My first public Testimony

Before I Felt Jesus love I have watched many illicit things, such as pornography, horrific videos and much more.I just want to share my testimony to you to show you that God is with you and he will never forsake you

I vividly remember this one day, me and my family were watching Man of steel and I felt bored(Keep in fact I professed "faith") I was watching a video on YouTube and suddenly an attractive women appears on my feed.Since I was used to this habit, Swiped away asking the Lord to deliver me from temptation,I did this without having faith in that prayer.An hour or 2 passes by and here I am trying to sleep, but suddenly I'm bombarded with temptations to Lust. Sadly, I fell into sin, didn't care about it and went to bed.Now here is when the Amazing Glorious encounter occurred

As I was sleeping I felt a tug on my arm and woke up. Its 3am in the morning and here I am trying to sleep but can't for some reason.The a few minutes later I felt hot, started sweating, and started to feel anxious and guilt for what I have done the day before.Then I heard a soft voice, like something you would hear far away, say, "pray."I didn't want to do it but then I was moving out of my room and into my living room.It's been 20 minutes and I was sitting there waiting for something, then I heard again, "pray" as if somebody was commanding nicely.I knelt down.I Started Praying, not knowing what would happen next.Then I felt a great calm, and a clear voice said, "You are forgiven." I started to speak verses form the Bible I never knew about and now I cherish greatly.I spoke 3 psalms:51 ,26, and 150.Pslam 51, a psalm of forgiveness. Psalm 26, a psalm of blessing. psalm 150 , a psalm of Praise.I will never forget this moment.

Now its been a week and I am filled with peace and what I have struggled with before seems disgusting.But whenever I sin(lustfully) I know something is wrong and I get back up trying to find what caused it and eliminate it and you should as well.I find these two strategies extremely helpful.#1 when you are tempted, either Immediately pray or state verses of God promising comfort in your life(I find Deuteronomy 31 :8 helps me the most) #2 If you're alone, Get with people.Invite others over, or join your family.Just Get with somebody.

On Christmas Day, I was tempted to do it again.But I applied one of these strategies and eventually w0n that battle.

Even though I sin, I am for sure even when I don't know it at that moment that Jesus died for me and his blood washes away all of my sin. Remember this my fellow brother and sister, Life is a war, You will lose and win some battles, but all that matters is how you get back up.You may lose a battle but that doesn't mean you have lost the war.