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Posted: 10/3/2008 6:46:31 PM
We will be praying for your citizenship. Thanks for letting us know to pray. God bless you, TYT
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yvette is thanking god for living by the Lord's grace and mercy..:)
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| yvette's Testimony |
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Life was painful, Life had no purpose, all i see everyday was people taking drugs and people being abusive everyday. Yes that was the family that i grew up in. My brother and my Uncle were drug addicts.They would take drugs in front of me. My brother was very abusive as well. when he didn't had money or things that he wanted, he would beat my mum up. My dad deceased when i was young like 1 or 2 years old.. I only saw him only through the photos that my mum showed me. My mum used to tell me that my dad was also a very angry man. I have an older brother and a younger sister.The house that i grew up in was my grandmothers. In that home, I was forced to do household chores. I would always be beaten up/ punished by for my slow learning. That was horrible. It was something that i always hated. That was the environment that i grew up in.
When i was 15 years old, Still growing up in that environment, My mum went to prison as she was caught was stealing. Leaving my sister and my myself at my grandma's place. My brother would always be drunk and high. One day i was at my neighbours house about to go down for a badminton game. Out of nowhere, he dashed into my neighbours house and beat my sister and me up. He used a wooden stick about 5cm thick to hit us.I was literally running around the house trying to escape but he kept pulling me to beat me. Worse of all the beating, my neighbours who were christians didn't do anything about it. They just stand still at where they were and did nothing. That was the most heartbreaking moment of my life. Out of all this beating, i am lying on the floor not able to move my brother broke the wooden stick into two and wanted to stab me. Thankfully my sister who was around help me by pushing him away from me. That was a inch away from death. From there my sister and me ran away from home and went to the police. We were admitted at the hospital. I was badly bruised. In the midst of it too, the social workers in the hospital was looking for a temporary shelter for the both of us.
On August 22, Pastor Andrew and his wife grace picked us up from the hospital and brought us to their home. It was called Andrew and Grace Home. A Home for troubled teenagers. It was a very big Home all girls from the age of 12-19. There i was feeling pain, Shocked, depressed, angry, tired and etc. It was something that i was used to, it was a very new culture and new environment that i had to be adapted too. For the first few days, i couldn't adjust to the place. I still couldn't feel that was where i wanna be. But after 1 week, I now can smile and talk talk to the other girls. After that 1 week, I finally felt love, saw love and was loved by someone. And that was by Pastor Andrew and Grace. They loved me for who I was. They took me in without any expectation. When i asked them why? they told me because GOD love them so they love me.
I knew God since i was young, My grandma was a catholic. But i didn't knew god personally. As it was a Christian home, they taught us biblical teachings.. The first book that i read in the bible was PROVERBS. It was so true that i finished reading all the 31 chapters. As one of the staff in home prayed with me, i began to accept JESUS as my personal savior. That was the coolest thing i had ever done in my life. After that my life was so different. I saw a lot of miracles in my life. Life was not a bed of roses after that. God allowed me to go through a lot of trials too. It was a up and down slope. But i enjoyed every challenge that God was leading me through though it was painful.
At the Home, running was introduced to me because Pastor Andrew believed that sports is a rehabilitative in one's life. We were into long distance running. At that time i was still feeling bitterness,lot of anger, frustration towards my family. Every time i had all those emotions i would put them into running. So i ran when i was angry, sad and even when i was happy. I ran and ran. Running also help me to apply to the real life what i was going through. I also started running competitively. I felt good. And the lord was blessing me a lot in the sports area. I began to love sports so much that i was so addicted to it. That when i don't run i couldn't sleep or do things normally. I couldn't stop running and that the only way i knew how to escape from my problems.I felt so good about myself. I just wanted to conquer every emotion of mine because i knew i was going to be a better confident and a changed person.
Now i was 19 years old. The Lord was leading me to do a course in Sport Management. I went for it.
The lord not only asked me to study but also worked on the many lives in my classmates. I was the only runner in class, by the time i graduated in 2 years, there were 5 other runners in the class. How good our God is. That he uses ones gift to multiply in others life.
As i graduated from college, I was praying asking god where he wants me to go next. I was offered to do my diploma but i sense the lord was leading me to serve him somewhere. As i got the conformation. The Lord was leading me to serve back at the Home where i grew up.
Today i am working for the Home as a Youth Worker cum Sports Executive. I am very thankful for who i am today. I have been in the home for 6 years. I enjoyed being at Andrew and Grace Home because i feel this is my family and i love this family alot. There's alot of joy as well in this place. Today also i am no longer angry with my family as i have learn to forgive them and love them for who they are just like JESUS did. I still visit them every week.Something that i wanted to do was to break the cycle in my family, a history cycle of abuse and violence. And the only person left in my family was me.I told god about it. And today also i know i am a different person and i believe that i am a new creation. the old had gone, the new has come.
I enjoy working at the Home. My job is very challenging. The lord has allow all these things to happen in my life so that i can help the girls in the Home and others around me. The gift that i have today, i am multiplying in the lives of my younger sisters . And i have seen how sports can change my life that it can change other peoples lives. I don't know how long the lord wants me to serve the Home but my heart also desire to study more too. I am praying that God will provide me a Scholarship to go to America to Study further in sports.Everyday i am just putting my confidence in the Lord to guide me through in my work. Who i am today, i wouldn't have done it with all my strength but by the Lord's strength and his grace and mercy. Thanking him for that.
Go the Distance and don't quit running the race. because JESUS will run the race with us.All glory goes to God, the almighty:)
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yvette's Testimony Info
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Which categories of people did you belonged to before you were saved?
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The Abused
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| Who have been your best examples? |
God, My Guardians, My coach and the many big brothers and sisters in my life.
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Worship Songs and prayer
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Pray that God will continue to use me as a key to the bible through sports.Also restoration of my family.
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| Occupation/Business/School: |
Youth worker cum Sports Executive
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www.aghome.org.sg
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