Testimony

Here is an amazing story of a young man. Today he told us his testimony

"It all started in the summer after my freshman year in high school, two years ago. My Mom sent me to this Christian camp here in Florida. Before I got there I was leading a bad lifestyle; I was messing around with drugs, gangs, and a bunch of other stuff. On the last night of the camp experience, all of the kids were gathered in the church that was built in the camp. The pastor gave this sermon that cut down to the heart and had me on my knees bawling like a new born baby and repenting for my sins. But when I went home after the camp trip, I just went back to my old ways because no one bothered to disciple me. I had no one to teach me right from wrong so at day time I would go out and mess around with gangs and drug deal but at night I would repent, which is not a Christian but a hypocrite. I was doing that for about a month and a half until one day me and mom were watching the Tyra Banks show. There were these people from a Baptist church protesting that God hates fags and that all fags were going to burn in Hell and that God pretty much hates everyone. Like I said, there was no one to disciple me or teach me right from wrong, so I ended up taking their message to the heart and began believing that God was an unjust and unrighteous God for hating His own creation. So I just stopped believing in Him and became atheist. Probably a day after, satan took his opportunity. I was in my bed at night listening to a song by a band called Slipknot The name of the song is called "pulse of the maggots" which is a song about revolting against God and joining alongside satan. There comes a part in the song where the singer asks "Do you understand?" over and over again. While I was listening to the words, satan entered my mind and asked me "Do you understand?" and eventually I answered yes. From then on I became a satanist. I won't go into detail about my whole experience as a satanist but there was a lot of influence being given from satan and the demons that lead to scars of self-mutilation that I still have today, heart problems due to immense hoardings of hatred, and there was one time where I was in the presence of demons and I have never been as scared as I was during that experience. I was literally scared stiff and I say these things for your sake so that you can understand that I was exclusively being lead by satan. I was completely hate-filled. I only had intentions of hating God with all of my heart and lived this way for the longest 4 months of my life. But one night I was listening to a song by a band called Evanescence. The song's called "tourniquet" and it's a song about someone who tried to kill their own pain through their own efforts which only lead to complete despair, when suddenly this person realized that what they needed was what they were running away from the whole entire time; Christ, our Lord. God just opened me up completely and made me realize that what I was following was a lie and that the only truth and the only true rest and comfort could be found in Him alone. That night I cried over all that I had done to my savior, despite the fact that the demons had so much control over me, their power simply could not compare with God’s, Amen. I prayed to God for understanding of the things that I simply did not understand and which lead me astray from Him in the first place. Not only has He been blessing me with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding ever since but He has also adopted me as His son by His Spirit. Looking back at it, I remember how sacrilegious I was and how much I hurt God. I spit in my Savior’s face and defiled His name and instead of Him kicking me out of His domain of love, like any earthly father would do, I ran away from Him and He came running after me so that He could give me a love that cannot be found anywhere else. That right there is enough for me to want to give up my life and follow Christ wherever He leads me. That’s my testimony."