Coming to Christ and the early years as a Christian.
Aug 1, 2020 17:48:29 GMT
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Post by Les on Aug 1, 2020 17:48:29 GMT
Firstly I would like to say thankyou for allowing us to share our testimonies. Many forums don't host them and I believe they can be used by our Lord to reach out to others who either don't know the Lord or going through difficult times during their faith.
I have one testimony I want to bring to you today which very much takes us on the beginning with my journey with the Lord. So start with, my full name is Les Brewer & I have been a Christian now since the early 1980's and this is how it all began.
I was coming up to the last year or so in school when my journey to becoming a Christian and coming to know and accept the Lord had began - I would of been around 15 years old at the time.
The start of my Journey began with the fact that when my brother Steve was invited and went to a healing Crusade for an eye problem that he had most of his childhood, although he went to various hospital appointments etc nothing actually worked for him. Not previously being a Christian he still went with the faith that if there was a God, then he could be healed. Steve being two years younger told me about this experience that he received. I knew nothing about how this healing had worked until a while later, let alone who healed him but he did confess that his eye problem was made perfect again.
For some time after his healing, he went to a lunch time School bible study group which was ran by a lovely guy who was our R.E teacher, and in that school study group also was a lad that was also from my year and he was actually in one of my classes that taught woodwork etc. We became good friends and he later invited me to a school lunch time group and he also invited me a long to his Bible study evening group which was once a week in the evenings not too far from where I lived.
My friend shared with me about Jesus and what he had done for us on the cross and why we needed to believe and accept our Lord.
At the same time my brother was invited to a Christian youth club by the same people who took him to the healing crusade and that led me in weeks to come going to this as well. Very sadly my brother chose later to draw away from the interest of the youth club and even some time after he drew away from the Lord who healed him and started to find other things to fill in his time.
God had other plans for me though. There was a Christian youth band playing in town that I was made aware of and at the end there was an invitation to Christ. That evening I came forward and excepted Jesus there and then. A little while later the evening study that I attended had a Baptism of the Holy Spirit and I had received that too....
After becoming a Christian & just left school I had the chance to help run a lovely Bible teaching Sunday School & also went on to help the Christian Youth club that gave youngsters the chance to hear God's word + the opportunity to bring them to our Lord & Savior; also not forgetting to have lots of fun too.
As I hit the age of 18 a terrible disaster happened, not only did my brother turn away from Jesus, my parents (who were not saved at the time or even to this day) found that they no longer had any more to give to each other either and wanted to separate. I found my self then trying to make sense of why Dad had love for someone else, also making sense of the bitterness from mum and quite often feeling like a tug of war rope between the two.... I was so glad that Jesus had just rescued me at this point because the separation and the divorce took many years (lets say, I was 21 when the flames had just died with it all) I was glad as well that I had a lot of Christians around me literally keeping me standing through supportive prayer and encouragement. Jesus walked with me every single day with repeated words from everyone who knew me, (Keep trusting Him Les). The emotions affected my health with breathing as well where I was hyperventilating. The last memories of the nightmare was to come to an end where even my Dad was made to see what was happening. We went out one day to a big city and during that day we went to a restaurant to eat. Whiles waiting, I started another breathing attack and in those days none of us drove a car and this particular journey was by train. He asked how long this had been happening and realised that his divorce was bring down his oldest Son. He got us all back to the train station and back to where we live; he got us into a taxi to go back to mums. Dad had turned his back where he heard an incredible crash, he ran up the road to see what had happened but saw the taxi that we were in was still moving; that part of the road we were on just missed the collision by 10 seconds. That coming week he had arranged for his solicitor to bring the fight to an end.
As years went by though, various changes in life happened. Sadly everyone that was involved with the youth group and Sunday School that I was involved with, including myself had other new commitments which lead over time to bring it all to an end.
For many years I use to go to another BIBLE STUDY group; also I went to a lovely Church as well where Sharon my lovely wife & I got married in June 1994. We very much needed our Christian fellowship but again as our lives unfolded with illness in the family & eventually with distance too when we moved, it just made it too difficult to get to hear God's word in a Church building.
For a while I could not get to hear God's word at all. Eventually I started looking at on-line sermons which I found a few. One day I found a good one - Hosted on a website called "PATHWAY TO VICTORY" which was lead by Dr Robert Jeffress. Even now I do enjoy watching/ listening to the services from First Baptist Church Dallas which although we are many miles apart, I do feel this is my Church. Over time I found a few other sites that brought God’s word to us as well, which I like to visit.
In 2011 God had laid it upon my heart to do something to help others that are not in the position to hear his word and he asked me to create "Friends of Jesus" It started as a forum in June 2011 then went on to become a face book group in January 2012.
For now I will draw this to a close because just around the corner, there was another test waiting for us to go through and I will share this with you another time.
I can tell you though, the challenges that I went through and still going through has made me stronger and more trusting in the Lord day by day. I could never had gotten through any of my days without any faith or believe in a true ling God. I have always held to a wonderful verse where it says in Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
To God be the Glory for great things He has done....
I have one testimony I want to bring to you today which very much takes us on the beginning with my journey with the Lord. So start with, my full name is Les Brewer & I have been a Christian now since the early 1980's and this is how it all began.
I was coming up to the last year or so in school when my journey to becoming a Christian and coming to know and accept the Lord had began - I would of been around 15 years old at the time.
The start of my Journey began with the fact that when my brother Steve was invited and went to a healing Crusade for an eye problem that he had most of his childhood, although he went to various hospital appointments etc nothing actually worked for him. Not previously being a Christian he still went with the faith that if there was a God, then he could be healed. Steve being two years younger told me about this experience that he received. I knew nothing about how this healing had worked until a while later, let alone who healed him but he did confess that his eye problem was made perfect again.
For some time after his healing, he went to a lunch time School bible study group which was ran by a lovely guy who was our R.E teacher, and in that school study group also was a lad that was also from my year and he was actually in one of my classes that taught woodwork etc. We became good friends and he later invited me to a school lunch time group and he also invited me a long to his Bible study evening group which was once a week in the evenings not too far from where I lived.
My friend shared with me about Jesus and what he had done for us on the cross and why we needed to believe and accept our Lord.
At the same time my brother was invited to a Christian youth club by the same people who took him to the healing crusade and that led me in weeks to come going to this as well. Very sadly my brother chose later to draw away from the interest of the youth club and even some time after he drew away from the Lord who healed him and started to find other things to fill in his time.
God had other plans for me though. There was a Christian youth band playing in town that I was made aware of and at the end there was an invitation to Christ. That evening I came forward and excepted Jesus there and then. A little while later the evening study that I attended had a Baptism of the Holy Spirit and I had received that too....
After becoming a Christian & just left school I had the chance to help run a lovely Bible teaching Sunday School & also went on to help the Christian Youth club that gave youngsters the chance to hear God's word + the opportunity to bring them to our Lord & Savior; also not forgetting to have lots of fun too.
As I hit the age of 18 a terrible disaster happened, not only did my brother turn away from Jesus, my parents (who were not saved at the time or even to this day) found that they no longer had any more to give to each other either and wanted to separate. I found my self then trying to make sense of why Dad had love for someone else, also making sense of the bitterness from mum and quite often feeling like a tug of war rope between the two.... I was so glad that Jesus had just rescued me at this point because the separation and the divorce took many years (lets say, I was 21 when the flames had just died with it all) I was glad as well that I had a lot of Christians around me literally keeping me standing through supportive prayer and encouragement. Jesus walked with me every single day with repeated words from everyone who knew me, (Keep trusting Him Les). The emotions affected my health with breathing as well where I was hyperventilating. The last memories of the nightmare was to come to an end where even my Dad was made to see what was happening. We went out one day to a big city and during that day we went to a restaurant to eat. Whiles waiting, I started another breathing attack and in those days none of us drove a car and this particular journey was by train. He asked how long this had been happening and realised that his divorce was bring down his oldest Son. He got us all back to the train station and back to where we live; he got us into a taxi to go back to mums. Dad had turned his back where he heard an incredible crash, he ran up the road to see what had happened but saw the taxi that we were in was still moving; that part of the road we were on just missed the collision by 10 seconds. That coming week he had arranged for his solicitor to bring the fight to an end.
As years went by though, various changes in life happened. Sadly everyone that was involved with the youth group and Sunday School that I was involved with, including myself had other new commitments which lead over time to bring it all to an end.
For many years I use to go to another BIBLE STUDY group; also I went to a lovely Church as well where Sharon my lovely wife & I got married in June 1994. We very much needed our Christian fellowship but again as our lives unfolded with illness in the family & eventually with distance too when we moved, it just made it too difficult to get to hear God's word in a Church building.
For a while I could not get to hear God's word at all. Eventually I started looking at on-line sermons which I found a few. One day I found a good one - Hosted on a website called "PATHWAY TO VICTORY" which was lead by Dr Robert Jeffress. Even now I do enjoy watching/ listening to the services from First Baptist Church Dallas which although we are many miles apart, I do feel this is my Church. Over time I found a few other sites that brought God’s word to us as well, which I like to visit.
In 2011 God had laid it upon my heart to do something to help others that are not in the position to hear his word and he asked me to create "Friends of Jesus" It started as a forum in June 2011 then went on to become a face book group in January 2012.
For now I will draw this to a close because just around the corner, there was another test waiting for us to go through and I will share this with you another time.
I can tell you though, the challenges that I went through and still going through has made me stronger and more trusting in the Lord day by day. I could never had gotten through any of my days without any faith or believe in a true ling God. I have always held to a wonderful verse where it says in Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
To God be the Glory for great things He has done....