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I grew up the third of seven children, all struggling for recognition, moving often and traveling from school to school with no place to really call home. I decided early in life to build walls for protection. My parents married at the young age of 17 and started quickly popping out children causing a lot of stress just living day to day! There was certainly no way or time to learn good communication skills! Now looking back where I came from, born in upstate NY in the early 60's, I wanted to make my mark, so I had decided to excel in academics as well as sports and music.
Soon living in Florida when my dad was 24, he had a life-changing experience with the Lord, so we started going to many Pentecostal churches and Spirit-filled revivals. At the age of 13, back in NY, I was invited to a small church hosting missionaries who were showing some slides of suffering humanity in other countries. One asked the small group if anyone would ever want to help, and immediately I raised my hand and stood up and said, "I will! I will go!" Something happened to me that day, and since then, when I remember that experience, I start to cry. Still, my teenage years were filled with many family issues and self-performance striving for attention and approval...from school, boys, drugs and alcohol. At age 16, I felt trapped! In 1977, my parents took me to a clinic and made me have an abortion. I had gotten pregnant, and back then that was the thing to do. Afterward, the guilt and shame made me bitter and I lost the desire to excel in school, dropping out the following year. I see now that I was trying to run away from my problems, not facing my real issues, and was looking for love and approval in all the wrong places. I met a guy in the small town we lived in and ended up leaving home and moving in with him. We didn't really have much, so I soon broke up with him and moved to Texas with some friends of the family. I decided after being away from home for a few months, I would write him a long letter and say if he wanted to come to Texas, maybe we could get married and start a family right away, which he did. In June of 1980, our first son Michael was born. By this time we had moved back to NY near our family. The real troubles had just begun and I know that through it all, my Lord kept me safe. After 23 years of marriage, my parents got a divorce, and the very next year my older sister was killed in an alcohol-related car accident. My own marriage had crumbled and now I had a small baby to take care of along with all the stress of these family crises! So by age 21, I was admitted to a facility for a nervous breakdown, chemical imbalance, and bi-polar disorder, while my dad and step-mother took care of my son. Over five years of medication, doctors, and life without making sense, proved to me that God will never leave us nor forsake us! I'm a living miracle! The doctors told me I would never be able to drive, hold a job, or have any more children. In 1987, with no more medication and no more doctors, I was still very promiscuous and became pregnant again. During this pregnancy, I was completely healed of the chemical imbalances I had suffered. My second son Shawn was such a blessing to me and I got to have my first son Michael come and live with us. What a blessing to have both of them and to actually have my own apartment and a somewhat "normal" life! After going back to get some higher education, I met and married a fellow student at college and had a daughter Tiffany and a son Brian, which ended in divorce within five years. Throughout this time we were in and out of church and never expected that this would happen to our marriage and family. I remember desperately praying, "Please, Heavenly Father, send me a husband that will serve you faithfully and be a father to my children and love me sincerely." Well, God answered my prayer Michael and I have been married for 14 years, growing and seeking God! I believe his daughter Gabby, is also a gift God gave me in the place of the little baby that had been aborted. We are now the proud grandparents of 6! In 2016, as we were studying the Bible and growing in the Hebrew Roots of our Christian faith or Christian Testimonies, we became interested in, and started, blowing those shofar horns. I was led on-line to "The Shofar Man," Jim Barbarossa, and our lives have been so blessed ever since! In recent months, a friend came to visit and was shown by the Holy Spirit that I still had a source of bitter rejection, and through prayer and agreement with that, the Lord was able to release and deliver me at the subconscious childhood source! In moments of time, the picture I saw of Jesus was a very loving, merciful Father who accepted me without needing to perform, washing away my ugly behaviors and affirming to me my worth to Him! I am casting all my cares on Him and setting the desires of this world aside to keep him Lord of my life. I am following in His footsteps wherever He leads me. I now trust that He has a perfect plan for my life to be a witness of how He can work our messes into something good, and that His ways are far better. What He has done for me, He can do for you, too! Forever grateful, giving God all the glory, honor, power, and praise! He is the only Way, the Truth, and the Real Life Stories!
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Talli's Salvation Testimony was filmed live as part of the 5-Fold Ministers Discipleship/Evangelism Gathering Session #3 As You Go....Fear Not! What is the most important part of Discipleship? The most important part of Discipleship is Commitment! Jesus could not have made disciples had they not committed to follow him.
The commitment Jesus asked for was simple. Follow me! As people followed him they were discipled. They learned to be imitators of Jesus! The strength of what we teach is also based on commitment! It is not as strong as the 3 year commitment that Jesus required, but it has been proven very effective. We have been able to effectively disciple a couple hundred people over the last 3 years as a result of getting the following commitments! We have found that, if a Christian will commit to write out their testimony and commit to share it daily, that this commitment sets the stage for the Holy Spirit to disciple them! The first thing we challenge people to do in our discipleship teaching is to commit to write their testimony and be a part of a Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Book or their own Testimony Flyer. The second thing we do is challenge people to carry 2 copies of the Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Book or their Testimony Flyers in their hand every time they leave the door of their home and every time they get out of their car. The third thing we do is challenge them to ask the Holy Spirit to help them in the giving away of the Testimony books or Testimony Flyers! The forth thing we do is challenge them to practice what was taught in that session. In session 2, we taught on As You Go: Hear and Obey the Voice of God. The commitment to carry the Testimony Books or Flyers and the Commitment to Hear and Obey the Voice of God, As They Go is joined with the commitment to ask the Holy Spirit to help them. This sets the stage for the Holy Spirit to be active in their life! If a person is always carrying the Gospel message with them in the form of a Real Life Stories Christian Testimony Book or Testimony Flyer and always practicing Hearing and Obeying the Voice of God as they go, then they are always trusting in the Holy Spirit to help them! This gives the Holy Spirit total access to all their Time and Daily Life! Sons and Daughters of God are led by the Spirit of God! What we accomplish during our 12 Discipleship Sessions is getting a strong commitment from the person being discipled to allow the Holy Spirit to lead them into Living a Witnessing Lifestyle! Jim and Carla Barbarossa [email protected] 219-762-7589 Phone or Text www.reallifestoriesbooks.com When a person converts to Christianity then he will have to tell others that what the reason behind his converting to Christianity is. These real-life stories are known as testimonies. Testimony helps attract others and also improve the faith. Many people convert to Christianity after reading Christian testimonies because these testimonies describe the power of Jesus. A person after reading Christian testimonies will understand that everything that happens in this world is on the order of Jesus and only Jesus can solve the difficulties of everyone. Most people prepare their testimony for evangelism where many new believers are gathered and after hearing these testimonies their belief will increase. Many people describe the part of life that when they start following the right path and get salvation these testimonies are known as salvation testimonies. Salvation testimony attracts new disciples to always follow the god orders because a person only gets salvation by following the right path.
If you want to get salvation then read testimony books that contain salvation testimonies for increasing your faith and discipleship of god. You only get salvation after believing that you can’t do anything without the order of god. Testimony telling is not difficult because you just have to share the real story of your life with others. You have to first describe your problems and failures before believing in Jesus and then you have to describe in detail how Jesus help you to sort out your difficulties. Difficulties in life are the ways you tried to solve these difficulties are not described in detail because you want to highlight the importance of Jesus by detailing the ways how Jesus change your life. More than 8 million people drive trucks in the US and many of them are Christians. These Christian truck drives are very busy in their life and have no time to attend any evangelism or testimony. So truck driver ministries are established for increasing the faith of Christian truck drivers by arranging evangelism meetings on truck stops and providing food to truck drivers. This will increase the faith of Christian truck drivers. If you want to read testimony books for improving your belief then you can easily search for these books on our website. We have a lot of Christian testimonies including salvation testimonies. Truck driver ministry is trying their best to attract Christian truck drivers by providing testimony books and preaching gospels at truck stops and providing foods and clothes to truckers for making their belief strong. When a person converted to Christianity he has to describe his whole life story that how he star believing Jesus and why he converted to Christianity. The real life story of a person inspires others and makes their faith stronger in god. This inspiring truth is known as testimony. Testimony is very important for Christians to increase their faith in Jesus. While preaching faith a person describes in detail that how he was living before believing Jesus and what issues he was facing in his life and after describing his initial life he will describe the life after start believing in Jesus and how his difficulties solve. Every person has different testimony because sometimes the difficulty of a person will solve immediately after believing god and sometimes it solve gently. Salvation testimonies are the best testimonies for increasing the faith of others because salvation testimonies disrobe that only Jesus will provide you salvation. There will be no other power that solves your difficulties and provide you salvation except Jesus. After attending any salvation testimony meeting a person will start following Jesus' orders for achieving salvation. If you don’t want to read testimony books for inspiration then you can easily found salvation testimony videos for increasing your faith in god. You can only get salvation if you have a strong belief that nothing will happen without the order of god. If you want to inspire others by describing your testimony then describe your life before Jesus and after Jesus in detail. At the start of your testimony describe that what the difficulties in your life were before believing Jesus. Then describe the part of life after praying and believing in Jesus. If you want that more people attract to your testimony then use good communication skills and focus on the part of life after believing Jesus. Keep watching salvation testimony videos for making your faith stronger.
Prison ministries describe the life of prisoners to inspire others and making their faith stronger. In Christianity prison is considered as good luck because it increases equality among people. Prison ministry books are helpful for new believers because they contain the life of a prison that how he spends a difficult time in prison and pray to god and how Jesus solve his difficulty. After reading prison ministry books you will start believing that only Jesus can solve your difficulties. There are millions of Christian truckers in the US that hardly found free time to attend any testimony and gospel meeting. Many truck ministries are providing gospel to Christian truckers on different stops to increase their faith in Jesus. It was August 1995, but I remember it like it was yesterday. My wife Linda was going to this little country church. We had been having trouble with our marriage, so I decided it might help if I was to start going to church with her. I had been going a few months and listening to the preacher, but it seemed like every week that preacher was standing up there talking about me. So I did what a lot of people do. I quit going. I didn’t need that every week.
After I quit going, things got worse. We were arguing, and I told my wife to just leave. I’d had enough. Well, she did. She went to her pastor’s house, and it wasn’t long before he was calling me. He asked if he could come to my house and talk to me. I really didn’t want to hear what he had to say, but I really did like the guy. So I told him I guess he could. It didn’t take him long to get there, and when he showed up he had a little book with him called eternal life. He ask me if he could read the book to me. I didn’t want to hear it, but I didn’t want to be rude so I said, “Sure, go ahead.” He opened that little book and started reading. As he was reading, I was looking at the TV, the ceiling, the walls, anywhere to keep from looking at that little Real Life Stories. Being the good servant of God that he was, he just kept on reading. When he came to the end of the book there was a prayer at the end. He read that little prayer to me and asked me if I would like to pray and ask Jesus in to my life. He said Jesus would give me this eternal life if I would just confess my sins to Jesus with my mouth and believe with my heart. I told him that I didn’t think I was quite ready for that. He said that was fine and maybe I needed to think about it. Then, he left. I went on to bed because I had to get up at 3am to make a run to northern Illinois the next day. The next morning I was up by 3 and on the road by 4 headed to Galena, Illinois. I’d been driving about an hour when the tears started pouring out of my eyes. I remember I couldn’t stop crying, and I started talking to God. I said, “God, if there even is a God. I’m not sure if I even believe in God, but if you’re real I need you to show me a sign. I need a sign from God.” Well as I drove on the tears finally stopped. About daylight, I was driving up I-55 when I looked out in the field and there was this little blue sign that looked like it had been out there forever. As I looked at that old weather cracked sign, I read CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. When I read those words I thought, “That’s a sign, that’s a sign from God!” Then I heard this voice inside my head saying, “That’s not a sign from God. That old worn out sign has been there forever.” Besides, when I asked for a sign from God, that’s not what I meant. I didn’t mean I wanted a sign. I meant I wanted something big something from God. So I started talking to God again, and I told God that wasn’t good enough, that wasn’t what I meant. I needed something else, something from God. So I wiped away my tears and drove on. I remember driving along and talking to God, and by this time I was on I-74 between Peoria and Galesburg, this little white van pulled up beside me. I looked down at this woman in the van. She looked up at me with a funny look on her face, rolled down her window, stuck her arm out the window, and pointed her thumb to the sky. I thought, “What is she doing? What’s that supposed to mean?” Then, as the van went on by, I read on the back of the van it was a church van. When I read those words the first thought that came to my mind was that it was a sign from God. Then I said, “No, God. That’s not good enough either. That’s not it. That’s not what I wanted.” I wanted something big, something that would leave no doubt that it was from God. I drove on with lots to think about, expecting at any moment something big would happen. I made it to my destination a little past noon. I started unloading my bulk tanker of explosives. As I was unloading, sitting on top of 46,000 lbs. of explosives, I started talking to God again. I told God that I was still waiting for something big. I don’t really know what I was looking for, but I would know it when I saw it. I had visions of a big bolt of lightning shooting down from the sky. When you’re sitting on 23 tons of dynamite a bolt of lightning is the last thing you want to see, but I was ready and waiting. Well, nothing happened. I finished unloading and left. As I headed east toward Rockford on U.S. 20, I started talking to God again. I remember saying, “God I’m still waiting for my sign, for something big.” I hit Rockford and headed south on I-39. About an hour later I looked to my left, and out in the field was a great big sign. On this sign was the face of Jesus and the words THIS ONE’S FOR YOU! As I looked into the eyes of Jesus and read those words, cold chills started running up and down my spine. Tears started running down my face. I started confessing my sins and trying to remember the prayer that was in the little book that Russ, my wife’s pastor, had read to me. I prayed that prayer the best I could remember it. I prayed a whole lot more just in case that wasn’t enough. The feeling that came over me was indescribable, but it was like I was floating the rest of the way home. Jesus had lifted all my burdens that day. I couldn’t wait to get home, tell my wife, and call Russ who now is my pastor and best friend. The next day the sky was bluer and the grass was greener. Everything had changed! My and Linda’s marriage gets better each and every day. The problems of everyday life are still there, but I don’t have to face them alone. Jesus is always there with me. Prison ministry binds the Christians of different communities and traditions together. If you want to enhance your belief in Jesus then prison ministry is very helpful for you. According to different Christian books, prison is a very important experience to change a life. Christian wants prison to improve their faith and change their life. When a person gets into prison for some time then his relation to God becomes stronger. In Christianity, prisoners are considered very lucky and blessed because in prison, inmates feel that God is with them and their faith will increase. Evangelist uses prison ministry ideas to describe the faith of prison and increases their belief in god. When any person prisoned for some time then he became close to god and promise to follow the right path. The jail ministry idea influences the life of prison that jailed for a long time and their life will increase the faith in other people. We visit many jails and note the jail ministry idea and prison ministry idea of prisoners for preaching the truth of life. Many prison ministry ideas play important role in the attraction of prison toward spirituality. Spirituality increases the faith of Jesus in prisoners and changes their life, in a prison a person will feel that Jesus will change his life and everything is in the control of Jesus. The faith of prisoners will get strong and he recognized that only Jesus can solve his problems. Prison ministry shows the power of Jesus and describes how Jesus changes the life of prisoners. You may see many born again testimony videos that show the life of a person before and after prison. The life of a person will change after prison and he will feel that he has given a new life again. The difficulties during prison make prisoners pray to god for relief and ultimately increase his faith in god. In prison ministry ideas you will learn that how a person gets to prison and how prison changes his life. A prisoner prays to god for an easy life and enhances his faith in Jesus. You may hear many stories related to prisoners their life changed after prison and they start believing in God more than before prison.
Jail ministry's idea involves the changing habits, regret, and forgiveness of prisoners. Many Christians want prisons to keep their faith in god. Prison increases the feel of equality in Christians. When people start feeling that everything is in the control of god then his faith ultimately increases in god. You can read prison ministry books that contain the real-life stories of prisoners that feel changes in their life and improvement in their faith after prison. Born again testimony videos include the story of prisoners that feel again birth after prison because their life is changed after prison. The Prison ministry idea influenced the life of Christians to improve their faith in Jesus and make them feel equal like others. |
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