GHG COLLECTION OF TESTIMONIES - ISSUE 3 (TESTIMONY OF MRS. PRIYA)

 Always wishing every single moment to satisfy our emotions, that’s how the basic human mind works. But God’s wish for our life speaks the other way. Yes! In this issue of GHG Collection of Testimonies (Issue 3), we present you the testimony of Mrs. Priya, who details you with her trials and tribulations, which she admires as the utmost token of God’s love for her. Every single miraculous move that our Lord made in her life will lead you through a breathtaking experience. May the Lord shower His unconditional love and blessings on each of us. 

-         Team GHG

 

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GUEST ARTICLE - 12 (GOD'S GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU. HE WILL MAKE EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN YOUR LIFE - WRITTEN BY MS. SHASTIPRIYA)

I’m doing my Final year engineering (B.Tech-ECE) at a Christian engineering university. I thank God for given this opportunity to share how great His grace, an unmerited favour of God which have totally transformed my life from the state of failure to a success.

By the grace of God I was doing quite well in my studies till 9^th grade. Suddenly there happened a great tragedy in my life that we as family met with a horrible accident. In front of my eyes I saw my beloved dad, whom I loved the most, dying. (I lost my beloved dad in front of my eyes). I also seen my mother fighting for her life at CCU but graciously God has given back her life. At this stage, many people of God fervently prayed for my mom’s recovery and miraculously God healed her completely from her terrible injuries and now she is perfectly alright. 

Since my dad was the one who loves me lot more than anyone else and all the time I was so pampered by him. Imagining life without him developed hatred and void in my heart as a result I gradually lost interest in my studies scoring just pass marks in my subjects. Since my dad was the only bread winner in our family (and my mother was a housewife and my elder sister was in 1^st year of her UG) my relatives all told me to quit matriculation school and join a government school. However, Jesus Christ, my heavenly father took care of it by providing his unmerited favour to receive 75% fee concession and helped me to complete my schooling successfully in the same matriculation school and astonishingly God made me to join a Engineering University. 

I can still remember the day of enrolment. At the time of enrolment process, looking at my +2 maths mark everyone criticized me saying, “mathematics is base for all engineering subjects by having such a low mark you can never able to cope up with your studies and they added if u keep arrear it is very difficult to pass. But by abundant grace of God, He helped me to score ‘S’ grade (85%-95%) in most of the maths paper. He also blessed me with 8+ CGPA with no history of arrear till the end.

At the beginning of 3rd year, great fear gripped my heart regarding my future but God clearly spoke to me saying “Fear not, I have bright future plans for you”. By hearing God’s word I thought I will get placement in the first company itself but to my surprise I didn’t even clear first round of 1^st company after that I thought in second company I will be placed but I’m not even eligible for that company then again I was awfully scared about my future even though God has promised me.

I couldn’t wait for His timing, I started to weep at prayer cell throughout day in day out by questioning myself, how I will survive after completing my B.Tech, what will I do; where will I be; I couldn’t even clear the aptitude itself; What I’m going to do? But in God’s time he made me to get through the 1^st round of 7^th company and He filled me with spirit of wisdom and made me to complete technical and HR round successfully and placed me at cognizant technology.

Through this God taught me that he will make everything beautiful in His time by bring us to a right place at right time to enjoy His ordained blessings in our life. Just we need to wait; things will happen just like that at His time. It’s too hard for my family circumstance to pay my semester fees but according to Philippians 4:19 My God has met all my need according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus so I was never been in out of roll for 8 semesters and every fees were paid ahead of due time. As Psalmist says in 34:10 “The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing” it is very true in my life.

After experiencing such an unconditional, unfailing, everlasting love of God in my life. My heart was healed from all pains and hurting and now my heart was filled his joy and peace. 

 You may also have been despised by everyone, either people around you may tell that you are fit for anything or you may feel your good for nothing but God looks at you and says “My Grace is sufficient for you and my strength will make perfect in your weakness”. The grace which makes nobody like me to get placed, the grace which makes a failure to score 8+ CGPA, The grace which provided everything that I need to live happily that amazing grace is sufficient for you too to be blessed by Him. God never sees how talented you are, how good at your studies. But  He loves you just as you are because He is your ’CREATOR’ just surrender your life in His hand and trust in Him alone and He will make you to be more than what you could be. 

(Note: My dear young friends, this article was written by Ms. Shastipriya. She is doing her B.Tech degree final year in a private university. GHG team thank Ms. Shastipriya for the article. May God bless her abundantly and use her for His glory. If you wish to send your article, mail it to goldenhandsofgrace@gmail.com)

GOD WILL BLESS YOU BY GIVING YOU A CHILD - TESTIMONY BY MY WIFE

“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!" - II Corinthians 9:15

Praise be to God. I got married in the month of August’12. In the beginning month of 2013, Jesus Christ has promised me through a prophet of God saying that He will give me a heritage. Since it was God’s word, every month I was longing to have a child but there was no positive result. In the month of October 2013, I went to a hospital with much hope that I was pregnant and was eager to take few test to know the result. But the doctor over there directly told me that I have some problem in my womb and so it cannot be a child. Also she told me that I will never get conceived till the problem was healed.

My heart was completely shattered when I came to know that I will not get pregnant. She gave me some medicines and I ate that regularly for few days. But it caused severe side effects in my body. So I stopped that. Then I decided that I am not going to take any further treatment and I started clinging onto God’s promise asking Him to bless me with a child.

Jesus Christ saw my tears and He heard my prayers. As He promised, He gave me His grace to get pregnant in the month of December’13 and nearly after 40 days in the mid January, I came to know that I was pregnant.

Since it was my first pregnancy period, I was filled with fear that whether I will get a normal delivery or I have to undergo surgery. Many thought that I will undergo surgery. But God stood by my side and He enabled me to have normal delivery. Though the pain was too high on the day of delivery, God carried me safely and today I and my daughter both were fine by the grace of God.

You might be crying for months that you have no child. Do not worry. Jesus Christ will give you His heritage. Bible says in Psalms 127:3, “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord...”

As God has blessed me abundantly, He will bless you more than that. Jesus Christ will wipe away your tears and He will bless you according to your heart’s desire. 

GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU - TESTIMONY BY MS.VAISHNAVI

PRAISE THE LORD!!!...  Greetings to you in the name of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!!!
 
Just a short introduction about me: 

I am from a pure Hindu background. I am the only daughter for my parents. I did my schooling at Trichy, India. Though I did my schooling in a Convent I never knew about the unconditional and unending love of JESUS that HE demonstrated on the cross for my sake. No one had ever told me about JESUS, but now I understood that my LORD has an appointed time for everything. 

The question I had within me from childhood: 

Actually I had one particular question from my childhood which was, "will GOD speak?"...since in our family we have lots of debts, there used to arise so much argument between my dad and my mom....sometimes my dad would also go to that extent of beating my mom...so being small and being the only child I did not know what to do but I would go in front of the idols and cry before those idols (which were not GOD but only wood and stones) that my mom and dad should not fight with each other...but I had never got an answer from it..and I would sleep crying only...from that time I had this firm question within me always" if GOD is not there to speak to me, if GOD is not there to understand my feelings and GOD is not there to solve my problems then what is GOD?" GLORY TO GOD who made me get this question in my heart and who also gave me the answer for it.

The right place where GOD had decided to reveal HIMSELF to me:

After lots of failure in 5 to 6 entrance tests, I applied for a college through counseling with my comparatively less cut off marks. But due to very bad condition of ladies hostel of that college I did not join that college and I had no option to change the college. Then as one of my schoolmate had applied in a college in Chennai during counseling, I also went to that college. But then they told us to pay a capitation fee of 1 lakh rupees, which we had no idea of how to get it. But my aunt came forward to give that amount and so I joined that college.

In my first year, my friend named Kausi(spiritual friend now) invited me to prayer cell that would happen very Wednesday in our college hostel. She had invited us(a group of six Hindu girls) to the prayer cell and first time we went accepting her invitation thinking that they will tell some bible stories and then pray. After that day, because of some misunderstanding between us we decided not to attend the prayer cell.

The first unforgettable day of my life ever:

Then at the end of my first year, two of my classmates had come to stay in hostel for a few days to study for the semester exams with me. They had been allotted a separate room in the third floor along with a senior sister who was doing MBA. One particular day the prayer cell was conducted in that room and that MBA akka was also a believer (previously Hindu). I did not know about the prayer cell and also about that sister. So without any other go my two friends and myself, went to the prayer cell. After a bible message was shared, we started praying (then too, I and my friends never prayed anything in our hearts). During the prayer, suddenly through that MBA akka JESUS spoke to me saying, "Vaishnavi, you have full of negative feelings. do not be afraid, for I am with you. When I am there with you, you can do anything and everything" and immediately. Then through that same akka, JESUS spoke to my friends also talking about the particular problems that they were facing.

After the prayer cell got over, I realized that, "though I and that MBA sister did not know about each other, then how loving should this JESUS be that HE pointed out the negative feeling within me and said that HE will be with me and that I can do anything when HE is with me.."

The negative feeling within me:

We have a lot of debts in our family. My father had done about 10 to twelve businesses and all have been a failure only with much loss of the investments. So for each business he did, he had borrowed so much money from many people.

Since we had borrowed money both from my mother's relatives and my father's friends none of them will welcome us whole heartedly. Whenever we go to a function among my dad's friends they would not move with us freely. Even in my mother's side, everyone knows that we are struggling a lot in our financial condition. So my mom and dad used to tell me from my childhood that, "only through you and your studies and the way you are going to come up in life, people will respect us.” Even when I got 91.7% in my tenth class my mother was disappointed because she expected me to get state ranks or at least district ranks.

So in my first year of my engineering when told my mother that I had failed in a subject for the first time in my model exam over phone, she said, "Vaishnavi if u get any arrears then you will not see me anymore.” She meant to say that she will end her life if I get an arrear. My thoughts multiply very fast and when she said that statement immediately I thought that I will not be there to tell her that I have an arrear. I meant that I will commit suicide even before I would have to tell her that I have an arrear. so to that extent was my negative feeling. Because of my negative feeling mostly I will feel sad from within me with tears thinking that I have never fulfilled my parent’s wishes ever and also thinking that I am not fit for this engineering. I was not a studious student and so fear of failure along with my parent’s dreams and hope that they had on me troubled me a lot.

JESUS spoke to me that i have so much negative feelings within me and only after HE spoke to me all these things came over my mind as a flash and I realized how much negative I actually was. Thanks to JESUS!

The day I got revelation from GOD that only JESUS is GOD and that there is none other than HIM:

From that day onward I used to keep the bible verse also and that good for nothing idol also on my shelf. None of us in our prayer cell knew how to pray; only the Christians used to pray. Then they taught us that prayer is talking to our HEAVENLY FATHER just as we talk to our father in this world. So we used to speak to GOD only in two three words that we knew. But all of us believed that there is nothing impossible with JESUS and each of us experienced HIS love in different ways. We would just keep on worshiping HIM for about half an hour and praise HIM with all our heart. Nothing else we knew. Sometimes the prayer timing may extend also, because all of us will have so many testimonies to share in the same day. Such was the peace and happiness we had whenever we attend the prayer cell.

During exam days we used to get up early morning, worship and pray together and then we used to study whatever we can sincerely and submit the rest to GOD. That time I used to read 1000 praises to GOD very fast in the morning. After the exam was over immediately I would rush to the room without talking to anyone to thank GOD with all my heart for enabling me to write the exam well. Then when we have the prayer cell that evening, everyone will be with various testimonies as how GOD guided to prepare and write the exams well. Those moments were so good.

Finally by GOD's mere grace I got 76.5% in that semester. In the place where I expected more arrears GOD gave me this much marks. I could not believe it! All glory belongs to GOD alone!

Then in the second year, through one aunty who turned to be a full time minister for GOD from a Hindu background, challenged us to stop worshipping the idols and to believe in Jesus Christ alone loving Him with all our heart, soul and mind.

God touched me through her speech and on that day I finally chucked out all the idol and its related things from my shelf  and also from my life and surrendered my life and myself totally to JESUS and accepted HIM as the LORD and SAVIOR of my life!!!...How gifted we are to be HIS children and to be HIS' alone! From that day I was very clear that only JESUS is GOD and there is no other GOD other than JESUS!.

Jesus Christ poured out His grace upon my life and through His grace I scored more than 75% in my UG engineering degree. Soon after I finished my studies He gave me a job in a reputed software company. Jesus Christ provided me whatever I needed and blessed me abundantly. He had carried me thus far and I know He will carry me till the end. I thank and praise my Lord Jesus Christ for His salvation and blessings. JESUS LOVES YOU!!!!

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” – Psalm 23:4

(NOTE: GHG Team thank Ms. Vaishnavi for sharing her testimony. She is currently working in a software service company. May God bless her and her family members.) 

IT HAD TO BE JESUS - REAL LIFE TESTIMONY OF A WOMEN NAMED KELLIE BORDEN (TAKEN FROM CBN.COM)

Hi my name is Kellie Borden. I’m from Pennsylvania, and I grew up loving horses. I grew up in a family who didn’t really know how to communicate very well, so it left me feeling very isolated, very lonely, and very insecure. 

And the loneliness that I felt started causing me to die inside. And I just remember so many times where I would go to the woods and ask, "Does anybody love me? Does anybody care about me? Uh nobody is ever around. Nobody ever asks ‘How’s Kellie doing?’, or ‘How is Kellie feeling today?’, or ‘How was your day today?’"

When I was 15 I had gone through a lot of transition. I had just had a back surgery, gotten braces, and my parents had just gotten divorced all in the same month. My mom had also gotten remarried. I felt like my life was falling apart. And I fell into this darkness where nothing in the world made sense. I had no idea who I was.

I got together with some friends I had made in junior high school who liked to party. They liked to do drugs; they did it every weekend. They were really the people I felt accepted around. They were the people I felt really liked to be around me, and I had never experienced that before in my life. Every weekend I would go out, and the more I was around them, [the more] I wanted to be like them. So I started drinking, and I started smoking pot, and I started becoming more and more sexually active, thinking that was the right thing to do, that was what people did that felt loved. 

I thought that after only sleeping with one guy it could never happen to me. I was 19, I had found out I had this STD, and that had eventually turned into pre-cancerous cells. They told me at that moment that if I had let it go there was a possibility that I would need a hysterectomy, and that I wouldn’t be able to have children.  At 19 years old I was devastated.  I thought there was no hope. I didn’t think there was anyway out of this, nothing looked right. Nothing looked like it would work out.

One day I just wanted to end it, and so I popped a bunch of pills and literally came so close to dying. At the same time I was going through all this I was in college, and I met this guy. He told me that his parents were pastors of a church in downtown where we lived. 

The first day that I walked into the church I remember just feeling such love and peace. I had never felt that before in my entire life. I just felt so at home. I remember just being like - is this really real? Because I don’t know what love feels like, but I think I do now. 

After the service a gentleman approached me with my friend’s mom and said he had a word from the Lord for me. He basically started telling me things about my past, things about my future, things that I had never even shared with my friend before.

So in that moment I knew that it had to be Jesus. He just became so real to me. I remember saying “Lord, Jesus, this has to be you. This has to be you. There is nobody else in the world that would know this but you.” So I just lost it, I cried and I wept and I got on my knees and said, “Lord, I don’t know what this means, but I know that I want to know you. And I want you to show me who you are.”

In March 2006, I had gone back for my other check-up, and I had found out that the cells had returned and they were even more aggressive than they were the previous time. But at this time I did know the Lord, and I was building a really strong relationship with Him. And I looked at this as an opportunity to really trust Him. I got up every morning at 5 a.m., and I got my Bible. I fell flat on my face every morning and I prayed, and I prayed, and I prayed. 

My next check-up was in October. Come October my tests were completely clean. No HPV, no cells, nothing. It was gone. For the first time in two-and-a-half years I had a completely clean test. To this day I am so thankful because you know the power of God when He heals you of something like that.

He pulled me out of the darkest place of my life, at the last moment when I was going to end my life. He pulled me out of it. And it’s just the evidence of His pursuit of me. I love the Lord with all my heart because I’ve learned who He is, and who He is makes me who I am.