Awesome Testimonys:
Linda
Augustine
Hello, my name is Linda Augustine and I am 24 years
old. I want to share with you briefly my testimony of how I came to find the
real Jesus Christ!
To start off, my parents are Palestinian but I was
born in Canada. I have two sisters, one older and one younger. We grew up in
what would be considered a very, very strict home and had a very reserved
lifestyle. I grew up with Catholic teachings, went to Catholic school, and
almost never went to church unless it was a special occasion.
My parents
never seemed like a loving couple. They were actually very cold. They taught us
to be moral, respectful, obedient kids; generally the way a “good family” should
be. But they also planted in our hearts at an early age to be racist against all
Israelis and all Jews. They always brought up hate- filled discussions in front
of us about all the fighting and the bad news of what had happened and what was
still happening back home in Palestine. My whole family has serious hatred for
Jewish people, and I was also brought up to have that same hatred.
After
a few years, my parents got divorced. My mother, my sisters and I moved out, and
my father lived on his own. Not long after high school, I become tomboyish. I
experienced some bad relationships with a few people and this slowly but surely
made me a seriously angry, violent, hate-filled person, not just towards Jews,
but also towards almost everyone. I had a very short temper and a really nasty
attitude, full of suspicion, disbelief and insecurities. I carried knives and
guns, and to a lot of my friends, I was considered “messed up” because I was so
very irritable and quick to get angry. Also, when people upset me, I experienced
anger to such an extreme degree that I visualized thoughts of mutilating and
slaughtering the person and got pleasure and satisfaction out of seeing their
blood. To me, only that was proof enough that they were tortured and dead. I
know this is sick and abnormal, but that’s how bad I had become.
As a few
more years went by, I still lived the same way, only now I had been introduced a
couple of times to the Pentecostal teachings of Jesus Christ through some
friends. I never gave my life to Christ though. Instead of receiving Christ, I
received people’s phone numbers. Now I feel it was the start of my unknowing,
but willing search for Jesus. I began to go back occasionally to my Catholic
Church on my own in search of Christ, but still came out empty. I also tried a
Baptist Church and still found nothing. I then opened myself to the ways and
teachings of Jehovah’s Witness and the Muslims, yet still found
nothing!
Then one day, a member of the Potter’s House Christian Church
witnessed to my boyfriend and me about finding the real Jesus- His forgiveness
and all about His love and salvation. With reluctance and hesitation, I went to
the church for the first time.
Not long after, I accepted Jesus Christ into
my heart and prayed for His forgiveness. Gradually, God started opening my eyes
to all the demonic spirits that had been living in me. Although I wasn’t raised
in Palestine and wasn’t exposed to all the violence and killings, God showed me
that the anger, rage, and spirit of murder living in me were ancestral spirits.
God also revealed to me the importance of getting my heart right and of His
sweet love for me.
Now almost 6 years later, I have been living in the will
of my beautiful Father in Heaven! Nothing in this empty world could have changed
the way I was before, but God, being the just God that his is, was able to
soften my heart to surrender to Him. Through His mercy, grace, love, and
protection over my life, I am freed of my sins, miraculously transformed and
will never forget what He took me out of.
Imagine that, once I hated
Jews, and now I’m in love with Jesus Christ, the King of the Jews, and the King
of Kings.
Just one year ago, God blessed me with a husband- the boyfriend
that stood with me when we were first told about the real Jesus! We know that
God has wonderful plans for our lives together, and are excited to be serving
Him. God is a God of blessing, joy, and peace for His people. And my husband,
Adrian, and I are true testimonies of this.
Praise and glory to His
name, my first true love Jesus Christ.
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