Hope Stories
"One thing I do know, I was blind but now I see!" John 9:25
Hope is found in a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ. Every person who has this love relationship with Jesus, has a unique story of the power He has to change a life and the hope He alone can give. It is a story that only they can tell. As Jesus makes a difference in the life of a Christian, their story of hope is a living illustration that Jesus is alive and making a difference one life at a time.
Below are hope stories about the difference Jesus is making in the life of everyday Christians to encourage you.
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I have been married 23 years with two wonderful children, but I have a very volatile marriage. We both got angrier and angrier with each other, yelling, drinking, etc. Then he did something I thought would never happen. He asked for a divorce and said he found someone that made him happy.
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A New Life With Jesus |
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Too Busy Living
I never considered myself a devout religious person throughout my life, but I attended church from time to time as a small boy growing up. I was baptized as an infant and thought that my soul was safe and I could just pray for forgiveness no matter what I may do.
This is how I lived my life up until I was deployed to Iraq in January 2004. It was a scary time and we were conducting very dangerous operations and my roommate was a devout believer in Christ. He explained to me that I needed to have a relationship with Jesus Christ and he wanted me to do a study group with him. I agreed and we started the group.
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Look to Jesus |
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Growing up I had a band and through that got involved with alcohol and drugs. Even during that time I was attending church and playing the part, but saved I was not.
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A New Adventure |
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Only At the Surface
Putting out an album, a Christian album, was never in my plans. I grew up in a small town in central Wisconsin and I was not involved in music, nor was I involved in church. I had been a writer since I was little, but singing was just a hobby and church was something other people did. I knew about God, but it was always at the surface. My family would sometimes attend holiday services with friends or relatives, but for the most part, I didn't know about having a close, personal relationship with God.
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From Tragedies To Victories |
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Difficult Times
I had a modest start, complete with an outside restroom and a metal tub to take baths in. I had one brother and three sisters. My father who was everything to me, did not go to church, but knew the Word, lived it and taught it to us. While I was pregnant with my first at 21, I lost him and my father-in-law to cancer within a month. While they were sick, I had never prayed so hard in my life - not that they would be healed, but that they would live long enough to see their granddaughter. This prayer was not answered, at least I did not know God's purpose then. Then 16 months later I lost my brother to diabetes. He was 37, blind, had lost a leg and a finger, and had kidney failure which lead to heart failure. At this point, I was angry with God, got a divorce from my first husband, and rebelled terribly for the next four years. (I call these my years of temporary insanity.) I then met my present husband who brought me back to reality. In 1990 we were married.
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