Your Praise Reports and Testimonies Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits-- Who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, Who satisfies your desires with good things. (Psalm 103:2-5 NIV) • to submit your Praise/Testimony Reports Click here My new life with God started in 1987 Feb 2 1987, my fiancé took me to a word Church and I accepted the Lord, something, if you asked me 4 months before I would never have thought of doing, why you might ask. Well I thought I was a Christian, I knew about Jesus, I went to church occasionally, my kids attended Lutheran grade and highschool, I believed He was to son of God. But I didn't know Jesus personally, He was not my personal savior. For many years I searched for God in all the wrong places, I wanted more of God than I was getting at my local Lutheran Church. I wanted God in my life, I wanted a closer walk with Him, and I didn't know how to get it, I became a new-ager, I had a guru, I meditated and it scared me, I would get power rushes and it seemed I might have been a little closer too something, but I don't think it was God, He was still very far from me. I ended up with closer relationships with my other new-age buddies, a personal club, the thing church should have given me, a sense of belonging. But I was still empty, a gigantic hole inside of me nothing could fill. A trip to India didn't do it, talks with the guru didn't get me closer to God. I was awash in delusion for seven more years, walking in a manufactured fog. Then I met my husband and he started to literally drag me to church with him, almost kicking and screaming, until the power of God fell on me, then you couldn't keep me away. I wanted to feel Gods love, to know that He cared about me, not just to know with my mind because someone told me, but to feel it in my heart and soul and know that I knew. I didn't find that until I accepted Jesus Christ into my life as Lord and Savior. I cried and cried all during the service, Amazing grace always made me weepy, but not like this. I was shaking like a leaf, I wanted Jesus in the worst way, I wanted to belong to Him. I raised my hand and walked forward at the alter call and accepted the Lord into to my life, and have never regretted it. I have peace, even when things in my life are in flux and there are trials. I know my God is at the helm of my rocky ship and I do not need to fear. He has my best interests at heart and no matter what it may look like, God is in control, I just need to trust Him, Laying down your life at the alter is trusting that even if they take your life, God will lift you up and carry you off and eternity will be within His arms. I know that I know God Loves me. I never knew that in my heart before I was saved. He gives you a knower in the form of the Holy Spirit. That will carry you through your trials and tribulations with a peace and grace that baffles the world because they just don't get it until they too accept the invitation of Jesus Christ to give up their empty life and find a new life in Him. Trudi Weisser The Goodness of God I was brought up in a traditional church. The Lord gave me a Christian husband, later took us out of the traditional church, and we met many new brothers and sisters in Christ. At one point in my life I needed surgery. Because I was given wrong medication I was near to heart failure. But with the Lord and a new physician my health was restored. At sixteen years of age our oldest son broke his neck. He was completely paralyzed for four months, just before Thanksgiving day the Lord started a healing process in his body. The doctors and hospital staff said it was a miracle. Two others sons were delivered from drug abuse and all the gross things that go with this. A grand daughter with serious learning disabilities is helped tremendously by Christian teachers and she has a great love for the Lord. The Lord Jesus is our healer, our deliverer and comforter in time of trouble. He makes a way where there seems to be no way. I want to give Him all the praise and glory. Audrey K Doctor Mystified I was having a problem with my cycle. I went to my Doctors office, and was examined. He told me that my uterus was enlarged to the size of a four month pregnancy, and that the probable cause was fibroid tumors and the usual treatment for this condition was a hysterectomy. He made an appointment for me to have an ultra sound to confirm his diagnosis, then he would send me to a Gynecologist. I asked for prayer, and was anointed with oil. A few days later I went for my ultra sound. When the results came in, it was not what my Doctor expected. No tumors were found and my uterus was only slightly enlarged, nothing to be concerned about. They also found a possible cyst, but they weren't very sure about that. Upon hearing this, my Doctor wanted to re-examine me. This time, he found the same results the ultra sound showed. He told me the problem must have been caused by the cyst and it had taken care of itself, as they often do. To my surprise, a week later the nurse called and said that the Doctors would like to examine me again after one or two normal cycles. I didn't know why he wanted to see me again, so when I went back for my 3rd examination, I asked him about it. He told me, "I still think something must have happened between the first and second time I saw you." He tried to figure out some sort of explanation, I told him, " I think something happened too... we prayed about it!" Lynn K