Hello to all .......
.......and after two weeks trying to work out what is going on here I think I have it.. possibly... and if I have sorted it out, then I think I am welcome to post here with my little story.
I have never been a JW, but looking back I thank God that something stopped me, because I came real close.
In 1993 my life was at rock bottom, ... girl friend had left me for another man, taken our son and disappeared.... no job.. no where to live (literally).... and various adictions, mainly gambling and drink... (ohh that's part of the reason she left, although many have said that I did more around the house than this girl I was with.. )anyway I digress.
At this time I had few friends, but one that I could always turn to was Carol. She was bubbly lady, divorced, teenage child, lots of 'stuff' going on, but what a laugh.
Now Carol was 'studying', and now and then I would arrive in the middle or just before a meeting. I actually stopped and listened twice, but none of what was being taught went in, it all seemed wrong.
I should say that she had been sttudying for a long time, a very long time and I'll give credit where credit is due.. this elder that was coming to see her had some staying power...lol
On the 16th May everything came to a head for me, and through a set of circumstances that you can read on our web site.. (full testimony) I ended up in an Elim Penticostal church.
Well this boy freaked out.. I mean I was brought up in a Church of England.. do as your told, everything in the proper place ....sort of church..... folks falling over and talking in these weird tongues just wasn't on.... only one thing for it......... RUN!
Not run home.. run to Carol... after all if God had just shouted at me, and I was supposed to respond.. better go to the only person I knew that would talk to me about God... Carol.. my JW friend.!!!
Well, I came through her front door, then I knocked.. then she tried to calm me down and after a good few minutes we started to chat...
Now Carol should have oviously told me that the Penti church was not of the Lord.. but thats not what she said.. what she said will stay with me for eternity..
"Sammy, do you think you have heard from God tonight"? She never was one to mess with words...
"Yes,... erm No.." I answered, "I mean I don't think Carol, I know, and I MEAN I know!"
"Well then, you had better go for it then, hadn't you?"
The next day, again through some weird circumstances, I gave my life to Jesus. What ya might call a 'crash, bang wallop conversion'.
Within a week God had spoken to me through a brother and shown me that Carol had been used by Him to get me to accept the Lord as my personal saviour.
The Lords words to me one night were quite simple, "don't you ever, ever be a door slammer! Go and learn all there is to learn, don't stop.. .and always be there to listen to these people, then give them My truth, but above all, don't ever slam a door in the face of a JW!!"
Thats why I am here, not because I used to once be part of the Watch Tower, but because with my dieing breath I will work to save those in this cult.
God bless all here, it has given me so, so much faith to carry on, reading how many have found grace and truth, (taking a second to thank the Lord right now.........)
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In Him
Sammy
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