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- Female
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- USA
- Occupation:
- Student
- I'm here to...
- Grow in my walk with Christ
- Interests:
- Church, Youth group, reading, writing, drawing, photography
- I'm passionate about...
- God, the Bible, spreading the Gosepl, praying for others
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Elizabeth Shabshelowitz
When I begin to think about everything GOD has done for me it boils down to just one word....Grace.....undeserving and unearned Grace. His love is endless and there's nothing I could do or you could do that would ever separate us from the love he has for us...we're his children. How cool is it too think that we're a child of God? That he the almighty and Holy GOD breathed life into us!
I didn't grow up in the Church. Church wasn't a thing for me on Sunday mornings. It wasn't an exciting thing with friends on Friday nights. I only had a Bible bed time stories book and I only learned about Noah's Arc and Adam and Eve. I didn't know much about God or the Bible, I basically grew up believing what I was taught by those older and wiser than me.
Tracing three years back my mom and I started going to Massachusetts with her boyfriend and his three kids. My youngest step sister goes to a Church that is walking distance from the house.
We began going to youth group on Friday and Church on Sunday. I remember enjoying my time their loving the ability to learn but also to be completely honest there wasn't much going on inside of me. I wasn't following it at home. I wasn't a doer of the word, I wasn't acting on what I was being taught. Even the second year, I loved going and learning and praying and being in the worship but I still didn't feel anything. I wanted more but I felt trapped to push forward.
The summer of 2015 everything changed, my life changed forever. It was amazing and unexplainable I can only call it what it is....I can only call it Grace....
It all begins with what I was thought and expected to be a normal and plain ordinary day of Church but as it says man plans and GOD commands. I went to Church and sat down in the back pews. We had a guess Pastor this day, the usual Pastor and his wife was is Maine taking care of their house up their. I do not quite remember that the service was on this day but there was a feeling inside of me that felt encouraging and felt completely loving and comforting but I was frightened. I didn't know what was going on. That very moment I had questions about sin, and the Bible and God and other numerous things. Things that never mattered much to me before now mattered more too me than ever before. There was a feeling inside of me that pushed me to grab the Pastors attention so I could ask him my questions. I asked things like what sin was, and what it meant to sin, the boundaries of sin, Gods love and a few other topics that scratched the surface. One of he things that made this important was it was a disciplining experience for me and it being my first. While however some explanations rapidly grew my thirst and wonder for God. I couldn't see what was raging at my feet, I ate, drank and slept prayer and I was at the Church and around Christians more then when I was at home that first few weeks. I wanted desperate answers, and I deeply struggled and wrestled when I couldn't understand how sometimes we just don't have answers so some questions...some things are just going to have to be left unexplainable.
Shortly afterwards and during my spiritual growth a good friend of mine gave me his youth Pastor's number and through that I was able to have contact with him and ask questions I was was having difficulty understanding, because there for the longest time I thought God was angry at me and mad at me for all the wrong and sin I had committed. I began to understand that wasn't the case he loves me way beyond our comprehension and he knows all the sin I'll ever commit because "I know you before you entered the womb" (Jeremiah 1.5). He taught me a lot about who God was and how he really saw me and between him and the Church family and the Pastors and his wife at the Church my faith started growing rapidly. I started going to Sunday school, and their Bible study and staying late at youth group. I was reading my Bible and praying all the time and constantly asking questions.
When it was time to return to New Jersey I didn't know what I was going to do, I knew i was going to feel out of place not in on Sunday worship amongst other Christians.
On the first Friday of September my good friend took me to a car show and then to that youth group of the Pastor I got to speak to trough texting over the summer. It was a great experience and I was glad to be back in Church and worship amongst other Christians.
Today marks six months since I've been a Christians and I was saved in late July, August 1 2015 was my first communion. I am panning on being baptized on January 31st. Praise the Lord for all his blessings and saving my life...while he owes me nothing and I do deserve nothing he gives me everything so whom shall I fear? God is good all the time! Today I attend Grace regally for youth group, Church and Sunday school, even the events we have through out the year on Saturday's. I can't wait to see where my walk with Jesus leads in the next six months. Meeting Jesus was the best thing that ever happened to me. He is my Lord and savior.
- Other stuff about me:
- I love inspiring others, I love in depth theological conversations and talking about our precious Lord and savior. After college I plan on helping out in missionaries around the world, one day I want to travel to Israel.
I also love to cook.
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