Post by Nicholas Kisitu on Dec 14, 2011 8:48:35 GMT
MY LIFE STORY:
It has been said that every one has a “story’’ and that every ones story is unique. It’s true. We are all unique in God's eyes. This story is mine, which hopefully will serve as an important lesson for you.
MY BACK GROUND:
I’m by Names of Nicholas Kisitu born in 1993 in central part of
Uganda known as Kajjansi Ghetto to a black, lower middle- class
family with strict religious beliefs thus I was taught reverence for
God and to obey & never question a priest- or any man, for that matter from early in my life. im a single young man of 18 years! I raised up from a Christian family, my mother is a full devout Catholic though my father is a back slid den Christian i.e. we leave him at home when going to church for the service. Unfortunately they are dead! I’m living with my grand mum, one brother Andrew and two sisters, immaculate and Lillian. You know life is all about choices and with out blaming any one but my
self and given family history. I wasn't prepared to make the right ones. And I made some wrong decisions. But what compels me now to tell you a story is that We have been all told that" love conquers all" actually, love doesn't but the truth does.
As a teen, I became discouraged with the whole idea of living a
Christian life. I grew increasingly aware of my total inability to
live up to perfection. In fact, it seemed that i was getting worse. My body was developing and i was struggling with new temptations. Much of my time i was failing to resist. I would respond whenever some one would make and appeal to seek God's forgiveness, but the next day i would fall back in to old patterns of thinking and behaviour. I felt that i was a total failure. No one ever told me that grace was free gift and that my forgiveness was provided past, present and future in Jesus Christ. I thought my past was forgiven in him. But i had to do the rest i did not understand the when we are in relationship with Jesus His forgiveness is ours! He will change us. In the mean time, we are counted righteous at an every step of the way. No one ever told me the good news so i became increasingly discouraged and eventually gave up entirely on than Christian life. I decided that there was no hope for me. I was going to burn any way, so i might as well go with class.
I turned my back on God altogether and went into a season of complete rebellion. During my next four years at school, i did everything i could to selfdestruct. As i look back on it now, i believe i had a death wish. I was so miserable. I spent those years getting high and drunk virtually non stop. My hippie -type life style had no boundaries. Yet i found no peace or rest from the pain. several times i attempted suicide in my desperation or in times when drug supplies were low. Life was dark blur of desperate, living Hell. But God had not forsaken me. His Love was greater than all my sin, i remember numerous times during those days when God appealed to me through people events, dreams and circumstances to draw me closer to him.
One night in February of 2001, i was on drug experience with one of my buddies, when we both began to think clearly. This was especially unusual since the drug known as '' Marijuana’’ commonly had the opposite effect.
That night we both started talking about God and our own spiritual hunger. We saw our lives as they truly were, lost , empty, blocken and lost. We realized that our lives were on a dangerous trajectory with only death awaiting us. We decided that night that we need overflowing, with tears streaming
down our faces, that we were going to join a Jesus freak, recently
Grace Place community church had sprung up at kitiko, we joined it to find Jesus. What i didn't know at that time was that i had invited Jesus in to my life. Instead of running away from Him,i had in my life that is nothing short of miraculous. With the team of teen mates We decided to take on the message of Jesus to fellow youths, Later 4 months, I joined Christian Youth Foundation with a aim of reaching out many youths for Jesus through sports and door to door in Africa as on website> www.youthministryinternationaluganda.webs.com and the Lord
has been with us and Tremendous changes are being done day by day thought the ministry! Praise Jesus! I fell in Love with one who loved me first! I had personally experienced grace! for the first time in my life i began to understand what it meant to be a born again Christian. I had personally experienced in my life. My life would never be the same. I will always be grateful to God for His a amazing grace!. Those were wonderful days as I developed personal walk with Jesus and started learning about his Love for me. I determined at that time that i was a going to be a christian but i never be a catholic a gain. I just wanted to be a believer in Jesus. I felt trapped by legalism of my childhood and private high school days that i could not bear the thought of going back in to that. I was a born again Christian now, and that was enough for me. Hope mum, i will get in touch with you later!
Many blessings
Nicholas
It has been said that every one has a “story’’ and that every ones story is unique. It’s true. We are all unique in God's eyes. This story is mine, which hopefully will serve as an important lesson for you.
MY BACK GROUND:
I’m by Names of Nicholas Kisitu born in 1993 in central part of
Uganda known as Kajjansi Ghetto to a black, lower middle- class
family with strict religious beliefs thus I was taught reverence for
God and to obey & never question a priest- or any man, for that matter from early in my life. im a single young man of 18 years! I raised up from a Christian family, my mother is a full devout Catholic though my father is a back slid den Christian i.e. we leave him at home when going to church for the service. Unfortunately they are dead! I’m living with my grand mum, one brother Andrew and two sisters, immaculate and Lillian. You know life is all about choices and with out blaming any one but my
self and given family history. I wasn't prepared to make the right ones. And I made some wrong decisions. But what compels me now to tell you a story is that We have been all told that" love conquers all" actually, love doesn't but the truth does.
As a teen, I became discouraged with the whole idea of living a
Christian life. I grew increasingly aware of my total inability to
live up to perfection. In fact, it seemed that i was getting worse. My body was developing and i was struggling with new temptations. Much of my time i was failing to resist. I would respond whenever some one would make and appeal to seek God's forgiveness, but the next day i would fall back in to old patterns of thinking and behaviour. I felt that i was a total failure. No one ever told me that grace was free gift and that my forgiveness was provided past, present and future in Jesus Christ. I thought my past was forgiven in him. But i had to do the rest i did not understand the when we are in relationship with Jesus His forgiveness is ours! He will change us. In the mean time, we are counted righteous at an every step of the way. No one ever told me the good news so i became increasingly discouraged and eventually gave up entirely on than Christian life. I decided that there was no hope for me. I was going to burn any way, so i might as well go with class.
I turned my back on God altogether and went into a season of complete rebellion. During my next four years at school, i did everything i could to selfdestruct. As i look back on it now, i believe i had a death wish. I was so miserable. I spent those years getting high and drunk virtually non stop. My hippie -type life style had no boundaries. Yet i found no peace or rest from the pain. several times i attempted suicide in my desperation or in times when drug supplies were low. Life was dark blur of desperate, living Hell. But God had not forsaken me. His Love was greater than all my sin, i remember numerous times during those days when God appealed to me through people events, dreams and circumstances to draw me closer to him.
One night in February of 2001, i was on drug experience with one of my buddies, when we both began to think clearly. This was especially unusual since the drug known as '' Marijuana’’ commonly had the opposite effect.
That night we both started talking about God and our own spiritual hunger. We saw our lives as they truly were, lost , empty, blocken and lost. We realized that our lives were on a dangerous trajectory with only death awaiting us. We decided that night that we need overflowing, with tears streaming
down our faces, that we were going to join a Jesus freak, recently
Grace Place community church had sprung up at kitiko, we joined it to find Jesus. What i didn't know at that time was that i had invited Jesus in to my life. Instead of running away from Him,i had in my life that is nothing short of miraculous. With the team of teen mates We decided to take on the message of Jesus to fellow youths, Later 4 months, I joined Christian Youth Foundation with a aim of reaching out many youths for Jesus through sports and door to door in Africa as on website> www.youthministryinternationaluganda.webs.com and the Lord
has been with us and Tremendous changes are being done day by day thought the ministry! Praise Jesus! I fell in Love with one who loved me first! I had personally experienced grace! for the first time in my life i began to understand what it meant to be a born again Christian. I had personally experienced in my life. My life would never be the same. I will always be grateful to God for His a amazing grace!. Those were wonderful days as I developed personal walk with Jesus and started learning about his Love for me. I determined at that time that i was a going to be a christian but i never be a catholic a gain. I just wanted to be a believer in Jesus. I felt trapped by legalism of my childhood and private high school days that i could not bear the thought of going back in to that. I was a born again Christian now, and that was enough for me. Hope mum, i will get in touch with you later!
Many blessings
Nicholas