My Testimony

    I have been raised in a God fearing Christian home my whole life.  My parents were saved at an early age, and so they have done their best to teach me the ways of the Lord.

    When I was five or six years old I was sitting on the hardwood floors in the house I currently live in and thinking about how horrible it would be to go to hell and burn for eternity.  I did not want to go there, so I told my mom I wanted to have Jesus in my heart. She prayed with me and I got saved.

    However, several years later was when my relationship really began.  I was twelve years old. I was getting very discouraged and depressed. I was really behind in my school and I felt like I could never get caught up to where I wanted to be.  During that time I was having serious doubts about my salvation.  Satan was trying to make me think that I was not saved. So, I knelt beside my bed and rededicated my life to Christ.  I wrote down that I rededicated my life to Christ and the date in my journal so that whenever I had doubts I could look back and prove to the devil that I am Christ's and HIS only.

    Also, during that time I realized I needed to be doing more than just reading my Bible once a day.  I found a notebook and wrote down names of people I knew who needed prayer. Then I began memorizing Romans 6. Soon after I began praying and memorizing I was seeing my prayers being answered!  God was really showing me the power of prayer.

    Two years later, in the summer of 2007, I attended a Journey to the Heart in Northwoods, MI.  It was a 10 day retreat of studying our hearts and seeking God.  Northwoods is out in the middle of nowhere with a lake and a lodge.  You could just feel the presence of God there. During the retreat I realized how my heart was focused more on earthly things than God. I was convicted of sins that I needed to confess, and God worked amazingly in my life there. My relationship with Jesus was strengthened so much, and I'm so blessed to be a child of God!

-Olivia C. Morris