Still Waters Camp 2 Testimony: 5 years

God Bless you all! This year was my very first year of Camp, and I attended the 'younger Camp'. It exceeded all of my dreams of it! No words can really describe what the atmosphere was like; the only word that comes to my mind is love.

Well, I went to Camp expecting, just as my older siblings (who have been going to Camp for years) had told me, and I left that little patch of Heaven with MORE than what I was expecting!!

I can't remember which day it was at Camp, the first or the second, Brother Joseph was telling us that our decision today will affect us 5 years from now. That really stuck with me and it really made me think about what decisions I made in my life 5 years ago from this year. And I would like to share my testimony with you all, about how I made a decision 5 years ago, and how it has affected me this year.

5 years ago, in August of 2011, my dad left my family because of the Message. He did not want to serve the Lord anymore, which broke my heart. But that day, my siblings and I chose to stay with our mom, who was (and still is) determined to serve the Lord and follow this Message. That was 5 years ago!

Since that time, I have tried to fight many battles. I tried, because I didn't really accept the Lord and let Him take care of everything. One of those battles was music, and another was depression. I had thoughts of committing suicide daily. I let the enemy tell me that I had no friends except my so-called 'friends' from school (I am homeschooled, but it's an online public school that I do at home). Satan told me that I had nothing to live for, that I was not in the least bit perfect so no boys would ever like me, and that I was just a waste of space.

I have always been big into music. That is one of my little 'escapes', but I have to be careful what I listen to, because Satan loves to use it against me. My dad listened to a lot of country music at home and I got in to it too. I even wrote a couple country songs about 6 years ago, but 5 years ago I tore those papers apart and threw it all away. After a bit I started moving into more than just country. I started listening to other worldly music. I had many songs memorized and sang them under my breath every day. I stopped for a while, but this year it slowly started up again. Along with all of this, I had a few other addictions that I hid from most everyone. But I wanted deliverance from all of these things so bad.

Last year, I was healed of my depression (my testimony was posted on the VGR website. I was healed the same day Bro. James Jackson was raised from the dead). Well, the first day of Camp, I told a close friend about my addiction. She hugged me and thanked me for sharing it with her. It felt good to get it off my chest again.

That night at Quiet Time, I was listening to a Message, and it started pouring down rain so we had to finish our Quiet Time in the dorms. Sometime while I was walking back to my dorm, I lost my spot on the Message, and I forgot what I was listening to, so I chose to listen to one of my favorite Messages "One in a Million". Toward the end of the tape, Brother Branham mentioned a sheep (paragraph 77), and I knew that the Lord wanted me to listen to that tape so that I could hear that and know that I was a sheep that Brother Branham was claiming for God. It really blessed me.

The next night during Quiet Time, I received another blessing, and I have told many about it. And then at the Tuesday night Service, it seemed that Brother Branham was speaking right to me. Paragraph 34 of "Thirsting for Life", which was the Tape we listened to that night, Brother Branham said "A many a little girl, listening in tonight, that's had a good mama, and a daddy that's tried to teach her right. She's out in some dive somewhere or away from God. And as she's trying to satisfy that thirst in her heart with some of this modern teen-age rock-and-roll, which is of the devil. . .". I heard that and I almost burst into tears because there Brother Branham was talking about ME. I was that little girl and I realized how bad I was. I thought I was a good Christian, one of the “top ten.” But that night, when I went up to the altar, I felt so sinful and so tiny. It felt like I ran into a brick wall of His Presence.

I was baptized that night, rededicating my life to the Lord. And I felt, as soon as I came up out of the water, a sweet feeling, the sweetest feeling I have ever felt in my life, come over me and I knew that right then I had received the Holy Ghost. I had been praying to receive it for years, and I finally got It! I felt a huge burden just drop from my shoulders, and I finally let go of my dad too.

Because of my decision 5 years ago, in the August of 2011, I am where I am today, a Royal Seed of Abraham, and the daughter of THE King! Hallelujah! Every time I think of what I got at Camp, I just want to break out shouting and praising God because I got delivered from my addictions and my 'aftershocks' of depression. I was healed emotionally, physically, and spiritually, and I received the Holy Ghost. Praise the Lord!

I pray my testimony was a blessing to another Royal Seed of Abraham!

God bless you all richly!