Testimonies

This is where you can read and post “Born Again Again” testimonies. If you have a testimony that you would like to share, please e-mail it to testimonies@bornagainagain.org or insert it in the “Reply” section at the bottom of this page.

And they overcame him (the devil) because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony…

- Revelation 12:11

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Testimony from Shelley

Posted on 2010-01-04 23:55:09 0 comments. Top.

I was going through a really tough time on 12/31/09. I got off of work at 12:00 and wanted to go home and sleep the rest of the day away. I did come home and go to bed and ended up sleeping until 3:30. When I woke up, I heard this voice tell me to go on the facebook page of Gary Tucker. It was very strange because the only thing I knew about Gary was that he was on staff at my church. However, I went on the page anyway. When I scrolled down I noticed the website for born again again.org. I clicked on it, and the first posting was “Affirmative Negative”. To my amazement, this was my story. This was the very thing that I was going through. I cried and prayed. I thanked God for leading my to this website. It gave me the courage I needed to continue on my journey or the narrow road as I call it. I feel like God has led me down this road and despite the adversity I face with those who do not believe as I do, I know that I have to pray for strength to continue on. After all, I am sanctified and set apart. There will be many who do not understand why I think the way I do, but the Lord Jesus Christ lives inside of me, and I cannot ever go back to the life I knew before developing the relationship I have now with God.

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Testimony of Shawn Hyland

Posted on 2009-08-15 14:52:25 0 comments. Top.

As many people can see from my ministry, I had a tremendous life changing encounter with Jesus during a very troubled youth. I never returned to my violent gothic past that Christ delivered me from. From the moment I bowed down to him and cried out that I do not want to live this way any longer, I don’t want to die… I just want to live for you – I was on fire (sharing my faith, living pure, growing spiritually). BUT THEN – after about 2 years the mind games of the devil begin to weaken my passion for my first love – Jesus.

I did not go back into the darkness of my past, but I began to look more at the flesh, at the riches of this world, the clothes, the sexual culture, and the selfish pride. Within months (it never happens in days), I found myself, FULL OF MYSELF and not God. I was caught up in the spirit of this world and its sexual fornication and its pride. This brought on a heavy spirit of condemnation, guilt, failure, and personal anger at my self (I could not believe what I was doing….I knew better).

Yet, the depression and guilt of my actions is what kept me from God. I thought he could never use me for the ministry which was always my hearts cry since the day I first believed. Now it seemed impossible. This cycle of thoughts kept me in bondage to condemnation and away from His grace! I married my wife at this point who would go to church every Sunday as I sat home refusing to go. I did not want the church to know who I was…what if they asked me questions…I can not tell them what I am doing or thinking (could I…?) I would sit home and scream at myself and cry while I listened to Creed play music coming from a struggling soul.

Finally one day it was over. That’s it! My wife went to church on Sunday and I did not try to stop her. There was a sense of peace about me one morning that made me look into my heart and say to myself “It’s over! Whatever you are holding onto, it’s over, let it go…” That was it. No tears, no crying, no life changing experience like I first encountered with Christ, no magnificent moment to make people shout and clap. It was real, it was inward, it was my conscience allowing me to accept that God was not done, and I was going to be alright. That is what I want to tell the spiritually bruised Christian that seems to think that his walk with Christ is over or at least it can never be what it use to be. IT’S NOT OVER and it can be better than what it used to be.

Why? Because now you know that God can not only save unbelieving sinners but he can save “Believing” sinners. Pick your self up, stop what you are doing and let it go. It will be alright!

Shawn Hyland
Move the Earth Ministries
You Move the Earth (A social Networking site for people who have been changed and want to change the world!)