Testimony & Encouragement

I thank the Lord for allowing me share part of my testimony here with hopes that possibly it can help someone in here.

I will keep it as short as possible.

Some years back, I was completely bound by satan.  I had become alcoholic addict, fornication, gambling, anger, jealous among many others. All these took place in my life at possibly a very young in my teens.

However, amidst all these addictions and practices, the Lord never gave up on me as sometimes I would feel like the Lord was calling for something and that I need to find Him though when I would try getting close to the Lord, the enemy would still get me back through all tactics.

As time went on, our family experienced a financial crisis that would not leave us the same. Me and my sister and other siblings started getting hard time to obtain school fees and sometimes even the basics.

 The Lord allowed this in order to get my attention.

We went through some hard time together with my family but still the Lord was in control amidst all challenges.

Amidst the challenges, I started getting more desire to truly know who God was. This desire exceeded the one I usually would have in my past.

As time went on, I started realizing that the things I was living in were not right and I needed to let them go. Letting most of my habits was something very difficult especially for my flesh.

In my search for the truth, I started getting into church. This wasn't my first time being in church However, I used to get into our school fellowships where they would invite people to give their lives to Christ through confessing; I did this for more and more times, but NEVER was free from my habits. I would still get into them again and again. 

Even when I started following a number of Men who were professed to be men of God, I still was never free. 

I actually wanted to be free, but I was looking freedom from wrong places. 

Little did I know that Jesus was right beside me and that I only needed to humble myself, confess to Him in humbleness and make a decision to follow Him in truth.

In the process, I got into some ministries where I thought I had found truth in them, but actually, there was no truth there. 

I wanted to make this as short as possible, I have skipped so many things but I was trying to bring out the image of my testimony. 

There are a lot of false ministries around but unless one I filled with the holy spirit, he cannot know.

only by the holy spirit, we can know all truth. 

We ourselves must be sure of Jesus’ reality not a good ministry or anything else. 

all God wants of us is a genuine and true relationship with him, following him until the end.

I realized you can be in ministry and still keep leaving in sin, and it's okay.

Unless we repent, we shall likewise perish.

I write these words from my experience and knowing that others are in the same situation of hypocrisy without even knowing it.

If we need to be set free, its only through Jesus and him alone, no ministry or pastor can do it but Jesus. if we humble ourselves before him repent, be baptized in the holy spirit and water if the lord makes away for us, he is faithful and just to set us free. 

If we seek him, we shall find him.

BUT we must be willing to humble ourselves and make a decision of following Him.

NB: IF we are truly filled with the Holy spirit, the spirit dwelling in us, we are the church. It's not a building. That's a lesson the Lord taught me on my walk.

This is part of my testimony, I just wanted to keep it short.

BY Agaba Kennedy