I was born and risen in an average family close to Eindhoven. I had some friends and everything went well until I became a teenager. I started to be interested in various occult things; by which I got turned inwards upon myself. I couldn’t express myself nor open up myself to others. I was very sensitive to everything the others said and thought of me. Add up the adolescent itches which did no good to me at all. I didn’t dare to talk about it with my parents, so I turned inwards upon myself more and more. At a certain moment, when I was 14, I resolved to quit life and so I decided to commit suicide. This failed and my parents found out what I did. They were very grieved with this. So I knew I shouldn’t even try it again. There I was, unhappy, and I couldn’t do anything with this. I felt rejected by everybody and I stumbled through life.

I went studying nursery in Eindhoven when I was 17. I could hardly conversate, so this didn’t work because as a nurse you are supposed to be focused on other people. I quit that study and I applied at the regional mental health institute (RIAGG) and I found myself there in a conversation group between other youngsters. I did see which problems I had, such as lying out of uncertainty about what other people would think of me. But I didn’t dare to tell that in this group. Actually, I changed on the outside, I reckoned the necessity of it, yes. So I started to chat about all kind of things. But in the inner side I was unhappy and I felt rejected.

After one year, I began a new study in Maastricht. I got some friends there, I dared to tell my opinions – but on the outside, I didn’t change. My most beloved cousin died just before I moved to Maastricht. I was really all cut up about his decay. However this made me to think about life after death. What would be out there, would there be a God?

After one year, I went to a students association. I met a guy there who believed in God. He had a kind of peace over himself and I deeply desired to have this as well. I talked about God with him and he invited me to the meetings. But I never came there. He gave me a book of David Wilkerson: ‘The cross and the switchblade’. It was about a preacher who put off his TV and began to pray in the leftover time instead. He really talked with God; that was a very particular thing to me.

After some time I had to show up to take the driving test for the third time and I was upset. I was so nervous over and over again. Then I prayed my first prayer: God, If You exist, then it’s up to You to do it, because I can’t make it. I stepped in the car, and it went just like la la la, God is makin’ it. But I passed the test!! Three days later, the guy – who told me about God – had a wedding and I was invited. They had a Christian service and I really wanted to come forward at the altar call to accept Jesus as my Savior, but I feared I’d draw too much attention to me, I thought it was the bridal couple’s day after all.

A month later, I wanted to organize a meeting about the difference before and after you’re going to believe in God. I thought to find out how I’d do that. So I invited the bridegroom and he invited me for the service later. I knew I had to go there, and I went. It was the same kind of service, but this time, I did go forward. Someone prayed with me, I didn’t have a half of the clue, but I knew: this is it! This is the very thing I longed for all these years.

That night in bed, I knew I didn’t have to commit suicide anymore. I had peace in my heart and an unspeakable joy. I often longed for a friend who’d always listen to me and who’d always understand me. And I found him, a real big Friend. He listened and understood everything. I poured out my heart to Him and he was healing me – piece by piece – of rejection and all the pains I had. I began to change; I was a catty girl. I stopped lying, hatred, bitterness and smoking. Yes! Someone who unconditionally loves me. Before all this, when I went to sleep, I often felt so ashamed of all wrongdoings I did. After my conversion, I rethought about the same things and joy simply came over me, for I knew I have been forgiven.

After five years I got married, and I got ill around that time. My thyroid gland was inflamed and it was broken. I was to swallow medicines for the rest of my life. The doctor told me: You shouldn’t hope that some day, you would be healed. That’s not gonna happen. But I have seen miracles before. And I resolved to be prayed for until I were to be healed.

After a couple of years I was prayed for and I knew that I was healed then. I stopped taking in the medicines and when I felt some pain in my throat, I’d rebuke it with the blood of Jesus and it left.

After three months I needed a blood test and I went to the doctor. He said: your blood levels are good, go on like this. But I made him clear that I haven’t swallowed any medicines for three months and I told him why I did so. She found this striking. To be sure, she had me testing blood for another two months, but everything proved to be well and she officially declared that I was healed. That happened a year after I was told that this would be impossible. Yeah, with God all things are possible, literally!

I’d understand you if you say that you always heard that God wouldn’t exist or that He would just be watching. But that is not true! God sees your heart, your pain, your efforts, your problems. And He wants to and He is able to heal and change everything. It’s up to you to open the door for Him. You may be thinking, I don’t believe! Well, I didn’t believe in God yet when I took my driving test. About this, you can see God can’t wait to help you. Make that choice and see what God will do in your life!

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Hi, my name is Hans and I’m 41 years old, I’m married and I have three daughters.

I’d like to tell you about the profound change that took place in my life. Before, I used to lead a secluded life; I rarely left home. The TV was constantly on at home; that’s why I watched a lot of TV to fill my inner void. I became socially inhibited as a result. I always had lovely parents who cared much about me, but they weren’t able to take away my loneliness. I didn’t share important things and my interests with them that much. At school I was an outsider and I was bullied because I was very shy that time. I tried to escape the reality of my lonely life with books and computer games.

I was fond of fairy tales and through these, I came to the so-called Fantasy Role-Playing Games like ‘Dungeons and Dragons’. You could design yourself in these role-playing games as you wish yourself to be. You could make yourself as cool, strong, handsome and intelligent as you like; so you could become a hero and fight evil beings that threatened mankind. I earnestly wanted to be a hero because I thought my life was boring and I was unhappy with myself. Actually, I desired a different and a new life.

I discovered the magic aspect of these games. In these fantasy world, there was a physical law called magic, which could change reality within that fantasy world to your advantage. So you could become a very mighty personality in that fantasy world, as you grew alike in magic powers.
I liked the use of magic so much that I desired it to become real in my own world. I started reading occult books. Sure enough, I found out that magic is very real.

One day, I wanted to buy a book at a second-hand bookstore. When I read it, I was shocked by the contents. It talked about seceding your own body. It also mentioned mythical beings that you could meet there, it also said that you have to keep close to your body else you’d never be able to turn back again. Good that it shocked me, since some people had a near-death-experience, as they have the same kind of stories. They also seceded their own body and saw scary demon-like beings. I didn’t knew then that magic and sorcery come from the devil. God doesn’t want us to get involved in this, because of His love for us. The devil is a fallen angel, but he still possesses certain power that angels also have; and he will use these powers to delude us with the argument there’s nothing that could steal away our soul away from God. For Satan is the father of lies.

I went studying in Maastricht. At school, I came across a girl who wasn’t a popular person like me. But she proved to have a way with words, so I admired her. She was able to hurt people very well with the words she spoke out. I wanted that too, because I wanted to learn to stand up for myself. But some day, I noticed a changing in her. She stopped slandering and lying. She stopped smoking. It seemed she became much happier and joyful. And she started talking about Jesus.

She talked much about Him with me. I called myself a Christian, but I was aware that I didn’t behave like one. And she did things a Christian ought to do; that is something I wanted too. Moreover, I was looking for value for my life; which was nowhere to be found. So when this girl said me that God has counted every hair lock on my head and that He is waiting for me to receive me with open arms. Just like the father did with his son in the parable of the Prodigal Son. This touched my heart, because I didn’t know God as my Father. Although I didn’t allow myself to be convinced, her words worked through in my heart. However, at home, I went on my knees and – with tears in my eyes – I begged God for forgiveness of my sins and I asked Him if He wanted to give me a new chance. I declared that I would follow Jesus from that moment on. My loneliness disappeared instantly.

Through that girl, I found out there was an evangelic congregation in Maastricht and she invited me to come. I went there and the preacher preached about something that deeply touched me, as if the sermon has been written for me. I went forward at the altar call. God radically changed my life ever after.

I’m married with that girl now. She is a fantastic woman and I’m sharing three great daughters with her. Wonderful blessings of God.

Afterwards, I discovered that God gave me the very thing I always have longed for: a new life. He wants to use that life to use it well. So I can be a hero for God with my friends in the church, by bringing the Gospel to this sick world to save people from Judgment and Hell, to save them from spiritual monsters. I also discovered that God proved to be stronger than any magic or any magic spell. God is stronger than the devil, stronger than all kinds of sin. God wants to give you the victory. God wants to give you a new identity. A new plan. God has value for you; something the world cannot offer you. For God is the One who really loves you. He proved His love for you when he went to the Cross for your sins and to help you to change and to open up the Way to Heaven. Grab that chance and choose to become His child.

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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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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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