Comments on: What’s Your Story? How Did You Come to Know Christ? http://tony-tate.com/whats-your-story/ Begins With The Word Of God! Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:48:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LaShaun Chaney http://tony-tate.com/whats-your-story/comment-page-1/#comment-1096 LaShaun Chaney Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:16:05 +0000 http://tony-tate.com/whats-your-story/#comment-1096 LaShaun Chaney Jackson Personal Statement of Faith I was baptized at the age of 7. I received Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, as my personal Savior and Lord at the age of 17 and the Baptisms of the Holy Spirit in the year 2003. I believe that the bible is God’s inspired Word to us. My desire is to live my life for His glory, to obey God’s moral and spiritual laws, and to honor Him by using my gifts and talents as musical evangelization that restores, up lift and bring about “life change” to His people. Salvation Experience and Desire for Christian Service, January 31, 2001, I stood in the hospital at my grandmother’s bedside and prayed over her lifeless body. My grandmother always talked about standing on the promises of God and she often said this to comfort me. And at that very moment I finally understood what those words truly meant. That day, I learned a lesson that changed my life forever. Life is a hyphen locked between two dates. And what you do between those two dates makes a difference as to how you will finish the race that God has set before you. As I held my grandmother’s lifeless arm and prayed the Lord is My Shepherd, images of my grandmother’s life flooded my heart. And in every one of those images, I saw her doing what God had called her to do. That day, I prayed to God and surrendered all to Him. I asked Him to not let my living be in vain and to allow my grandmother’s desires for my life to come to pass. God got His glory that day amid my tears. And as my grandmother, the Reverend Celestine Denman surrendered her soul to Her Lord and Savior, I surrendered my all to Him. As a growing child of God, I know this to be true. We should use our time, talents and treasures diligently in order to serve God completely. We must not make excuses to avoid doing what God has called us to do. Our time, abilities, and money don’t belong to us, we are merely the caretakers. When we ignore, squander, or abuse what God has given, we are rebellious and we will miss our blessings. And for a long time I was rebellious and it took the death of someone I loved to open my eyes to my purpose. So, I consider myself Saved 2 Serve with a personal mission of Reconciliation, to encourage the people of God to make good use of their gifts and talents for His Glory and the building up of His Kingdom. LaShaun Chaney Jackson
Personal Statement of Faith
I was baptized at the age of 7. I received Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, as my personal Savior and Lord at the age of 17 and the Baptisms of the Holy Spirit in the year 2003. I believe that the bible is God’s inspired Word to us. My desire is to live my life for His glory, to obey God’s moral and spiritual laws, and to honor Him by using my gifts and talents as musical evangelization that restores, up lift and bring about “life change” to His people.

Salvation Experience and Desire for Christian Service,
January 31, 2001, I stood in the hospital at my grandmother’s bedside and prayed over her lifeless body. My grandmother always talked about standing on the promises of God and she often said this to comfort me. And at that very moment I finally understood what those words truly meant. That day, I learned a lesson that changed my life forever.

Life is a hyphen locked between two dates. And what you do between those two dates makes a difference as to how you will finish the race that God has set before you. As I held my grandmother’s lifeless arm and prayed the Lord is My Shepherd, images of my grandmother’s life flooded my heart. And in every one of those images, I saw her doing what God had called her to do.

That day, I prayed to God and surrendered all to Him. I asked Him to not let my living be in vain and to allow my grandmother’s desires for my life to come to pass. God got His glory that day amid my tears. And as my grandmother, the Reverend Celestine Denman surrendered her soul to Her Lord and Savior, I surrendered my all to Him.

As a growing child of God, I know this to be true. We should use our time, talents and treasures diligently in order to serve God completely. We must not make excuses to avoid doing what God has called us to do. Our time, abilities, and money don’t belong to us, we are merely the caretakers. When we ignore, squander, or abuse what God has given, we are rebellious and we will miss our blessings. And for a long time I was rebellious and it took the death of someone I loved to open my eyes to my purpose. So, I consider myself Saved 2 Serve with a personal mission of Reconciliation, to encourage the people of God to make good use of their gifts and talents for His Glory and the building up of His Kingdom.

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]]> By: Craig Hall http://tony-tate.com/whats-your-story/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Craig Hall Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:43:30 +0000 http://tony-tate.com/whats-your-story/#comment-317 I was brought up in the Baptist church so when I was 9 years old I started getting convicted by the Holy Spirit about needing to be saved(born again). Every Sunday they would have the alter call and I would want to go up to the front and accept Jesus as my Savior but I would chicken out. I don't know why,my friends were getting saved but I was too afraid to go up. Looking back now with the understanding that I have now I could have done it alone by myself , I could have saved myself a lot of worry and grief( No pun intended). But being young and not knowing this, I would hold out I was in "The White Knuckle Club". So this went on for three weeks and it's funny how God know what motivates us. The Saturday night before I made the leap of faith I had a dream. I saw the Rapture taking place before my eyes. There was Jesus on His white Horse coming threw the clouds and all the people who were saved were rising up to meet Him. My mother and sister and brother . I woke up with all the motivation I needed! That Sunday at the first alter call I stepped out and walked up to the alter. I can tell you the first step was the hardest but it was like I was floating the rest of the way. I gave my heart to Jesus and I can tell you without a doubt He took it. I was brought up in the Baptist church so when I was 9 years old I started getting convicted by the Holy Spirit about needing to be saved(born again). Every Sunday they would have the alter call and I would want to go up to the front and accept Jesus as my Savior but I would chicken out. I don’t know why,my friends were getting saved but I was too afraid to go up. Looking back now with the understanding that I have now I could have done it alone by myself , I could have saved myself a lot of worry and grief( No pun intended). But being young and not knowing this, I would hold out I was in “The White Knuckle Club”. So this went on for three weeks and it’s funny how God know what motivates us. The Saturday night before I made the leap of faith I had a dream. I saw the Rapture taking place before my eyes. There was Jesus on His white Horse coming threw the clouds and all the people who were saved were rising up to meet Him. My mother and sister and brother . I woke up with all the motivation I needed! That Sunday at the first alter call I stepped out and walked up to the alter. I can tell you the first step was the hardest but it was like I was floating the rest of the way. I gave my heart to Jesus and I can tell you without a doubt He took it.

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