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." 

 "I grew up in a religious home and therefore viewed God in a very sterile, two-dimensional way for most of my life. Being around religious talk and hearing buzz words like 'walking in power' all the time; I was intrigued but had no idea what it meant. I also worked in a church for a pastor who had no love for his congregation; only programs and good numbers, so his preaching was filled with empty words. I struggled with all of these things because what I was reading in the Bible was not lived out by the religious people around me. Soon after, I moved to Canada where I specifically prayed for God to send me someone who could teach me how I could get closer to God and show me his power. A month after I moved, my prayers were answered. I met a man on a car ride one day, who began to tell me of great experiences he had had with God, and times where he actually lived out sections of scripture. He spoke right into the core of my heart, and I could literally FEEL the sweetness and power of the Holy Spirit as he spoke. For the first time, I could see that what I had learned from the Bible was real and I could experience it for myself. I was taught very simply how I could have an absolutely intimate relationship with God through the Holy Spirit – that he was not a far off, but very, very close. I began to experience miracles and visitations from God and could see how his power would help me overcome every obstacle or hardship I faced – every time. That was over seven years ago and it's as true now as it was that first day in the car ride home. I am so thankful that God loved me enough to show me the real story and I look forward each day to what he's doing next!" 

 "Even though I had accepted Jesus as my savior many years ago I had little personal experience with him and little knowledge of him and his word. I just found religion and the church world confusing as little understanding and teaching was given. I sought out many churches to find Gods great power of peace and Love but I could not find it.  I found some very nice Christian people but also many who were critical, judgmental and even mean spirited. The whole “church” experience left me cold and I remained thirsty and empty.
 One day I had had enough and I went and sat in my little room and with tears cried out to the Lord to help me and guide me and reveal himself to me. I was tired of the religious church world that offered me little and only provided activities and a social atmosphere.  I wanted  more…a personal and REAL relationship with him…so I just sat and prayed night and day for change and guidance. A year later the Lord brought a man to me and he immediately began to teach me about the Born Again experience  and the changes  and the promises of God that would come. As he spoke I instantly felt a refreshing in my soul and the power of God visiting me.  Following this encounter the Lord gave me dreams and visions to confirm that what this man was saying was true. One night  I woke up with a great stirring in my soul and even to this day am not sure whether I was awake or asleep. I felt a great flooding of warmth fill my being and the air was charged with what I will call electricity. I saw a vision of a great white cloth washing my tongue and being followed by my tongue wanting to speak some words that I had never heard before. I soon realized that God was filling me with the Holy spirit and I began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them to me. I have to say that I had heard of tongues before and was actually afraid of them. That night however , the peace and power of god overshadowed all that fear and I received this wonderful gift.  Fifteen years have now past and I have remained full of the power of God and the Love, peace, and Joy received that special night. There is no wondering or confusion and all my childhood pain and anxiety is nowhere to be found. Everyday now I just wait on my Lord and rejoice and am thankful for what he has done and is doing for me. I now am whole and complete in Him and I delight in waiting to see how the Holy spirit will lead me or what He will teach me next." 

 "I grew up always knowing that there was something more to being a Christian then what I had been taught, but I didn’t really know what was missing. There had to be more than just going to church, learning Bible verses and then, when I felt especially guilty about something, rededicating my life to God. It was an endless cycle. I searched for years, asking this person and that person, reading this book and that book, and even going so far as to study theology when I went to school. I thought that I would get closer to God when I went to school…but ended up more frustrated, confused and lost.I felt that connecting with God was a hit and miss venture and I found no real direction from any of the churches that I attended. I thought that I was doing something wrong; it must have been my fault that I couldn’t find or feel the power of God that the Bible talked about…One day, a friend met a man who told her about real salvation that happens through the power of the Holy Spirit.  As soon as my friend got home, she called me. Later, I met this man too and in my conversation with him, he explained the process to me that is in Acts 2: 38, when Peter told the crowd: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” A light bulb went on over my head. This was the something MORE, the whole time I had been missing the POWER of the Holy Spirit. Complete peace and joy flooded my heart and I felt a true connection with God and finally felt whole.  I felt such a rush of love from God and for God; I had found a home.Since that day, I have experienced such love and peace in my everyday life. I am no longer directionless but I move with a greater purpose; I now have a deep and powerful and real relationship with God. The very thing that I was missing for all those years…" 

 "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."