Testimonies

"I was a 20-year-old man from Western Canada and although I had an exceptional childhood I got involved with drugs and the music scene to the point where I had multiple drug addictions, anxiety disorders, fear, and uncertainty. My health was failing and I was down to almost 100 pounds. I looked at my life and saw no hope, no future..only darkness .  I sought God in all the churches in my area and although I found well meaning people I found no power to change my life, deliver me from addictions, and remove the constant fear and anxiety. One day I prayed to God and said I don’t know who has the truth. I don’t know where to find you even though I had attended every church  available. I told him “only you can show me the truth” I am out of choices . One day I was at my Cousins business, a lumber mill, and as I had a part time job there knew everybody except one man. The guys I worked with called him the preacher. It was a sunny summer day and I ate lunch outside, saw the man..and went over to speak with him. I offered him a cigarette just to be friendly and he said to me…oh thank you, but God delivered me from that along time ago. Then he said a sentence that I will never forget..he said..”but I have something for you” He said a preacher in the eastern united states was awakened from a deep sleep and God had spoken to him about a young man named Rod who was dying and who would do a work for him in the days to come. I knew instantly that was me. He told me what I had prayed for and he said..all you need to do is be Born Again..born of the water and the spirit. The second he said that..a wave of warmth flooded over my body and I felt so free that It almost made me dizzy.  . All my addictions vanished instantly..as did my anxiety, sorrow and uncertainty. What was left was peace and Joy and quietness in my soul. He laughed and said.. just one scripture Mark 16:20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. The Lord had shown me and confirmed the truth.  Shortly after I was baptized and received the holy spirit  and power ,with the evidence of speaking in tongues.  From that moment on the lord ministered to me through the holy spirit and the word of God. That was 40 years ago. Since that time God has used me to establish over 30 churches ; to preach the same gospel that healed  and delivered me from all my trouble and destructions. As Jesus said..you MUST be born again.  Best of all, I have a totally personal walk with my Lord..he is no longer hidden from me. " 

 "I am a young woman who used to have no place to rest in my mind heart and soul.  I was beaten down and broken.  There was no place for me.  I grew up depressed, often suicidal and cutting myself.  Even back then, the Lord was my friend.  I trusted him to heal me, so I waited for that day he would. I tried to seek help from churches, family, friends, councilors, but no one was able to help me. The Lord once told me that HE is the one that would heal the broken-hearted and strip me of all the fear and oppression I was in.  One day I was at the end of my rope, when the Lord led me online.  There waited a man who the Lord told him there would be a girl.  When I met this man, I didn’t even need to tell him what condition I was in, he knew what I needed to hear because God told him.  What he ministered to me was of the born again experience…being born of water and of spirit.  It wasn’t until I heard this that the POWER of God moved in for me.  After I got off the phone with this man, I went to talk to God.  I told him I wanted to be filled with his Spirit. I had been baptized, all I needed was to be born of the Spirit.  At that exact moment, I was filled and began to speak in tongues.  At that exact moment, God healed me of everything  just like he promised.  I was no longer broken, but whole.  I was no longer afraid and depressed, but full of the love, peace and joy of the Lord that only comes from being infilled with the Holy Spirit. It has been fifteen years or so, and none of the old stuff ever comes back.  I live every day in peace and joy and I know God intimately and personally as he knows me intimately and personally.  If you would like to see a video/song/poem I made of my testimony, it will be posted here. And just as he did this for me, he can and will do it for anyone who wants it." 

 "I once was confused with turmoil, and no peace.  Now I’m at rest and have clear mind.  I was a cast off and bruised in spirit.    I had tried everything this world could possibly offer including  church and bible studies, NOTHING brought peace until the message of the born again experience was brought to me in fullness and power.  This was the part that was missing for years, no power from Holy Spirit to bring deliverance and lasting results.  Now I know God personally.  Who he is , what he does for me.      God had waited for me for several years .  I know this.  I came to him and now believe all he says is true.  I’m no longer a cast off, I am that royal priesthood.   The fullness of the Lord came to me through the indwelling power of the holy spirit.   The Lord leads me daily now, and I have had MANY miracles in my life through the power of his word and the holy spirit .  It is a daily leading.  I have learned to quiet my spirit and listen.   According to Psalm 46:10.  Be still and know that I am God.   When I quiet my heart before the Lord and really seek him diligently , he will hear and answer.  That is a promise.   And not to look back or ahead and stay in step with him through the power of the holy spirit.  The Lord will do this same thing for anyone seeking and who is willing to trust him at his word." 

 "It was 1993 and I would pick up the bible in the back room of a trailer I lived in and didn’t understand anything so I would put it back down and go on my way. This happened two times in a week. Then the third time something came over me. Wow, did something come over me. I had to go down and look at that Bible again so I picked it up and opened it and the first verse said I had to be baptized to be saved (Mark 16:16). I went right away to Mom’s house to ask her if us kids had been baptized before. She said she left it up to us kids to decide when we were older. When I got back home, I said to the Lord, “I know You’re here with me. I know the church’s around here are not right. If you’re calling me, I want a phone call within 1/2 hour, then I’ll know where to go and it will be right.” So I sat down and waited. About 10 minutes later the phone rang and it was Duane who I hadn’t seen in two years. He owned a tackle and shoe shop I used to go and look at once in a while. Duane said he was going though his roller dex and found my name so he called me to ask me how I was doing. I said, “Great. I just prayed that the Lord would have a man call me because I want to be baptized.” He asked me if i wanted to go to some meetings of his church. I said, “No I want to be baptized tonight. I will rent a motel with a swimming pool in spokane today and tell you where I am.” I knew that if I died tonight without being saved (baptized), I wouldn’t make it into the kingdom of God. So i did not waste any time. Duane baptized me right there in the hotel swimming pool. After I was baptized, Duane invited me to those meetings. At first, I said no because it was 75 miles away from home, but as soon as I went I could not get enough of it. The Lord wanted me rooted and grounded in Him so I went to those meetings 3 times a week for 3 years. It really rooted me into the Lord and made me strong. Another thing that made me so strong was tongues. I received tongues a couple months after being baptized. At first it started out as mumbling funny words that I didn’t know what they were. Then I found out they were tongues so I started praying in tongues all the time. And my dear brother Duane made it all possible for me to be rooted and grounded into the Lord because he obeyed the Lord and phoned me. I have a wife now whose name is Jonna and that is how it all began for me. We are all living the book of Acts."

“I was born into this world as Jesus was at first, with limited understanding of the natural ways of the people, places and things that could even encapsulate what my life could ever become. It was through the Lord, the Holy Spirit and the infilling of water baptism that I became the man that he needed me to be. It was not knowledge or wisdom that shored me away from the rocky shoals of temptation, evil or ignorance; it was Love. The love of the Lord with his endless mercy, compassion and tenderheartedness is what has shown me the way in my life. My faith in that love and his everlasting promise of peace, strength and overcoming has proved day by day, that no matter the force gale wind of lies, emotion, natural people or irritation, it’s all just a lot of hot air in comparison to what the Lord is capable of. I had experienced many unusual things in my life, as the enemy had puffed hot air in my face, but the love of the lord burnt hotter and my faith it’s weapon to defeat any trial or tribulation that had attempted to befall me. To be honest, I have more blessings and more examples and instances of the Lord’s wonderful works within me and in my life that I would not have the time or ability to quantify, but one stands out. No matter where you are in this world, no matter what has happened to you before you were saved, nor does it matter what attempts to dissuade you after. What matters is the love, and the eternal strength and commitment that the Lord brings to You! “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want” are not mere words, they ARE the entire story. His Story. It is the story I have lived, I am living and will never stray from in this world. His love is my strength, and my Shepherd will guide me from ALL thorns and false promises. His love is the Ultimate Gift. It is the only reason for my existence. I am endeared to seek more!”