This is my first testimony of my story as part of God’s grand story, and it is a significant milestone on my journey of faith. I am so excited to share it with you.
Before I begin, would like to thank our sovereign God for the gift of life, the opportunity to be his image-bearer and the spirit-filled conviction to be a disciple of his son, and our saviour Jesus Christ.
“It wasn’t where I thought we’d meet. But I met Jesus in 2019, in a car park not far from where I lived.”
I was born into a Christian family and was baptised-confirmed (almost ordained a Catholic priest in 1989) and married in 1999.
Before I met Jesus, for many years I experienced poverty & abuse, joy & sadness, sin and forgiveness, and then some serious challenges with my late wife Ethel battling cancer in 2018. During a year of hardship in 2019, I lamented to Jesus and asked him if he was truly always there as he promised in Matthew 28:20.
He answered me and since that first meeting in a lonely car park nor far from where I lived, I have never felt alone.
As he had promised, he was right by my side through the profound and painful loss of Ethel in 2020. I began to know and love him for the good shepherd he claimed to be in John 10:14. I surrendered to him and was renewed in him.
This feeling of joy and love in knowing Jesus is beyond words. However, the Word of God in Hebrews 11:1 says it perfectly. “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”
I did not see Jesus, yet I had met my Lord & Saviour. By faith alone, I now believe in the cross of Calvary and that Jesus has saved my soul.
In 2021, by faith in divine ordination I got to know Rachel, we met and married on the same day in 2022, and in faith we surrendered completely to God’s will for us.
I became free from all my burdens through the love of Jesus which started with a simple question.
Lord, are you always there?
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