Julies testimony

I wanted to share a bit about my testimony. I was adopted at 13 months old and I have borderline personality disorder. (Babies usually bond with parents by 6-9 months old and I don't know where I even was then. Some foster home in Toronto) I was bullied in school and saw my first psychologist at 11 because I was exhibiting signs of depression. The first picture is me in air cadets at 12. The summer after grade 9 when I was 14 I got sent to a psychiatric ward because I was cutting my arms with razors. I had gotten into listening to Korn and Green Day. I was from there sent to mental hospitals in Toronto and Whitby and group homes in Etobicoke and Newmarket. I began running away and by 16 I was living under a bridge and began using very hard drugs. The second photo is me in a third group home at 17. I hated myself I would use anything to get high and I was drinking until I blacked out. I was off and on the street all the time as a teen runaway and got beaten by men and kicked in the head. I slit my wrists with broken glass. I came to know Jesus Christ as my Savior when I was about 21. It was June of 2005 when I got baptized. I wanted to find out the truth in life so I had bought a book that caught my attention in a used book store called there's a new world coming by Hal Lindsey. I read it all through and I believed in Jesus. I felt God's love washing over me like powerful but gentle ocean waves when I received the Holy Spirit. I wrote a poem called Broken about my experience. The poem is a reel on my page. Jesus gave me hope to believe in and now instead of having to rely on my flesh which is very sick from bpd I can rely on God's power through His Spirit! Isn't God amazing! I am totally clean now I don't self harm and I just feel like I need Jesus and He is pure in heart. God bless you all.

Julie1983 said:

Isn't God amazing!

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Yes!

Hello Julie1983,

Thank you for sharing your experiences, of the way the Lord lifted you up out of the miry clay, and onto firm ground by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour and Lord. May His love and grace envelope you, and His joy sustain you as you continue to walk in Him.

In Christ Jesus
Chris

'And one of the Pharisees desired Him that He would eat with Him.
.. And He went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.
.... And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner,
...... when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house,
......... an alabaster box of ointment,
.......... And stood at His feet behind Him weeping,
............ and began to wash His feet with tears,
.............. and did wipe them with the hairs of her head,
................ and kissed His feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Now when the Pharisee which had bidden Him saw it,
.. he spake within himself, saying,
.... This man, if He were a prophet,
...... would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him:
........ for she is a sinner.
And Jesus answering said unto him,
.. "Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. "
.... And he saith, "Master, say on."
...... "There was a certain creditor which had two debtors:
........ the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
.......... And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both.
............ Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?"
.............. Simon answered and said,
................ " I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. "
.................. And He said unto him, "Thou hast rightly judged."
And He turned to the woman, and said unto Simon,
.. "Seest thou this woman?
.... I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet:
...... but she hath washed my feet with tears,
........ and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
.......... Thou gavest me no kiss:
............ but this woman since the time I came in
.............. hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
................ My head with oil thou didst not anoint:
.................. but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
.................... Wherefore I say unto thee,
...................... Her sins, which are many, are forgiven;
........................ for she loved much:
.......................... but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little."
And He said unto her, "Thy sins are forgiven."
.. And they that sat at meat with Him began to say within themselves,
.... "Who is this that forgiveth sins also?"
...... And He said to the woman, "Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace."
(Luk 7:36-50)

Praise God!