This month's testimony is entitled:

A Personal Testimony

Submitted by Rick.

i am saved for (let's see, uhmm)17 years. wow. i am glad. because i was on my way to hell, and my wife was at rock bottom too and decided to go to church and take our little children and i wanted no part of it because i thought church people were nuts. she became happy and continued going for quite a few weeks before i would attempt to step my foot in there(church) and cause it to collapse.(whatever).mind you i was raised a heathen in spokane washington and was drinking and smoking and being downright evil and lost and that is what i knew. satan had a firm grip on my family. i will back track. i met Jenny my lovely bride of 20 years at a bar(wow)and we wed the next year. and then we had a child. and then another. i was and am co-dependant. i suppose we all are. i began using cocaine real regular and was in a band and none of that mixes well. nothing was well in my life. God is so awesome. he used my family to get to me. as i watched my wife and my two babies, God showed me the evil man i was at the time and He began to work on my heart and taught me how to love myself so i could love my family. now my son is 19 and is going to bible college. my beautiful girl is 17 and is still alive after being 16 and struggles with life, but she knows that she has loving parents. i am encouraged because i know for a fact that God loves me. i still cannot understand the fathom of his love because i am stupid. He is the Great Creator. and i rest on that.