"Manny Will Be Back, He Gets Religious From Time to Time"

[@ShadowRonan]

I need to be saved. I’m tired of going through the motions but not being changed at all. This testimony, among others, encourages me to keep seeking God. Prayers would be appreciated

[@byourfruit7058]

Praying for you Michael. When we finally come to the end of ourselves and acknowledge that we cannot save ourselves and that sin must be put to death. We die daily, picking up our cross and denying ourselves, God does the work in the heart...draw close to him and truly believe that all of his word is true.

[@danielmckee2716]

Keep seeking Christ as your only means of salvation. Pray against unbelief (Mark 9:24) This testimony is exactly how I grew up, playing Church but denying God by my lifestyle. Not until I humbly sought for salvation and truth in Christ and Christ alone did I come to assurance of faith.

[@coalminersdaughter]

Praying

[@leewatson9000]

Praying for you to surrender your life to the authority of Jesus Christ. I pray that means something to you. Latch on to an elder Christian.

[@TheBibleStory]

Prayed for you. Jeremiah 29:13. Seek God with all your heart, in His word and prayer.

[@rodneyclements6190]

I led a life extremely similar to yours brother, the shameful truth is I was 47 when God reached out and saved me! His grace is sufficient. His word is sufficient. His timing is sufficient. Everything about the living God we serve is sufficient!! Praise Him forever Who saved a wretch like me brother! Amen!!!

[@KennethNicholson1972]

Hallelujah my Brother. Each one of us has our own difficult paths to follow. I was 45 when God came into my heart and let me see myself for who I am, and what He has done for me. I was baptized just 4 years ago, and I am so grateful He saved a stubborn, old foolish sinner like me. Though I wish I came to Christ earlier in life, it gives me hope that it is never too late for my nearest and dearest family to also come to true salvation in Him. But they too have their own paths to follow, and all I can do is cast seeds.

[@andrewilkens7131]

Praise the Lord

[@Jillian1stJohn3-9-10]

My testimony is very similar to his. I was going to church 2, 3, 4 times a week for 50 years. But I used to be a homeless suicidal drug-addicted murdering gay prostitute kidnap for sex trafficking when I ran away from home... so I had multiple personality disorders. I was believing the Lie of once saved always saved. If the sinner's prayer doesn't radically change your life and it was just a bunch of empty words. Since age 6 I constantly struggle with suicidal thoughts so on my 50th birthday I was going to kill myself. But then I remembered a woman said it only takes one day to Listen to the New Testament Bible...so use your day wisely! 4 years ago the Truth Set Me Free in just "1" Day. 1st John 3:9-10 is what's scared the Hell right out of me. Not one single Pastor ever said we are supposed to live without sin, so I never tried. But once God said it, I knew it was possible

[@Stefy44]

amen!

[@candybanks8717]

"He who is forgiven much, loves much." I'll bet you know that for an absolute FACT! Why and how He reached as low as He did to rescue me, I'll never know; but I'm sure glad He did!

[@deborahleigh8437]

God is good

[@TheBibleStory]

Incredible testimony! And relatable. Thanks for sharing!

[@idahojoe8232]

Manny, thank you for sharing God’s work in your life! Wow! Soli deo Gloria + 2 John 1:6 KJB

[@seigoumangchongloigogoucho66]

Praise GOD Amen not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, Titus 3:5

[@leroybrown9143]

I've been saved for as long as I can recall, but you wouldn't have known it outwardly. I was rather what I imagine Nicodemus was like, worshipping in secret while maintaining my links to the godless system until it simply became untenable at the cross, and a choice to die in the world, or die TO the world had to be made. God brought me to repentance through my godless ex wife. When she fell into gross sin I was encouraged by everyone, professing Christians included, to go into sin as well. "Move on," is how it was stated, in other words; date, take lovers, do like every other Godless person is doing, like you always have. Even my own mother said such things. But I deeply loved my wife, still do and I was not comforted by the thought of other women. The glimmer of Christ that I dimly perceived through a blanket of despair was this thought: What if Adam hadn't followed Eve into sin? I couldn't let go of that thought. it dogged me for weeks. What if Adam had kept covenant with God, what if Adam had taken his hurt and confusion to the Lord... What if Adam loved God more than he loved Eve? what if Adam had not sinned? What would that have meant for Eve? None of us would be like this, and perhaps I would still have my wife. And this thought kept me from acting in the gross sin I desired to do, and when I tried to do it not only did it feel wrong, it made me feel pitiful, rather than empowered as it had done before. So, one day I poured out all the alcohol, and standing sober for the first time in a long time and alone I turned my face to heaven and said, "It is true, I am nothing, I have nothing, look at how my own wife has treated me? I don't know if I will survive this, I don't even think I want to. But I want YOU to know that I am sorry, and I do not want to die in my sins or add to them. Please God, forgive me, if you won't have me then I have no place to go. I know nothing but that I'd like to see what's on the other side of this, I don't want to be like Adam." And He snatched me out of this world and made me a stranger and sojourner in the very place I've lived my entire life. From that point on everything began to feel foreign, and I had to learn new ways of interacting in the world, HIS ways. My desires changed, and with them despair became a growing and eternal hope. Isolation subsided into boredom and boredom gave way to contented fellowship with Him. So I continue to learn, day by day and sometimes, moment by moment. Now, divorced, middle-aged, going gray, single, celibate and living alone, I am living the sweetest days of my life, with peace... In Christ. The only thing that supersedes my deep regret that I did not honor God as God from the beginning is my thankfulness that he was listening to that prayer and all he's shown me since. I was not then and never have been alone. I live, and live abundantly, because God IS.

[@KennethNicholson1972]

Leroy, what an amazing testimony Brother. With love in Christ from the UK, Ken

[@leroybrown9143]

@@KennethNicholson1972 Thanks brother. Look at how similar and yet so different many of our witnesses are and here He is with all of us. Mighty to save. Love to you and yours.

[@zacharymartin5629]

@@leroybrown9143 Thank you for sharing Leroy, I was touched by your words. God bless you brother

[@leroybrown9143]

@@zacharymartin5629 Thank you brother, I'm having the time of my life in Christ, He's showing me things I didn't I was missing or that I loved until He reveals them to me. If this is a glimpse of our promised eternity then I pray only for the power to press on to the goal 'cause it's nothing less than amazing so far. Hope you are well, God is with us. God bless you.

[@leewatson9000]

Hallelujah. Amen. Authentic testimony, bother.

[@ElenaBaumann]

Wonderful testimony. God is so good and merciful indeed!!

[@paperplate1355]

I’m not a man but my life is very similar. I’m in my 20s and I’m at a point in my life where I never thought I’d be. It’s scary and it makes you feel hopeless

[@julianaalvarenga3057]

Jesus loves you!

[@chrismatthews1762]

Manny ain’t going back!!!!!!

[@fightthegoodfightoffaithmi8676]

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

[@fightthegoodfightoffaithmi8676]

Exodus 16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein. Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: Mark Chapter 9 43And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched. Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

[@kevinclint7588]

WHY DID JESUS CAME TO OUR WORLD?,……..HE CAME TO SAVE SINNERS LIKE ME,…….. PRAISE HIS PERFECT PRECIOUS HOLY NAME,….. AMEN