Real Life Stories - I Had the Need to Be Accepted

 I am the middle child of my siblings. I grew up in Chicago, IL. I had a pretty decent childhood growing up. My mom, who is no longer with me, took me to the church at a very early age, which I am so grateful for. I got saved at the age of sixteen. My mom divorced my dad when I was two years old. Even though my dad wasn't present in the home, I still managed to have a close relationship with him. My family says I was my dad's favorite. I often think back to when my dad left our home. It was then that a door of rejection, fear, and the need to be approved by man, was opened in my life.

Years later, I met a man who appeared to be the perfect gentleman. I dated him for a short time, and then he asked me to marry him. I remember asking him if he thought we should go to marriage counseling first, and he told me we didn't need to go. He felt like his pastor, who was his uncle, was all the counseling we needed. I remember going to God about the marriage. The response was, “Don't marry him!” God is always right, but I disobeyed. I went through much pain as a result of my own disobedience. I became pregnant with a son. During my pregnancy, I had to block blows to my belly, and I found myself getting hit in the head with his fist. Because of my fear to tell anyone, I stayed in the marriage, thinking he would change. It only got worse.

I was later told by neighbors that when I would leave for work, there was another woman who would come to our home. I confronted my ex-husband, thinking he might come clean and tell the truth about the other woman, but he didn't. I found out the truth through broken car windows, which then resulted in verbal altercations and threats of violence. I was so angry at what was happening, I began committing adultery. I could remember calling out to God to help me get out of the mess I had created. It didn’t happen overnight, but gradually my life began to change. One of the noticeable changes I had was being set free from the resentment that I had towards my ex-spouse. I could actually see him without wailing up with anger and bitterness. I was also set free from the need to be accepted by others. I love people, but the unhealthy approval of man went away. I noticed as I would spend more time in my bible, I began to change my thinking about myself. I found myself wanting to hang around other people who also wanted a deeper relationship with Christ.

Not long after, I joined a ministry that is still helping me in my growth process. It may be that you're in a similar situation to the one I found myself in. Maybe you know someone who is currently in an abusive situation. By all means, if it's physical and there could be potential harm done, get some help from your pastor or someone you can confide in. God will never have you feeling condemned about anything you go through in life. You can trust Him with your life. He is the one person who you can count on who will never leave nor forsake you. He accepts all your shortcomings, and He wants to express His everlasting love toward you. Will you allow Him into your life today? You have nothing to lose but Jesus Christ to Gain!

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Address: 815 S. Babcock Rd, Porter, Indiana 46304 United States
Phone: 219-762-7589
Email: jim@step-by-step.org
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Real Life Stories Books provides salvation of soul

Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books are proving to be way more effective at getting into the hands of lost souls then gospel tracts, evangelism tracts, Christian tracts, bible tracts, soul winning tracts, witnessing tracts and salvation tracts.

Over the years, we have personally used gospel tracts, evangelism tracts, Christian tracts, bible tracts, soul winning tracts, witnessing tracts, and salvation tracts and found that many people would take them, and immediately through them away. On the other hand, we have now used Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books for about 18 years and have found that no one throws them away.

Several years ago during a fourth of July parade, we passed out 3000 Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books. Other people passed out gospel tracts, evangelism tracts, Christian tracts, bible tracts, soul winning tracts, witnessing tracts and salvation tracts, church information, ministry information, and many types of business information.

After the parade, Carla and I walked the entire parade route back to the beginning. During are walk back we could not believe all the advertising, flyers, and paper of all Kinds that were left behind. It was terrible, such as waste!

To our amazement, not 1 of the 3000 Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books was left behind. You see the Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books look like they have value. Any other Christian Book, in a book store, would cost a person $12 or so.

When you had a Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Book to a person, the book has a perceived value!

On the other hand when you hand someone gospel tracts, evangelism tracts, Christian tracts, bible tracts, soul winning tracts, witnessing tracts, salvation tracts, church literature, and ministry literature it has a perceived value of a worthless piece of paper! We have also found out the rejection rate is very high when you offer someone a gospel tract, evangelism tract, Christian tract, bible tract, soul winning tract, witnessing tract and salvation tract, church information and ministry information.

The rejection rate when giving out Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Book Is very low! We only get 1 rejection for every 150 Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books that we pass out!!

Don’t take our word for it! If you have been using gospel tracts, evangelism tracts, Christian tracts, bible tracts, soul-winning tracts, witnessing tracts, salvation tracts or church  and ministry literature to attract or reach the lost we challenge to try using Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Books.

You Will Be Glad You Did and the Kingdom of God Will Grow Because You Did!!!!!

Evangelism Resources for all Christians to share true stories without any hesitation

There are many resources for evangelism which help to increase the passion for evangelism. Choosing the best story for evangelism is the best resource. https://www.reallifestoriesbooks.com  has a lot of stories that are the best source for evangelism resources. These are also the best Evangelism Resources for all Christians to share true stories without any hesitation. This is the resource that helps persons to live a happy life. Besides, telling testimonies is a resource it involves the testimonies of celebrities.

This helps people to know about Christ. You can share the testimonies of celebrities that consider Jesus the first to solve all the problems.These testimonies give hope to a person that is feeling alone. Alpha courses are also the best resources for evangelism. 169 countries across the globe are using this resource for evangelism. Real Life Stories has a lot of evangelism resources for preachers and pastors to cultivate hope and harmony in the believers as well as attract non-believers to the teachings of Jesus with love and affection.

Salvation Christian Testimonies on Video

Step By Step Ministries, is partnering with people just like you to develop a complete line of Real Life Stories Target Audience Books to speak to lost people in their area of passion, and at the same time to give people like you a tool that you can use in your specific area of ministry. 

The idea is to give people easy to use, inexpensive tools in their area of ministry to reach their target audience with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Remember these books do not yet exist in the physical; at this point they are a vision that God has given us and we are taking the first step to bring each book into existence. We need the help of 30 Born Again Testimony Videos to write their testimonies to bring each book into print!
Are you one of those 30 Born Again Christians?
Will you write your story to be used for God’s Glory?

SAINTS, PLEASEPRAY:

For 30 sold-out witnessing Christians to respond and quickly write and supply their testimonies for each of the above new target audience books.  
For hundreds or even thousands of other Christians to catch the vision for this so we can develop other target audiences, even some specific to their city or area.  
For Christians that have been afraid to share their faith to say, "I can do this; I want to be a part of a new target audience  book."   
Cover this in prayer as the Holy Spirit leads you!!

For everyone reading this to share this information in their sphere of influence.  
For Jim and Carla to have the wisdom, knowledge and understanding of the Lord in regards to the next steps they are to take in developing more books to be used in cities all over the USA and Canada.
Ask God if He wants YOU to write YOUR testimony for use in one of these new target audience books.

Our Trucker’s Real Life Stories Christian

Testimony Books are by far one of the most effective evangelism ideas,
evangelism strategies, and evangelism methods being used in Truck Driver’s
Ministry, Truck Driver’s Ministries, Trucker’s Ministry, Trucker’s Ministries,
by Christian Truck Drivers to reach other Truck Drivers with the Gospel Message.
Real Life Stories Trucker’s Christian Testimony Books are quickly becoming
the preferred evangelism tool of many Christian Truckers, and many Christian
Trucking Companies. This Truck Driving Book, makes great Truck Driving Tools
And can help many in the Trucker’s World.

Real Life Stories Trucker’s Christian Testimony Books can be found in many Truck Stops across the United States were they are freely being given away along with Trucker’s Bibles or Truck Drivers

Bibles. Other Great Truck Drivers Ministry Resources are Trucker’s for Jesus, Association
of Christian Truckers, Truck Stop Ministries, Transport for Christ, and Trucker’s Christian
Chapel Ministries. Don’t take are word for it, try some books yourself and you
decide if these Trucker’s books are not one of the most effective evangelism
ideas, evangelism strategies, evangelism methods, evangelism tools that you
have ever used. Try this great evangelism tool and see how many more lost
souls you will reach!   

Real Life Stories Truckers Edition1 are being given away Freely through many Truck Stops across North America. 

Stories Of Hope- I Don’t Have to Be Strong Anymore

I thought I was strong and independent. I had good parents. They loved me and supported my decisions. I grew up in the 1970’s. My mom put me on birth control pills at the age of 16. That was what a lot of parents did at that time. The problem was I was so forgetful. I married my high school sweetheart and had a baby at 18. My husband went away to college, and I joined the navy. My mother kept our baby. As time went on, the distance between us grew. Physical abuse became a factor, and we divorced. My 1st marriage didn’t work. I remarried and got divorced a second time. 

After making poor choices and picking the wrong men, I found myself alone with 5 children and child support for only one of them. Thank God, I still had my mom and dad. No matter what went wrong in my life I always blamed myself.  I can remember bearing all the weight when things went wrong. I wanted my dad to be proud of me, so I did my best to take care of my children. I thought in order to be responsible, I had to be the mother and the father. I took on male dominated jobs. I served 4 years in the navy. I drove a bus for C.T.A. I worked as a counselor/correctional officer. I had a job laying tile for six years. The only bad thing about being the only woman working with men is you become like them: hard, strong, and tough. They respect you when you pull your weight. I was so good at it, my children would tell me,

 “Happy Father’s Day.” One day, my mother called me up to tell me she was back in school. I said, “Good, what are you studying?”  

She said, “I am going to school to be a minister.”  I replied, “What, and what for?” I instantly got angry. I couldn’t understand why I got so mad. I loved my mom. She told me she was leaving the Catholic Church to attend an Apostolic Church. That seemed to upset me even more. The little time I spent in church was okay, even though I didn’t understand Latin or care what was on the other side of the confession box. I felt threatened. My mother encouraged me to come to church with her. I came back home and decided I’d try this new church thing. I didn’t like it. The music was sad. It made me cry and feel uncomfortable. My mother was a different woman. She was always reading the bible, praying, and writing about God.  

My dad died in 2005, and my mom died six months later. When my mom died, it was so hard. She didn’t have insurance, and we had no money for a funeral. I felt awful. Soul Winning Tracts The pressure was all on me to do something. Then, God came through. We received help from family, friends, coworkers, the funeral home, the bank, and my daughter’s little league team. Only God could do this. Everything works out according to His plan for those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose. After that, I started going to church. I decided I was going to serve God. At first, I was a terrible servant. I was still dragging along my sins, but God was patient and loving with me. God became more than a mother and father. He also gave me a spiritual mother named Mother Williams who taught me about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. She taught me how to fall in love with God and what it is like to live for Him. God also answered my prayers by giving me a wonderful husband who loves us. God is my everything. I don’t have to be strong anymore. God is strong for me, and He is responsible for my life. He can be your everything too.  True stories of hope from REAL LIFE STORIES inspire and encourage.

Real Life Stories - I Was Kind of a Loner

Growing up, I was a very shy and quiet little girl who loved music. I was raised in the church, functioned in several positions, and knew church protocol. Every Sunday, we were there and at least once more during the week. There were a lot of revivals, and we would attend church for the entire week. 

I come from a family of singers and musicians on both my dad’s and my mom’s side. At an early age, my sister and I were singing songs such as, “How Big is God.” I continued to sing in church for many years during my youth because that’s what you did where I came from. I sang in the choir. I sang about God and heard about God, but I did not know God. I did not have a relationship with him. I had felt God’s presence before, especially when I would sing to Him, but I really didn’t know the God that I was singing to or about. 

From a child until well into young adulthood, I was kind of a loner. I felt like I was different from most of the people I was around, but I didn’t understand why. I wasn’t a very sociable person. Music was my passion, but even when I would sing in church, I would close my eyes and not look at the audience because of my shyness. In my latter teenage years, the Lord began to draw my heart and reveal Himself to me. At the age of 19, I gave my heart to God and started to develop a relationship with Him. I was very eager to learn more about Him.  I always wanted to be in His presence because I would have such peace, joy and contentment. 

When I became a Christian, my life was transformed, mind, body and spirit. Everything started changing. God started showing me that He really was God. One of the first miracles I experienced was God healing my oldest daughter when she was around 4 years old. I was very young in Christ and didn’t have the knowledge of intercession that I have now, but I believed in healing. A fellow sister in Christian Tracts, my daughter Catherine, and I were out of town at a church convention. Catherine accidentally knocked over the iron on herself, and the circle imprints from the iron were embedded into her face. My friend and I began to pray and call on Jesus. To our amazement, God began to remove those imprints out of my daughter’s face, right in front of us. We never took her to the hospital, and there weren’t any scars on her face. Watching God heal my daughter immediately increased my faith in Him tremendously. 

God proved Himself to me again. I was driving to the mall to return an item. I drove my dad’s car, and I was unaware my dad had been working on the exhaust system. My sister, brother, and oldest daughter accompanied me. They waited in the car that was running because it was the middle of winter. When I returned to the car, my daughter was laying on the floor of the car. My sister was unconscious, and my brother who was in the front was barely responding. I knew something was seriously wrong but didn’t know what it was. It never occurred to me to go to the hospital.  I began driving to my pastor’s house to pray. As I was driving, the Holy Spirit said, “Roll the windows down.” It was winter time, and I didn’t understand why I should roll the windows down, yet I obeyed. I made it to my pastor’s house, and they prayed with me. God blessed all three of them. We went to the hospital afterwards to get them checked, and everyone was fine. I later asked God about that situation. He replied, “Be still and know that I am God.” 

I have always loved to sing, but God had deposited in me a gift to write songs. I was writing songs for a while without realizing I was even doing it. God had a divine purpose to use me to usher a spirit of worship in the midst of His people. He has birthed songs in me that exemplified His true character and His great love for us. 

I am no longer the quiet and shy person I used to be. God has given me a confidence I never knew existed. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I now know that I am more than a conqueror through Christ Jesus. I have been blessed to minister this wonderful gospel message through the avenue of music for many years. I now sing in the spirit and with an understanding of Who God really am. Not only do I sing to and for Him, but I have learned to worship him. Learning to worship God has catapulted my life and my relationship with Him into an entirely different dimension. 

Just when I finally became comfortable singing in front of audiences, God made a shift and started positioning me to declare and preach His word. I was very uncomfortable with that. It definitely was NOT my preference. I said, “God, you know how long it took me to accept my calling to sing, now this?” In spite of how I felt, I obeyed. Now, I realize what a privilege and honor it is to proclaim a life-changing gospel that transforms people’s lives. I am so blessed that God empowers me to share good news with people that feel like good news doesn’t even exist. I have had the privilege of ministering at prisons, monthly at the Salvation Army, nursing homes, etc. Sharing the good news that God loves us and wants us to have abundant life brings me great joy. 

I have been married for 32 years. My husband and I have four beautiful and anointed children. God called my husband to pastor the ministry that He birthed through us called Pure Gospel Tracts. Our children work with us in the ministry. God continuously blesses me and my family. He continues to reveal more and more of Himself to us daily. I am grateful to Him for what He is presently doing in my life, and I am excited about my future in Him

What is the most important part of Discipleship?

The most important part of Discipleship is Commitment! Jesus could not have made disciples had they not committed to follow him. The commitment Jesus asked for was simple. Follow me! As people followed him they were discipled. They learned to be imitators of Jesus!

The strength of what we teach is also based on commitment! It is not as strong as the 3 year commitment that Jesus required, but it has been proven very effective. We have been able to effectively disciple a couple hundred people over the last 3 years as a result of getting the following commitments! We have found that, if a Christian will commit to write out their testimony and commit to share it daily, that this commitment sets the stage for the Holy Spirit to disciple them! The first thing we challenge people to do in our discipleship teaching is to commit to write their testimony and be a part of a Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Book or their own Testimony Flyer.

The second thing we do is challenge people to carry 2 copies of the Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Book or their Testimony Flyers in their hand every time they leave the door of their home and every time they get out of their car. The third thing we do is challenge them to ask the Holy Spirit to help them in the giving away of the Testimony books or Testimony Flyers! The forth thing we do is challenge to the practice what was taught in that session. In session 1, we taught on As You Go: Love The commitment to carry the Testimony Books or Flyers and the Commitment to Love, As They Go is joined with the commitment to ask the Holy Spirit to help them.

This sets the stage for the Holy Spirit to be active in their life! If a person is always carrying the Gospel message with them in the form of a Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Book or Testimony Flyer and always practicing loving people as they go, then they are always trusting in the Holy Spirit to help them! This gives the Holy Spirit total access to all their Time and Daily Life! Sons and Daughters of God are led by the Spirit of God! What we accomplish during our 12 Discipleship Sessions is getting a strong commitment from the person being discipled to allow the Holy Spirit to lead them into Living a Witnessing Lifestyle! When the Holy Spirit comes upon us we will be His Witnesses!

Watching the 12 Discipleship Videos is Good, but on their own it is not enough to make a disciple! It is the joining together of the videos and the commitment to write, carry and use your testimony that will help you to be a strong disciple of Jesus!

Why sound the Shofar and make Declarations on 3 different days?

Why these 3 specific days:

Passover - Wed April 8, 2020                           6 pm central time

Resurrection Sunday - April 12, 2020       
6:12 am central time

Pentecost – Monday May 31, 2020                
9 am central time

Purpose for sounding and declaring on Passover:

To call on the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to call on the God of Elijah, to call on a miracle working God to demonstrate His Great Power by killing or stopping the corona virus worldwide!

Purpose for Sounding and declaring on Resurrection Sunday:

God wants to reset the churches focus, on the main purpose of Christ's Resurrection and what that Resurrection Power is to be used for in our daily lives. 

It starts with the church repenting for its disobedience to be His witnesses, to be His Ambassadors, to be His ministers of reconciliation, to equip the saints, to disciple the saints and its failure to use all the empowerments of the Holy Spirit to reach a lost and dying world.
( The power and gifts of the Holy Spirit were given to the chuch to be Christs witnesses. We have abused these gifts by hiding out in a building and entertaining each other with them.)

Purpose for sounding and declaring on Pentecost:

If? ( conditional on the church responding) the church will repent and get on track using the 5 fold ministry gifts to train all the saints to operate and use all the power and gifts of the Holy Spirit to reach lost souls we will see a fresh out pouring of the Holy Spirt and Soul Winning Tracts see a Great Harvest of Souls!

Please cover all this in your prayers.

Whereever you are in the world, please join us tonight at 6P.M. as we Sound the Shofars and Call on God to kill the coronavirus.

Shalom
Coach
Jim and Carla jim@step-by-step.org
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