Slovenské evanjelizačné stredisko — evs.sk

First I thanked and praised the Lord God that He had encouraged me to join this course. I have to confess of thinking that I did not need it. I was reading the Bible, and I had been attending the Bible hours (study) regularly, so I thought that in my high age I had possessed all needed knowledge. But an opposite was true.

This Bible Course gave me a lot of things. My faith became deeper and I learned my Lord and His Word more and more. This cognition is binding me to be a witness of Jesus Christ and I am eager to do the Gospel outreach for all who are dieing. I have devoted my life to Jesus Christ, I have put off my old self and put on the new self.  I long for serving Him, to be loyal to Him  and to fulfill His mission message.

The Lord be with you.
Jolana

"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you and watch over you.”   (Psalm 32, 8)

I come from the Christian family and I was led to the faith to Jesus Christ since my childhood. I strengthened my faith by reading the Word of God and Christian literature. But Lord God punished me by many hard trials which shaked my faith. After a death of my husband and later also my parents I stayed alone with two children. In spite of my reading the Bible and traying to understand it I was not satisfied. I was not able to find in the Bible any answers to my questions, which bothered me as I did not understand them.  I urgently needed to share with somebody my troubles and problems which were not able to be solved by my own strengths.

Later I saw the sample of the Bible Correspondence Course ”Design for Discipleship” in a journal The Evangelical Messenger from under the Tatras.  Just this form of a study was the most suitable for me. I was attracted by the fact that there was not only the reading of the Bible but to think about the Word of God and to find good answers to those verses from it. And just during these studies I found answers to all questions which caused me problems in the past. I was learning about myself, and my life. I compared my life with the life of Jesus Christ, if I was really living according the Word of God.  In case I did not understand some things the workers of the Evangelical Center corrected me and helped me by solving my problems. I used the Christian literature to the study, like books: ”Day by day with God”, ”Cognition of God”. ”Discovering of the God’s Will”, ”The Holy Spirit at Work”, papers of Luther and many other available Christian books.

The deeper I was familiar with the Lord God  the more interesting was this study for me. The Lord God changed my mind and doing by the Holy Spirit, and even changed my haughty heart notwithstanding I did not admit it. He solved my problems I did not able to do.  He changed my life to be more joyful and peaceful. Especially lessons about a spiritual growing and discipleship helped me as they learned me to fasten my faith in the God’s promises  and to use them in a practical life. This course ”Desing for Discipleship” helped me to find: a way of beginning a program of a personal Bible study, how to search the great God’s truths, how to be like the right disciple of  Jesus Christ and which is the right way of the disciple life.

Praise the Lord God and thank to workers of the Evangelical Center for all help in my study as during it I learned  the Lord God, His Son Jesus Christ, His power and glory, my inability and sinfulness.

Zuzana

Dear Evangelistic Center,
I send you many warm thanks for this next lesson.

I am great surprised that my eyes have been opened and I have become to understand many things, which I missed previously through inadvertency. I am sure that having used the way that I am in a jail the Lord God enabled me to insight into the secret of knowledge and to go on the narrow road. I believe that He will show me my mission so I will beg Him to fulfil it. Jesus Christ took away our sins as He wants us to be happy not only in heaven but in this life, as well. But idea of happiness could be understood by people differently. I was not an exception. I reached for a false happiness. Now I praise the Lord as He gave me a new possibility.

May the Lord God bless you richly.
Sincerely Yours

Štefan (Leopoldov jail)