I am 28 years old. I was blessed to have come to know the Lord Jesus at the age of five. It was through the teaching of my parents that I came to know Christ and began to grow in my faith. I was blessed to be a part of a Christian school where their motto was “training in righteousness.” I was baptized in May 1997 in the Jordan River during a college trip to Israel. Based on the presence and conviction of the Holy Spirit living inside of me, and based on Eph. 2:8-9 and other related passages in Scripture, I have full assurance of my salvation in Christ.
Despite having known the Lord, I struggled with habitual sin for many years. Praise the Lord that I used to be in shackles to pornography and other forms of sexual impurity, but I am now set free by the precious blood of Christ. I tried ending the habitual aspect of this sin on my own for three years, but then on August 2, 2000, after crying out to God on my knees for deliverance and confessing that I couldn’t do it on my own, I was then freed of the BONDAGE to sexual impurity.
The struggles lingered, however, with many battles–some of them were intense all the way through 2006. I would win many by the grace of God, but I would also lose some battles. God personally convicted me of certain music I was listening to that I needed to throw away.
The Holy Spirit also showed me that I had to stop browsing websites that only gave the enemy an ‘open door’ into my life. Although the sites were not pornographic, they still appealed to the flesh. Since I have “radically amputated” these, I have had incredible victory in my thought life, and the Lord is enabling me to take captive each thought –to make it obedient to Christ (2 Cor. 10:5), is enabling me to cancel out every impure thought via the cross of Christ and is enabling me to be victorious over the enemy on a regular daily basis now! Praise the Lord! In addition, there were other forms of demonic oppression in my life, but the Lord has healed, delivered, and set me free of that as well and I am walking in freedom by His grace.
I also want to mention that though I used to be extremely shy and had this social problem of fearing people, I am now on the radio doing what I never imagined doing, and doing what I didn’t want to do initially–and that is hosting a talk show! It is a Christian program where the Lord is using me to speak out against evil and bring the truth to light.
It is my goal now to reach out to those who struggle with addictions, demonic oppression, and ones who have been abused in some way via a radio ministry that I hope to be national and international someday. In a way the radio show I have now is worldwide as it is live on the internet each week. Praise the Lord, and I couldn’t have made it this far without Him!
to god be the glory! i would like to know what the name of your radio show , and which state you broadcast from. i would to hear how god uses you on the radio. praise god.
justin
Hi , I didnt catch your name. I am commenting on your story, so as to be a little extra light for you. I am twice as old as you, have been born again 26 years this October. I get a bit confused when some says that they have come to know the Lord at a very young age.
Now, please understand that I am not trying to contradict your storie or belief. Learning about God and Jesus and all that comes with it is one thing, but the main thing about a person to fulfilment is to be born again. One should be aware of whether they are born again or not. Imagine a baby just born. Do you think that a baby just born notices any difference on the outside from where he was just minutes ago in its mothers womb.
For you sake I am goimg through this bit of wxplanation because as you wrote there was no indication that you are born again. If I am wrong, I sincerely apologise, but I am only going on your story.
And this is a good oportunity to bring to notice to othewrs that they are not sure if they are or not Born Again. Many are tricked into beleiving that they are born again just because someother person laid their hands on them and told them that they are born again, and go through lifebelieving that they are BUT they are not.
The same goes for people who repeat the prayer of salvation on some christian show or other programs adn they are told that now since they said this prayer, they are born again.
Beware a very demonic way of tricking individuals into a false system so called church.
One must understand that if there is a spiritual change in a person, that person MUST feel his spirit changing, same as the baby feeling his surroundings outside from where he was before he was born.
I hope and pray that you get my message, you and whoever reads this comment.
I pray the Lord to bless you and keep you, and to put a lamp onto your feet and a light onto your way. In the name of Jesus.
Wow,Praise God!! Im 25 yrs old and just got saved July 2006 and got babtized and married Sept. of 06. I come from a real strong background and suffered drug and alcohol addiction, deppresion, anger problems(out of control), had abortions, was into witchcraft, you name it. BUT God had mercy on me and transformed me. Theres only one problem….Im bieng tormented by demons while I sleep. Can u explain this?
I have had that experience myself as well. What has helped me is praying a covering and protection before I go to sleep, and pleading the blood of Christ. I would also mention too that sometimes there is something that might give the enemy “permission” to interfere in someone’s sleep. For example, I know someone who had a CD–a rock music CD under her bed—or several CD’s with sexual theme lyrics. She found out that the reason why she was being assaulted in her sleep was because of these CD’s. When she got rid of it, the dreams stopped. I know it’s meen my experience that if I have things belonging to the enemy, even something as simple as a pop/rock& secular CD, this gives the enemy the “legal right” to attack in various ways. Hope this helps!
God Bless!
Joe
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