Atteliah Williams Testimony with Live Worship

good evening time scratchers my name is atella Williams how do you say what God has done over years and years in a matter of minutes it's very difficult um I'm I I got saved when I was in college in nineteen ninety-two of April and I was the first person in my household my family of mother father three other sisters and a brother to get saved and throughout the years um well I'll just say this when I was in college I'd be actually even before I left for college there was a there was something in my heart I wanted to know God because I had seen Christians and I had seen Christians and there's a difference um there's a difference between the people who say that there are Christian and those who you can see that there's something about them that's totally different and you know this person is a Christian and when I went away to college I wanted that and I didn't really know how to get it but uh someone I met invited me to a Christian retreat and I'm very introverted I not outspoken at all so I said okay I'll go I paid my $20 and for a college student $20 it's a lot of money and the friend who invited me back now but I said I can't lose the $20 I'm gonna go so I went and they're in a little Church actually the Reap I went on the retreat and then I saw people getting filled with the Holy Ghost and I was like wow God that has to be you because it's that's just who you it just it is just God it was God and I wanted that but I knew I wouldn't have been able to get it because I knew I wasn't a Christian and I knew God doesn't give something that great to anybody that's not his and so the Sunday we went to this little this little church little nondenominational church I had about 20 people and my group of 10 went so um there I mean God just God God met me I didn't know I didn't I couldn't I didn't know anything about salvation I didn't know anything about redemption justification none of the occasions I didn't know any of that but he was there in the pasture he he preached and I I don't remember what the sermon was but he gave the invitation at the end and for the entire weekend I the people I was with didn't know I was not saved I knew I wasn't saved but they didn't know I was not saved and I didn't open my mouth because I knew if I did they would beat me over the head with the Bible and I'd be there all weekend and I it would just have been a mess so I kept my mouth closed the entire weekend but um the pastor gave the invitation and I said I said I can't go up because I didn't know at the time that Christians can go up to the altar for prayer in fact but they got up and they went I said okay I can sneak in here they won't even know so I went up to the altar for prayer and I didn't know what to do I didn't know what to say I'm not saying I'm not a Christian I don't understand it all but I'm there and I'm on my knees and my eyes are closed and I the pastor is singing and I found a love that pardons and I'm like oh wow this is this is wow this is serious and I'm there and I'm starting to cry I'm starting to weep and I don't know why I've had this argument in my head what's wrong with you like I don't know what's wrong I don't know I'm just crying but as I'm there with my eyes closed I can tell that he's getting closer because even though my eyes are closed there's a glory about where his where he is there's a glory of his silhouette the presence of God was on him and as he got closer the glory of God coming near me got closer and I was I was terrified I didn't know what to do but I just kept crying and he prayed over me he said you know and I don't have never met this man I don't know him and he's praying everything that's in my heart and he's saying you know Lord it's not mom it's not my mother it's not my father but it's me and I'm here and I'm in the need of prayer and I need you to touch me and I didn't know this man and I started to weep even more and you know he closed the service and everything and I'm still crying and he invites the the group of us that was there up further on the altar he was like a step up so we went up and he prayed for each of us to be filled with the Holy Ghost and I remember how I had wanted it so much while I was at the retreat and I have been able to get it but he started the prayer with me and he's like open your mouth and speak open your mouth and speak and I said okay I'll just see him in my mind you know I'm okay I'll say hallelujah before you know I was filled with the Holy Ghost I was filled praise God and I knew I knew I knew I was saved I knew it and the two things I heard the Lord speak to me clearly it wasn't an audible voice but I knew it was God and he said Jesus is real and he's coming back I never ever forgot it never forgot it and anyway so make a long story short I went back to my dorm and this was in Syracuse and I went back to my school up in it of an ethical and I cried the entire our journey up I cried the whole day it was just I I was so filled with the joy I was so happy but I just kept crying but I was so happy you know and I told my mom and she's like okay are you okay I'm like I'm fine but you know my mom she wasn't saved either but to make a long story short you know throughout the years God has been faithful my mother has gotten saved my three my four three sisters have gotten saved our husbands are saved my grandmother has gotten saved I have aunts that have gotten saved cousins and up up in Buffalo Austin in Canada I mean God has just been working in my family and I can't even say it so anything that I have done because I don't even feel like I've done anything but you know when you have a heart for God a desire to know him he will be faithful to make himself known and throughout the years my mom my sister just had surgery for breast cancer my mother just had chucked on Friday had a fourth surgery for breast cancer but God has been faithful he's been faithful he's been faithful he's been faithful so if anyone of you think doubts the existence of God I'm a living proof that God is real Jesus is real and he is coming back he's coming back and if you want to know him he will make himself known to you tonight god bless we took away for heart to the holy one gives three cutsies in so it to the hole because

Channel: Times Square Church

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Keywords: TSC Music, live worship, testimony, Victoria Griffin, Atteliah Williams, choir member, college student, christian retreat, Holy Spirit, altar call, presence of God, word of knowledge, hearing God's voice, salvation of family, breast cancer, Times Square Church

Id: 0FrUwC6L3MU

Length: 9min 55sec (595 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 08 2012