- My Life before
Like any other person i had dreams and aspirations but everything in my life was working against me. I thought living a good christian life by going to the church regularly, being a part of a choir, fasting & praying, reading the bible would make things better but even after doing all these things there was still an emptiness in my life. This emptiness was rather eating me up from the within. And gradually this lead me into being a very bitter & angry person and i was basically a very unhappy soul, felt rejected, depressed and frustrated with life. And this also affected my relationship with my families and friends. There were even days when i thought of ending up my life because I thought that there was no one who loved and cared for me.
- Experiencing Father’s love
In december 2015, my sister brought me to River life Worship centre, Vijawada to attend a Christmas program. I still remember that day when i entered the church premises, the atmosphere was different, it was as if, a burden was being lifted up from my head. And as the worship started something inside me bursted out and i began to cry like a child. During the time of the word, every word spoken by the man of God- Pastor David S Marella was directly meant for me, speaking right into my situation. At the time of the ending worship i felt a warmth in my soul, there was suddenly a feeling of acceptance. I literally felt like a prodigal son returning to his fathers house, i experienced the love of Jesus Christ my saviour and i came to realize that my God had not forgotten me and He remember me that day. I was in tears throughout the service, from the beginning till the end. Since that day onwards my life began to change gradually. After few days, we returned back to our country and continued to receive the Word of God through online services. Then, I found the grace to get connected to the cell group, where we were literally taught how to do the Word of God on daily basis. As i was learning to do the Word of God, I realize that even when my situations remained the same but the affect it had on my life was slowly loosing its grip on me. I realized that all this years i was making the wrong prayers, asking Jesus to change my situations, change this person or that person, while He simply wanted to transform the person in me.
- My Born- Again Experience
In March 2016, me and my family, we got the privilege to join the church for a trip to the Holy Land- Israel. On the Sunday service, just the day before our trip,man of God delivered the Word of God and spoke about disdain, this word quickly got into my soul and just as the man of God was speaking the Word, i was reminded of all the areas of my life where i had disdain the Word of God and I immediately began to cry on my Lord and saviour Jesus for forgiveness. That night, i had a dream where a demon appeared infront of me and just as he was about to torment me, there was a big bang on the door and a Man stood infront of me with a iron rod and He began to hit the demon so hard that it turned into a naked baby and it crawled out. This Man in my dream claimed to be my Father and commanded the demon to never return back to His daughter in a very loud voice. Everything felt so real and it was just more than a dream. To be very precise, i was experiencing this kind of horrible attack of the demons in my dreams for a very long period of time. Everyime i had this kind of dream, it would leave me in a very frightened and scared state of mind. And that was the day when God delivered me from that demon and until this day i never had such kind of attacks in my dreams again. I praise Jesus Christ my savior for such a deliverance and experience in my life. On 11th march 2016, while we were still in Jerusalem-Israel, i got the privilege to meet our Pastor and he prayed for me by laying his hands on my head, this was yet another session of deliverance, where Pastor prophecised that he could see many words that were spoken against me and many other things leaving my body. At that point, i felt very weak and fell on the ground. And that very night, around 3 am while i was still asleep, my bed shook rigorously and i thought there was an earthquake. I tried to wake up my mother and sister but they were fast asleep. As I was about to fall asleep again, i felt something leaping inside my belly and it happened three times.
- Life changing experience with the Word of God.
With all these wonderful experiences,i just wanted to learn the Word of God and experience Jesus more. Then in 2017, i decided to go to Church in vijawada to learn the Word of God. I shared this with my leader- Sheela Akka and she was gracious to accept my request and especially our Pastor, who graciously hosted me and provided spiritual manna daily for almost a period of 3 months. This was yet another life changing experience, where we got intensive teachings and got to understand the word of God with deeper revelations. As our Pastor always says that foundations are very important in ones life, I believe that this 3 months of training has helped me to lay down my foundations-understanding and experiencing the power of instruction, understanding the meaning of Intergrity through practical works, building up of Attitude, understanding about the gates- mouth, ear and eye gates, learning fear of the Lord, forgiveness, understanding about power of goals and big picture and many more. Every word and teaching given by our Pastor were like the seeds sown into my heart, soul and spirit. And I can say without a shadow of doubt that When I returned home after 3 months of training, i was not the same person. My overall perspective towards life had changed and a new standard was set in my life. That everytime i become weary or get succumbed with trouble, i just look back to those standards and experiences and they give me the strength and courage to rise back.
I thank the Lord my saviour Jesus Christ for such a grace in my life and for River Life Worship Centre. I thank Lord Jesus Christ for the man of God-Pastor David S Marella, who is truly a anointed man of God with utmost dedication, integrity and true heart towards the children of God. I honor and salute you my sipiritual father- Pastor David S Marella.
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