Today, I had the opportunity to do something very special. Our class was given the option to have first time baptisms and rededication baptisms. When I was five years old, I was baptized in a spring outside of the Dead Sea in Jordan, but, as many of you know, I have had several years where I made many terrible decisions and blatantly turned my back on God. Thankfully, through the guidance I found at the Wesley Foundation and YWAM I have recently chosen to live a life fully dedicated to God. I knew that this was my opportunity to make a public declaration of the rededication of my life to God. I am so excited to say that from this day on I will live my life whole-heartedly for God and listen to His guidance. God fulfills me in a way that nothing has ever done before. I am so excited to live the life that He has planned for me. Today, I let my old self die, and I choose to live for God. I choose to live according to His Word, to strive with everything in me to keep loving and encouraging the people I encounter and to continue diving into my relationship with God. Kim Kaufman, my school leader, and Roy Sandiford, a YWAM staff member and leader, helped lead my rededication baptism. The group of us that were baptized!
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Lia
9/17/2016 08:15:26 am
Hi Oliva, what you wrote was very inspiring and true. On the 15th I got healed from anxiety, Our God is so good!!
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