My Personal Salvation Testimony
Before I jump into how incredible my Savior’s timing is, I wanted to tell you more about myself. I was baptized as a baby and went to Sunday school but I didn’t really love God. It may be because I only went to church on Easter and Christmas or it may be because I always prayed for a horse and never got one.
While my faith has been rocky one thing has always been constant, my passion for all things Disney! It isn’t called “the happiest place on earth” for nothing. There is a huge castle, parades, rides, cool plants smiling cast members, ice cream, and I get called a princess wherever I go, what’s not to love? When you go to Disney you forget the daily grind, there isn’t homework and conflicts, there is magic. I like to think before I turned my life around, my confidence in Jesus was like a vacation to Disney World.
I enjoyed going to retreats and to one bible study or one festival to get a “Holy Spirit high”, meaning I would love God, I was a Christian, I could do anything in that moment. But then by the end of the day I was back to my undevoted self. While I am high on the Holy Spirit I feel like I am at Disney, everything is great and everything is working out. …show more content…
After another successful day working with my first graders I had realized that I needed to go to church and develop a relationship with Jesus Christ. I wanted to have what all the other teens at VBS had, they were like souls that shinned for God! While my purpose in life changed from just simply living to trying to represent and please God, the change from in the shadows to coming out and seeing His light was very gradual. During the process, I got a book that helped me read the Bible on my own but I still was not involved with a church. Although going to church makes you a Christian as much as sitting in a garage makes you a car, I felt the need for people who I could surround myself with and help me on my
Before I jump into how incredible my Savior’s timing is, I wanted to tell you more about myself. I was baptized as a baby and went to Sunday school but I didn’t really love God. It may be because I only went to church on Easter and Christmas or it may be because I always prayed for a horse and never got one.
While my faith has been rocky one thing has always been constant, my passion for all things Disney! It isn’t called “the happiest place on earth” for nothing. There is a huge castle, parades, rides, cool plants smiling cast members, ice cream, and I get called a princess wherever I go, what’s not to love? When you go to Disney you forget the daily grind, there isn’t homework and conflicts, there is magic. I like to think before I turned my life around, my confidence in Jesus was like a vacation to Disney World.
I enjoyed going to retreats and to one bible study or one festival to get a “Holy Spirit high”, meaning I would love God, I was a Christian, I could do anything in that moment. But then by the end of the day I was back to my undevoted self. While I am high on the Holy Spirit I feel like I am at Disney, everything is great and everything is working out. …show more content…
After another successful day working with my first graders I had realized that I needed to go to church and develop a relationship with Jesus Christ. I wanted to have what all the other teens at VBS had, they were like souls that shinned for God! While my purpose in life changed from just simply living to trying to represent and please God, the change from in the shadows to coming out and seeing His light was very gradual. During the process, I got a book that helped me read the Bible on my own but I still was not involved with a church. Although going to church makes you a Christian as much as sitting in a garage makes you a car, I felt the need for people who I could surround myself with and help me on my