!

Awesome video! I never spoke in tongues either. The way I see it is that Truth is a foreign language to the world. It sounds gibberish to the natural man. I loved it when u told your mother that you thought bible stories were fairy tales! The exact scenario happened to me with my 2nd son. He said mom, this whole time (up til like 8 or 9), I thought u were just telling me fairy tale stories! Lol aye yi yi!

@CharleneFreedInChrist

4 жыл бұрын

P.s. when I first joined youtube, I was bombarded with videos from people like finalcall, etc. Whats up with that youtube??

thanks Sister for sharing your Testimony Sister Please Keep the videos going No rejection hear Just Love From the you Tube Family to you Sister. Are you from Australia i Know Colleen Minter is and is a wonderful Sister in Christ. Your Right About tongues, anyway he gives us other gifts could be teaching, hospatatily etc. Well Done Sister you doing a splendid job with the videos and I love you in Jesus precious name.

@petrarenatus1464

5 жыл бұрын

Yes I'm Australian. Thanks for the encouragement!

Your testimony is so so similar to mine in nearly every way. I started with the tongues failure too, then going to legalistic SDA church that made me feel so useless and ungodly and inferior. I gave up for a few years. I found you tube and conspirisy channels that led me down a rabbit hole, then I watched some you tube preachers that preached sinlessness and I felt that horrible horrible spiritual depression thinking I was doomed because I smoke and I have a past I'm not proud of. Then in total despair I just cried and prayed and said how vile I still was and could God somehow lead me or help me in some way. Then I discovered some Grace teachers (Renee Roland and others) and I thought that it sounded way too easy, but gradually it started to make sense, it was the ONLY thing that made sense. I too fret about not having any gifts, zip, zero that I'm aware of, only thing I have a lot of is empathy for the underdog and animals. I too am lazy, and I feel bad because some folks seem to "get it" right away and can't stop reading the Bible, not me, I have tried and it just doesn't speak to me the way I think it does to others. I find reading it a chore even though I pray for understanding and a love for it. I listen to the Bible all night while I sleep and watch and listen to you tube ministries day and night, I figure I am growing slowly and looking back there has been big changes. I want to be closer to Jesus and I want to have a close relationship with him and I feel it's growing slowly. No, I haven't had any supernatural experiences or sudden awakening but I believe absolutely and I figure God works in different people in different ways. I love your honesty and humble way, your testimony really resonated with me. God Bless.

@AmberWaves-WA-State

5 жыл бұрын

God absolutely loves his children powerfully, yet also uniquely . It's probably similar to parents having different techniques for their bry different children's personalities. Like you, i never had tongues or rapture type dreams. They're not needed for every believer. Ive been saved, by grace from young childhood. I have done a study where at the time of conversion each believer receives at least one gift from the Holy Spirit to be an ear or arm or hair of the body of Christ. Is there anything that feels natural or passionate to you? Like..do you like to encourage or extend hospitality? Teach, serve? I think when churches were smaller there was more opportunity to try out roles. Might be tough these days. Maybe Google spiritual gift articles and ask for discernment. But I know you are valuable to other believers! You became part of ther body. Hopefully you can be led to which role seems to be a good fit!

@AmberWaves-WA-State

5 жыл бұрын

And empathy is a very needed quality ! There's so little of it and if it's a natural part of you, that is huge! Love big!

@petrarenatus1464

5 жыл бұрын

That's right, grace is the only thing that makes sense! I don't believe it because I want to, I believe it because it's the only possible way for any of us to be saved and the Holy Spirit confirms it as truth in my spirit and in the Word. I never thought I had a testimony because of my failures but now I realise it just wasn't finished yet. We don't all have the same journey but hopefully we end up arriving at the same place - grace.

@oldonetwoable

5 жыл бұрын

@@AmberWaves-WA-State thinking about it, I'm the sort of person that would feel sad for someone sitting alone at church or in any group really, I'd make a point of being friendly as I know only too well how it feels to be rejected, lonely or awkward, maybe my gift is to understand what others are feeling and try to help them not be so sad. Who knows, I'm just a homebody that doesn't have many friends but I'm content with that now days, I actually enjoy being home with my thoughts.

@oldonetwoable

5 жыл бұрын

@@petrarenatus1464 bravo, well said

Thank you so much for your testimony 💜. I have been led to this channel. I have thoroughly exhausted myself in striving. This was very very helpful. I've been missing the whole Gospel. It's time to rest and let Him who began a good work in me complete it! Thank you 😊

@petrarenatus1464

4 жыл бұрын

So glad to hear it! That's what most of my videos are about. I pray you will set free and able to rest in Jesus!

@saramiller259

4 жыл бұрын

@@petrarenatus1464 I appreciate your prayers very much. I too will keep you in prayer and your channel 🙏

Hello, Petra Renatus! Thank you for all your preparation and time in sharing what God has done in your life and walk with Him. Praise God that you are His, covered in His robe of righteousness, secure and at rest! Every experience is good, because it teaches us and brings us closer to Him. You've probably been through all the Scriptures regarding tongues, but as an encouragement and reminder, here is a passage of comfort for all who have desired the gift of tongues, but have not received it... 1 Cor. 12: 29-30... “Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers? Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?“ These are rhetorical questions that expect the answer, “No, of course not!” Paul makes it clear that not everyone has this gift, and that you are needed in the body of Christ for all the gifts that you HAVE BEEN given. Be blessed! You lack nothing.

@petrarenatus1464

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joan!

@joanmartin2564

5 жыл бұрын

@@petrarenatus1464 Btw, I also have prayed for decades to receive tongues, and it has never happened. And I truly believe it is real and is a gift, so it's not my unbelief getting in the way. It's just not a gift for me, for now. And I'm good with that... and I'm glad you've reached that point, too. ❤

Thank you for sharing your testimony! It made me want to jump into your story and give you a great big ((hug))! I'm so glad you found this community, that celebrates the grace that you always knew your Father gave us through faith in Jesus. I am happily subscribing, and look forward to hearing more of your thoughts on scripture. Love in Christ!

@petrarenatus1464

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the virtual hug!

Thank you for sharing, I also prayed for years and years for the gift of tongues. The Lord up to this point has said nope. I'm glad you have peace about it now, I do too. I look forward to watching more of your videos - God bless you!

@petrarenatus1464

5 жыл бұрын

There's a lot of people like us. It's good to know we're not alone.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I know that you speak for so many people. When all you hear is tongues, prayer language,, praying in the spirit, it leads many Christians to feel inadequate, not good enough or simply "not in the club of the special people. I hear it so much from Christians feeling defeated. I know people don't need to hide it, but I think it should maybe be a little more private, or somehow not said in a way that appears to others as being "elevated". I think your testimony is very touching and will be heard. God bless. ♥️🙏🙏

@petrarenatus1464

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I was able to help you with this, it can be such a barrier!

@jules8910

4 жыл бұрын

@@petrarenatus1464 Oh, thanks for your quick response. Yes, it will help alot of people, and maybe the well intended people to maybe be a little more sensitive. ♥️

Thanks for your testimony, sister! I was saved as a little girl barely in school in a small community Bible church called Minthorn Community Church that was totally grace-through-faith oriented. A couple of my Sunday School teachers had grown up with my mother, and they were excellent at teaching young children what the Bible really had to say about salvation. I do remember feeling that after going up at the altar call and giving my heart to the Lord Jesus, believing on Him and what He did by dying on the cross as a sacrificial lamb, shedding His blood to make our sins as white as snow, and rising from the dead to justify us and make us righteous before God, the Father in order to redeem us that maybe it didn't take the first time. So I did it at least a couple more times at the altar call. I guess I wanted to make sure that all my sins got caught, but finally I understood that it was done for ALL sin---past, present, as well as FUTURE sins. Lol! It wasn't until I was an adult maybe in my 40's and went to a Full Gospel Church called the Covenant Christian Church that believed in speaking in tongues that I even saw people speaking that way. I thought everyone was supposed to have it, so I tried on my own to do this. One time I couldn't stop speaking in tongues even though I tried to. I have to really get emotionally worked-up before I start, usually when I'm in prayer already, however. I, too, do not believe that speaking in tongues has anything to do with proving one is saved, and thus don't believe it is necessary for salvation. I would very much love to see more of your videos. God bless you!

@petrarenatus1464

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nancy! I never thought tongues was necessary for salvation, but thought I needed it to progress with my Christian life.

@nancyanderson6741

5 жыл бұрын

@@petrarenatus1464 I see! We found out, didn't we, that that was certainly unnecessary! Lol! It appears we're progressing just fine without speaking in tongues! David is 100% correct when you related he said having that particular gift wouldn't hold us back from our Christian development. The Holy Spirit within us and Christ as our mediator is all that is truly necessary! Halleluyah for Christ as our way, our truth, and our LIFE!

@petrarenatus1464

5 жыл бұрын

@@nancyanderson6741 Amen!

@nancyanderson6741

5 жыл бұрын

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