2 corinthians 12:9-10
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. ” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
I have the immense privilege to cover this masterpiece, and the Holy Spirit guided me to remember how he took me from darkness to bring me back to Light 🔥
I am nothing without his grace
I am nothing without the Holy Spirit🔥
Testimony:
I will also like, as i feel led to do it, to leave my testimony here. One of the most life changing experience i’ve lived.
I was born in a christian family, i grew up with all the christian’s values, christian’s rules, laws, everything about how to be a good christian to one day have eternal life and be with Jesus forever. I have heard stories about this Jesus, but never knew him, i heard songs, sermons, lots of testimonies, and attended a hundreds or more meetings. I heard about Jesus, but never knew him.
Throughout the years, because i never knew him, i never thought that even if i go astray from him, he’ll still be with me, he’ll still be waiting for me to experience him. I let the world teach me what life is, led by peer pressure i thought that my identity was found in the world, wandering to seek who i really was, what’s my purpose! I have looked everywhere in everything, and i really mean everything!!, i never found someone nor something to satisfy my soul, to fill that void. Years went by, and i was gradually losing my faith, even questioning if Jesus really exist. Around the age of 19, 20 years old, i was studying Diploma in Tourism Management, traveling, partying, at that time, i was into sex, immorality, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and the list goes on. I thought that these things can give me an identity, i thought that i can feed my starving soul with these. You can even asked yourself how can a grown up “christian” young adult goes that much astray from Jesus’s presence and love. I was lost.
I met friends, i met chemical drugs and then came that day.
What i am about to tell you, may seems to some people like a movie or some stories only kept in books. But this happened, i met death.
On a friday night, around 11 p.m, i was working at that time at a hotel as an intern. I was about to finish my night shift, and my friend at that time, asked me if i would to take some stuffs (chemical drugs) just for the sake of staying high for the night. I agreed! We went on, on the moment, it never happened before, my friend started convulsing in front of my eyes, i heard stories of people before me, young lads who died with heart attack, overdose, but i was too much into it, and the devil was controlling my life. That did not refrain me, i took mine, and suddenly! I lost contact with reality. It was not illusion, was not some kind of dream or trance, i litterally died. My friend told me later that my heart stopped for around 10 to 15 minutes. In that moment, i remember seeing things i cannot describe with my words, but i’ll try, my soul was flying, how do i know it was my soul, believe me in the unseen world, the spirit world, you know, you always know. I was flying around, and at some point, i was trapped in a loophole, black loophole, and i knew that my soul was going to hell, how do i know it was hell, it was not because i was a christian since birth, and i heard about heaven or hell, but i knew, i knew hell was waiting for me. I even felt two entities, and i also knew on the moment, it was the devil and Jesus. I knew! Satan was laughing, and i heard his voice loud, really loud, he was mocking me, “you see where all these got you, you see no one else is there with you…” In that moment, everytime i talked about this, i said that, i was not thinking about my family, my friends, my years being a christian, my bible verses i learnt by heart, i only had that thought to cry for Jesus, i asked him to forgive me and help me. All this time, i knew Jesus was there, i remember as if he was standing there, waiting. It was as if it last for an hour, when in reality, in the real world it was much less. Then! I saw Jesus hands, i knew it was him, his hands took me from there, he saved me. I opened my eyes, and i saw my friend crying, panicking, but i knew that Jesus saved me, he ressurected me.
From that day, i fell a hundred times, but Jesus’s love brought me back a thousand times. He leads me from glory to glory. I am here writing this testimony only by his grace. I am nothing without the Holy spirit! If you are out there struggling with any kind of weight, depression, anxiety, drugs addiction, fear, sickness, any sort of worldly burden, i have good news for you, Jesus paid it all! By his grace we are sons and daughters of the Living God! Today i am married to the best wife, serving the Lord and fulfilling the will of God.