My
name is Michael Gotwalt, I’m 30 years old and I come from Maastricht.
When I was about 12 years old, my parents divorced after they had been married for 17 years and they had 6 children. This situation really got me down, I almost didn’t see my father anymore; which caused me to turn extremely emotional and I really didn’t understand why. It didn’t bother well between my parents at all, they had big fights every day and we stood between them as children.
After my father left home, me and my brother (who was 2 years younger than I) completely lost control. We dropped out of school, wandered around the streets and we often didn’t return home in the nights. Soon we turned criminal, we committed burglary, did hold-ups etc. All this began to be accompanied with selling drugs soon; we started using all kinds of dope eventually.
It was too much for my mother to hold her own, therefore we were put into a institution. My mother and the authorities, like Juvenile Affairs and our guardians (we were supervised) soon found out that we were uncontrollable. We kept walking away and we kept continuing doing bad things as if nothing has changed. Our situation eventually worsened so we were jailed many times.
When I lost my father some day, I began to use valium on the doctor’s advice, because I suffered from severe fears, panic attacks and hyperventilation. I began to use it more heavily so I didn’t need to think too much about this life and about all this misery. Of course it all didn’t work, so I went on using drugs and alcohol again. Some day, the use became so devastating that I ended up using cocaine, speed and XTC on a daily basis, and I also used alcohol and valium together so as to become more stable.
I got extremely aggressive by using all this shit and nothing and nobody didn’t have any interest to me. Because I found myself between the gangs, I often was threatened and intimidated. Due to this high stress in my life and the overuse of alcohol and drugs, my hatred got stronger and in the end I decided to buy a gun myself. I since kept wearing it with me, often loaded, and I decided not to accept anything from anybody.
Some day, I went online on my computer and I played with the gun at the same time. I wasn’t aware that the gun happened to be cocked and I scratched on the back of my head with the gun; and then the gun accidentally went off. I was very shocked by this and I went into the garden crying out (because I realised that if I were to die now, I certainly would go to hell). I simply couldn’t believe it, but the gun didn’t go off despite the fact that it was loaded. After this, I put away the gun and I didn’t want to see it ever again.
But I just went on using drugs and alcohol. There came a time, I had a huge backlog in paying my rent. I was evicted because of this and of other problems. I went into my mother’s house who wasn’t happy with it at all. As my mother wasn’t allowed to house me and my brother because of the past, she quickly made us clear that I had to leave, else it would cause trouble with the authorities for her.
Now I had it all. I was totally stressed, because I didn’t have any clue where I was supposed to live and I thought I would be turned out into the street again. One night I was watching TV with my mother and suddenly I got an SMS message of my cousin. It questioned whether the things I was doing would be right and about what would happen to me if I were to die. By the way, my cousin was a Christian and it seemed if he felt about my situation. I called him the day after and talked him all about it, he then asked me what I wanted to do now. I said ‘I don’t know’ as I didn’t see a way out because of all this stress.
He told me he wanted to help me and that I could live in his house. I was very happy with this. He took me home the very same evening. The day after, I went to church with him (evangelic church The Door). It ended with me crying out on my knees at the altar where I did the sinners’ prayer with somebody of the church.
All of a sudden, all the burden rolled away, I was happy again and I immediately experienced God’s love. God set me free from my fear, panic attacks and hyperventilation right away. I don’t long for drugs and alcohol anymore; I also stopped using valium after 7 years. The aggression was gone and I just feel only rest, joy and peace ever since.
I’ll tell you guys, if just such a big sinner as I can be forgiven from all my sins and be set free from all these things by virtue of Jesus Christ, wouldn’t He be able to do so with you too?
The
greatest miracle of my life
Hi, I’m
Erwin Gotwalt, I’m 29 years old and I live in Maastricht.
My parents divorced when I was about 2 years old. At first, I stayed with
my mother. But later, when I still was a little child, she put me and my two
sisters in a sisters’ convent and she left for Ireland. Some time later,
it was about before Christmas, my father heard of this and pulled me out with
my grandpa. My father brought us up ever since. Later, when I was four years
old, my father got a new woman with a son one year younger than I. We became
a family again.
When I was 8 years old, my elder sister died by a car accident 100 meters from our house. Hence, my family broke in sorrow and missing. My father got deeply depressed and he didn’t know how move on. It was at that time we began seeking God. We simply couldn’t imagine that life would just end and that my sister wouldn’t exist anymore. Ever since, I began to believe in God and Jesus, heaven and hell.
We visited the Roman Catholic Church every Sunday and we visited many pilgrimage places of which it was claimed that Maria would have appeared there. Also, we went to places where the by the Catholic Church declared saints lived. The people up there all knelt down for statues and the bodies of these deceased. They kissed them, they touched them, they knelt down for them, we did likewise. We often went to confession, but actually, I never dared to say what kind of sins I committed that time. In fact, I was a real hypocrite, because I lived in sins and I did all kind of wrong things. I believed in God but I wasn’t converted.
My father was a karate teacher and he gave lessons in our garage and in diverse rooms. As it is common for Eastern philosophy that martial arts are being passed over from father to son, so did my father learn me. We repeatedly watched combat movies of Bruce Lee and Jean Claude van Damme, I was completely hooked on it.
When I had a fight on the streets, when somebody slapped me, my father got mad and he kept watching until I had him back. Or the police stood at the front of the door. Fighting on the streets and at schools wasn’t uncommon to me, nor seeing to the headmaster for an explanation.
I have seen my mother for a scarce three times in my whole youth, and even at birthdays I didn’t get a birthday card. I got a strong feeling of rejection by this and my image of women changed as a result. When I was 12 or 13 years old, my stepmother and my father also divorced. I stayed with my father, then with my stepmother. We often played them off against one another. I began to smoke at that time: shag, weed and hashish. My father found a pipe in my coat pocket. As he smoked too, I was simply allowed to smoke it at home.
Better in my
house, he thought, than for me smoking all kind of trash on the streets. This
blowing became my daily practice from mornings to evenings.
Later, I also began to use hard drugs: ecstasy, cocaine, speed, funguses and
LSD. I was used to drink alcohol with them. Going out and house parties became
my life. I stopped at school at age 16 and I went to work.
I never had real relationships with girls. I once found a girl I loved very much and I really wanted to go on with her, but she cheated me some day and that broke my heart. Since that time, I began to picture women as objects. When I found out that I could sleep with them, I went for it. Sometimes I completely fooled them. I knew my lifestyle was wrong and I often prayed for forgiveness but to do it again. It often turned out to be that I got in troubles by taking too much drugs or other stupid things, that I actually put my life in danger. I called out to God and Jesus and it always ended well.
One day, I got in serious trouble by my sinful lifestyle that I ended up tied up and stabbed down in my chest a few times. My lungs were perforated and I thought ‘my life is over’ and I was going to accept that I was dying. Suddenly then, a lot of things came through my mind, all the things I have done, and I realized that if I were to die right now, then I’d go to hell. The notion simply was there. Also I thought of my father who lost a child before and now would he see me like this when he’d return home. At that moment I called out ‘Please God, help me!’ and God could have given me supernatural strength, because I was weakened by the heavy loss of blood and I was completely tied up. I could wrestle me out and I ended up in the hospital.
The time afterwards I had been filled with hatred and feelings of guilt about my bad lifestyle. I continued using drugs and alcohol heavily. I focused all my hatred on my combat sport and this became my god. I was sexually immoral.
One day, I was approached by people of evangelic congregation The Door. I knew of this congregation because I’ve been there some three times with my father. These people handed out a flyer with a testimony of someone I knew from my neighborhood. It appealed to me because I barely knew young people who believed in God and Jesus, and I always was a bit ashamed of it.
In that time, I often was approached by people of The Door, and I decided to take a look. I heard that you could have a relation with the Lord Jesus Christ, but also it’s no way that God and sins could go together and that your sins stand like a wall between you and God. I also heard about the necessity of repenting from your sins, which means a regret up to the level that you don’t want to do it anymore. That you repent from your sins, and give your life to Jesus Christ.
This process went up and down, but I asked Jesus in my heart and I converted from my sins. I stopped combating and fornication (premarital sex) and God has been changing me. He did a miracle in my heart, I don’t want to do the sins anymore. He delivered me from the drugs and alcohol as I don’t need them anymore at all. He delivered me from senses of rejection and my feeling of guilt. He took away the hatred in me and stuffed me with love and compassion for the people instead. He learned me – instead of picturing women as objects of lust – to put a value on women as a creation of God with feelings that are worth waiting for and to keep yourself clean before marriage. He learnt me to forgive people, for that reason I began to search contact with my real mother - who begot me - and I come there occasionally. I found out by a dream of the Lord and by reading the Bible that worshipping Maria, having statues, lighting candles before them and to kneel before them is sin and I converted from them too. I know this because I prayed the Lord the night before to show me all that was yet wrong with me and to be with me in my dreams also. And I dreamt I was in my own house and I saw myself putting out all my statues. And I did accordingly. I know now that it’s only God who deserves the honor and the worship; and this is the Father, the Son and the Spirit, they are one God.
I know now that
Jesus paid the price at the cross for my sins. He was punished in my place
and now I have the certainty that I will be allowed to come to heaven, by
His grace only. Praise Jesus, praise God.
I now have a genuine relationship with God and I do experience Him in my life.
He often made me to feel His love when I was praying, I’ll tell you
that was so intense, so fantastic, no drugs can be compared to it. He filled
my with His Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is leading me, is giving me strength,
is showing me the truth, is admonishing me, at times so intense that my heart
is bouncing crazy when He wants me to do something for Him. He gives me the
strength to witness, to evangelize on outreach and to preach at work, while
I felt embarrassed for it before. Jesus, He is my Savior, my Redeemer, my
Healer, my Restorer, and much more. It is so great to know Him and to have
Him as Lord.
If you don’t know Jesus yet and if you still don’t have a relationship with Him, know that you are hurting Him, others and yourself with your sins. Come repent and convert, give your life to Jesus, I guarantee you, it will be great.
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Testimony of Nienkelet
I
already decided to believe in God early in my life. And yes, I always did
my best to be a good person. I liked to go to church with my parents and I
also joined the youth clubs with enthusiasm. Though, I found out that I was
one of the few of my age who is interested in God.
But I didn’t realize much what it is in being a Christian throughout
life for me. I didn’t call myself a Christian but a believer instead,
because I thought the first sounded a bit too radical.
When I almost got 18, I moved to Texas for working as an au pair up there. I took a Bible with me, because I was keen on reading what stood in it. I thought the Bible would be very difficult.
In Texas I decided to visit the Lutheran church. This one looked like most closely to that of my parents. A youth leader led the Bible studies there and, again, it was I that showed up as the only one. It seemed as if I were the only 18-year-old who was interested in God. The rest of the church members were 40 and older I guess…
But one day, the youth leader took me to a Dallas Holm concert, a Christian singer. Between the songs, he told what it meant to be a Christian. At the end of the concert, he did an altar call for those who didn’t know Jesus yet. This strongly drew me closer to it. It seems like he had just me in mind; as I called myself a believer but I didn’t have the idea that I really knew Jesus. I went forward to pray and I promised Jesus and God to live for Him from that moment on.
At that very moment a huge burden fell off me. At once, I experienced that this had been the most important decision of my life. A step of mine toward Him - something that God has waited for a long time…
I immediately noticed that I began to look differently upon life, I reckoned that I really was ‘born again’, it was just like I got a couple of new, ‘spiritual’, eyes. The Bible became an open book to me. God knows you and He knows exactly what you need. It is very familiar to pray to God now and to call Him Friend or Father!
I would never
want to live a life without Jesus Christ anymore, and especially not without
the certainty that I am His child and that I will be with Him forever. Now
and after my death. If you are reading this, I would like to encourage you
to give your life to Jesus. He will give you a new life!
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My name is Annemieke Lindl and I’d like to put something on this website about my faith.
I’ve
been born and risen in a family of whom everybody went to church (the Dutch
Synod Reformed church) almost every Sunday. We are used to pray for dinner
and to read from the Bible. As a child, I was certain that I believed in God.
But when I became a teenager, I began to doubt. Other people at my school
didn’t believe in God at all, and I wondered ‘God, if You really
exist, what precisely are You doing all the day?’
After a couple of years, I went to a boarding school abroad. I went to the church, here and there, and once a classmate asked me to come to her evangelical church. The atmosphere there breathed joy, certainty and kindness. I kept coming there and in due time I noticed about the differences between these people and those who believed in God I knew from my childhood.
I also noticed that the preacher did altar calls to people who wanted to give their lives to Jesus, I was not used to that way of closing a church service. I thought I didn’t need to respond to the call, I already believed in God, right? But I noticed that the people of that church did let God to be involved in their decisions and their entire life. They truly have themselves led by Gods standards in the Bible and by all that they experienced of God. I saw them becoming happy and peaceful of this.
And I realized that I have been born and risen as Christian, baptized as a baby, visited church, and the like, but I never thought of God’s opinion on anything. I was used to make my own decisions and I did all that I thought I had to do. I also read in the Bible (Ephesians 2:1-10) that God sees everybody who lives in sin as spiritually dead; but those who have come to Him in faith are made alive by Christ. This salvation was made possible because Jesus wanted to die at the cross as a perfect sacrifice for reconciliation from our sins and He was risen (Romans 5:8-10). I also decided to make the choice to follow Jesus with all I had, did and thought. And I noticed a complete change in my life.
I found it difficult to believe that God would be satisfied with my choice for Him. Have I been obedient enough, have I been a good Christian, have I been sincere? But I felt very confirmed of me being a real Christian when I became baptized with the Holy Spirit some three months later by which I began to speak in tongues (a language of prayer you don’t understand yourself). I was so delighted of this blessing I received of God! The Bible says (1 Corinthians 12:10) this is a gift of the Holy Spirit and an unbeliever cannot receive this Spirit (John 14:17)
I have seen various miraculous healings as well, seen answers from prayers, I felt the ointment of God and I saw people saying things they never could have known of, unless they’d have heard it from God. God changed my heart quite a lot, so, as a result I started to help people around me instead of not be thoughtful on their problems and to think about myself first.
As God is always with me and Who is able to give friendship, help, love without ever having nasty traits (as all people have them), I found out that deep in my heart, I am not looking for friendship and acceptation that desperately anymore as I did before.
God is my Friend and He
accepted me, and if somebody can’t or won’t do, that would be
a pity, but it’s not the end of the world! Make a choice for Jesus too,
it’s the best thing you can do!
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Hi,
I’m Wime.
I’m 17 years old and I come from the country of Angola. I went to Holland
when I was 10, together with my brother. My parents didn’t come with
us to Holland due to the actual situation of the country that time. And I
haven’t seen them since 9 years.
It has been difficult for me as a child to grow up without parents. At some moments, I missed that love parents give to their children.
I always pictured
myself as being all alone in the world. Without anybody to support me, because
you don’t have parents. And you had only one family member to help.
But if that person would not be there for you at the moment, you had to manage
your life on your own.
When I was 13 years old, I lived with my brother in a house in Maastricht.
But as the months passed by, I could clearly notice that my brother wanted
to care for me, but he was not able to cope with the task, because he was
17 years old that time. So things didn’t go like we wanted it to be.
So we have been set apart after one year of living together with my brother.
I had to learn to live on my own at age 14 in a livelihood training programme.
I’ve been living there for 3 years.
And it was in
that time I came across an old friend of mine. She once invited me to come
to an evangelistic church, to ‘the Door’. At first I didn’t
want to come, because I thought by myself: I don’t need God at all.
A couple of months later they asked me again to come and I just thought then:
why shouldn’t I check it out how it looks like.
And when I was there, they showed a movie in which I could recognize myself. It was just like it went about my lifestyle. It was a preacher who wanted to lead a group young men to God, them who lost everything; and I recalled he said: ‘God can give you everything back, everything that the devil took away from you’, and that touched my heart.
And I remember I thought: why wouldn’t I make the choice to start something new with God, and I converted that day. Conversion simply means that I accepted Jesus in my life, that I said: Jesus, I want Your help. And my life has been changing ever since. I have gotten to know people in church who are like family to me. And I got a father as I never dared to dream of.
And I found out about one thing: we all have a beloved one. Imagine if that would have been you who has been taken away! Wouldn’t you do anything possible to see him back again? It is the same with God. We are His beloved ones and He gave His Son to see us back again!
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Hi,
my name is Helma and I’d like to let you know that God has changed my
life!
I have been born and risen as a catholic but I didn’t experience anything of God. I had many questions about faith, but I couldn’t find any answers anywhere. In fact, strife had been in my heart all along, as if it missed something. And just like everybody else in my neighborhood, I filled up that empty spot with everything: always been busy with this and that, with friends, the going out, etc. And I wondered if that was all in my life and how you’d ever become happy.
I went through my life like this, until the moment somebody learned me that you really can get to know God, as a personal friend. I never heard of this before. I was interested and I started to pray, reading the Bible, asking things of God. And boy, I got answers!
Many prayers have been answered and a lot of things started to change in my life. Things I struggled with for many years, began to restore. The biblical words became alive for me just like that. I realized it wasn’t just boring stories of 2000 years ago, but it is telling about my life of now! It told that it was I that have bitterness in my heart, I that needed forgiveness and I that had to forgive others as well. I accepted the sacrifice of Jesus Christ at the cross and I asked forgiveness for all my sins and mischief I had done.
I decided to start a new life and do it God’s way. The consequence of it were that I was getting great peace in my heart and I began to change; after 26 years of my life - at last - I became Helma as God supposed me to be. What a relief, what a joy! I got peace and certainty in my heart as well about the Hereafter, of which I always had been afraid. God gave me the certainty that there won’t be a Judgment for me because my sins have been forgiven and I will be in heaven with Him in happiness.
I’m still experiencing God, He is performing many miracles and He is able to freshen up every life anew! It is amazing beautiful to be a child of God. So, if you don’t know Him yet; I would open up my heart for Him if I were you…
Bye, Helma.
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Dear readers,
Hallelujah!
God healed me!!!
I’m Hanneke Gadir. And I’d like to tell my testimony to the whole world!
Four years ago, I got a car accident. It caused me to leave with a whiplash. I had been living with pains in my head, neck, back and arms for four years. I couldn’t remember anything when I went to the supermarket. I had evening blindness due to that whiplash. At one night, I had to crawl over the floor to my bed after my shower, because I couldn’t stand at my own feet, it was like I was paralyzed.
I couldn’t do my job as shop assistant, the job I always did. I couldn’t even work for 20 hours per week, after 2 days I lay ill in bed. I changed, I quickly withdrew because I couldn’t handle the daily pressure. I couldn’t go out shopping anymore. When I walked too long I got more pain than I already had. To put it briefly: everyday, it had been a torment to go through the day.
But I am somebody who would keep on going, so I did. I wanted to move on at every cost, so nobody could notice what was wrong. But those that knew me, did notice something on me when they saw me. But I kept on believing in God that He would heal me. And it did come, after prayer there’d been a difference in pain, and I could manage it again, but it never totally disappeared, but we moved on. Almost every pastor prayed for me.
And there came the miracle!
Pastor Verplak prayed for me but I couldn’t notice a change but I was
indeed relieved and after a couple of days the pain in my neck totally disappeared
and that is simply a big miracle, and I am so happy and I am so grateful to
God! I can do my job again. No more pressures on my head, I can use my arms
again, I am no more badly minded because of the pain in my body, my legs are
strong again. I’m working fulltime up to 50 hours, which I wasn’t
able to do for four years! When I worked a day, I was totally up!
Couldn’t walk because of the pain, but I’m working again. I can
be myself again and got back the happiness, no more pain, great!!
So I challenge you, if you are ill, give God a chance! Don’t give up, keep praying. As God says ‘In My due time’ and I did wait, and I did move on, and now I am able to say after four years: God did a very big miracle. I’m healed! I’m so grateful to God that I can give this testimony.
Bye, Hanneke Gadir
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Hi, my name is Erik Smits and I'd like to tell you something.
I
am 18 years old and I grew up in my church since age six. I always enjoyed
to be in church, until I became thirteen…
I arrived at an age by which I had to make my own decisions. On the one hand I saw my 'friends' doing things that seem exciting and attractive to do, experimenting a little with smoking, soft drugs, going out and take a drink, it seemed so easy to get along with a nice girl. They seemed so happy! But it all turned out to be only momentary and I could observe it on them. I saw them keeping mental and sometimes physical wounds from that.
All these things attracted to me; but deep in my heart, I knew of the hazards and where they would end up. But on the other hand, I knew of a loving God who is able to heal people and heal broken relationships! This is not a sales pitch, it is certainly true because I really saw that happening with my own eyes! In Tilburg people visited church, they were deep in sorrows and very depressed, they accepted Jesus as their Saviour and I can't recognize them back anymore in just a short time! I knew this was real because I saw all that happening many times!
For instance, a friend of mine had eczema. He had such painful itches, he had to cry of it! I prayed for him, I laid my hands on the sore spot and I rebuked the pain, the itches and the eczema to leave in the Name of Jesus Christ and God did the miracle right there! The pain and itches were all gone! And the most beautiful of all is the fact that the eczema itself completely disappeared! I can't do that myself, this couldn't have happened by my own strength, but God who proved to me and my friend that He was real and will be forever!
I can't testify of a completely changed life, though, I never did have to be involved in the sins, the addictions and the sorrows of this world! And I don't long for them, because God protected me against them and He already gave me real satisfaction, and contrary to many young fellows, I have a real goal to live for!
I am completely sure I am heading for heaven! Maybe this would sound strange in your ears, especially when it's said by a 18-year-old boy, but I know God is reality!
Be honest with yourself, did you get real satisfaction by all the things you do now? Maybe you felt satisfied, although only for the moment! But I know God can give you real satisfaction and He wants to give it to you, but you'll have to open up for it yourself!
God has given a free will to every man; that is why many things go wrong in this world. People make wrong choices, do stupid things; as a result, every war can be explained that way.
Real happiness can to be found in Jesus Christ! You can have a real relationship with your Creator! Give God the chance and experience what God can do within you!
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Hi my name is Romke and I will gladly tell you the fabulous things God did for me.
When I was nineteen years old, I converted, which turned out to be the great turn in my life. Before, I lived according to my own way. I held strong principles on issues what was right and wrong. If anyone did not behave along my standards, then I all rejected them. That were one of the reasons why I became really lonely. I got very depressed, I had no idea where to go to. I did not have the faintest idea about my future. Whether I would become a successful businessman or end up in the gutter, I did not have any clue.
I knew about a women who did not only talk about God and faith, but she also lived to biblical standards. I went to visit her. She told me that I needed Gods mercy, and that I needed to repent from my sins.
I
was convinced about my own sins and immediately it occurred to me that I
didn't even comply to my own standards! One of my basic principles
was never to lie. Whenever I did not want to lie, I did it anyway. Just as
with other wrongful things. I also smoked, drank, I did anything what was
bad. Well, I gave my heart to Jesus and God came into my heart. Immediately
I experienced His love, warmth and peace. It is hard to describe, all I can
say is: it is fantastic.
If you would bump into me somewhere and I were to look serious, make no mistake. In my heart I always am happy. Why not go for it! Ask God into your heart. He will change your heart, your thoughts and build your character.
By the way, I am hard of hearing. Some three years ago I visited the Door church in Maastricht for the first time. I could understand a mere 20% of the sermon; I thought 'what he preached, that would be ok'. Now, three years later, my ears are the same, but God just skipped my limitations. I now translate complete sermons into Spanish at every service. I never heard of a hard of hearing person who could translate a presentation, sermon, or anything like that simultaneously by ear.
The other special thing is, on the Bible Conference in Zwolle many pastors from different countries come to preach in English (after every couple of sentences it is being translated into Dutch on stage). I take notes of 30-minutes sermons on three letter-sized pages in English. Whereas I could hardly note down some sentences of lectures at school.
To God nothing is impossible! I challenge you to discover all that God can do in your life! I recommend you warmly to accept Him!
Yours, Romke Hameleers
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Nine of us wrote down
their experiences with God and put them on this site for you.
Here are the introductions. Click on their photographs to read the whole story.
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Michael,
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Erwin, age 29 ...One day, I got in serious trouble by my sinful lifestyle that I ended up tied up and stabbed down in my chest a few times. My lungs were perforated and I thought ‘my life is over’ and I was going to accept that I was dying. Suddenly then, a lot of things came through my mind, all the things I have done, and I realized that if I were to die right now, then I’d go to hell... |
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Wime, age 17 ...At some moments, I missed that love parents give to their children. I always pictured myself as being all alone in the world. [...] And it was in that time I came across an old friend of mine. She once invited me to come to an evangelistic church, 'the Door'. At first I didn’t want to come, because I thought by myself: I don’t need God at all. [...] and I recalled he said: ‘God can give you everything back, everything that the devil took away from you’, and that touched my heart...
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Helma ...I had many questions
about faith, but I couldn’t find any answers anywhere. In fact,
strife had been in my heart all along, as if it missed something. And
just like everybody else in my neighborhood, I filled up that empty
spot with everything: always been busy with this and that, with friends,
the going out, etc. And I wondered if that was all in my life and how
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Romke,
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Hanneke, age 28 Hallelujah! God healed me!! Read here quickly!
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Erik,
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