We often think that we know the future..we have plans, deadlines to achieve, goals to accomplish..We feel invincible..we feel that we know the way..We think that we don't need another truth...and then the most unexpected happens..the rock of one's heart, the anchor which has been untruly created seems to vanish, to become softer than a feather. The rock that one was standing on, becomes to them the shifting sand...

we think that we can predict the future and that outside forces can't move us. But aren't we lucky that our inner castle itself opens the gates to its right fitted king..

how sure are we of tomorrow..how sure are we of our way...

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Hi, my name is clay, I am the lead singer for the music ministry "ABOFA (A breath of fresh air).
My testimony about becoming a christian is a typical experience, you know the story, boy goes to church, boy sees beautiful girl, boy keeps going to church and every other church function in hopes of what he's not sure.

MY REAL TESTIMONY begins in Feb 1997 after becoming a christian and marrying the before mentioned girl.
While at work I feel this pain in my legs and I report it to management. They in turn send me to the company doctor. After many tests I hear the dreaded words "you need back surgery", (lower back). A "simple" procedure I am assured.
I wake up from surgery to a full hard cast from neck to hips. What the? I ask "camly". They tell me, blah, blah, blah. At least thats what I hear after the word "oops". (thats the way I remember it anyway).
So after 6 months of rehab trying to learn to walk again I find my own doctor who does many more and might I add painful tests, (lots of needles & poking). I hear "failed back surgery, you need another to fix it".
When they woke me up they tell me that the doctor was "stone cold drunk" while operating. Huh? (this all came out during depositions and was indeed true).
Basicaly, I was cut almost in half, cutting through some pretty important nerves and things. The doctor tried to then fuse my spine by removing the discs and alot of "unnecessary" bone.
But the fusion did not take and now I am informed that I have a "floating" spine, again I say "huh"?
Then my new doctor adds, by the way "we don't know why you are able to even walk" wit the amount of damage and all the scarring wrapping around spinal nerves. (things go black, I smell "smelling salts" which by the way smells nothing like salt.
Workers comp retrains me ironicaly in the medical field as an X-ray technician and medical assistant.
Ten years and tons of pain killers later its now 1997, February if you can believe that, 10 years to the month. My right leg goes out and done I fall. Three days later, yep, I'm being cut on again, but don't worry this time hes a "specialist". HA! 6 weeks after tht surgery I can't walk without help.
I see another doctor, world famous this time and after many more tests, the doctor tells me and I will never forget those words, "even if you were my own mother I would not touch your back".
This surgeon is flown all around the world to fix backs and he won't touch me. Strangely enough I hear those haunting words again "I don't know how your even able to walk" & " I better not even bend over to tie my own shoes or I could be paralyzed. Huh?
Ok, Lord, now what. To this day I have not worked since Feb 1997. (Pray for my wife), God  spoke to me when I was 16 years old, 27 years ago, and said, "Clay,you will be in a music ministry, singing and playing for me". Yeah right, I thought, I can't carry a tune in a brown paper bag. So like a strong willed man I ignored him finished high school, got a job and never gave it another thought.
Fast forward, God gets His way, even if like Moses, you have to travel around in circles 40 years.
The group "ABOFA" (A breath of fresh air) is now in unfamiliar waters, with our fan base growing and reaching the world, 150 countries now playing our music on radio. Winning awards like, best new band, best band of the year, and get this best vocalist of the year, (Huh? I can't even sing). well God either touched my voice or he's touching everyone else's ear's cause its happening just like he said it would.
Now I now why God doesn't give you all the info right away cause there's now way I could have handled it let alone believed it.Your bro in Christ, clay, lead singer for ABOFA. (God is awesome)

 

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I wasn’t just born and raised in a Christian family; I grew up as a pastor’s kid. I've been told that when I was about 4 years old, I gave my life to God, and, like most childern, I repeated my prayer over and over to make sure God heard me! I knew what I'd done was important because everyone else around me was a Christian (I went to a Christian school for the first 9 years of my life), but I didn't fully understand what that meant. When I was about 9, up at camp one summer, I remember the speaker talking about putting God in the driver’s seat of my life. That’s my first real memory of real commitment in my relationship with God, when I told Him I was giving Him control. When I was in grade 5, I was baptized at my church with my little sisters as a public commitment to God, but It wasn’t until a couple of years ago that I realized I was still living my parent’s faith. I decided it was time for me to start leaving my own footprints. A huge thing for me is taking every opportunity I can get to tell people about how much God loves them. I honestly can’t imagine living without God in my life, and that’s the reason I get up every morning – to tell others what He has done in my life. I realize that there’s still a lot for me to learn – I’ll never stop learning! I’m just so pumped to get to know my Dad better. My friendship with Him is the most important thing in my life and telling others about Him has become my reason to live!

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I was searching for a friend one day and thought I had found a very good one (didn't quite turn out that way). He brought me to this Wonderful Church (as a child I was never allowed to go to Church). My life was a complete shambles, I had, had 2 brain surgeries and they left me in a very bad way, because of them I had several more medical problems than I'd had before! but the person who brought me to this Church realized that this is what I needed, not just a friend but a whole family of people (I was looking for a family and boy did I find one). This person no longer goes to this Church something happened and he disapproved of whatever it was, so he found another Church to serve at, their gain our loss and boy do I miss talking to this person, he doesn't realize what he gave me! I at that time was at the point where I would go to bed at night and hope that I would not wake up in the morning, however now because of him I look forward not just to each day, but to each moment of the rest of my life! I wish there was a way I could convince him that what he did for my family and I was such a blessing, life has been better than I could ever believe it could be since I have entered into this world of the christian vision! I am still however searching for my purpose I know one day I will figure it out I probably already have and just don't realize it (my brain just does not work in a common sense kind of way anymore). I do know that Jesus is my savior and my Lord.

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Six years ago when I learned that the plant that I worked at was closing I decided to start working on self-employment.  Recently, after failing as a retailer, I was guided by God to try giving instead of profiting.  Now my wife and I give out Prayer Bears - from our catalog - to children that are suffering from illness or separation from family.  At the time of this posting we had already hand delivered 19 Prayer Bears.  We have "touched" so many people!

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The God we serve is a listening God.Its been a year now since i started seeking for a job and to no avail but in october this year i told God i must be a blessing to someone,put a smile on someone's face and until you bless me with a job i can't do that.After a week of my prayer a Pastor friend called me said Grace,i have good news for you.A company i applied to and i was told i don't meet their standard have repleid and i was to start work the next day.If its not the Lord's doind then who? so i edge you to also pray and God will answer.

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Well this is not a testimony more like a truth that I want everyone to hear. For starters all the scientists out there are really doing all this work in measuring and going out to space for nothing because they don't believe in God they onlt believe in evolution and science.Thats because for them we came from the apes. Well if that were true then all the science that they study would be just a bunch of made up fiction. Thats because they made up a lot of things in the begining. Like say for instance, a girl was born, and her mother raised her, but her mother did not talk to her, nor she did not have any writing to show her, but they had a bunch of learning materials after her mother left her. She would not know how to read or how to talk or to read a map. So when she finally got to any other civilization, she wouldn't know what anybody else was talking about, she would have her own theorys and education. But with the true God always knowing everything, and he gave us all the education that we could ever know. So without God, I know that the scientists would not like to admit this, but there would be nothing. no world no educaiton.nothing to believe in. so thats why all the people who believe in god have something but the people who dont have nothing. so take away god we most likely wouldn't be there but with all the people who would destroy things because they didnt have gods knowlage not to would end up destroying the earth. and thats my "testimony?"

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I really do not know where to start.  God has done so much in my life and he has picked up the slack for me so many times.  Even though I do not give much in return, I do not read or pray effectively sometimes and I sin often, I really do not see why God would love me.  However, he loves me without end, and his son Jesus died not only for my well being, but for my sins.  Jesus understands what I go through, because he has been there and witnessed it all.  He is all knowing.  It seems like God would stop loving me and forsake me if he were human.  Well, I got the revelation that my God is not human, he is perfect.  He will love me without end.

I used to suffer from depression.  Once, I was in love with this girl, and I felt so alone, because I have never had a girlfriend before and I felt that I would never get one and never get married.  However, I went to church this one day, and my pastor told us that if we need anything, healing, or help to come up to the alter and God will take it all away.  I was reluctant at first, but I swallowed my pride and went up and got prayed for.  I admit, a tough guy like me cried, and every tear that I cried, I know that God bottled it up in heaven somewhere.  Plus, every tear released more and more depression until it was all gone.  Now, I can wait to get married, and he told me that I will get married and have kids.

FAITH ROCKS JESUS ROCKS GOD ROCKS!!!!

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