Hey everybody!!! I'm Izzy, and I want to share my testimony. Not only is God a big part of my life. He is the only reason for my life and where I am now. I grew up going to church, but as a 7-year-old I didn’t really understand much yet. I also remember very little from Sunday school because I was too afraid to leave my mom, so I didn’t gain much Bible knowledge then. All I really knew was that God created Adam and Eve, but they sinned and couldn’t live with Him anymore. Soon after that, my mom had her 4th baby and life got so busy that we stopped going to church regularly. Slowly my family drifted farther and farther from God. We still went occasionally, but I barely knew what being a Christian truly meant. Then in grade 7, my parents found an advertisement for a youth group and thought it would help me and my sister make friends. From that youth group I started to understand more about God, but I’d still say I wasn’t fully living as a Christian yet. Through the people in that youth group, we found a Bible camp that my sister and I went to for two summers. That’s when I actually started to want to learn more about God. Later, my sister made a friend who went to the church that hosted our youth group, and he invited us to go there with him. Only my sister and I went, since my parents still weren’t close to God. That church recommended an even better Bible camp, which I went to two years ago, and that’s when everything really changed. At that camp, I gave my life to Jesus and got super close to Him. But when camp ended, I started drifting again. I struggled with doubts about God and went through a hard season. Then last year, I went back to camp. I remember crying on the floor after one of the services, crying out to God and repeating Matthew 7:7: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” And in that moment, the Lord spoke to me. He told me I had no reason to doubt. That He is, was, and always will be with me. <33 After camp I finally convinced my parent to go to church with me, now they go almost every week <33 Since then, I’ve been living my best life through the Lord. It’s not perfect, and I’m not perfect, but the joy I’ve felt with God is beyond anything I felt before knowing Him. Now I feel like God is calling me to reach people and bring them to Christ, and that’s exactly what I’m trying to do. Amen!
