God telling me you go read the bible you'll find me in the bible and i was like what this is crazy
i' have never read the bible i 'have never even looked at the bible at the time i was trying to
find all my answers in the quran i didn't know what the bible really was um i was taught all
these negative things about it so i was like what what this is crazy so anyways i was just like
okay like if that's what it takes for me to understand you let me give this a try
got out of the shower first thing i did downloaded the app first thing i do read genesis start a
genesis start reading it god created the world God created the heavens i'am like okay okay cool like
all of this stuff i can relate to because we were taught this in islam and then i get to the point
where God creates adam he creates the garden of Aden and then he's in the garden with adam so
essentially god is in heaven with the creation with the creation that he created the creator
is in you know in the presence of his creation and something about the verses in genesis in chapter
two and three in that story of adam and eve and in the garden i remember thinking to myself like
this is it was almost like every answer every question that i had in my mind was being answered
and that was such a big thing to me because before i never had my questions answered i was always
in the dark and i always wanted my questions answered and i remember reading in genesis 2 and 3
as God is revealing him God was revealing himself to me slowly and at the time i was really
struggling with pain like why does pain happen why does suffering happen like why did i go through
these things that i went through um and why am i in so much emotional and physical and spiritual
pain like what is going on and reading through genesis 2 and 3 it was almost like again like
i said i was understanding and getting to know the real god and having those questions answered
and as i' am looking at it as i'am reading it and god is in the garden with adam and eve and
you know he's created this world he's created everything he told them be fruitful and multiply
and you know eat off you know all of these trees that he's given them all of these animals that
he said that they could rule over and he said just don't do this one thing just don't do this
one thing and the one thing was don't eat off that fruit that's on the tree but God gave them
the free will to do and make choices right God gave us free will but because of their sin but
because we made a choice to sin that sin removed us from the presence of God where God originally
intended for us to be God didn't create us for us to be without him he created us so that we can be
with him because if you look at the beginning of the story the way God created the world the world
was created everything was created he created the heavens and the earth and everything in it
and then he created man and he put him in a garden so that he can his presence can dwell with us we
were in a relationship with our creator we were in that place with him in heaven essentially God
didn't create us and throw us out in the world and say go be on your own you know if you do
all these things you're just going to go to hell you're going to be punished here are all the rules
no absolutely not god created us so that he can be in a relationship with us and because of sin
we were apart from God we were without God and realizing that and all of those answers
just coming to me because i wanted to know God's intention i wanted to know the intention of god
what is your intention why did you create us in this world and then like throw us out there and
why are we all suffering why are we all miserable like what is going on but that's not the way God
created the world God created the world so that we can be in a relationship with him we can be
in his presence and we can be in his presence and and and be happy and be joyful and we have all of
these things that he gave us in heaven and and i just remember like crying and sobbing because
for the first time i was like okay God like now i know your heart now i know that you didn't intend
for us to be without you that because of sin that we are without you but you love us and you wanted
to be with us you created us so that you can be with us in a relationship with us in our presence
so that we can be in your presence dwelling among you know all of us together and in this garden of
in this garden of Aden but because of sin and because we were given the choice of free will we
chose to sin sin made us apart from you so whoa and i was like freaking out in my mind because
slowly i was understanding god and the intentions that God had and this was not a realization that
i ever ever could come to from all of the things i was reading and there were all of these things
that were just happening i was reading the bible more and more and more and more and slowly getting
convicted and the word of God was just slowly coming into my heart again like i said all of
those questions that i had in my mind were being answered and God was slowly revealing himself to
me and i was slowly building a relationship with the creator of the world through his word in the
bible and i just there was no denying it it was an undeniable thing for me um i was going through and
seeking the truth about everything that i learned and i was deconstructing my world view that i was
given as a muslim and reconstructing it and and with the word that i was reading from the bible
and again like it's very difficult maybe for some people to understand
that or to understand like how could you like to understand that but God is alive and he is
real and he is in our life and he wants to be a part of our life God is not out to punish us
and to scrutinize all the little details and all of the things that we do in our life he's
he's not that kind of God that's not the intention that God has and that is the thing the beautiful
thing about Jesus Christ and the beautiful thing about the resurrection and and that
salvation is that God entered the world again to save us so that he can take the sin upon himself
because we are sinful that's the thing there's no amount of works that we can do and here's another
verse that i want to share with you guys says for by grace you have been saved through faith
and this is not your own doing it is the gift of God not a result of works so that no one may
boast for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand
that we should walk in them and i and this is in Ephesians Ephesians 2 8-10 and that is just
so great because there's no amount of works that we can do to save ourselves there just isn't and
there's we're not there's everybody's sinful we're all sinful we're all committing you know
whether it's just lying or not lying or you know or stealing or misleading or deceiving it's like
we are sinful we live in a fallen world there's no amount of works that we can do to save
ourselves that the only one who could save us the only person who could save us is God himself and
that's what Jesus did he came to save us so that we can have eternal life with him and go back to
the way that creation and the relationship we had with him in the garden of Aden and that's
the beautiful thing about the salvation that Jesus Christ offers us is that there is nothing that you
and i can do as human beings in this earth to save ourselves but Jesus Christ Lord himself came into
this world to save us so that we can be with him in eternal life and and that is the thing that i
know is so hard for so many people to come to come to accept and and we're going to go through that
i want to share that with you guys i want to share all of that information the nitty-gritty
of those details that was my first encounter with God in the book of genesis that's what was spoken
to me that was the feeling the emotion the holy spirit working in my heart and in my life and some
of these terminologies and these things might be foreign to people because they were foreign to me
but i just want to say that there is truth in the bible and there is a good God out there
and even people who might be watching this who don't believe in God and who have left islam
and you know who are atheists or whatever i just want to call all those people and i just want to
say that there is a truth out there and that God loves every single human being on this planet that
he created all of us out of love and he saved us out of love and he wants to be in a relationship
with you and he wants you to be in eternal life God is not out to punish you and to essentially
kill you at every stage that he gets we have free will on this earth and we make good choices and
bad choices and people make good choices and bad choices and those choices that other people make
affect us but again those choices are not God's doing God is not out to get you to punish you and
to make you have a miserable life he's trying to do the complete opposite and when you start
reading his word you start understanding the character that is God and who he is and what
he desires and the intention that he has and how he wants us to live our life and
you know and that is something that is very you know near and dear to my heart because
you know the world is falling apart like people are afraid of death people are having a hard time
with um their relationships marriages family situation i mean there's we can all pretend like
we have a perfect family but that's not the case there's issues that every single one of us has
and all of those issues that we have we just need to submit them to to Jesus and ask for his help
and his guidance and he will give us his peace and his presence but i just want to say that i have so
much more to say honestly and this video can go on and on and i' am not done sharing my um testimony
this is only the beginning of the good works that God has done in my life and all of the times he's
showed up in my life and i will probably share those stories and i mean i know i' will definitely
share those stories no doubt but i just wanted to leave you guys and say i know that a lot of
people are probably watching this um maybe you can relate maybe you can't relate maybe some of
the things i said are a little bit offensive to you but i want to submit to you and to tell you
to seek the truth for yourself and i am you know not here offending anyone um this is the
things that God has done for me in my life and um he's transformed me in this way um and i just want
to say that i hope that this video does help someone that this sharing this testimony does
help someone and that um you know you go and you seek and if you are in a place where you
are looking you are seeking that you just cry out to God that you just cry out and you just
ask God to reveal himself to you because he is listening and he wants a relationship with
every single individual person and he cares about every single soul that he has created again every
single soul he cares about and he wants that soul and eternal life with him but it is our choice we
have the free will to make that choice to um to submit ourselves to Jesus and to accept him as our
Lord and Savior so that we do have that salvation in that eternal life which we will talk about in
the podcast i will maybe talk about here or there um on this channel so with that being said i hope
to see you guys um next time and i also hope that you you know click on the link down below and
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here and there and i might start making sharing some different stuff i started homeschooling and
i 'have been really passionate about that so i want to share some more homeschooling content
of course i would still love to share beauty fashion home decor home stuff really really still
love all of that so yeah make sure you guys check out the podcast and um have a blessed day bye