 Hey guys, what's up? It's Isaac and today I'm going to be sharing my testimony with you. I feel like I've been kind of neglecting to share it. It's been kind of a year now since I've been making videos and you know what? The timing's right. I grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in the middle of the great white north. Some called it Winter Peg and it lives up to its name. I was born in Winnipeg in 1999. At that time I had two older siblings, an older brother and an older sister. I was the baby of the family but that didn't last for long because I had another brother coming along the way and then another brother and then a sister and then another sister and then another sister. And if you've been struggling to keep up, yes that is eight children all in all and we were all homeschooled. Yes, you heard that right. We were all homeschooled. That means I never went to real school until I was 18 years old when I went to university for the first time. There are so many stories from the years of being a homeschooled but I'm going to save most of them for now. I grew up in a Christian household and I can remember many times and we'd have a daily routine of sitting around and reading the Bible and talking about it and praying and that was incorporated right into our schooling and my parents really showed us a real and active faith that they had and that they really encouraged us to pursue our own faith with Christ and with Christianity really learning about it and I think Jesus was brought up many times as a kid and I can remember just hearing about this guy. This guy named Jesus. Oh, he was a baby and we talk a lot about him being a baby on Christmas and oh Easter is about him rising from the dead and wow that's kind of crazy. At the age of six or seven, I came across a cassette tape. It was a kid's audio drama called Patch the Pirate. It was kind of all about this crew of kids and kind of this mentor figure patched the pirate and they would go on adventures not going to explain too much of it because you can look it up but I can remember there was one episode where one of the kids wanted to become a Christian and Patch the Pirate was like okay I'm going to lead you in this prayer and I don't remember much from that prayer but I do remember him saying God I want you to reign in my heart. Jesus reign in my heart and as a six seven year old kid I went to the back of one of our couch chairs in our living room because I thought that was a good place to pray and I said God can you reign in my heart and that was it and I didn't know exactly what happened then but as I looked back as I got older I could see that was kind of the moment where I became a Christian where I put my faith in Jesus. When I was around 11 years old I can remember my brother coming across a ministry called Living Waters Ministry and they had a television program called The Way of the Master and it was all about evangelism and one of the questions they'd ask in those videos in that television program to people they were witnessing to was would you consider yourself to be a good person and that was the same question that my brother posed to me at one dining room conversation at the dinner table so my brother asked me would you consider yourself to be a good person and I said yes internally I thought this was one of my greatest qualities I tried to do my school work I tried to you know not getting fights I tried to do my chores I tried to take initiative and do everything that needed to be done because I wanted to be a good guy I wanted to be moral I wanted to be obedient I thought that's what God wanted for me to be obedient to be moral to do everything I was supposed to do so that God could love me or at least that's what I thought I thought I was good I was really prideful on the inside to continue the story my brother ended up showing me this ministry Living Waters ministry and introduced me to the television program and in one of the episodes they talked all about the Ten Commandments and really highlighting the verse Romans 3 23 for all of sin and fallen short of the glory of God and I'd heard this verse before many times but now actually in the context of understanding God's law and actually understanding what they explained is that look none of us can meet God's standard of perfection of goodness all of us have lied have coveted had to have not loved God with all our heart soul mind and strength we've all fallen short I've fallen short because we all fall short of God's perfect standard because we've broken God's law he has to be a good judge and punish us and that punishment is hell but that's where Jesus comes in he came to this earth fully God and fully man without sin and he lived a perfect life a life that we couldn't live that I couldn't live and he died on the cross a death that I deserve to die but he didn't stay dead he rose again and defeated death he took our punishment on himself and we are saved by grace through faith not of works not of being a good person not of trying harder not trying to do better that's not what's going to save us because at the end of the day we can never make it up to that standard but it is Jesus alone who can save us I definitely heard this before but this time it clicked I'd never truly understood what it meant to repent this idea of turning from sin and turning to God that was revolutionary to me it was during this period of life where I can look back and say that was when I truly came to repentance and faith some might say I rededicated my life to Christ all I know is God saved me exactly when that happened um I'll leave that to him from then on I wanted to truly know God no more going through the motions no more pretending no more kind of putting on a good face to seem like a good person no this was about being real being really passionate about following Jesus I wanted to know God because I love God I wanted to obey God because I was already loved by God not to earn his love I wanted to serve God because I was so thankful to him for saving me and now I wanted to serve him and I was eager to expand his kingdom and that's my passion to this day to see his kingdom expanded to be a witness for him to disciple to continue to follow him passionately as I walk this course of faith with other people bearing one another's burdens as we seek to honor God and serve him on this earth that's my passion and I pray that's your passion as well and if you have not come to that point of repentance and faith I just want to urge you today to do that to come to that sense of sorrow over your sin ask God to say God please convict me of my sin and draw me to your side I'm sorry for sinning but I ask for your forgiveness and put my faith in Jesus Christ like that is where we can find true hope and where we can find true connection with our creator and have a personal relationship with him and where we can be forgiven from our sin and escape that wrath to come that is an amazing gift of love and acceptance that God gives us don't reject it thanks for watching guys and if you're new to this channel my name is Isaac and I'm really passionate about creating content that encourages inspires and challenges you to follow Christ and if you want to help me continue to make content and do this please support me on patreon.com slash daily underscore disciple I also want to just thank the people that are already supporting me on there because that is humongous that is my goal to be doing this full time and be able to really build something to encourage and inspire the next generation to follow Christ so that is my goal if you want to help me out in that that's how you do it please give this video a 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