my testimony

Well it all started when I was 12. my grandfather had open heart surgery and we had not been going to church very often like we should have been, he had 5 bypasses in surgery which put a lot of stress on my family wondering what to do since he had to have surgery. Well about 3 years ago I broke my ankle December 8,2008
and i had surgery to have 2 screws put in it, but the day of my surgery my grandmother (maw maw) had to be put in the hospital on December 15,2008 which put even more stress on me because i loved her very much that so that following week on December 22,2008 she passed. Then this past summer I went to world changers in Brunswick Georgia with my youth group at church. I just thought that I was going to get get away from all my troubles back here at home but that did not happen I realized that this trip was not just get away from all my troubles at home it was to do the things that the lord wanted me to do during a worship service we had an activity with these rocks we got a rough one to start with then if we was ready to start every thing over and get every thing start with him we went up to the front and traded it in for a sooth one but come to say I still have that rock and it has a lot of sentimental value to it because i realized what god was doing for me.this year has been the worst year of my life my dad is in jail till august 9th of this year which really sucks because i wont get to see him on my b day or for the fourth of July. I have stepped up and took some of the responsibility that I was not doing and i have straightened up my attitude a little.

There are things that have happened in our lives and continue to be so which we are not able to control i.e. your broken ankle, and there are things that happen because they are results or consequences from our decisions. I believe there are two great powers in the world, good and evil, and lucky we are that good will prevail over evil. I don't know if random incidents, either good or bad, occur from the control of God or satan, but I do know that God has the ultimate decision, it means satan runs around with limited power and he can't do anything he wants, unless God allows him to do it.

God is in complete control and He allows hardship to come into our lives because He wants us to realize that we need Him, so we can call upon His name. When we submit ourselves to him it is when He will take us under his wing and protect us from all harm. It's a personal choice. God is constantly at work to save us and He does not need our prayers to help us, He knows what we need but it's important to take your time and give it to Him in prayer and in worship. When you love someone wouldn't you want to spend time with them?

My prayer goes out to you that in all your troubles, God has you under His wing and is guiding you to do His will, for His glory and your salvation. I will lift your family up in prayer also. God bless you!

thnk u very much

God bless you, Chel15. In our prayers.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”[c]
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

th lifts my hopes alot thnk u very much

well i have good news my dad got out 3 months early thnk god but hes on probation for three years or untill he has paid all his fines

chel, thank you for sharing part of your story with us.

I'll keep you in prayer, little sister. Happy to hear your good news, too!!

♥ ~ellie