My Testimony - Sharron Morrison's Story

(From Coleraine, Northern Ireland )

My dad and his side of the family are all Christians, so I was basically brought up in a Christian background. I was never forced into going to church although I used to go most Sundays and my parent’s let me make up my own mind about going out to pubs and clubs. (Which I regret to say I did for a few years)

I’ve never had a problem with God or Christianity and I’ve always had a group of Christian friends who I would go to Exodus, (a Christian niteclub in my area) with. You could say that I was living a bit of a split life, what with going out to get drunk as well as being involved with many church-related activities.

It wasn’t until I didn’t get back into school after completing my GCSE’s that I started to hang out with my Christian friends more often and God made me realise how extremely shallow my school friends really were as they only seemed to like me when they wanted something.

As for the clubbing, when I woke up on New years morning with a splitting headache and a really bad hangover, I knew that things really had to change, I wasn’t enjoying myself and I didn’t see any reason in continuing with this pointless way of living. Of course my "so-called friends" couldn’t understand my change in opinion and they gradually started to drift away from me.

I became a leader at Dunluce Fellowship Youth Club in Portrush at the beginning of the year and through that I was introduced to "Which Way", (a bible study for non-Christians) where I learnt loads about God and the bible as well as meeting a lot of really nice people.

On the night of Wed 28th Feb 2002, I gave my life to the Lord and although there have been hard times since then I’m glad to say that I haven’t looked back.

"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved," Romans 10:13.

My old friends gave me absolutely no support whatsoever and laughed at me when I told them the wonderful news and tried to convince them of God’s amazing love for the world. However through prayer God helped me to get over it and make new friends who I can really trust, people who genuinely care about me.

"If you believe, you will receive all that you asked for in prayer," Matthew 21:22.

Since my conversion, I have lead all four of my younger sisters to Christ and as you all know I have been hosting at Exodus for almost four months which I really enjoy and find that it is an inspiration to my faith.

I thank the Lord and praise him for saving me by sending his son to die for my sins. His love is absolutely awesome.

I think that God has made a massive difference to my life and many people who knew me before have commented on how much that I have changed. It is really amazing to look back at how far I’ve come in my faith in the short time that I’ve known the Lord.

I’m just going to leave you with one of my favourite verses: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me," Philippians 4:13.

I think that we should remember that no matter what we are going through and whatever tasks we have ahead of us, whether it is hosting or an exam or a job interview. God is going to be with us throughout and he will strengthen us to get through it.

Sharron Morrison

matthew21v22@yahoo.com