Testimonies of Searching and Finding the Truth

In this Christian meeting one thing became very clear for me and this was that God did many things for me in my life but that I hadn't done anything for him. I knew that I had to take a decision in my life to either follow God 100% percent or to leave it.  

I must say I never really believed in God, but things changed when I met a fellow student at university, who gave me evidence for the Bible that I was not prepared for...

When I decided to buy “the illegal book” for a quarter of my monthly salary, I met ‘by chance’ some Americans, who gave me a brand new Bible as a present. There was no way I could call it a coincidence! The Americans also told me about having a “personal relationship with God” and this phrase affected me greatly, and I could not get it out of my head… not icons, not “saints”, not even the church – but only Jesus Christ as mediator between man and God.

When I was 19, in the year 1999, I was involved in a car accident in which my girlfriend and my cousin died. At this time, my uncle wrote to me saying I should be happy to be alive and not on my way to hell. I didn't agree... 

The next day I bought myself a Bible with the intention to show her that she wasn't right and if God was real and a loving one He would just let us do what ever we wanted, but as I read the Bible more and more over the next 3 months, I got convinced by the Word and day by day I started to think deeply about my whole life, the sins I committed... 

I grew up in an average home, finished school, and started to study librarianship in 1985. In 1988 my life was about to take another direction. It all started off with some kind of sleeplessness. For some reason I started waking up earlier and earlier. It was as if I had gotten myself into a swirl, and gradually began to see coded messages behind every corner. After a few days I had completely lost touch with reality, started to hallucinate, and found myself on an inner journey.

I realised that there was so much hypocrisy in the Catholic Church, so I stopped going there. I was drawn to an alternative life style and joined a group of friends who were into punk and heavy metal music.. and started reading people’s future from their hands (Palm Reading, Fortune Telling) after reading books about it...

I realised that if the Bible really is the Word of God, then I had better do something about it. So I spoke a lot to some Christians whom I knew, asking them questions about the Bible, about how it could be true, about whether or not it made sense and so on, but they couldn't answer all my questions... 

I had not long started a new job in 1985 when I was first introduced to someone whom I was told was a ‘born again Christian.' I immediately thought she would be some kind of ‘Bible thumping' religious fanatic so I was cautious from the beginning.To my surprise however, she never actually preached to me, nor did she ram the Bible down my throat but she did make an impression on me by... 

This testimony is about how God saved me from Pope worship, celibacy and the Catholic church, and how I became a Christian. A guy called Markus witnessed to me during a lunch break. He mentioned that he was a Christian, and when I talked to him about my concerns about the Catholic Church and why I left, he answered that the practice of celibacy is not biblical. To prove it he pulled out a Bible of his pocket and confronted me with the following scripture...

All of a sudden while Henry was praying in tongues, I clearly heard him saying „détruire la bastion“ (French for "to destroy the stronghold"). This caught my attention, especially since I am fluent in French. I answered Henry in French and asked him what he meant with this, but I found out that he couldn't understand what I was saying... 

A guy gave me a Christian leaflet when I was 16 and I talked to him for a while. The conversation stuck in me as he mentioned that Jesus Christ would return. At the time I found this absolutely ridiculous and mocked him, I was with my sister and we were running late for the cinema. But through all the laughing I was really listening to him. 

I "pushed" the conviction away and at that time I thought "that was it", but I was still feeling a bit uncomfortable. Thankfully a few weeks later, the same conviction came back to me, but this time I knew deep down that this may be my last chance to decide to follow God. 

If you think that you can use yoga only for physical training and not be affected by its spiritual side, you are wrong. You are wrong if you believe the many websites and teachers in the West who declare that yoga is just a harmless physical exercise. The Bible warns of such spiritual seduction....

I saw all the different religions around and it never occurred to me that one of these might hold all the answers. In fact, I got to the point that if I had been asked whether I believed in God, or whether or not I was a Christian, I wouldn’t have known how to reply because everything was so unclear and uncertain. Furthermore, even when I did call myself a Christian, I didn’t read a Bible or spend my time with God...

One day, some buses arrived at the church with people from abroad. When they went inside, nobody was looking after their luggage, and I decided to steal it! I quickly went and took three suitcases, before running away as fast as I could;

When I was about 11 or 12 I became a catholic. I started to believe in God and thought that the Catholic Church was the only true church. During one Christmas sermon I started to become very disappointed as I realised how superficial everything was. At this time I felt like a hypocrite in front of God. I wasn’t there with my whole heart to worship God and sang songs without knowing what I was singing. I stopped going to church at that point but I knew that God was real and there was a way to God which I hadn’t found yet...

God has performed a great miracle in him! ... When Peter flew over to Australia, he was depressed, desperate and unhappy with his situation. He did not have a purpose in his life and even entertained thoughts of suicide... 

When I was a little child, I was always thinking, “Why do people exist, anyway?” As much I puzzled over it, I never came to a satisfying conclusion...