Post by Les Brewer on Jun 27, 2011 8:57:00 GMT
First of all can I thank-you all for visiting this adventurous forum.
As it's nearly a year since Friends Of Jesus launched I thought it was time to go into a bit more depth about myself and how I became a Christian.
To start with, my name is Les & I have been a Christian now since the early 1980's.
I was coming up to the last year or so in school when my journey to becoming a Christian began. What started my journey was this - (because it did not actually happen over night); in-fact in order for me to become a Christian, God was to take me on an incredible journey, at some points very upsetting. But it was necessary for me to go through these things in order to get where I am today.
The seed for my Journey started with the fact that when my brother Steve went to a healing Crusade for an eye problem that he had when we were both at School. Steve is two years younger than my self and I knew nothing about this healing until a while later, let alone who healed him. For some time after his healing, he went to a lunch time School bible study group which was ran by a lovely guy who was our R.E teacher, and in that school study group also was a lad that was also from my year and he was actually in one of my classes that taught woodwork etc. Well we became good friends and he not only kept me going along to the school lunch time group, he also invited me a long to his Bible study evening group which was once a week in the evenings else where.
At the same time my brother was invited to a Christian youth club by the same people who took him to the healing crusade and that led me in weeks to come going to this as well. Sadly my brother chose later to draw away from the interest of the youth club and even some time after, his faith and started to find other things to fill in his time.
God had other plans for me though. There was a Christian youth band playing in town that I was made aware of and at the end there was an invitation to Christ. That evening I came forward and excepted Jesus there and then. A little while later the evening study that I attended had a Baptism of the Holy Spirit and I had received that too....
After becoming a Christian & just left school I had the chance to help run a lovely Bible teaching Sunday School & also went on to help the Christian Youth club that gave youngsters the chance to hear God's word + the opportunity to bring them to our Lord & Savior; also not forgetting to have lots of fun too.
Sadly though, not only did my brother turn away from Jesus, my parents found that they no longer had any more to give to each other either and I found my self then trying to make sense of why Dad had love for someone else, also making sense of the bitterness from mum and quite often feeling like a tug of war rope.... I was so glad that Jesus had just rescued me at this point because the separation and the divorce took many years (lets say, I was 21 when the flames had just died with it all) I was glad that too I had a lot of Christians around me literally keeping me standing through supportive prayer and encouragement. Jesus walked with me every single day with repeated words from everyone who knew me, (Keep trusting Him Les). The emotions affected my health with breathing as well where I was hyperventilating. The last memories of the nightmare was to come to an end where even my Dad was made to see what was happening. We went out one day to a big city and during that day we went to a restaurant to eat. Whiles waiting, I started another breathing attack and in those days none of us drove a car and this particular journey was by train. He asked how long this had been happening and realized that his divorce was bring down his oldest Son. He got us all back to the train station and back to where we live; he got us into a taxi to go back to mums. Dad turned his back where he heard an incredible crash, he ran up the road to see what had happened but saw the taxi that we were in was still moving; that part of the road we were on just missed the collision by 10 seconds. That coming week he had arranged for his solicitor to bring the fight to an end.
As years went by though, various changes in life happened. Sadly everyone that was involved with the youth group and Sunday School that I was involved with, including myself had other new commitments which lead over time to bring it all to an end.
For many years I use to go to another BIBLE STUDY group; also I went to a lovely Church as well where Sharon my lovely wife & I got married in June 1994. We very much needed our Christian fellowship but again as our lives unfolded with illness in the family & eventually with distance too when we moved, it just made it too difficult to get to hear God's word in a Church building.
For a while I could not get to hear God's word at all & that's not good. Eventually I started looking at on-line sermons which I found a few. One day I found a good one - Hosted on a website called "PATHWAY TO VICTORY" which was lead by Dr Robert Jeffress; I think I started following it just before Robert moved and went to Dallas because as soon as I settled down watching these weekly services; for awhile when he did moved, it took a few weeks to find where he had gone and start watching again. In the end, I did find him again. Even now I do enjoy watching/ listening to the services from First Baptist Church Dallas which although we are many miles apart, I do feel this is my Church. Over time I found a few other sites that brought God’s word to us as well, which I like to visit.
Last year God laid it upon my heart to do something to help others that are not in the position to hear his word and he asked me to create "Friends of Jesus" It started as this forum in October last year then went on to become a face book group in January.
You will see on this Forum that we have Greyhounds that came from a Greyhound Rescue Charity, and the charity they came from has a forum which we can share our story's etc on it. God inspired me to put this Christian forum together to help magnify Jesus' name. I think as months have gone by, God willing it has.
So this is very much why this is here, to encourage those who can't get to a church & also for others who don't even know God that they too will find him and truly know His Son Jesus and what He did for us. And for others that CAN go to a church to be encouraged as well.
Anyways I will look forward to chatting to all as God willing we go along; also please pray for this forum as it reaches out to where ever our Lord wants it to continue to go....
I would like to take this an opportunity to say thank-you to our Lord & Savior for given me the inspiration to put this together. To God Be The Glory to Him.....
Also all who will or have support linked to our new forum also to the unknown creator to the "friends of Jesus" image whoever he or she may be.... Many thanks to my wonderful wife as well who I value her support & advice about how things should look on here....Here is a
from me for that! And even agreeing to be a moderator here...... Thanks Sharon!
God Bless
Les
As it's nearly a year since Friends Of Jesus launched I thought it was time to go into a bit more depth about myself and how I became a Christian.
To start with, my name is Les & I have been a Christian now since the early 1980's.
I was coming up to the last year or so in school when my journey to becoming a Christian began. What started my journey was this - (because it did not actually happen over night); in-fact in order for me to become a Christian, God was to take me on an incredible journey, at some points very upsetting. But it was necessary for me to go through these things in order to get where I am today.
The seed for my Journey started with the fact that when my brother Steve went to a healing Crusade for an eye problem that he had when we were both at School. Steve is two years younger than my self and I knew nothing about this healing until a while later, let alone who healed him. For some time after his healing, he went to a lunch time School bible study group which was ran by a lovely guy who was our R.E teacher, and in that school study group also was a lad that was also from my year and he was actually in one of my classes that taught woodwork etc. Well we became good friends and he not only kept me going along to the school lunch time group, he also invited me a long to his Bible study evening group which was once a week in the evenings else where.
At the same time my brother was invited to a Christian youth club by the same people who took him to the healing crusade and that led me in weeks to come going to this as well. Sadly my brother chose later to draw away from the interest of the youth club and even some time after, his faith and started to find other things to fill in his time.
God had other plans for me though. There was a Christian youth band playing in town that I was made aware of and at the end there was an invitation to Christ. That evening I came forward and excepted Jesus there and then. A little while later the evening study that I attended had a Baptism of the Holy Spirit and I had received that too....
After becoming a Christian & just left school I had the chance to help run a lovely Bible teaching Sunday School & also went on to help the Christian Youth club that gave youngsters the chance to hear God's word + the opportunity to bring them to our Lord & Savior; also not forgetting to have lots of fun too.
Sadly though, not only did my brother turn away from Jesus, my parents found that they no longer had any more to give to each other either and I found my self then trying to make sense of why Dad had love for someone else, also making sense of the bitterness from mum and quite often feeling like a tug of war rope.... I was so glad that Jesus had just rescued me at this point because the separation and the divorce took many years (lets say, I was 21 when the flames had just died with it all) I was glad that too I had a lot of Christians around me literally keeping me standing through supportive prayer and encouragement. Jesus walked with me every single day with repeated words from everyone who knew me, (Keep trusting Him Les). The emotions affected my health with breathing as well where I was hyperventilating. The last memories of the nightmare was to come to an end where even my Dad was made to see what was happening. We went out one day to a big city and during that day we went to a restaurant to eat. Whiles waiting, I started another breathing attack and in those days none of us drove a car and this particular journey was by train. He asked how long this had been happening and realized that his divorce was bring down his oldest Son. He got us all back to the train station and back to where we live; he got us into a taxi to go back to mums. Dad turned his back where he heard an incredible crash, he ran up the road to see what had happened but saw the taxi that we were in was still moving; that part of the road we were on just missed the collision by 10 seconds. That coming week he had arranged for his solicitor to bring the fight to an end.
As years went by though, various changes in life happened. Sadly everyone that was involved with the youth group and Sunday School that I was involved with, including myself had other new commitments which lead over time to bring it all to an end.
For many years I use to go to another BIBLE STUDY group; also I went to a lovely Church as well where Sharon my lovely wife & I got married in June 1994. We very much needed our Christian fellowship but again as our lives unfolded with illness in the family & eventually with distance too when we moved, it just made it too difficult to get to hear God's word in a Church building.
For a while I could not get to hear God's word at all & that's not good. Eventually I started looking at on-line sermons which I found a few. One day I found a good one - Hosted on a website called "PATHWAY TO VICTORY" which was lead by Dr Robert Jeffress; I think I started following it just before Robert moved and went to Dallas because as soon as I settled down watching these weekly services; for awhile when he did moved, it took a few weeks to find where he had gone and start watching again. In the end, I did find him again. Even now I do enjoy watching/ listening to the services from First Baptist Church Dallas which although we are many miles apart, I do feel this is my Church. Over time I found a few other sites that brought God’s word to us as well, which I like to visit.
Last year God laid it upon my heart to do something to help others that are not in the position to hear his word and he asked me to create "Friends of Jesus" It started as this forum in October last year then went on to become a face book group in January.
You will see on this Forum that we have Greyhounds that came from a Greyhound Rescue Charity, and the charity they came from has a forum which we can share our story's etc on it. God inspired me to put this Christian forum together to help magnify Jesus' name. I think as months have gone by, God willing it has.
So this is very much why this is here, to encourage those who can't get to a church & also for others who don't even know God that they too will find him and truly know His Son Jesus and what He did for us. And for others that CAN go to a church to be encouraged as well.
Anyways I will look forward to chatting to all as God willing we go along; also please pray for this forum as it reaches out to where ever our Lord wants it to continue to go....
I would like to take this an opportunity to say thank-you to our Lord & Savior for given me the inspiration to put this together. To God Be The Glory to Him.....
Also all who will or have support linked to our new forum also to the unknown creator to the "friends of Jesus" image whoever he or she may be.... Many thanks to my wonderful wife as well who I value her support & advice about how things should look on here....Here is a
from me for that! And even agreeing to be a moderator here...... Thanks Sharon!God Bless
Les
