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Get this video and more at MySpace.com RACHEL’S TESTIMONY~ Most of all I love my God and if anyone has any questions about it just ask me about it. First of all, I grew up in a Christian home and I received Christ when I was eight years old. I even remember my dad sharing scripture from the Bible about how we need to die to sin and be made alive in Christ. What this means is to die with Christ we must believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again: death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, and he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. (Romans 6:8) Ever since I heard this when I was a little girl I didn’t want to go to hell because I was scarred of hell. I wanted to be a candle in this dark world and go share the good news of what Jesus did in my life. I just knew there was hope in this world. My question is how are YOU living your life? You only have ONE life to live. How are taking the advantage of your life? These questions aroused in my mind as I grew older. I never understood when I got older what a Christian was and so I was doing worldly things. I wanted to be like everybody else and follow the crowd. But I grew tired because all I was doing was filling the void in my heart. In this case, growing up in church all my life, I always wanted to know why it was so important to go to church. My friends would go and then when ever my Christian friends went to parties, I grew confused about the church. They weren’t living their lives for Christ; instead they were living in 2 worlds. I thought I had to do the same, so I did. I was a hypocrite and so were my friends. As I got older, I started to think that my life was in hell because I was far from God. God was with me all the way because He first loved us. Ever since my good friend Ben died, I remember him writing a song for graduation about how the better days will be in heaven. I love this so much because it gave me hope for the future. He encouraged me to go on and keep seeking after God. He wanted me to go serve in places that need Jesus. He said to me, High school is so short in life. Make a difference. After his death the funeral was the first starting point of my life. The speaker once said where are you gonna go when you die? This hit me because some of the people that knew Ben where not believers. This testimony was so encouraging especially at a funeral where there were people who needed the truth. I was mad at God for taking my friend away but deep down inside I knew he was in a better place. He is with Jesus. God taught me to start choosing because in the time i was in i was being hypocritical, like it says in Revelation "I wish you either one or the other!" I needed to stop living in lukewarm. For he wants us to be real and living out our faith.He wants us to stop choosing and realizing that we all have to make a decision, wheather its following after God or turning away.As I learned from this point I wanted people to see God at work and his grace that he shown upon me because what he did was the most important thing that could ever happen to me. I recognized i needed something more than just life. Later on I wanted to go make a difference and an impact. So I went on my first oversea mission trip. I was in Guatemala. We did music as a way to proclaim the gospel. This led me into so many opportunities. I remember talking with a Blind man and I asked him What is it like to be blind? He said something that I WILL never forget. He told me, I am not worried at all because I know that when I first see, all I will see is the face of Jesus and nothing more. That was so powerful to me because he has been born blind and never being able to see. And that is what its like. If your blind and never seeing then your not believing. As a favorite quote “Seeing is NOT believeing, believing IS seeing.” Right now I attend a Bible College now in Canada called Briercrest and I LOVE it. God has been a real blessing ever since I stepped in that school. It is in Saskatchewan, apparently not a lot of people know where that is, especially Americans, but its right in the middle between Alberta and Manitoba and above Minnesota. God has been calling me into Missions. I hope to be a Bible Translator and reach people to the gospel. I want people to fall in love with Jesus more than anything. I know God rescued my soul and I know he can do the same for you. He offers to come now as the Hero of your story. He wants to rescue your heart. Learning about being Christian is not just simply being a Christian but its living the word out and being his children. It is having a relationship with the one who created you. Jesus never said he was a Christian. But he's God in human flesh.He wanted to know what it was like to be human so he could relate to us. And all he wants from His people is to KNOW Him so that we can make him KNOWN in this lost and broken world.He dealt with pain, sadness, for he wept, he experienced death just like my friend, Ben and he was more human than all of us, for he came and died so that we too can have a relationship with him. It is giving your life over to God and letting go of the things in this world. It is time to give up this world and to start loving him with all of our HEARTS, SOUL AND MIND. For I too I am suffering for Jesus, just like the persecutors around the world who die everyday for Jesus. Many people are dying over China because of their faith. Why kill a person who believes in the Truth? I know people for even today are suffering for the glory of God. God is going to come back for us for we do not know the day or hour but he said He will come back to this sinful world. Our REAL home is in heaven, not in this world. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Phil. 1:21. “For GOD so LOVED the world that He GAVE His ONE and only SON that whoever BELIVES in HIM shall NOT perish BUT have ETERNAL LIFE. For God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, BUT to SAVE THE WORLD through him.” (John 3:16 and 17) The True you in Christ