| Testimony
So we all have those stories of getting when we were like 5 right? We can all say that we got saved young and it won't really make a difference, but I see being saved is when you say to the Lord, God USE ME, WORK IN ME,and most of all LIVE IN ME. Well, I got saved when I was 10, at an Easter Ilustrated Sermon, put on by Victory. I didn't really realize what this whole promise was about but I did believe. I didn't really feel a passion to save my friends. I really had no passion. I think basically the only reason why I got saved at that time was because I didn't want to go to hell. Well when i was in 6th grade around the age of 11 or 12, i went to Youth For the Nations Church camp in Dallas, Texas. There It was so amazing and powerful. I spoke in tounges for the very first time. They told us to stand there and speak to God, in our own language. It was quite silly to me at first,but after a few days, I just started giving my all to God,and I spoke in tounges. It was amazing and powerful,and I had the passion,and fire for God. After church camp though that soon died. I didn't really have a passion for God, I knew I loved him and believed in him,but it was like the Fire was gone! Well a year later I went to church camp again,Only it was a different church camp it was called Extreme Camps. I am not really the whole outdoor type girl. I am just not. So it was basically a bunch of obsticle courses,and like extreme stuff. It wasn't my thing. And the messages, they just weren't as powerful as YFN's messages,and the Praise & Worship wasn't as powerful. After that camp I felt kinda let down , because I wanted the fire back. I had a deep down desire to make a difference Well the next year I heard my youth group was going to YFN, well at least high school was,and I was going into the 9th grade, so I got to go- originally i would of had to go back to Extreme camps, but I requested to go with High School to YFN. Last year at YFN, was the most powerful experiece I had ever been at. It was truely amazing. I have chills right now just thinking about it. The first,and second day I had this burning desire to see God,for it to be truely amazing. Deep down I wanted to change I wanted the fire back,and I wanted something. I didn't know what, i just expected to see God. I wanted to see him so bad I had a burning passion to see him. Well on Tuesday I saw him. I cried out for my generation ,and spoke in tounges, I couldnt even stand up straight. I felt heavy. I felt him so completely. I pursued God completely with my whole heart,and he responded. Later that night, I asked one of my friends if anything had happened to her. She said no,and she didn't understand why something so powerful could happen to me and not her. I asked her if she had pursued God with her whole heart,and she said she had. I really think you must want him so bad with your whole heart and you give him everything to prove to him you want to see him. But anyways It upset me really badly so I went and talked to one of the people from YFN about it. She said that the devil was just trying to get me down , just trying to steal the passion,and the fire of God. So I felt better. Well the next night was amazing. The Wednesday night service was truely amazing. I spoke in tounges,and the preacher guy told us to line up on the wall ,and we did, and he came around and he came by me touched me and went BOOM,and I fell to the ground instantly. I fainted. They put a blue cloth on me. I tried to get up,but i couldnt so when i finally woke up, there were people that had fainted and not gotten up, all around me. I started praying over them in tounges. It was amazing. That experience at church camp was so truely amazing I will never forget it. Well Guess what.. I didn't loose the fire or the passion of God. I went home,and I felt like a complete outsider,and that nobody could understand me, or understand what went on. I went home a changed person. I started going to church 3 times a week. It was amazing. I have met so many awesome people, and I have a deep desire, a passion for GOD. And I still haven't lost it. God really changed my heart. And he can change yours if you let him.
-Jill Kliewer |
