PRECIOUS TESTIMONIES MINISTRY PRAISE REPORTS

You can read here how God is touching the lives of people through this Outreach.  All glory goes to HIM! 

Feel free email us at ptoffice@precious-testimonies.com with how this ministry has been a blessing to you!

Alex:  I want to thank you for your ministry!  For the last six years I have been a single parent and frequently need help, and a touch or a word from God in my trials.  My church and most churches in my area do not regularly or even infrequently provide a forum to share testimonies, but this is a way that God really ministers to me.  It lets me know that I am not alone in my trials and that I love and serve the same God who met their need, and that He is faithful to meet mine as well.

A Female From New York City:  You really have no idea - and I have tears in my eyes - how wonderful and a true blessing your site has been for me. I was raped by my dad at an early age and it's even hard to write this as I seek the lord for healing, and going through your pages the last couple of days has been amazing.

I went to the web site from Dr. David Kyle Foster that has helped me a lot to look more into healing and closing doors I have opened to the devil. One of my favorite testimonies is Deborah Foran. One day I was researching on Youtube how to heal from sexual abuse, and there she was sharing her testimony and how God healed her. I started to cry and say to myself:  "Wow, God can heal ME too!" From there on I have practically been glued to your website searching for healing; for words of encouragement and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

I find myself wanting more and more the healing of my past. I wish I can talk to that lady today and say: 'Thank you for sharing your testimony, Deborah, because today - because of you and your boldness to speak of your past and your healing through Jesus Christ - I truly believe that the lord can do it for me TO!.'

As I search for the right church to help me through in prayers and the right people to be placed in my path, your own testimony brings tears to my eyes: "Desperation: A secret to trusting the lord?" It speaks to my soul because on this search I have begun, I feel alone and lost at times, but the lord spoke to me through that testimony and let me know that I am not alone and to trust Him no matter what.

I sometimes feel like Kathleen, and just want to give up and stop searching for my tent (healing), and yet God puts that spirit of stubbornness like you mentioned, Norm, and uplifts me to keep on going and searching although the obvious in that I am lost and don't know where I am going.

My soul sometimes is like that flashlight -- it turns off and on -- but I praise God that when I really need to see where to go, He is quick to give me enough battery to be lighted into the right direction.

May God continue to bless your ministry and bring healing that many people like myself need. I thank you for listening to God and doing this. Many people now a days want to charge for a book of testimonies.  I've bought a couple myself, and let me tell you ... it feels nothing -- nothing at all from what I feel in this site. It's like God flows through your pages right into my soul. It is so sincere; without compromise.  I want to spread your pages to the world, and the most beautiful thing is to save a soul without charging, because Jesus didn't charge us for our salvation.  It was free, and I'm so thankful that you guys are one of the very, very, very, very few ministry out there that don't charge, because people like me can hear about Jesus, and heal, and then give when we can, and not have to wait on healing or on salvation, because we have no money to buy the books that offer that. THANK YOU!!!!! Praise be Jesus.

GiftoAll:  Shelly Bauer's testimony was very touching. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq_WGLgcpwA ).  I can relate to her comments about the church. I was born again in 2003. What an eye opener it was when I found out that Jesus was there waiting. I am still haunted by guilt from the LDS church, after 50 years, but as I search, new doors and blessings seem to flood in. It took many years after that to read the Bible and understand how the LDS church had deceived me. I am still on the road of learning, searching and trying to increase my faith.

I previously attended a Christian church in Salt Lake. They have since moved and I am now looking for a new church that would be closer. My relatives before Joseph Smith were Lutheran from Sweden and Scotland and England. I don't know what church that side of the family attended.

Any thoughts on the many Christian churches?  Thanks for your videos.

Staff Note:  Here is my response back to this individual.  Maybe it will help someone else as well:  Thanks for taking the time to share. You are GREATLY BLESSED of the Lord to be freed from some of the highest level of demonic deception to ever be put upon this planet.

A couple of thoughts regarding a good, solid, Bible believing ONLY, Bible teaching ONLY local church fellowship. Be patient with God, but actively keep praying about the matter, and actively trusting that He will lead you to the right local fellowship for YOU. That doesn't negate going through the telephone directory and making some phone calls to local fellowships and asking them about their basic spiritual beliefs.

If it were me, I would start looking under: NON-DENOMINATIONAL Churches first. These type of local fellowships usually are EXTREMELY dogmatic on the Bible being the ONLY reliable source God has given humanity to learn about Him, and what He desires of us to be in proper relationship with Him.

Second to that would simply be: BIBLE Churches. These usually are much the same as NON-DENOMINATIONAL local fellowships.

In additional to the above, be VERY DISCERNING about a Pastor constantly hammering away about money/tithing issues. Giving certainly is Biblical, but some Pastor's are so focused on HOW to motivate their flocks to give more money that they literally can be an offense to the Holy Spirit in doing so. My wife and I are VERY blessed to have found a local fellowship where the offering plate is put in front of the church each Sunday morning, and it is simply announced that this is a time where people can give their OFFERINGS to the Lord if they WANT. No pressure; no hammering that "the devourer is going to get you if you don't drop in your 10%" - no guilt trips. Amazingly ... the bills get paid at the fellowship and no one can accuse the fellowship of: "All they want is my MONEY!"

Every bit important is to NOT get caught up in LEGALISM. That is easy for me to say, but it is often difficult to find local church leadership that doesn't allow different degrees of legalism to operate at a fellowship. You may not be familiar with the term "Legalism" -- basically it is either the Pastor and/or Elders of a fellowship trying to CONTROL the sheep. Sure rules need to be made and enforced; that is only normal and wise. But when members of the flock have to get PERMISSION from the Pastor and/or Elders to do simple things, then you know it is present. Satan functions through LEGALISM big-time. It's difficult to spot for most, but once you have been a victim of it's tentacles, and been delivered, you'll be able to smell it when you walk into a church! When you do - RUN!

Unconditional love - Unconditional acceptance ... is what you IDEALLY want to trust the Lord for when you are around ANY group of Christians. Sometimes you have to connect to just one or two Christians who are willing to meet with you, or you them, be it for prayer, and/or just informal Bible study.

Above all, as you pray and trust for where the Lord would have YOU connected to the Body of Christ in your area, He often will do that very supernaturally. Perhaps through a dream; maybe a work acquaintance; someone in the mall. When you are praying and trusting the Lord to get you to the RIGHT local church fellowship for YOU at this time of your life, God is EXTREMELY EAGER to take you up on what you are seeking.  - Norm Rasmussen, Director, Precious Testimonies

Step-By-Step Ministries:  (Message to their ministry partners - prayer warriors).

Paul Ehlke:   I have your site bookmarked and often frequent it just to built up my faith.  I have enjoyed your testimonies and they have helped me understand the Scriptures more and how God’s love truly is!  (Psalms 139 speaks volumes on it!)

V:  I was looking through Google to find help for my fiancé who just relapsed on crack cocaine after being clean 4 ½ years.  I wanted to find some kind of comfort; words that could ease the pain I feel inside.  Your story (of Martin Briseno) has done that  (http://www.precious-testimonies.com/BornAgain/a-c/Briseno.htm.)   I just want you to know that I feel bad you went through what you did and most of all the pain your family lived.  Happy for your family that you are now one and together.  I pray that you continue accepting your blessings and thank you for sharing your story.

Yonathan:  I am trying to find God. I'm trying my hardest, really! I believe Precious Testimonies is one of the reasons why I am so serious about this. I am now 100% with out a doubt sure that God exists, and that he is who he says he is in his word.  This was no small achievement for me. I've been reading many links from this site for a while now and I am always amazed at what I read. I don't know who reads these emails, but I'd like to say Thank You, Rasmussen, for being a faithful servant of God and for pioneering Precious-Testimonies!  I will pray and tell God how much of a blessing your site has been to me. On a side note, I would really appreciate it if you pray for me also, in my search for God.

PT Staff Note:  To God be the glory regarding the website.  We promise we WILL keep you lifted up in prayer, Yonathan, as we believe others will as well who read what you wrote.  God wants nothing more than for you to find Him!  He wants that for EVERYONE!

Hannes First Email:  I want to sincerely thank you for your wonderful web site. It has certainly given me new insight into and understanding of matters that I have been struggling with over the past four years. I am a 47 year old professional person with a lovely family, consisting of a wife that I have been married to for 25 years and four healthy and gorgeous children. In 1977 I accepted Jesus as my personal Savior and have since then been a devoted Christian. My relationship with the Lord and the Spirit of the living God has been very good, especially the five or six years, proceeding the last four years, as referred to.     

Editorial Note:  Mr. Combrinch is a financial consultant for www.galileocapital.co.za   He can be contacted by calling:  + 27 11 502 8800  Cell:  + 27 82 902 5494

R. Minnick:  I read Denny's testimony of seeing a vision of Jesus, and fully understand the feeling of people not believing you when you tell them what happened.  Here is my testimony, somewhat similar to his, if anyone would like to read it:  http://www.voicesoftruth.bravehost.com/aboutrobert.html  

Tom Ray:  I just finished reading Why Does God Want Us To "Rejoice Always?"; ... which came up on a search that I was doing on Google. I was searching under "accepting adversity" and found your excellent teaching. I would agree with what you've written, and feel that the same Spirit is what led me to write my book (that I was searching for to see if the WebCrawler's had picked it up yet) titled: "Accepting Adversity from God".   (Editor's Note: To read Tom's testimony, click on the following link:  The Struggle Of Being A Christian )

Tammy Cruz Moz:  This testimony - The Maria Davies Story  - is the first one that I have read on your site, and I really needed to read that.  I have accepted Christ as my Lord & Savior and I have been baptized, but for the past couple weeks I have really been struggling.  I was feeling like Maria was.  I was feeling that my sins were so bad that there wasn't anyway that God really could forgive and accept me.  I feel so dirty and ashamed for the sins that I have committed in my past, but I know I can't change the past.   So I just wanted to say that this has really truly touched me, and I needed to see that I am not alone.  Thank you and God bless.

Elisa Marie:  Upon reading Roberta Laurila's testimony, titled: Being Gay, I felt to write you.  Oh, how it so is on my heart -- how so many trapped in the gay lifestyle are being shunned by even those who profess to know the love and forgiveness of the Lord.  I believe that we as the Body of Christ need to minister to people through the focus of our sinful heart condition to lead people to salvation and then allow the Holy Spirit to bring the conviction upon our believing friends and relatives of the sin that so easily besets them.  I am not at all opposed to speaking to a person about their homosexuality, but I really believe that we need to seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit in our confronting a person.  Much preparation needs to be done upon a person's heart and that is where the intercession on their behalf is so vital.

Sujatha Rajasekaran:  I am a regular reader of Precious Testimonies.  I always log in at least once or twice everyday just to read the new testimonies and what other knowledge I can obtain from your site.  Indeed, your site is a real blessing to me. I found your webpage through doing a search, when I came across a girl who mentioned how she accepted God after reading your testimonies. I must say it was actually God who lead me to this site.

Thomas Wayne Kaaihue:  About 1995, I had hated two people with a "passion."  I would say to God, it is impossible to feel love for them, and yet as a Christian since 1965, I knew I was supposed to love my enemies.  To make a long story short, a thought came to me . . . "force yourself to feel love for them!"  I began on a Monday to speak, "I will feel love for Stephen and Louise!"  However, whenever the thought of them came to my mind, I would "cringe," for that's how much I hated them.  But I continued to force myself to feel love for them throughout the day for two days.  On the third, the thought of them came to my mind, but this time I didn't "cringe."  I noticed that from somewhere near the sternum of my chest something was moving upward toward my "jaw" and caused my jaw to form a smile.  All this was happening while I was thinking of these two people.  And I could actually "feel love" for the two people I once hated.  Some years later, I discovered Matthew 11:12, "...and the violent takes it by force."

After reading your testimony (It's Been Fun With God by Mary E. Adams) I was really encouraged.  Though I got maried in 1970, a high fever type-of-sickness which would keep me bedridden even before I had gotten married, had always plagued me once or twice every year until about 1995.  One day that year, I came down with that fever.  I had been bedridden for about a day and a half.  I walked to our kitchen, sat down, and began speaking, "Lord, if you were here you would heal me!"  All of a sudden, Genesis 1:26 came to my mind, ". . . let us make man in our Image, after our Likeness . . . and let man have dominion over all the earth."  I felt kind of excited because I began to think, ...am I like God? Then another scripture came to my remembrance, Luke 17:21, ". . . thee Kingdom of God is within you."  I got even more excited!  Then a third scripture came to my mind, ". . . submit yourself to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you."  I admit, this did not excite me, but it did cause me to think . . . Jesus came and healed the sick, and the devil came to kill, to steal, and to destroy.  I don't know what prompted me to speak out; I focused my attention on the sickness that was on me and began speaking, "devil, I resist you!"  For some reason unknown to me, I kept on speaking those words for twenty minutes.  I had no idea what was about to follow.  All of a suden, the vever that I could actually feel, vanished!  It was as if I was never sick.  Since learning I could love, even my enemies, I have been able to resist every kind of sickness and see it disappear in a matter of minutes and sometimes after six hours.

Having been diagnosed with diabetes in 1990, till September 2006, I have never applied the above to diabetes.  September 20, 2006, I suffered a partial stroke which at the time affected my right side.  Since then I was determined to seek God for healing from the stroke.  And I did so, "24/7," and with no watching of television.  I did not apply the above but sought with all my heart to see myself as the Image and Likeness of God.  As I continued to see myself as such, I noticed that I was using my "walker and cane" from the stroke, less and less.  And now there is no evidence that I had a stroke.  I am presently working on the diabetes.

Anonymous:  I found this testimony "Nothing But Dirt" to be very encouraging, and my heart goes out to all those, including myself, that feel ... or have felt ...like giving up.  Thanks.

Matthew Mucklo:  Dear Norm - I just came across your website while Google-searching for "hell testimonies".  I too have had a chance to read Mary Baxter's book and your experience of riveting reading; it applies to me too.  I believe it happened just like she said.  Reading her book made me realize where a lot of the sick and twisted things of the world come from.  It was chilling to read and realize the influence that place has had on our society.  I just wanted to write in and thank you for your testimony of how you came across it.  It encourages me that I can ask God questions of things that I have doubts on and if I'm sincere about it, He too will answer me.  May God bless you and your ministry.

David Ewart:  Because your ministry, I have been greatly blessed.  Six former students, from 1981, have all contacted me this past year.  They found my testimony on your website and wrote me.  None of them knew that the other ones were doing the same thing -- it was all the Holy Spirit!  Four of them have even made face-to-face visits, praise the Lord forever.  They were nine and ten years old when I was their teacher.  I have been humbled by their reaching out to me, and again, can only give thanks and praise to my Lord Jesus!

Staff Note:  Brother David also sent us a copy of his "Near Death Experience."  We think it might be a great blessing for many to read.

Lawrence Mendoza:  In 1999 while in Great Meadow Prison I sent you my personal testimony for Christ and you posted it on the Precious Testimonies website.  It was only through the abundant grace of our Lord that my son ... who I have not seen in 20 years ... read my testimony on your website.  He contacted you and your wife concerning me.  My son told me that you and your wife helped him locate me here at Clinton Correctional Facility.

Eli:  I was browsing through Google tonight, looking for resources on forgiveness, when I came across your website and read  FORGIVEN SEX CRIME OFFENDER (The Robert Swift Story).

I just wanted to tell you how much it blessed me. When I was 14 months old I was burned in a house fire and was not expected to live. I had scars on my face and hands, but was really oblivious to it until, at the age of six, I had an extensive operation done to conceal the most obvious scars. After that I began to notice how people looked at me and I began to realize how different I was.  As a kid my family moved a lot, so not long after the operation we moved to a different town. I was excited to go to a new town and new church...but also very hesitant because of the realization that had come of my being different.

To make a long story short, I met a boy that began to "bully" me...saying cruel things like "Jesus doesn't let ugly people into heaven" and moments of violence like pushing me down flights of stairs. And slowly I began to lose what little I self worth I already had.

About four months into this, I "accidentally" stumbled upon some hard core porn sites on our computer. Don't ask me why I didn't immediately run away screaming or turn it off;  I don't know. Don't ask me why I returned to it the next day...and the next. I don't know. Maybe it was because I could tell the women in the pictures were not concerned about their faces (which is where most of my scars are). I think it made me feel more valuable...realizing that there was something of worth in my body...as if I still had a chance, you know? ( I was only age seven at the time...give me a little credit).

But, also, being a visual person (though I am a girl) ... what was once the unthinkable became not only common, but addictive...and by the time I was eight I had spiraled down into deep sexual sin. If you're already grossed out I'm sorry....I'm doing my best to be vague...but its about to get worse.

From the age of seven to nine I had found "opportunities" to see X-Rated movies and view the same type of materials through magazines, doing my best to feed the unquenchable flame of lust that had been so early awakened...all the while my family being oblivious. To say in short, they had NO clue. My parents were/are Christians and as a kid I grew up "cutting my teeth on the pews." So as you can see, I did my best to conceal my "other life."  Shame was a constant overcast in my life...and I was miserable.

Then one day, I was sitting with my mother and she began talking about how Jesus comes into peoples' hearts and makes them beautiful on the inside.  In a sheer moment of desperation and holy conviction I told her that I didn't care if I was ugly on the outside.  I wanted Jesus to come in and make me beautiful on the inside. That's how I got saved. I immediately felt the shame lift and (like everyone first does), started thanking Him and making promises to Him I had every intention of keeping (one being never to look at porn again).

Life was good then. When I was ten we moved.  I was a new Christian of three months, and though I was struggling to stay pure, my promises still held true. I think those three months hold the best days of my life.

I'm kinda' at a loss of where to go from here.  I guess it just gets real personal to me...
A couple of months after we moved I became "involved" in a sexual relationship with a family member...and as much as I hated him, I think I hated me more. I could have told him to stop. I could have kicked or screamed...but I didn't, because in my heart I felt like he was doing me a favor. With my low self-image, I took his actions as a (very sinful) complement that he could find any form of physical pleasure in me.

The "relationship" continued for about two and a half years. The first night it happened I felt immediate  shame and guilt, especially since I also took some form of pleasure out of it...and ended up retorting back into my old "lust cycle."  No one knew except me, him, Satan and God...and I was sure God had left a long time ago.  After showers I still felt dirty and believing that I was "used merchandise."

I coped with my shame by shaming myself more (did that make sense?).  It was two and a half years of this cycle until one night I was with my best friend, and instead of "choosing" me (which I loved/hated) he chose her to satisfy his sick desire for lust. And man!...if looks could have killed that night...he would have been a dead man. A few weeks after that he came back...but I wouldn't let him touch me and that was the end of that.

Time has passed and a decade had gone by since my first encounter with porn. I find that the only thing in life that is constant (other than God) is change. Can I tell you that I never struggle with temptation and (dare I say?) fall??  I could...but that wouldn't be the truth. What I wish - with all my heart - that I could do is save other girls from the heartaches of relationships that wont get them anywhere!  I wish I could show them is the unfailing love of Christ that fills the holes in our hearts, that heals with wounds of the past, that touches and breathes life into our very being!

Anyway, again I just want to say thank you for even having this kind of web page up for people like me to see. Blessings in Christ.

Lori:  I just wanted to share with you that I decided to be on the inside with JESUS today (rededicate my life to God), and every day henceforth. I had asked Jesus into my heart on 4-20-2001 and my life was changing for the good.  However, I let my faith die some.  All the comments I heard -- even my mom would say things like, "I think you're in a cult; its not like you to go to church just once a week, but  your go two or three times a week!" Or - "Look - there is your religious section!" when walking through a store.  When I did ask JESUS into my life before, my life was taking such a positive turn; losing weight; got a job; was just plane happy without reason.  Well ... with reason, for I knew that I was excepted and forgiven of all my sins.

Today I have again decided to re-walk this path that I once was learning to follow.  I do not know a lot of the scripture but do know that I will be able to read and understand the bible now . Your testimony sounded so familiar.  Some of the things you explained were like thoughts right out of my own head.  I'm so glad that I visited your sight and what a wonderful way to bring others home! I thank you for reminding me that Satan will try to damage my new ways and thoughts (Mark 4).  This time I will remain on my path, spreading the word as I learn it!  Thank you.  GOD BLESS YOU!

Suzanne Clement:  I really enjoyed your weekly ministry encourager this time.  Especially because I have been around Catholics lately who always pray to St. Anthony when they lose something.  "He ALWAYS comes through for you," they say.  I remember when I was doing that myself.  Thank the Lord he freed me from Catholicism and all the trappings.

Chris:  I like your website.  Thanks for sharing other people's testimonies.  They are especially helpful in helping other people find God for themselves.  I also have a prayer request.  I want to be delivered from fear, and want to be reconciled back to God in a miraculous way over the next several months. 

James Wakey:  Thank you for your site.   I love the music.  God bless.

Rose:  Just want to let you know that my family and I are really blessed by reading the wonderful testimonies you send.

Lisa Walker:   Thank you for allowing me to publish testimonies off your website onto:  www.faith-travels.org.  Thank you also for publishing my testimony on your website.