Well where to begin....I want to make this not too long of a story. But it should be.
When I was a bit younger I loved to go out and dance. Esspecially techno and electro parties. In a city nearby my hometown I was into an organisation which organized such parties. So you can imagine I was there quite a lot. I was living from weekend to weekend.
When I was 18 I went to a big technoparty in Amsterdam. Called Awakenings. It was November 2005.
The next day I woke up with an eardamaging which is called Tinnitus. And it influenced my whole life. In one night my whole life changed. I heard noise everywhere I went now and the doctor told me that I could not go out partying anymore. Hard sounds could make my tinnitus worse. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep and I could't do my homework. I was totally stressed out because of the noise I heard constantly.
Well I was in my last year of highschool that year. And I knew a girl in my class, Anne, she was THE christian. Before this time of my life I never really thought about Jesus. Sometimes people would tell me about Him in the streets and I would get scared because well if they where right I was going to hell. I thought I was a christian, because my mom said she was and we prayed for our food. But I was not. I had no idea what Jesus did for me.
Well when my ears where so bad Anne told me Jesus could heal me. I got mad at her for trying to give me "fake" hope. But it also intruiged me. So I began thinking about this Jesus and I began starting to ask Anne a looooooot of questions. When we would ride home with our bicycles she would tell me all about Him and I was amazed how she actually had an relationship "with this Jesus".
For school we had to visit a church. I was in a group with Anne and she suggested we would go to her church. So we went and I was totally amazed by what I saw there. People where so happy, the songs where so full of "colour" and the preacher told me such different things about jesus I could not understand. It made a big impression on me. But I did not directly choose for Jesus.
My ears where driving me insane and soon I was out of energy. I was at Anne's home because we where going to make homework together. I started crying and telling her that I did not know what to do with myself anymore. Then her mom came in and asked if she could pray for my ears. So I thought: "well it wouldn't hurt anyone and if it's true it's true and if not...so then not". So she prayed for me and in this prayer she asked me if I wanted Jesus as my Lord and Savior and she asked me to pray a prayer for it. So not knowing if Jesus was real I started thinking: "do I want to follow this God?" and I decided: "if it is true and if Jesus did what He did then I want to". So I said yes to the prayer and then and overwhelming warmth came into my body filling me from my head to my stumich. I never felt so happy...and then I just knew Jesus was real.
So after that time I went to church with one. And starting to read the bible. In June of 2006 I got baptized. Shortley after me my sister God immersed too and last year my father too.
Jesus is so awesome! Nowadays I can go out again. I still have Tinnitus but it's a lot less then it was and I am so much happier. Jesus really is the Messiah and He saved me from myself and I will be forever thankful.
Love you Yeshua, You are truely God.
When I was a bit younger I loved to go out and dance. Esspecially techno and electro parties. In a city nearby my hometown I was into an organisation which organized such parties. So you can imagine I was there quite a lot. I was living from weekend to weekend.
When I was 18 I went to a big technoparty in Amsterdam. Called Awakenings. It was November 2005.
The next day I woke up with an eardamaging which is called Tinnitus. And it influenced my whole life. In one night my whole life changed. I heard noise everywhere I went now and the doctor told me that I could not go out partying anymore. Hard sounds could make my tinnitus worse. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep and I could't do my homework. I was totally stressed out because of the noise I heard constantly.
Well I was in my last year of highschool that year. And I knew a girl in my class, Anne, she was THE christian. Before this time of my life I never really thought about Jesus. Sometimes people would tell me about Him in the streets and I would get scared because well if they where right I was going to hell. I thought I was a christian, because my mom said she was and we prayed for our food. But I was not. I had no idea what Jesus did for me.
Well when my ears where so bad Anne told me Jesus could heal me. I got mad at her for trying to give me "fake" hope. But it also intruiged me. So I began thinking about this Jesus and I began starting to ask Anne a looooooot of questions. When we would ride home with our bicycles she would tell me all about Him and I was amazed how she actually had an relationship "with this Jesus".
For school we had to visit a church. I was in a group with Anne and she suggested we would go to her church. So we went and I was totally amazed by what I saw there. People where so happy, the songs where so full of "colour" and the preacher told me such different things about jesus I could not understand. It made a big impression on me. But I did not directly choose for Jesus.
My ears where driving me insane and soon I was out of energy. I was at Anne's home because we where going to make homework together. I started crying and telling her that I did not know what to do with myself anymore. Then her mom came in and asked if she could pray for my ears. So I thought: "well it wouldn't hurt anyone and if it's true it's true and if not...so then not". So she prayed for me and in this prayer she asked me if I wanted Jesus as my Lord and Savior and she asked me to pray a prayer for it. So not knowing if Jesus was real I started thinking: "do I want to follow this God?" and I decided: "if it is true and if Jesus did what He did then I want to". So I said yes to the prayer and then and overwhelming warmth came into my body filling me from my head to my stumich. I never felt so happy...and then I just knew Jesus was real.
So after that time I went to church with one. And starting to read the bible. In June of 2006 I got baptized. Shortley after me my sister God immersed too and last year my father too.
Jesus is so awesome! Nowadays I can go out again. I still have Tinnitus but it's a lot less then it was and I am so much happier. Jesus really is the Messiah and He saved me from myself and I will be forever thankful.
Love you Yeshua, You are truely God.
