Standing on the Fence - Real Life Stories

I was standing on a fence, and there was an incredibly large group of people assembled around it.

On one side of the group stood a man, Jesus. On the other side of the group stood another man, Satan. Separating them, running through the group, was the fence I was standing on.

Both Jesus and Satan began calling to the people in the group and, one by one, each having made up his or her mind, each went to either Jesus or Satan.

This kept going on, and eventually Jesus had gathered around him a group of people from the larger crowds, as did Satan. But I joined neither group. I stood on the fence. Then Jesus and his people left and disappeared. So too did Satan and his people.

And I was left alone, standing on the fence.

As I stood there, Satan came back. He appeared to be looking for something that he’d lost. I said, “Have you lost something?”

Satan looked straight at me and replied, “No, there you are. Come with me.”

“But,” I said, “I stood on the fence. I chose neither you nor Him.” “That’s okay,” said Satan. “I own the fence. You belong to me.”

Using Real Life Stories Christian Testimony books and testimonies has  taken our witnessing to the next level. Instead of giving people just a track we are now able to give them a whole Real Life Stories Christian Testimony book to read.

 

Ask God to forgive you - Salvation Testimonies

 

How do I get saved from the curse of the law? How do I get saved from being forever separated from God? How do I get saved from the Fires of Hell?

 

1. Admit that you have broken God’s Law.

2. Ask God to forgive you.

3. Confess Jesus as the Son of God.

4. Confess that Jesus died on the cross for your sins.

5. Confess that Jesus arose from the dead.

 

The Bible says:

“For Salvation Testimony that comes from trusting Christ --- which is what we preach --- is already within easy reach of each of us; in fact, it is as near as our own hearts and mouths. For if you tell others with your own mouth that Jesus Christ is your Lord, and believe in your own heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in his heart that a man becomes right with God; and with his mouth he tells others of his faith, confirming his salvation. For the Scriptures tell us that no one who believes in Christ will ever be disappointed. Jew and Gentile are the same in this respect; they all have the same Lord who generously gives his riches to all those who ask him for them. Anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Try to describe your testimony as much as short and as simple as possible. Always focus on life after knowing Jesus and less describe life before Jesus. Christian testimonies include the facts that what problems were you facing before Christ and how is your life going now, after meeting Jesus. Salvation testimonies are very inspiring for others that don’t believe in Jesus that how Jesus rescues someone in life. Hearing Christian testimonies increase the faith in Jesus and also inspire person that don’t aware of Jesus. Hearing testimony is the start of knowledge about Christianity. You can ask a question to the speaker how Jesus change his life and how he converts to Christianity. Salvation testimonies are very informative and help to increase knowledge about Jesus. If you want to know about Jesus more and how Jesus changes lives you have to listen to Christian testimonies. Listening to Christian testimonies is better than reading for understanding the impact of Jesus.  How Jesus rescues someone from any difficulty and changes his life is all described in salvation testimonies for the preaching of Christianity. 

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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I Was a Workaholic and Raceaholic- Stories Of Hope

​I was brought up learning about God in the Catholic religion, as was my grandparents, aunts and uncles who were very strong Catholics. I was sprinkled as an infant and went to Catholic school in the first and second grades. I couldn't conform to it so after this I went to public school. My parents made sure I received my first communion and the confirmation of my faith, but that was about as far as it went. I always knew God was real and anytime I was knocked to my knees, I knew there was a God to pray to. I just didn't want to submit or commit my life to walking with Him at a personal level.

I led a very troubled teen and wild adolescent lifestyle with alcohol, drugs, and smoking in front of my parents at a young age. I was very rebellious, yet a hard worker. I knew how to manipulate people; I just always ran life the way I would have it. I always was searching for the next challenge or high. I started racing cars at a young age, snowmobiles and even boats later on. I did anything for a quick high. I was a spoiled little rich kid. My father was in the boat business and had a very successful business which was volatile with ups and downs of the recreation RV business. I was brought up a very poor steward of resources. We had money that did not help us; it actually caused us issues from being able to buy the alcohol, drugs and racing toys. I led a very fast lifestyle. It never brought me any lasting joy; it only brought a lot of misery and tragedy in my life.

At age 18, a young gal that I was dating was killed in my presence because we were in a place where we shouldn't have been. We were not supposed to be there, and a drunk driver hit us. I had time to pray a lot when I lost her and knew there was a God, but again, I didn't submit and didn't commit to be all in with God. I went through a divorce in my late 30's. I had two sons that were not brought up knowing much Bible truth and I feel very sad that I was not the parent that they needed. I was a workaholic and a raceaholic. I was too busy for them and that's one of the reasons I went through a divorce. I am a truck driver and that's not a good field for marriage because of the separation of being gone all the time. I went through a divorce and bankruptcy. That’s when I really got back to my knees and did a lot of praying at that time, but again, I didn't submit yet.

Yet I knew I needed to make a solid commitment to Jesus - to let Him become Lord over all of my life. I needed to let go of demanding my right to make my own decisions without including Him in my decision making (with the hope of Him blessing those decisions of course). I can remember pulling to the side of the road and praying a sinner's prayer with James Dobson after listening to a Focus on the Family message. After that, I got involved in a church and the very first class they put me in was a finance class; they showed me how I needed to tithe (Honoring the Lord with the first fruits of my income, so He could bless the remaining ninety percent). I had race cars and race boats, but I sure couldn't afford to give ten percent of my income to that church. I had too much money, but God took care of that a short time later, and there again it was a submission issue.

I met my current wife at the age of 40. She was a career woman in the golf course country club business and I was in the boat business. We wanted to have a Christian wedding. She was brought up Reformed. I knew that we had to have God in the midst of our relationship. She never had any children, and wanted to have a child with me. I failed miserably at raising my own two boys because I didn't have the Lord in my life. We knew if we were going to do this, we were going to have to bring our child up in a Christian environment, so we committed to that in our marriage right from the beginning. God blessed us with a church family; a small non-denominational church that really walked with us. I was still a Christian Truck Drivers and in the boating business; my wife was managing the country club at the time when she got pregnant. It was tough for us to go to church but we did, because we were committed to it. Again, we struggled with being involved in church and getting filled so we could be a blessing, but God took care of that. He brought me out of the boating business and into truck driving full-time. My wife's country club actually closed its doors and became a public golf course, so she was out of that business.

Eventually we started looking for a new home church. We were blessed to find a church that taught the balanced Word of God, and taught the absolute importance of having a daily, personal relationship with Jesus Christ, inviting and allowing Him to be LORD of our lives - every DAY - every HOUR of the day. We were baptized at that church about 6 months later; both of us fully immersed and came up out of that water a new spiritual creation -- hungry for Jesus and the Word. We haven’t looked back since. For those yearning to be connected properly to God, there can only be one Truth and one way to God; not multiple. Satan has brainwashed many to believe there are multiple ways ... [as long as true Christianity isn't the ONE you chose!]. Jesus is that only way, truth, and life. He's the only One who paid the penalty for our sins to be totally forgiven, so they won't be held against us on the Judgment Day, so we would not have to pay for them by suffering for eternity in hell like others who reject the free gift of eternal salvation that He offers to everyone. I pray that others would find that same truth and that more would be transformed by the Word and the Holy Spirit setting them free from the sin that separates them from God. God's unconditional love (unconditional acceptance) once we are connected with Christ -- the peace that surpasses all understanding and joy unspeakable He gives us is real. I've found a lot of things that brought temporary and unfulfilling happiness in my life. I've been very blessed and spoiled rotten, but nothing else brings the lasting joy of serving the Lord and seeing others come to know His saving grace. Nothing else brings the satisfaction of pouring your life into helping reach lost souls, and then helping them grow in their relationship with the Lord, because engaging in these activities is what blesses God the most in how we live our lives, and we not only bring HIM joy, but we will reap eternal blessings.

Several years ago God called me to become a chaplain for the Testimony Book of Transport For Christ. Even though it took me a long time to come to Christ, along that journey I had stopped in other trucker chapels over the years when I was trucking. I would pick up a devotional, CD, had some fellowship, or just cried and prayed. It's just a blessing that these Truck Drivers Ministries are out there for truckers that can't get to a home church, or have a hard time finding a church they are comfortable with. God has also called me to network with other truck drivers in distributing Christian literature for truckers to freely have at various truck stops around the nation. Our primary focus is to make free Bibles available for the truckers, but we also place other trustworthy Christian literature in truck stops for them as well.

The Witnessing Tool

What are Christians using Real Life Stories Books Saying?

 

Christian testimony is the description of the journey of someone's life that how he converted to Christianity and how Jesus influence his life. Testimony includes the lesson of life that helps a person to believe in God. It may be a miracle that happens in the life of a person and all of his problems are solved. Testimonies are very influential for new believers and non-believers due to the changing of life after believing Jesus. Christian testimony includes the problems in life and their solution after believing and praying to Jesus.
You should tell your testimony by telling the problems you were facing before meeting Jesus. What was that problems and how much time you fail to solve these problems? Then you will tell that how you get closer to Jesus. What is the reason that you decided to consider Jesus for your help? At last, you should share the part of life after meeting Jesus that how Jesus change your life. You should share that how is your living going now. Evangelism is the process of campaigning faith in Christianity. In evangelism, people share the gospel for preaching the impact of Jesus on life. There are a lot of evangelism strategies that include evangelism by spreading the bibles and gospel by media or road evangelism. If you want to preach Christianity then chooses the best evangelism methods. Evangelism is the best way to describe your love and affection with god and if you want to be an evangelist then follow these evangelism ideas:

• If you want to be a good evangelist then pray for others during evangelism because prayer enhances the spiritual attraction. So prayer is the good evangelism tool.
• If you want to preach your faith then try to share your own experience if the life that how your life changed after meeting Jesus.
• If you want that other people should start believing Jesus then show them the influence of Jesus in your life and how Jesus solves your problems.
• If you have good communication skills then it will be very helpful for you to preach your faith. Testimony is a good evangelism tool for preaching the faith.
• You should share the current situation of your life and how is your life going after knowing Jesus.

In the 20th century, the child evangelism movement was started. The purpose of this movement is the preaching of testimony and gospel to children of 4 to 14 years. The power team was established in 1970 which consist of some Christian athlete that spread the message of God for salvation. The advanced Evangelism Methods is preaching faiths by traveling in far areas and by a conversation on the internet.

I Went to Truck Drivers Ministries School

 I met my wife Joyce in early 1964 at Broadway Assembly church in Lorain, OH. My family moved to Lorain from West Virginia when I was 12 in 1962. When I was 13, my cousin Wesley invited me to church. There was a revival going on the night I got saved. I felt so free and clean, I went to every service. Most of the time I had to hitchhike because my Mom and Dad never followed Jesus. When I was living in West Virginia I used to go with my Grandmother, but I was too young to understand. But I know her prayers followed me even after her death.

Joyce and I fell madly in love at the young age of 13 and 14. As too many teenagers do, we let the hormones and testosterone take over our lives. She got pregnant, so at age 17 we were married. Now that little bit pregnant goes by the name of Jeff and he is 6’2”. We drifted away from church. A year later we had our second son, Brian. I was laid off from Ford Motor company in late 1979. In February 1980, I went to North American Van Lines truck driving school and purchased a truck through them. I was gone 4–6 weeks at a time. As you can guess, that doesn’t make for a strong marriage. After fifteen years of marriage and being away from God we ended up divorced. We were both at fault here, not just by the poor decisions we made, but because we had turned our backs on God, and Satan just had his way with us. I remarried in 1983 and she remarried in 1985. I sold my truck and got off the road and moved to Tennessee in the fall of 1984.

My second wife was complaining about me being gone so much. I had lost the love of my life over driving; I didn’t want another divorce. Well in the winter of 1987, I ended up divorced anyhow. You see when you don’t follow God, Satan has a field day with you.

In September of 1988, I went up to Ohio to see my sons and my Dad. Brian and his then girlfriend (his wife now, Maria) was about to have a baby and I wanted to buy them a gift for the baby. Brian had moved, and I didn’t have his new phone number. I called Joyce and asked for his new number and also asked her what they may need. She said they needed a car seat and that she could get me a discount at Sears where she worked. I met her the next day and bought them the car seat. We then went to lunch in the mall. She could tell I was very unhappy and sad because of the way my life had turned out. She started to cry and said I was too good a man for all this bad to be happening to. We then left the restaurant; while walking thru the mall, I asked her if she had to return to work. She said no, so I asked her if she wanted to go for a drive.

She said I will follow you anywhere; I said even to Tennessee? She said YES!! I asked her what her husband would think about that? She said he wouldn’t be too happy, but he knows how she still felt about me. I really believe we were meant to be together, but because we forged ahead and got out of God’s plan for us, it all fell apart.

She moved to Tennessee in November of 1988. She was able to transfer to a Sears near our home. In Jan 1988, I began working for Builders Transport in LaVergne, TN as a dispatcher. The terminal manager that interviewed me asked me if I had ever dispatched before. I said no, but I have been dispatched. He asked me if I knew how to work a computer and I said no but I have hauled a bunch of them. Bless his heart he hired me anyway. In the fall of that year they opened a flatbed office at this terminal. I became the terminal manager of this fleet. I remained the manager until Spring of 1998 at which time I left them because they were going out of business.

I went to work for Deaton Truck Lines as a recruiter working out of my home. It was a real sweet deal until the VP that hired me left 2 months later. That’s when my eyes were opened, and I could see I was on another sinking ship. In July of 1998, I was asked to come to Cuba, Alabama for an interview with McElroy Truck Lines. They were going to open a terminal in middle Tennessee and was looking for a terminal manager. Going to work for MTL was one of the best moves of my life. I worked there 17 years, retiring in August 2015.

Keep in mind the only time Joyce and I had ever darkened the door of a church was when we were married in 1989. We bought a new home in 1989, owned a boat, car and pick-up truck. We were debt free in 1998 and had all we needed. In early June 2007, I came home from work one day and planted my keister in my chair. Joyce said we need to talk; man, I hate them grown up talks. We had all we needed but I could tell she wasn’t really truly happy. She said she had been watching the 700 club and had turned her life back over to Christian Testimony Book.

I don’t have the words to explain to you how that made me feel. I was relieved in some way to know she would be serving God again. You see I had always blamed myself for our failures especially with God. Then she said I can’t do this alone. I told her I was happy for her, but I wasn’t ready for that. I told her I was happy and that I had all I needed. That’s when she said I know you’re not ready and you have almost all you need, but there is one thing missing in your life. I said, What’s that? She said JOY.

For the first time in forty years the Holy Spirit of God spoke to me. You see when I was seventeen, I told God I would never ask Him for anything. I felt like I wasn’t’ worthy of His grace or His mercy. After all I had been through, I never once cried out to Him. But suddenly He started talking to me. He loved on me for three solid months. We started attending River of Life Church in Smyrna, TN. I would go on Sunday mornings with my wife. Sometimes the music would make me cry, but when the altar call came I headed for the door. I wasn’t going to get saved for my wife and I wasn’t ready.

Again, the Holy Spirit talked to me daily, almost hourly; He wouldn’t let up. Every time I gave Him an excuse why I couldn’t serve Him, He gave me a reason why I could. After three months of this, I was losing my mind. My wife was going to the Ladies’ Monday morning prayer meetings lifting me up in prayer.

September 17th, we went to the morning service; I bolted out the door during the altar call. Late that afternoon my wife and I were sitting on the patio. I told her my biggest regret in my life was that I didn’t raise our sons in church. She said you’re still their Daddy and you’re still alive; it’s not too late.

I said let’s go to church tonight. I can’t remember what the preacher preached on that night, but I hit that altar at the end of the service. I cried out to Jesus and asked Him to forgive me!! I was SNOTT SLINGING SAVED!! God came down and LOVED ON ME, He set me free from alcohol, nicotine and porn. I was free and free at last. When I stood up, the Monday Morning Ladies’ prayer group was standing there over us the whole time we were at the altar.

Long story short, in 2012 I started a Chaplaincy program called Channel 21 Ministries for truck drivers. We have helped over 150 Truck Drivers Ministries become a Road Chaplain. We have had over one hundred folks saved through this program. God has been so faithful. I received my minister’s license in 2011 and I am currently Care Pastor at River of Life, Founder and Senior Chaplain for Channel 21 Ministries. God has been so good to Joyce and me. We have seen miracle after miracle occur in the past 11 years.

I pray that God will reveal Himself to you if you are not walking with Him. He is a loving God and it is never too late to come home. I was 57 years old and He saved my soul!!! You can call me anytime!