MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY

I was brought up in a religious family in a Roman Catholic background. I first heard of the gospel of salvation in my high school. I believed in Jesus. But I had a lot of struggles with faith because of so much stress on Spiritual experiences and manifestations. I couldn’t speak in tongues for a long time and I thought that I wasn’t saved properly. At ttimes I was led to strenuous works to prayand fast for my innerdark past sins, curses from my generationsand the like! My turmoils remained or would cease for some time then they erupt.
5 years ago I got exposure to the gospel of the Blood and cross. It revealed much of my direct relationship with Jesus. At least I got knowledge of true repentance and overcame some of the struggles of repenting as a sinner after every fault of my life. 
But, it is only late last year, after reading some books from New Life Missions  over the YouTube that I discovered there was something missing in my salvation journey. I lived emphasizing the blood of the cross as the basis of my salvation and ignored the means by which I was saved: by water and the Spirit.
The book “HAVE YOU TRULY BEEN BORN AGAIN” threw the challenge on my face directly. I realized the emptiness I have lived experiencing was due to my half-baked confession. I realized that I had not accepted the word of truth that my Jesus went to the cross after having the sins of the world transferred to Him by the baptism he received from John at the Jordan River.
This made me realize that my sins, faults and weaknesses were all bundled on Christ and he walked throughout His ministry carrying my sins on His shoulder. I realized that each day He lived, was always leading Him to the cross where He received the Judgment for all sins of the world including my sins. Then I got the whole picture. He shed the blood on my behalf. He died instead of me and He resurrected so that I may get a new life.
I am now digging more into the books by Rev. Paul C Jong.
Thanks so much Pastor John, for guiding me into the books I have so far re-read and for including me in the official WhatSapp for Coworkers and I am learning a lot. Personally this has changed my life radically and I real desire to help as many people as I can to embrace this great gospel of the water and the Spirit.
I am learning a lot and am ready to pass this true word of truth to so many believers who have lived in ignorance.
YOURS SINCERELY, 
Pastor John Karanja, Kenya