hey! my testimony is kinda a whole lump of God's message being squeezed together from the past few weeks, so apologies for the messy jumping ard kinda thing.

Firstly, i wanna thank God for his protection to be constantly around my family. My dad recently found a lump growing somewhere in his tummy area, if i'm not wrong its the pancreas of smth like that, and the doctor was worried it would be cancerous n such. At that point of time i was plainly devastated, i mean my dad is like any other dad, nagging n stuff, but he is really the person who helps me with my studies, brings home the bacon n such. just at the period of time my mom's ankle began to swell drastically n she couldn't even walk properly, the doctor simply said that she had inflamation or smth(like duh) n gave her some ointments; not that they helped. U must understand that my parents are kinda close to me and they are both christians, so as i see them struggle to work n provide for me n my siblings, yet having to deal with these physical problems, my heart broke. I asked my cg ppl to pray for them (thanks btw! i really really appreciate it!), and i too began praying for them, for healing n for strength as they continue serving in their own church. It wasn't after 2 weeks later did something happen. My dad had the lump removed n the doctor did a thorough scan before announcing that he was alright. I was obviously overjoyed n glad that God hears our pleas. My mom too experienced healing, although it is not complete healing, she did feel better, all praise to God and none to the lousy ointments!

next is one that is more of from me. My personal time with God has recently been rather dry because of the book i'm doing (jeremiah). i mean if u have read jeremiah before, u'd understand it when i say that it kinda shows only how israel sinned against God and how God is furious, sends jeremiah to warn israel of His wrath and everything. It kinda got boring. Chapter after chapter just seemed to drone on about how God is gonna send armies from everywhere to destroy israel. With my dry QT, my life too suffered, i lacked the proper food and spiritual supplements. I began praying for God to give me a new book to read n gain food, i basically PLEADED with Him. U see i did jeremiah because God told me to read it. And my life suffered for it -.- so i asked him to change the book. But he told me this, "continue reading it, persevere n u will realise why i have asked you to read this book. Don't let this be like isaiah."(there was a time God asked me to read isaiah but it was too boring-.- i gave up without consulting him btw =X) SOOO i continued against my better judgement, but its my judgement against God's, sooo yeah He wins. THEN i received a great breakthrough. As i prayed for the book of jeremiah to release the message that God wants me to clasp, i read up in jeremiah about God saying that our life has already been planned by him, but it CAN change based on our choices! i mean it doesn't really seem like much, but a question i was battling with was 'if God has already planned everything out, then he would've known what i would do', i dno if u understand what i was thinking, it was like whatever i do is already God's plan, so my choices wouldn't matter. But frm this book i realised that what God has in plan for me can change based on what i do.
Well, i'd just like to end with this verse 1 John 3:21-24

Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and reveice from him anything we ask, because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. THose who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lieves in us: we know it by the spirit he gave us.

BY IRVIN DA MANNNNN