@lovelyPower9238
yes!
Incredibly. Faith I think may be #1.
@lovelyPower9238
trigger warning from a very young age after a near death at around age 16 months. were i saw tunnel of light with what i call lighting beings as they was glowing. felt within it this great love that beyond any thing here on earth. also heard a voice say My child it not your time yet. then was put back into my body. there a lot more to that but that was start of my faith. i believe that was a big event in my life.
it looking back impacted my life a lot. within trigger warning our abuse God made us feel special a lot of the time. even when family and others were very hurtful to us. we was only 3yr when we accepted Jesus Christ and yes we could explain what He did for us. as within the church we was at the pastors question every one before one could be baptized. at age 6yr dad left the church due to words spoken at a funeral of a family member. this was by other believers and was nothing really bad he took it wrong way. he tried to keep mom and us kids from going after that. but we kelp asking and asking to go. a family lived close to us offered to take us to their church weekly. my grandma told dad she did not want her kids raised as heaterns so he let us go to church. but by going we missed out of treats and got teased a lot by family members.
God became a big part of our life as we could talk to Him about everything. we was heard and even helped by God. we acted out our faith read the bible from age 7yr and up. we even would put bible under our pillow at night. for some reason it gave us hope even in the darkest days. teen years youth group and campest life became big part of our life.
this kelp us out of trouble too. also gave us safe place to be. we was able to go on outings with youth group. dad did not allow us to do like school dances and other things like staying overnight at other girls houses. but that was ok as we really did not have friends. even after we was married and hubby kelp us from going to church. he isolated us a lot, just like dad did. but we still could talk to God.
think God imparted every part of our life our faith has always helped us to stay hopeful even within the abuse.
May God bless you and thank you so much for sharing this.
@lovelyPower9238
thank you may God bless you too
@lovelyPower9238 it is hard for me to answer since I chose to follow Jesus at the early age of 6. So my faith has been at the center of who I am for nearly my entire life!
@tryingtosurvive2024
be kinda the same for us as we accepted Jesus Christ at age 3yr. remember coming to understand truth when singing old rugged cross as a solo on mother day for our mom. grandma had taught us many many of the old hymns.
remember at age 6yr our faith was tested due to things said at a auntie service after she passed. our dad got mad due to things other met to comfort us as family. he left church and tried to keep all us from going to church. but we begged to go even walked to church a few miles from our home at time. in the end God made away for us to go to church and dad to allow it but he always seemed to down us for our faith. he also buy our two brothers things when we was at church and we get nothing. but even that did not make us not to go. truth is think it only due to Faith in God that we still here. growing up in abuse we seen many times God do the impossible. so we had both times of high faith and times of very low faith. but we never lost our faith fully we thought at times we did but it was as if it was just hot coals at them times.
@stormieandpaws My home life wasn't as bad as yours. My parents always went to Church until 2020. There have been many times when I would try to imagine what it would be like if I wasn't a believer. I don't think we would be talking now! Life is hard!
@tryingtosurvive2024
same here about faith id did not have it would not be here. trigger warning in our lowest point we did try to end our life many times. our hubby at the time had isolated us from church and other things. we had moved away from the city we both growup in. after that he really would not let us do things without him he even had us being watch. we did not know there was places a women could go with kids. why we stayed in the marriage was due to beliefs passed on to us from mom. so after we last kids we fell fast into things we know was not good. but God would not allow us to end our life. also would not allow others to take out life.
the last time we tried to end our life. we end up in a coma. they told our family we never come out of it and if we ever did we have many effects from what we did. when in the coma we had a deep spiritual dream. was God telling us He not allow us to take own life. it was after that dream that we stopped trying to take our own life. God showed us that what our ex hubby and others said about us being a worthless and telling us everyone be better off it we was dead. that was lies. it was after that dream we saw what was really going on too. 3 days after went into coma we woke up and walked out in less then 2 hours. no lasting effects of what we had did and the coma. doctor said it could not be true, but no other way then God he said but i not believe in God. then said i can not explain what happened. as medically she should not be wake and should not be able to walk out of here. then he told us he ever wanted to see us again.
found out years later the doctor became a believer few years after coma we was in. so maybe that why God did not allow us to take own life. but we still here and back on fire for Christ. we had many dreams and visions over the years from a young child up. but we not tell others what they be unless God points us to tell someone. but that dream within the coma was personal and powerful. we know it was God sent. we tested it by God written word too.
so we not wish the life we lived on anyone. but God through it has used it for His glory and our good. can look back and clearly see things now we did not then too
@lovelyPower9238 it has made the impossible possible. And it has made life beautiful again after the loss of my mother. Through faith life is exciting with endless possibilities in His Will. Forever blessed.
Life has never worked that way, in my experience.
