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Scott is working on a cool new feature for the site! 6 hours ago...
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Happy Birthday Dal1 - I hope you have a great day! 8 hours ago...
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Scott is going to bed early tonight! 48 hours ago...
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Nicole went on a Passion and Purity Retreat. God once again reiterated and taught new lessons. 75 hours ago...
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| Sarah's Testimony |
I grew up going to Sunday school, believing in God, going to summer Bible camps.. all that fun stuff. But I was a kid, I didn't really understand it all. As the years passed, I stopped going to church. My niece and I would pretend we were sleeping on Sunday mornings just so we could stay home from church to play with our barbies. And then I stopped going to camp as well, because band camp was always the exact same week. So all through middle school and high school, I wasn't going to church, I wasn't experiencing God in any way at all.
Like a lot of teenagers do (especially without God in their lives), I began to live the party life. I started drinking, smoking pot, and having sex my sophomore year in high school. It only got worse. Junior year I started doing those things more, and senior year I was introduced to pills like Xanax and Ambien. Towards the end of Senior year, I started doing cocaine.
The summer after my senior year, I stopped partying and having sex, and started dating this guy. I wanted him to come to the 4th of July parade with me, and he said sure, but that he'd be late 'cause he had to go to church. Then he invited me to go with him. I said yes, just because I thought it would make him like me more. So I went, and I felt GREAT. I went with him every Sunday for a few weeks when I finally decided to get a hold of my niece and ask her if Senior High Camp for our old church had already happened. Lucky for me, I still had 9 days before camp. So I got all my forms filled out, got my bags packed, and I went to camp for the first time since 4th or 5th grade.
That camp changed my life. I had gotten saved when I was a kid, but it didn't mean much because, like I said, I didn't really understand what being saved really meant. So at camp, I asked Jesus back into my heart. I met a friend there who I shared my past with, and he told me to not be ashamed of my past, because one day I'll be able to use it to help someone else in a similar situation.
About a month later, the enemy decided he wanted me back on his team, so he started doing everything he could to drag me down. I stopped talking to the friends I made at camp. I started drinking again, broke up with my boyfriend, started sleeping around again. I was back to partying. And then I met this other guy. I thought he was fun. Over time, he became very emotionally abusive. Somehow, I still loved him. We spent so much time together, he consumed every thought I had, every breath.. everything. I started doing drugs again and everything. And then the unthinkable happened. I got pregnant. I was 18 years old, and pregnant. A few weeks after I found out, I was finally coming to terms with it, and I wasn't so upset. I realized that it was REAL, and there was nothing I could do about it. And just as that was finally happening, I miscarried. I ended things with my boyfriend, because I couldn't take it anymore and we were just staying together for the baby.
After that, I started drinking again, and became extremely depressed. After camp, the pastor gave my niece a copy of the dvd from every single service, and I had been asking to borrow them to make copies since she got them. And it wasn't until I was SO depressed that I refused to even leave my bed.. that she FINALLY let me borrow those dvd's. And watching those videos again re-lit my flame that had died since camp the summer before, and God lifted me up and completely destroyed my depression.
This past summer, I went to camp again for the 2nd year in a row, and once again, it changed my life.
I shared my story with everyone on the very last morning, and I had a few people come up and tell me that I had really touched them with it. Looks like my friend from camp was right!
Anyone who gets saved.. KEEP GOD WITH YOU, because the enemy will try SO hard to keep you on his side. He'll try harder after you've accepted Jesus into your heart than he's ever tried before. So stay strong, and don't let your relationship with God die, because our God.. is an awesome God. The best friend anyone could ever have. Even when you feel like you have no one at all.. GOD IS THERE.
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Which categories of people did you belonged to before you were saved?
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The Partier, The Square, The Unaware, A Teen
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris
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I have not found a good local church
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In college to become a Surgical Tech
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