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  1. Deborah Silas
    27 June 2012 @ 11:50 am

    Yes, I was that person. I grew up in a Christian family, actually, my father is a minister of the gospel. But I made many wrong choices like fornication, abortion, fraud. and many other things. Including denying the Saviour. My parents prayed, spoke and engaged other people to speak to me, but i wouldn’t listen. Until one day, while I was lying in my boy friend’s room, He,(Jehovah Tsidkenu) came and spoke these tender words to me: “Trust Me.” To cut the long story short, Jehovah Tsidkenu has now become my everything, and I won’t let go until I behold His face. Amen

    • rcottrill
      27 June 2012 @ 12:55 pm

      Thank you for your testimony. The Lord is certainly working in your life. And here’s a couple of things to think about. The first thing that comes to mind is Paul’s testimony: “This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 3:13-14).

      Paul mentions a number of times some of the terrible things he’d done in the past, filled with hatred toward the Lord Jesus: taking Christians prisoner and even committing them to be executed. He could never “forget” that in the sense of having amnesia about it. But he means he was putting his focus on the future, not the past. That’s important for you as well.

      Second, the motto of the great nineteenth century preacher Charles Spurgeon was “I both hold and am held.” It’s a wonderful thing that you hold on to God, and “won’t let go.” But even more wonderful (in part, simply because He’s stronger than we are, and can hold on tighter!) is that the Lord holds tightly on to us! Each Christian is held by both the Father and the Son (Jn. 10:28-29), a double clasp, and absolutely nothing is able to separate us from the love of Christ (Rom. 8:35-39).

      God bless you as you seek to live for the Lord.