Student Testimony

Student 4

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a testimony is:

2 a: firsthand authentication of a fact : EVIDENCE b: an outward sign c: a solemn declaration usually made orally by a witness under oath in response to interrogation by a lawyer or authorized public official
3 a: an open acknowledgment b: a public profession of religious experience

The following are testimonies of past and present Lighthouse Christian Academy students. The names of the students have been redacted to insure their privacy. All testimonies are on file at Lighthouse Christian Academy.

Psalm 40:1-2 says, "I waited patiently for the LORD: and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings."

There were many times, at home, that I was totally at a loss. I would look at my life, and it made no sense. The only thing that made a little bit of sense was to keep going down the wrong path, doing the wrong things, because of the temporary feeling of satisfaction it gave me. But deep down, I knew that the way I was living was wrong, and there had to be something better. I had started hanging out with the wrong people my freshman year in high school, and I got caught up doing some bad things.

There were many, many times that God tried to get my attention, but by that point I had totally given up on Him and didn't care anymore.

The morning of December 3, 2004, I left my home, on the way to Florida. I knew nothing about where I was going or what the place was like. I just felt relieved because I was leaving everything behind. My coming to the Lighthouse of Northwest Florida was God's divine intervention in my life. From that point forward, He worked in my life in a marvelous way. Like Psalm 51 says, He really did create in me a clean clean heart, and changed my life for the better. Before I came here, everything in my life was a mess and going completely downhill. But now, by God's wonderful grace, the future looks bright, and I have so many opportunities that I never thought I could have.