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MY TESTIMONY
MY TESTIMONY
By Pastor Dave Burrus
I have written my testimony as I feel that there is a lot of un-forgiveness in this world. I pray that it may help some come to our Lord and seek His forgiveness and love.
It all started way back when I was around 4 or 5 years of age.
Way back in 1944/5. I had a hard childhood and so did some of my other brothers and sisters.
I HAD TROUBLE IN FORGIVING I know by this work I am involved in today that, there are millions of children out there that are a lot worse off than I ever was.
But when I was being hurt I never thought so. I am writing this Testimony to show you how anger and the loss of trust can leave you empty, it can make you a yo-yo Christian, or even a backslider or even worse if you don't come back to God, but if you can lay it all before our Lord completely then you will find the joy, love and peace you can have from FORGIVENESS.
Right from the time I was a little lad I was angry and found it hard to trust anyone. Many have different reasons, mine was because my Dad was a violent man who hit us for the least little thing and beat us with anything he could get hold of. I had even hammers used on me. Some days the blood would poor down my face from my head being cut open, either with a hammer, a belt or any other object that was near by.
I still carry the scare today where my skin was ripped from me across my shoulder. Many days I would walk around with lumps and black eyes. I opened my mouth about something once, he tied me up and tried to lay a red hot poker on my tongue, and told me if I opened my mouth again he would burn my tongue out. I was a little weak boy so very scared that I just kept my mouth shut from then on. My mother walked out on her 8 children. My father went to prison twice for this abuse and we ended up in a children's home each time. He became disabled and this made him worse.
Maybe the illness made him like it, maybe the pain made him worse My Mum spent money going out and even sold our ration coupons to get the money for her entertainment. This left us hungry and I walked around as thin as a rake and became very weak and did not start school until I was nearly 8 years old. When I was 11 years of age and the eldest of 8 children my mother left home. Since that first day she left us, yes she walked out on all her children, the eight of us, to this day I have never seen her. This is now 57 years.
I found it very hard to forgive my mum and dad for what they did to us. This was bottled up inside of me for many years. Yes I believed in God and went to church on and off from the age of 12.
When I was 14, I became a born again Christian, but I never really found peace until I gave my all to God. I became a yo-yo Christian, keep going back to sin doing things, which I knew was wrong at the time.
I even lost money, a lot of money on the horses for over seven years.
I had to leave school when I was nearly 14, to work to help look after the family, so never got much schooling. All these years I was in and out of a relationship with God. I had a lung taken away 35 years ago and told I had about 10 years life left. Well God knew different. He gave me this life yet I still was a yo-yo Christian for more years to come.
It was not until I went to a healing crusade in London for healing of very bad head pains that I had day and night. Again God healed me of this pain that I had for over three years. It was there that I knew that I wanted to be in Gods hands for the rest of my life. Two days later after this healing crusade I gave my all to God. That day I put my complete life into Jesus' hands and asked Him to forgive all my sins. I never knew the real love, peace and joy that you can have until then.
That day, I also forgave my mum and dad and I felt closeness to God that I had never had before, even though I loved Him before there was this something missing. If you have this real closeness with the Lord, you will know what I mean.
Thank you Father for all the time you waited for me with open arms. That is the day I said to God use me to do your will. I am here to serve you the rest of my life.
Anyone can have this very close relationship with God, all you have to do is talk to Him and build this relationship. It is open to every single one of us. I can tell you, that since my FORGIVENESS for my mum and dad and my new relationship with God, my life has been transformed. Hallelujah.
Full forgiveness is there for my mum and dad, but like our sins we can still remember things, the hurts, and everything else. Sometimes we look back at our past and see where we have come from, and where we are now.
It was hard to write this testimony but I want to share this story to try and help people find forgiveness. I hope and pray that it can and will help many.
Because of this past, it makes me want to reach out to every abused child in this world and help them away from it all. I know there is only so much I can do. The one regret I have is that I have wasted so many years.
I thank God with all my heart that He never gave up on me. I thank Him for giving me another chance of allowing me to reach out to His children and bring them to his feet. He gave me a vision for His people in India and now I am serving Him in this work.
After all this illness and abuse there was more to come. I went to India for the second time and just three weeks after I got back I was rushed into hospital with cancer of the tonsils.
Satan was trying to stop this work in India; he was trying to stop me going back I am sure of this.
Our loving God had other plans, He healed me completely and I have been back seven times since then.
I have never been more content with life than I am now, Many times I cry for these children because I can see them in pain, but I know that our Father is using me to reach out to them and this makes me happy, this bring peace and contentment. Thank you Lord.
By Pastor Dave Burrus
I have written my testimony as I feel that there is a lot of un-forgiveness in this world. I pray that it may help some come to our Lord and seek His forgiveness and love.
It all started way back when I was around 4 or 5 years of age.
Way back in 1944/5. I had a hard childhood and so did some of my other brothers and sisters.
I HAD TROUBLE IN FORGIVING I know by this work I am involved in today that, there are millions of children out there that are a lot worse off than I ever was.
But when I was being hurt I never thought so. I am writing this Testimony to show you how anger and the loss of trust can leave you empty, it can make you a yo-yo Christian, or even a backslider or even worse if you don't come back to God, but if you can lay it all before our Lord completely then you will find the joy, love and peace you can have from FORGIVENESS.
Right from the time I was a little lad I was angry and found it hard to trust anyone. Many have different reasons, mine was because my Dad was a violent man who hit us for the least little thing and beat us with anything he could get hold of. I had even hammers used on me. Some days the blood would poor down my face from my head being cut open, either with a hammer, a belt or any other object that was near by.
I still carry the scare today where my skin was ripped from me across my shoulder. Many days I would walk around with lumps and black eyes. I opened my mouth about something once, he tied me up and tried to lay a red hot poker on my tongue, and told me if I opened my mouth again he would burn my tongue out. I was a little weak boy so very scared that I just kept my mouth shut from then on. My mother walked out on her 8 children. My father went to prison twice for this abuse and we ended up in a children's home each time. He became disabled and this made him worse.
Maybe the illness made him like it, maybe the pain made him worse My Mum spent money going out and even sold our ration coupons to get the money for her entertainment. This left us hungry and I walked around as thin as a rake and became very weak and did not start school until I was nearly 8 years old. When I was 11 years of age and the eldest of 8 children my mother left home. Since that first day she left us, yes she walked out on all her children, the eight of us, to this day I have never seen her. This is now 57 years.
I found it very hard to forgive my mum and dad for what they did to us. This was bottled up inside of me for many years. Yes I believed in God and went to church on and off from the age of 12.
When I was 14, I became a born again Christian, but I never really found peace until I gave my all to God. I became a yo-yo Christian, keep going back to sin doing things, which I knew was wrong at the time.
I even lost money, a lot of money on the horses for over seven years.
I had to leave school when I was nearly 14, to work to help look after the family, so never got much schooling. All these years I was in and out of a relationship with God. I had a lung taken away 35 years ago and told I had about 10 years life left. Well God knew different. He gave me this life yet I still was a yo-yo Christian for more years to come.
It was not until I went to a healing crusade in London for healing of very bad head pains that I had day and night. Again God healed me of this pain that I had for over three years. It was there that I knew that I wanted to be in Gods hands for the rest of my life. Two days later after this healing crusade I gave my all to God. That day I put my complete life into Jesus' hands and asked Him to forgive all my sins. I never knew the real love, peace and joy that you can have until then.
That day, I also forgave my mum and dad and I felt closeness to God that I had never had before, even though I loved Him before there was this something missing. If you have this real closeness with the Lord, you will know what I mean.
Thank you Father for all the time you waited for me with open arms. That is the day I said to God use me to do your will. I am here to serve you the rest of my life.
Anyone can have this very close relationship with God, all you have to do is talk to Him and build this relationship. It is open to every single one of us. I can tell you, that since my FORGIVENESS for my mum and dad and my new relationship with God, my life has been transformed. Hallelujah.
Full forgiveness is there for my mum and dad, but like our sins we can still remember things, the hurts, and everything else. Sometimes we look back at our past and see where we have come from, and where we are now.
It was hard to write this testimony but I want to share this story to try and help people find forgiveness. I hope and pray that it can and will help many.
Because of this past, it makes me want to reach out to every abused child in this world and help them away from it all. I know there is only so much I can do. The one regret I have is that I have wasted so many years.
I thank God with all my heart that He never gave up on me. I thank Him for giving me another chance of allowing me to reach out to His children and bring them to his feet. He gave me a vision for His people in India and now I am serving Him in this work.
After all this illness and abuse there was more to come. I went to India for the second time and just three weeks after I got back I was rushed into hospital with cancer of the tonsils.
Satan was trying to stop this work in India; he was trying to stop me going back I am sure of this.
Our loving God had other plans, He healed me completely and I have been back seven times since then.
I have never been more content with life than I am now, Many times I cry for these children because I can see them in pain, but I know that our Father is using me to reach out to them and this makes me happy, this bring peace and contentment. Thank you Lord.
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Permalink Reply by Mosjos Mission for The Uncared on -
I am happy to share the true story of Brother Dave how he forgave the bitterness against his parents and how God loved him and healed him. To day early morning I was preparing a message how God blessed Abraham because he obeyed Him.Gene22: 18. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. At the time of preparing the message I could not open the mail as the internet connection not available. When I saw your true story it touched me." I can tell you, that since my FORGIVENESS for my mum and dad and my new relationship with God, my life has been transformed. Hallelujah." Hallelujah His a Wonderful God and Saviour. He has protected you and blessed you by serving the needy people of the society. The riches in the World never count in His Kingdom. I am so thrilled to learn that your cancer in the tonsils healed by Him Hallelujah I thank Him for His Mercies. yesterday I was preparing a message how to pray.? How we can glorify Him and because he has chosen me and Heb 10: 10. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 2 corin 6: 16. And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people..so satan cannot do any harm to us. With that faith we have to pray to Him. Dear brother you are my brother and Guide. I will continue to pray for you and God will be with you Isa 55: 11. So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. .
May God bless you abundantly. Always at His Divine feet for the uncared poor. Pastor Moses Justin Nirmalkumar.
Mosjos Mission Church. Madras 600041. India
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Permalink Reply by Natasha Anand-Burnett on -
it really helps me to realize that im not alone in the experience i have gone through; that other people have gone through the same thing and are moving on. my testimony is almost like Pastor Dave's. Even though i am only 15 years old, i have to admit, i have gone through and done things.. i regret doing. But God has used those things to bring me where i am today
When i was 8 months, i was placed into foster care because of the abuse, drugs and alcohol that was going around in my family. Then at 5 years old, i was adopted into the family i am with now. i don't rememebr anything that went on between my birth and the 8 months which i was with my birth fols.. but i have marks and scars that i don't know how it came from. My social worker had told me that it may have been from the abuse from my father. i didn't really mind; i was more forcused on getting baptised and when i was 9 years old i gave my heart to Christ
it wasn't until i was in grade 5 that i found out that i was adopted. my teacher that year had gotten so fed up with me that she yelled that i would end up as my birth mom. i went home and asked my adopted folks about it and i relaized that i wasn't their actual child. i don't how but i became a tough rough kid after that. i was agressive and wouldn't let anyone get in my way. later on, i gave up all those charatceritics excpet for my anger to which today i am still fighting against.
i went down into depression when i was in grade 8. i had found a booklet that had all the information about my birth, foster care and adoption. i became suicidal.. i didn't want to face another day. but you know what? we serve a God, the only true God that never gives up on his children. it was because of his everlasting, unchanging grace that i have made it through and i am in the healing process today.
you know, somedays, i feel like a failure. i feel like a loser. some nights i sit in bed wondering if i was a mistake. most days, i don't want to face another day. but i know i gotta move on. i know i gotta face my giants and i do, with God at my side. and it helps me heal when i know that others who have gone through situations like mine are there to remind me that God is always there
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Permalink Reply by Ratan on -
its really Awesome ..Remember, "He goes before you"..
Stay Blessed my friend
Ratan
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