A Forsaken Fellowship | Tim Dilena 

Amen JESUS CHRIST SAVES HEALS BRINGS PEACE AND BRINGS YOU THE HOLY SPIRIT ❤🙏✝️

Hallelujah GLORY to God Almighty!! Bless your Holy Name JESUS!! Thank you Jesus!!🙏♥️🙌🔥

Thank you so much for your story! 🙌🏼

Here's my testimony/ experience, and I hope that it can help you in some way. Because no one taught me how to come to God. No one taught me about God or Jesus, not even a diet Jesus, more like I was given a heavily watered-down diet Jesus. For a long time, I never knew God was personable, but thought he had just made everything and then sat back and watched what happened - Sometimes he would answer a prayer under some specific circumstance, but because I had no understanding, I thought of it like a genie or fairy granting wishes. No one taught me the purpose of Jesus, or the importance of prayer, and I had never picked up a Bible or even touched it, as if it were something filthy to even look at, etc... And yet, I was dragged along to church once a week. Church didn't teach anything, and not even Sunday school taught us anything. I had absolutely no knowledge of Him for two decades. Those around me wouldn't teach me about Jesus either, as if they expected me to know without being taught. My search for Christ hadn't started until after the world had killed me, and God raised me back up as a new creature. It begins with total surrender to God and the willingness to change. Repentance means to change, and that starts inside before it starts outside because the outside is a reflection of your inside. And the best way to know your inside is by __really__ seeing your outside. The primary indicators I point too are: the condition of your bedroom; and by how you both carry & dress yourself from the every day-to-day. *Invite the Spirit of the Lord to guide you in this because he is our helper & neither ourselves nor other people are effective enough to make the changes permanent. Invite him into your heart and whole being, and he'll take care of what's inside. Be ready to let go of the things he exposes, like anger or jealousy, for example. Forgive yourself, forgive others, and forgive all with honesty and with sincerity. What the Spirit exposes and shines a light on, that's something we should no longer hold onto. Changes on the outside may start small, like cleaning out your immediate environment from items that influence bad habits or spirits that don't belong - or even just cleaning out your bedroom and changing wardrobe. (That's what I did. Cleaned out my whole bedroom, threw out old things and old clothes. Then I reorganized my room and brought in new things. And changed how I treated myself and took care of myself) Getting rid of people who lead you into doing bad things or activities that hurt you or prevent you from changing. The company we have around us will influence us, so if you have a friend who swears foul language and it causes you too also speak that way, you should let them go. (Same thing with websites, especially if you're battling lust, that took me months to kick in the teeth and be rid of that addiction). Change also happens with what you watch, read, and listen too. (You might even feel disgust with music or movies that you used to not care about before, whether it be cussing, violence, sex scenes, or depictions of the supernatural). Your routines for both your day and night also change. Perhaps, like me, it was taking a few minutes in the morning to thank God, or pray about things that make you feel concerned, or asking for clarification on any visions or messages you received while asleep (that's happened to me a few times). Before going to sleep, you might also involve either listening to a Bible audio book or reading the physical book or with a prayer. Sometimes, it's like having a very casual conversation with a trusted friend. You might even get to hear a really good joke from the Spirit, like I did once. I was laughing about it for like 2 or 3 days. **As long as you make time for God somewhere in your day, and remember to invite Him into your situations for His word, forgiveness, guidance and wisdom, confirmation or understanding , healing, protection or victory. Overall, put into your heart His Word and believe in His promises throughout the scriptures. Remind yourself every day, whether you're in a good mood or a sad one, that He made you in love, He raised you in love, He sent His son to die for you in love, He healed you in love, and He wants you to spend all eternity with Him in love. I'd say you're on your way to better days the more you spend it learning who God is and His Son. The Bible is His love letter to you, so preserve it in your heart. Feed your soul with it, because it's the bread of heaven. Know that He has you in His hands and nothing can remove you from Him. I totally get that this world is busy, and that's because it wants to strip us away from spending time with God. So, if you have the opportunity, take it! Prayer can be said out loud or in your heart and thoughts. And while you're hiding away while on the job or in school, read a verse during those coffee / bathroom breaks. I also want you to know, that once you've revoked citizenship in the world, it will try to drag you back or attack because it is terrified of you and the One you now belong too. You have a greater power on your side, my friend. Your citizenship is now of Heaven, don't lose it. Fasten the armor of God, cause now you're also His soldier. For a little while, He's going to train you and test your faith. Remind yourself it's a test when God seems too quite; a teacher does not make noise during a test. But also don't shy away from raising your hand and asking Him for help. It's also Open-Book testing, ask Him where you need to open scripture too. He'll show you what verse. You hear His voice the most by opening the Bible.

I pray that he will lead you to pray to Him also

I can totally relate. It's difficult to find a church that's truly biblical and sold out to God and his word! I've been following this church before Tim became lead pastor and I'm always blessed ✝️💜🙏🏻

Thank you for your transparency! Can someone from our team reach out to you?

Hi Naleenee, our Prayer Team would love to reach out to you. Would you be able to email online@tsc.nyc and provide us your contact info?

Hi Kate, most likely it's not Ps. Tim. would you take a screenshot and send it to online@tsc.nyc please?

@@TimesSquareChurch it's gone at the moment but if it comes up again I'll take a photo and send thanks blessing

Thank you so much Kate! Really appreciate it. Can someone from our Prayer Team reach out to you for prayer?

@@TimesSquareChurch yes mainly for our church with everything that's happen this week thankyou 🤗