Hello all

I thought I'd announce I'm going to be baptised on 17th June. I've been to one pre-baptism class with my minister and I have another tomorrow evening. I'm ever so excited, and am looking forward it.

I have to think of what to say for my testimony beforehand, and once I know what I will do, I'll post it here as well but there's so much to be said so it will take a little time to get it all down on paper.

I have been visiting this site since I started back at Church last November and have found it so helpful and encouraging, so I want to thank TalkJesus and all the people here who've helped come this far on my walk with God.

Gladstone

Good job Gladstone, that is wonderful. Baptism is an important step to take and one that we all ought to take after getting saved. It is an outward declaration of our committment to God. May the Lord bless you for your obedience and faithfulness. I wish you a happy baptism celebration for you and everyone else. I will pray that the Lord will use your testimony to bless others.

Praise God.

Calluna

I am glad to hear that you are being baptized gladstone.
It is good to pulicly declare Your profession of Your faith in Jesus. I am sure you will be wonderfully blessed as you obey Jesus.
Colossians 2.12

Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

God bless

LLJ

I thought I'd announce I'm going to be baptised on 17th June. I've been to one pre-baptism class with my minister and I have another tomorrow evening. I'm ever so excited, and am looking forward it
I am very happy to hear it. and God bless u my dear. You have taken the best decision. Now on you are enlisted to the member of God's family. But live upto the holy life which God intented you to do it. Read the Word and be in prayer. Pray for the Holy Spirit and He will guide you to the eternity

Dear gladstone

Congratulations! you are crossing the border where the evil one will never find you!
My two sisters accepted Christ last year and they recently got baptized.

Many blessings
Abigya

Glory to Jesus Christ for gladstone taking this important step in the Christian Life!

"And did Those Feet, in ancient times, walk upon England's garden green/
"And was the Holy Lamb of God in England's pleasant pastures seen?"

Yes indeed! He came to our gladstone, led her to Himself, and now He lives in her!

Gratefully,

Mary E.

Dear All

This is what I've written as my testimony:-


• I have been so fortunate to be born into my family, with the most wonderful parents I could have asked for. They raised my sisters and I as a Christian family, and we went to Church every Sunday, and we joined Sandon Road Baptist Church when I was about 10.

• At the age of 18 I went off to University, and I wouldn’t say I forgot about God deliberately, I just didn’t think about Him. At the fresher’s fayre I walked past the Christian Union stand and signed up with the women’s rugby team instead. And that was the start of a distance I created between myself and God. When I came back to Stafford I guess time had passed and I wasn’t bothered about going to Church. I still had faith, but wasn’t prepared to act on it and had got lazy. I became a wedding and Christmas church-goer and I thought that was enough.

• However, God hadn’t forgotten me. He was there beside me through all these years. When I was 21 I’d passed my driving test, and I went to a friend’s birthday party in Lancashire. I drove myself up the M6 and although I got off at the wrong exit to Liverpool, I got back on the right track and made it there. But when I was on my way home a storm broke out and I somehow made my way onto the outside lane, in pouring rain, with black clouds and spray from all the other traffic. I was terrified, and in tears because I was so scared which didn’t help my visibility. I cried out to God to help me, and no sooner had the words been spoken, then the sky was blue, the road dry and the sun shining. And the weather was fine all the rest of the way home. This to me was not a co-incidence, it was a God-incidence. But it still took a bit more for me to change.

• Then last year around this time I went along to see Rachel, Anna and Lennie’s baptism as my friend Kathy was going along and wanted some company and the service struck a chord with me. I’d always intended to return to Church but in my own time, and I realised that wasn’t quite good enough. So I came along to the Alpha course last September.

• One week I’d been home to have lunch with Mum, and we were chatting about some of my pedantic questions and heading back to work I felt quite overcome and into my head came the memory of that day at the fresher’s fayre at Uni, and I felt so much in that one moment, remorse and sorrow at the un-conscious decision to go my own way, which caused tears and a feeling of forgiveness too. It was like a giant nudge in my side to actually stop being so silly. So that next Sunday I came back to church and everyone was so welcoming, and I’ve been coming every week that I can. Then on the 7th November I went to see Elaine in my lunch break, and gave my life to Jesus. I followed on from the Alpha course with the Freedom in Christ course and it’s led me to be standing here with you today. About a month ago in the service Elaine asked if anyone was interested in baptism, and at that word, I felt nudged again, so here I am.

• I know the spirit is working in me, and making me more than I ever thought possible. A couple of years ago I wouldn’t have been able to play the piano in front of anybody, and now I play and sing at the front and I enjoy it! I’m looking forward now to see where it leads as it’s all in His hands!

Songs – In Christ Alone – Stuart Townsend, Happy Day – Tim Hughes



Forgot to say thank you to everyone for their kind words and encouragement. It's much appreciated,

Thank you

Thank you, gladstone, for your inspiring testimony! It will be a blessing to so many--

I will be thinking of you and praying for you as you continue to follow Jesus!

May God's richest blessings abound with you all the days of your life!

Mary