Trey's First Testimony

Some of you may think 'You don't know how it feels to be going through what I am. You probably grew up in the church and safe from the world,' but that is not totally true. You see I grew up out of the church and lived in sin up to my neck. I grew up believing that being evil was being cool, boy was I wrong. I ended up in the wrong crowd.  Life was rough, I would do anything or in many case anyone to fit in. I wasn't a serious "bad boy," but my life was headed in a slow downward spiral, kind of like the top of one of those slide that spin around and round, and the closer to the bottom you get the faster it you are going. I was simply dazed and confused most of the time.  Though I was very intelligent, higher then average in fact, I never put my smarts to use to benefit me; I used them to con my way into fitting in with the "outcasts" those that were considered cool because they didn't follow the rules.  Again, I tried to do anything to fit in,  first it was the cigarettes, I became a chain smoker even though many in my family were dying from cancer from a lifetime of smoke, something I boldly said I would never do.  Then came the drugs, mostly just pot but once in a great while it was laced, luckily this didn't last, it wasn't an effective high for me. Then came the earring and and finally the girls. You name it, I tried to to please or tease them; while it was fun, it left me empty. Empty and emotionally scarred. When eight grade came, things started to change.  Most of the things I used to do I gave up, just because I couldn't find a source to obtain what was needed for the activities, except smoking.  That was the easiest to keep up with, because all you had to do is let someone copy your homework on look off your paper on a big test, and they would give you at least a full pack. Then something WEIRD happened.  One of my smoking buddies invited me to a club one day and I said ok.

It turns out this "kewl club" was the schools Bible Club. They thought I was a great kid. Afterwards I had laughed at how they fell for my nice guy front.  Which might not have been such a front, because of my eagerness to please people to fit in, but I mean come one I had to be nice to these "huge losers."  But I knew that one day I would end up some where I didn't want to be, HELL. I never told anyone, but I was terrified of the four little words that could shake any man's cold heart, "after death, then what?" My friend that got me going to the Bible club started going back to church again during the summer between eighth and ninth grades. He got a refilling of the Holy Ghost again, what ever that meant. I was shocked at how he had changed.

We eventually quit smoking and he also quit smoking his pot. The day my friend and I quit all that, "Stoney" and "Bricks" were no more it was just Shayne and Travis. Later that year he invited me to his church, or maybe it was me that invited myself after he said he was going to be preaching. It was youth night and he would be preaching, so I said all right. He gave the most powerful sermon I had ever heard (being that I was originally Catholic) and the skit they had just before that was incredible as well. I started going with him now and again, and eventually became a member of his church. I still held on to some worldly things though: hacking, cussing, fornication, music (Mettalica, AcDc, Offspring, Ozzy), and my ear ring.

Early the next year, near the end of 9th grade I made the best choice I could ever make. On February 26, 1997, I repented and was baptized again but in the name of Jesus Christ. That night I spoke in tongues as the Spirit gave the utterance, showing I had the Holy Ghost. At last I was saved from Hell. I must stay straight forward with God so I can stay saved and I must repent daily. Then I started working with my church's youth ministry and started our internet ministry to help others like me, maybe even you get to God and go to heaven. I leave you now with one question, do you know you need God in your life? Please, feel free to visit us at any time you need help searching for a way to get god in your life. It's the best choice you can ever make. Take it from someone who knows, God will change your life around.