“Through his grace, I have realised that I don’t need to be in control of everything and that in him is everything I need.”
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“I laid all outcomes down and put my full trust and confidence in God and did not give up.”
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“The reality is that I was good at running marathons, but the truth is that I had always been running the wrong race.”
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“I had quite an idealistic view of the world, but that bubble burst during a very difficult time of my life.”
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“My sense of self-worth and identity was very much tied to others’ approval, and most of the things I did was just to alleviate the deep sense of emptiness and loneliness I felt.”
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“God wants relationship not with some spruced-up, Instagrammable version of myself, but with the real, complicated, deeply flawed me.”
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“At a time when I thought that I needed to have value to be loved, God sought me out and told me that I had nothing to offer Him, not my intellect or anything that I could do for Him, but that He still loved me because I am His.”
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“I hit rock bottom – waking up on the concrete floor of a jail cell…there wasn’t much to be proud of anymore. I went home that day, crawled into bed, and cried like a baby. I could feel that my life had slipped away from me. I was no longer in control. Sin controlled my life and I was alone. But in that darkness, Jesus appeared.”
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“I no longer crave to be socially accepted, but now I’ve the eyes to see who’s struggling and is in need of the gospel. I’m no longer chasing after functional saviours, but now I’m chasing to seek after the righteousness of God and his kingdom.”
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“Amazingly, after many hours, my eyes were finally opened and I started to understand the Bible and God’s truth started to speak to me. I saw how Jesus lived, saw the love he showed to sinners, and saw the strange, extraordinary way he came to redeem us.”
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“God softened my heart and allowed me to savour, appreciate and accept his gospel and his grace…I feel free and liberated, not bound to good works or the fear of purgatory…my identity is bound only to Jesus Christ.”
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“I started getting on my knees and just saying ‘God please help me’…Words cannot express the feeling of acceptance I felt, and putting my faith in Christ, I soon began to notice changes in myself and my attitude. Freedom came from surrendering, and I needed to give up control to Christ our Lord.”
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“I realised that my bigger sin was that I had been so blind to my own sinfulness! At that moment, I felt deeply sorry for sinning against God and against people. But strangely, more than sorrow and guilt, there was an unspeakable joy and comfort in my heart: I knew that God had already solved my problem of sin and that He accepted me.”
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“Deep down, a part of me knew that I craved for the intimacy of being truly known…Through painful life lessons, God taught me to be vulnerable, and to admit to God and man that I am so broken and in need of His grace. It was through God that I found within me the capacity to forgive, and to love vulnerably again.”
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“I asked of God, ‘Why did He help me time and time again? Since He knew everything, He must know that when He helped me, I would simply reject Him and go on my way again - so why help an impenitent sinner?’ I heard a voice in my heart say that day, ‘Because I love you.’”
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“During the sessions, my previous perception of reality was destroyed…God showed me how unrighteous and undeserving of grace I was, and how I truly needed Jesus to save me from God’s well-deserved wrath...For the first time in my life, I experienced the most complete, profound, and selfless love of God.”
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“And finally with [the book of] Ruth, I read the first few passages of the bible in my life…As I read more and got to know more about Jesus, a sense of relief started to build in me. I can get that second chance, my sins can be forgiven, my prayers can be heard! I wanted, needed, must receive Christ into my life.”
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“I earnestly believed like I never had before at that point that the God of the Bible existed, that all the things my mother said and prayed about Jesus caring more for me than anyone else were true, and that he was a true friend and could help me in some way. God rescued me.”
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“The Christian girls in my school…They prayed for me, even when I least deserved prayer. They shared the gospel with me. God was working, slowly but surely. He made me realise that I was not in control of anything, and things happened truly by His grace, and not by our own strength.”
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“That day I felt God say He loves me. That day God told me that of course he knows my needs, and He knows that I am in pain. He even cares for the flowers and the birds so how can He not know. I still do not know why what happened had to happen but it was not important anymore. What was important is that God did not forsake me.“
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