Karlo’s Testimony

January 7th, 2013

Hi My name is Karlo Wiesner, I am 28 years old.
My life has been one big mess, until I Found Jesus!! I don’t come from a Christian Home, I have a older brother and younger sister. We come From a Fatherless home. When growing up my mom had different relationships with men, most of them beating her up, I used to witness all of this and it did not do me any good. I live in South Africa. when I was 14 I left school to move to my Dad in England, thinking my life was going to change. It did Not. I started smoking cigrettes at 14 ,drinking and then also started to smoke weed. When arriving in England it got alot worse as everything bad for a person was very easy to get.

I started taking harder drugs now cause the weed was doing nothing for me no more, cocaine, crack even Heroin. I was really bad now , started to rob people so that i could support my habits, not good. I was arressted a few times now. I was 19 when my dad decided to kick me out. I ended up on the strets of England. I was very scared. I was on the streets for 2 years doing drugs, drinking and robbing people before i got arrested for the last time.

I hit a guy really badly to get money he ended up in hospital for 2months. I was sentenced to 4 years in jail. I only done 2 years as they gave me the option of getting deported. so I took it. When arriving back in South Africa my life was still not right drinking still and still smoking Crack. it was not until 2012 Jan 4, I went on a Christian Camp Called Camp David in Potchefstroom South Africa. where my whole life changed I met Jesus at this camp. Two weeks later I got Baptized, I am still involved with the camps. I am a leader in the camp. I also go and do missionary work to help the poor and go and share my testimony with the young, old and those who are in the situation I was in…. OUR GOD IS MIGHTY TO SAVE. I LOVE YOU JESUS.

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LIMITLESS!

With God by your side, fear nothing. Follow His words and have faith in him because He knows the best for you. With Him, there is no boundaries :D

George Abbott: Appointment with Death Cancelled

By Rod Thomas
The 700 Club

George Abbott woke up one morning with severe stomach pain.

“I thought maybe it would go away, but it didn’t go away,” George said.

I asked him, you know, ‘well, what’s wrong?’ his wife, Cheryl remembered. “And he said he was in such pain that he couldn’t stand it. And for him to say that I know that it’s very bad”

Cheryl rushed her husband to a nearby hospital.  

“Well, they found gallbladder cancer,” George said. “This is a very rare form of cancer.”

Doctors performed emergency surgery to remove the cancerous gall bladder; but there was more bad news.

“When they did the surgery, the cancer had gone down into the liver bed,” George said. “And that, as you well know, basically the prognosis is that you’re not going to live very long.”

Their family doctor, Dr. McQueen, who is also their friend, feared the worst.

“His prognosis was poor,” Dr. McQueen said. “With the stage of the cancer being advanced, once it had metastasized to another organ, he is classified as advanced stage carcinoma. For George, his treatment options were limited. Not only were those options limited, the ones that were available to him, in many cases, will take your life.”

Facing almost certain death, George got a second opinion.

“Same diagnosis, same prognosis,” George said. “The only difference was that this doctor was a little more positive and he said to me, ‘we’re going to operate.’”

“He also said, ‘okay, this is in the upper part of the liver; but if I open him up and I find any cancer anywhere else in the liver, I’m just going to close him back up because then there’ll be nothing we can do,’” Cheryl said. “I just thought, ‘I cannot lose my husband.’”   

At the surgeon’s recommendation, George did not undergo chemotherapy or take any medication before surgery. Ultimately, he knew his fate was in God’s hands.

“I know that God heals,” George said. “But I’m also a realist and I know that the Bible says, ‘it’s appointed once to die, and then the judgment.’ So, I was ready to accept this - that if this is the time that God wanted to take me home, I was ready for that.”

As the surgery date approached, Cheryl prayed for God’s help.

“Our church got together and had a prayer meeting and one of the ladies in the church or maybe more than one, called The 700 Club and asked for prayer for George,” Cheryl said.

As surgeons performed the procedure, Cheryl got a phone call.

“I got off the phone and I just started crying. ‘The doctor said that his liver is perfectly normal; that there was no sign of cancer whatsoever.’ So we were just hugging each other and crying,” she said.

“The doctor said it looked like a normal, healthy liver. God had taken [the cancer], and I don’t know how He did it. I don’t know whether He just made the cancer go away. I don’t know if He gave me a new liver. It doesn’t matter to me. All I know is God is a God of miracles and he healed me,” George said.

“They believe in prayer and they trust in the sovereignty of God,” Dr. McQueen said. “There is no medical treatment or explanation for that type of result - absolutely miraculous!”

For the past two years, routine tests have shown the same result – no cancer!

“God really did heal,” Cheryl said. “I mean, when God does something, He does it right.”

“Some people today say, ‘well, miracles went out with the apostles.’ Well, I’m here to tell you that miracles did not go out with the apostles, that God is a God of miracles and He is a healer today,” George said. “He gave me a miracle - the miracle of life.”

Article from : https://www.cbn.com/700club/features/amazing/George_Abbott030209.aspx

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AMAZING STORY

Paula Abbott: The Love of The Father

By Zsa Zsa Palagyi
The 700 Club

Paula Abbott was only a child, but she was suicidal.  “I was laying on my bed and I wrote a note that says ‘Why doesn’t my daddy love me?”  And I looked at the fingernail polish remover and drank the whole bottle because I didn’t want to live anymore where my daddy didn’t love me.  And my mom looked at my dad.  She handed him the note and my dad said, ‘You can take her to the hospital if you want to,  but I’m not going.’ And my dad sat down and he turned the TV on and he didn’t even look at me.”

All Paula wanted was for her adoptive father to notice her.  But the harder she tried to get his approval, the more he pushed her away.

Paula remembers clearly, “He said that I was worthless, would never amount to anything.  That I was not his.  We were all scared of what would make my dad snap.”

Simple things got Paula in trouble.  “I was making milkshakes for our family and I was 7 years old.  And we were all getting the same flavor and my dad wanted a different flavor, which meant that I would have to clean up the blender to make his special and I just sighed and said ‘Oh daddy.’  And that sparked something in him.  He was so angry that he jumped up and pulled his belt off and started beating me and yelling at me and screaming and told me “I would never do that to him.” And my mom had to stop him.

Paula’s parents divorced when she was a teenager, but she quickly got involved with an abusive man - who took advantage of her and got her pregnant.

“He controlled me and told me now that since I was pregnant with his child, I would marry him and I would be silent about what happened,”  says Paula.   “And he would take pictures of my face when he would smash it and said ‘This will remind you that I am in control.’ I begged for forgiveness because it was always my fault.  The reason that I got beat was because it was my fault.  It was something that I had done.  Just like with my dad.”    

Paula was afraid of what her husband might do to their daughter, so she gave her up for adoption. Soon the marriage ended.  Paula had two more children by different fathers— and she eventually left those men and her children too.

“These babies needed something so much better,” Paula painfully remembers.   “I was dead inside and felt like I was leading them down the wrong path.  I didn’t want to take them down the path that my dad took me.”

Paula moved out of state, hoping that would wipe away her past.  And in her mind, it did--- but only because she started using methamphetamines.  “It numbed the pain that I was feeling and it gave me a whole new outlook on life and I liked it.  I liked the feeling of being better than what I was.”

Soon, Paula was dancing at a strip club to support her drug habit and feed her need for validation.

“If it was just for a second or a minute of time, I would get to hear a man’s voice say you’re beautiful or oh wow, you’re good. I like this. I just needed some kind of approval,” Paula confesses.  “And then I would leave feeling so dirty because this wasn’t really what I was supposed to be doing.”

After living like this for several years, Paula wanted to die. “I would do as many drugs all at once that I could.  But the thing is that I was so scared of really dying. I would always tell somebody right after I did it, hoping that they would come and take this away and make it stop and that’s all I was looking for. I was looking for the pain to stop.”

Then Paula came across a sign.  She remembers clearly, “I was going to meet my drug dealer and I passed a sign on the side of the road that said “Cowboy Church.”  The church part did not catch my attention--that was not intriguing at all, but the cowboy part was!”

Paula found the church and heard a cowboy preacher talking about the love of Jesus for the first time.  “I had never heard the name of Jesus in a positive way,” says Paula.  “I’ve always heard it in a negative way.  I’ve always heard God’s name in a curse word.”

Paula wanted this love she heard about, but thought she needed her drugs even more.  So for the next two months, Paula was reckless—and she overdosed again.

 “I was so tired of living the way I was living and I just wanted it over.  And at that moment I screamed out the name of Jesus.  I said, ‘I need you. I need you.  I need you in my life.’  And for the first time right then at that moment I felt that my daddy loved me,” Paula weeps.   “It was the most awesome feeling and I felt like I was good and everything was okay.”

From then on, there were no more drugs and no more stripping. The only thing Paula wanted more of was Jesus’ love.  And a Christian man she knew named Toby stepped-in to help.

Paula says, “He started by teaching me through a children’s bible.  And I got so into it because I could relate to so many people in the bible and I was like… oh my gosh, look here.  Here’s me.  Right here.”

Paula learned about God’s forgiveness, “First thing is I had to receive the forgiveness of my lord and savior.  I had to know without a shadow of a doubt he forgives me for everything I have done.  And then I had to forgive myself.  I had to say you know what?  I can’t turn back time, I can’t turn back the past. I can’t change anything but what I can do is I can embrace the future and embrace what is given to me now.”

She even forgave her father, who recently passed away.
Since then, Paula has been re-united with all three of her children.  In spite of her extreme drug use, her body has been completely restored.   And while she married Toby, she says the only approval she needs now is from Jesus.

“He is my everything and I put him above all,” Paula declares.  “I don’t have to make anything happen anymore.  I don’t have to power my way through it. All I have to do is live and love and love in the grace God has given me and I just stand there and let him do what he loves best -- and that is make my life perfect.”


 Article source :  https://www.cbn.com/700club/features/amazing/ZP83_Paula_Abbott.aspx

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Placing Admiration on the Right One

BEWARE : it's going to be quite a lengthy post, BUT definitely a meaningful story, read on if you dont mind :)

A few years ago I attended a writers’ conference. An author from my list whom I’d long admired was to be the keynote speaker. I wanted to tell him the story of how I came to find him and how his writing had inspired me, so it was arranged for us to meet and talk. 

We sat in a quiet corner of the hotel lobby and I began to tell him what his work has meant to me. Halfway through the story, he stopped me, “Just a minute. You have to stop, because I need to bask.” That’s B-A-S-K – bask. I didn’t know what he meant until he closed his eyes and began to breathe deeply through his nose. He waved his hands as if to fan my words toward him and got a weird look on his face as he appeared to soak in my words of encouragement.

It was all I could do to keep from bursting out laughing. That someone need to bask in the glory of a simple compliment flabbergasted me. Instead of reflecting any glory back to God, this author chose to absorb it for himself. To bask in my praise.
…

During my morning prayer time, shortly after my visit with the author at the writers’ conference, I found myself telling God how disillusioned I was with so many of the people on my list ( people whom I admired for their works and wanted to meet ). 

It didn’t take too many disappointments to conclude that unless the person stayed God-centered, fame and talent seemed to ruin the person in some way. Basking in their own accomplishments led to self-absorption and self-obsession. Many of them didn’t even seem to see other people.

So that morning I complained to God how disappointed I was in several of the people on my list. Then it hit me. My disappointment stemmed not from the fact that these people were flawed. We are all flawed. The true source of my disappointment was that I had misplaced my admiration.

As I prayed, I sensed that God was saying. There’s a reason I has that happen, Debbie. It’s because I want you to make another list. You asked Me to send those 30 people into your life. You’re My daughter. I love you, and as your Father, I want to give you the things you ask for, but I also wanted you to see people through My eyes. Now make another list and put down 30 more spaces, but leave them open for the people I want to send into your life.

Recognizing those who will influence us is no easy task. Sometimes we meet someone and are immediately drawn to them, confident that he or she may very well be an important part of our life. We might even seek someone out. And at times we may even feel like our life has been invaded by someone we'd rather have avoided, only to discover that God sent that person, wrote that person on our list, for His own surprising purpose.

“God’s Guest List”, by Debbie Macomber.

What’s Your Problem?

By Max Lucado

If your father were Bill Gates and your computer crashed, where would you turn?

If Stradivari were your dad and your violin string snapped, to whom would you go?

If your father is God and you have a problem on your hands,
what do you do?

Is your problem too large?

Ephesians 3:20 says,
“God is able to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.”

Is your need too great?

2 Corinthians 9:8 says,
“God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance.”

Is your enemy too strong?

Philippians 3:21 says,
“God is able even to subdue all things to Himself.”



God is greater than all that you're facing ;)
submit to God and see His wonder at work in His timely time
instead of submitting to any of your problems!

God is able to do what you cannot.
When you have a problem
—make this your first thought—“How can I get this problem to Jesus!”

It’s a day changer. Choose to make every day a great day!

Would you invite Him to face this together with you now?

God bless you! :)

Excerpted from:
Great Day Every Day
www.maxlucado.com

2012 New Year's Higher Ground Session

ATTENTION GUYS!!!....The New Year's Higher Ground Session WILL FALL ON THE 2ND JANUARY 2012. We need to change the date due to some inconveniences. Sorry for the late information. Therefore, there WILL NOT be any Higher Ground Sessions on the 30th December 2011.

Thank you.

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2011 New Year Higher Ground Session

Hi guys....!!! Higher Ground is back and we are celebrating New Year's Eve too. There will a lot of fun and the speaker for this session is Sister Tabitha from Kuantan Presbyterian Center. Well, want to know what is she going to share for us?? Come and join us to find out the answer. In this session there will be games, worship session, sharing and many more interesting events. The details about the event are written as below...

Date : 30th December 2011
Time : 7.30p.m (SHARP)
Venue : Christian Praise Centre (CPC)

Don't miss out this amazing event...! See you there.. :D



*Details correct at the time of publishing. Subject to further changes.


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We Love Because God Loves Us by Rick Warren

"We love because he first loved us." (1 John 4:19 NIV)


We were created in God's image to do two things on Earth: Learn to love God and learn to love other people. Life is all about love.

But love all started with God. He loved us first, and that gives us the ability to love others ( 1 John 4:19). The only reason you can love God or love anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you. He showed that love by creating you. He showed that love by everything you have in life, it's all a gift of God's love.

In order to love others and to become great lovers, we first need to understand and feel how much God loves us. We don't want to just talk about love, read about love, or discuss love, we need to experience the love of God.

We need to reach a day when we finally, fully understand how God loves us completely and unconditionally. We need to become secure in the truth that we cannot make God stop loving us.

Once we're secure inside God's unconditional love, we'll start cutting people a lot of stack. We won't be as angry as we were before.

During this Christmas season, think about the following:

• Who needs more patience from you?
• Who needs more time from you?
• Who do you need to forgive?
• Who needs your mercy and grace?
  
  

What will you do about these things during the season of love?


Watch a short video sample from Pastor Rick on the importance of love. Saddleback Resources offers 40 Days of Love, a six week, video-based study for small group or individuals that searches the Scripture for what love is, the characteristics of love, and how our relationship can be transformed by love.

Rick Warren is the founder pastor of Saddleback Church, in Lake Forest, Calif, one of America's largest and most influential churches. Rick is author of the New York Times bestseller The Purpose Driven Life. His book,The Purpose Driven Church, was named one of the 100 Christian books that changed 20th century. He also founder of Pastor.com, a global Internet community for pastors. © Copyright 2011 Rick Warren.


Article source : http://purposedriven.com/blogs/dailyhope/index.html?contentid=9405



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Hillsong - The First And The Last - With Subtitles/Lyrics - HD Version

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