http://dlbconline.com/forums/ Deeper Life Bible Camp: Forums: Recent Posts en Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:22:01 +0000 http://dlbconline.com/forums/topic.php?id=6#post-7 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:17:57 +0000 Jeremiah Johnson 7@http://dlbconline.com/forums/ <p>Hi everyone. Well my testimony has highs and lows but God has been with me never letting go. I confessed to God I was a sinner and that Jesus died on the cross for those sins when I was thirteen at DLBC. I thought I was good to go and never really grew my roots in God any deeper than that, I pretty much thought once you were saved God would take care of you and bad things didn't happen to Christians.So I went through the motions and did the things Christians were supposed to do on Wednesday and Sunday and once a week at camp during the summer.I'd go to retreats and get those good spiritual highs but they would soon come to an end because I wasn't actively seeking to grow and walk with the Lord.When I was 16 my parents serperated and it was really hard and tragic in a sense and I became upset with God wondering why it happened and I was a christian these things shouldn't happened, so I said "whatever God"and tried to find happiness with new friends and a different scene. So I started going to parties and drinking and doing drugs and ended up getting sucked into a whole different life apart from God.Went to a different school for a while tried running away that way but it didn't get better so I went home, than when I graduated I joined the Army.Well did that for almost a year and said well this ain't right and ran away than was later discharged. So I was home and decided I should go to school. So I moved to Hibbing with some buds from high school. Things got bleaker from there, the partying became non stop and the light was getting dimmer and my world was upside down in alcohol addiction drug use and violence. I finished up school got a good job and thought life would be good. I was finding a way to succeed to the world standards making bank, but life was horrible and thoughts of suicide was on the rise. It was around a year ago I woke up and realized I needed God back,I couldn't do this anymore. So I called an old friend who had been a youth leader when I was in high school, talked to him, my sister needed a roommate so I moved in with her. I started going back to church getting involved in the different bible study's through the week. I repented of the last six years and handed my life back to Jesus. The last year was a battle though, learning how to fight temptation and how to rid my addictions, but Jesus took my hand and got me here today. I thank the Lord for all of the brothers and sisters of Christ He has placed in my life and helped me through this, without them I would have fallen again. but I'm on fire and am learning everyday that you need to read cripture and pray daily, share your faith and have fellowship. These are the tools God gives us to walk closer with Him. This a short but main point testimony and thank-you for reading I hope this can be of encouragment to someone. Don't run from God run to Him when bad things happen, He'll heal. He came and rescued me from a life of uncertainty and misery without purpose, and revealed Himself to me like I could have never imagined.For this I'm am humbled and look forward to the next day instead of dreading it. May Christ Be with you all. </p> http://dlbconline.com/forums/topic.php?id=5#post-6 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:08:32 +0000 Whitney_Happy 6@http://dlbconline.com/forums/ <p>Deeper Life Bible Camp has helped me in so many ways! It is where i asked God into my life (even though i thought i had when i was younger) and it is where i have learned the most about God...</p> <p>So, how has DLBC helped you in the past, and how is it helping you now?</p> <p>You have seen a reason in how it has helped me in the past. Right now it is helping me because it has given me a support system. I have made so many friends at DLBC and they all help me when i feel like i am falling away from God. If i didn't have them i don't know if i would have been able to stay with God as long as i have, and i know that they will help me through out my life, making sure i don't fall away from God, and they know that i will do the same for them...check up on them and see how their relationship with God is going...</p> <p>Do you have anyone like that...anyone that you can trust to get you on track when you fall away from God? </p> http://dlbconline.com/forums/topic.php?id=4#post-5 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:56:07 +0000 Whitney_Happy 5@http://dlbconline.com/forums/ <p>I agree with you Flann...most of the time, i have no idea what God wants me to do. But right now i am going through a hard time with my mom...i do not want to get into too many details for it makes me sad just to think about it, but she has done some things recently that she has done before. She has promised not to do them ever again, but she did them anyways. well i feel that God is working in me telling me that, yes, she is doing these things, but u need to forgive her. Be an example to your friends (who lately have been going through minor glitches like me bigger glitch) and forgive someone that is hard to forgive. Be an example and show that, yes it may be hard to forgive someone, but if you do this it will surely help you along the way. Like if i forgive someone that doesn't deserve forgiveness (and don't get me wrong because no one deserves forgiveness) you will get more of an understanding of what Jesus has done for us...for out entire world...for everyone that has lived, and everyone to come...sure the forgiveness that i am giving is just to one person, but maybe, just maybe it will give me a better understanding of what he has done for us. And hopefully it will help my friends along the way also...</p> <p>Another thing...yes i know...i write a lot...but another thing, is that i feel that God is calling me to be a leader in my church youth group...<br /> In July i went on a trip to the National Youth Gathering with my church, and a few surrounding churches on 2 charter buses...well most of my group didn't like to talk about God, and when they were asked to answer a question they would give as small of an answer as possible...a lot of kids in my youth group feel that the only time for God are in times of need and during times of hardship...and during the Gathering i was fortunate enough to show one of my fellow youth group members that God is all the time, not just on sundays and when you need him. I showed her that God listens to you all of the time, and he always answers us. Then i talked to her about some of the things that we learned at camp this year, and she really took to some of the ideas. i asked her what she thought her "Something Bigger" was, and she didn't know...i told her that i didn't know at the time either, so we both prayed for God, not to tell us what he wants us to do, but to help show the way to his plan...now i realize that God wants me to help my fellow youth group members, teach them more about him...Maybe i am completely wrong about this, and i am just taking up space in this reply, but this is what i feel God wants me to do, and if i am wrong, atleast i am trying to do something good...right? </p> <p>Well i think that i have written enough, even though this isn't even 1/10 of what i could write...lol! But yes, this is what i feel that God has put in my path to try and challenge me, to teach me something while teaching others...</p> <p>Whitney Happy </p> http://dlbconline.com/forums/topic.php?id=4#post-4 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:35:13 +0000 flann 4@http://dlbconline.com/forums/ <p>What is God Challenging you to do? Is He working in your life, or are you like me and sometimes you're not seeing how He's working right in front of your face.</p> <p>So here's the challenge--write about what God is wanting you to do. Doesn't have to be anything fancy. Here I'll start.</p> <p>Recently I read (though have not finished) a book on prayer and fasting. Because of this book, I'm really contemplating going on a short fast. Really haven't decided when I'm going to do this, but I really think it's something that can only move me closer to God. And the really scary part is that it will probably not be easy. No, I'm not talking about how it will be hard because I'll be going with out food. The real hard part is that probably God is going to use that time to challenge me more, and to help me grow. That is probably going to be the hard part.</p> <p>So how about you. What's the challenge you have before you. Maybe it's something that you decided to do at camp, maybe it's a feeling of leading as of late, or maybe it's something you're currently doing. So what is it?</p> <p>Flann </p> http://dlbconline.com/forums/topic.php?id=2#post-2 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:44:50 +0000 nick 2@http://dlbconline.com/forums/ <p>Let us know what you have learned about somethingBigger </p>