Belly Tecson’s Life Testimony

By: Belly Tecson

Freedom

Freedom! This is the cry of the people who are in prison, to be set free. I grew up in a strict family. As the only child, my parents were so strict in my studies, and friends I spend time with. They taught me to live a good life and do good works.

During my childhood, every time I was caught doing things that displeased them, my parents disciplined me through beatings. My parents didn’t permit me to go to far places to hang out with my friends. They always checked my activities and the people I’m with. That made me feel like a prisoner bound by the chains of do’s and don’ts. During my High School, they enrolled me in private school 10 kilometers away from our home.

From that on, I took the advantage and started to rebel with my parents. I started going home late and I learned to skip classes just to hang out with my friends playing computer games and strolling. I’ve learned to cheat, lust and did many things that even displeased God. It was because of my rebellion that, at one time, caused my father’s high blood pressure.

After that moment, I asked forgiveness from my parents and wanted to change myself. But when I went to college during our first semester, my life turned for the worse. I failed a subject but that did not stop me from always hanging out with my friend at night going to very compromising places which caused me to sin.

November 29, 2001, while I was cleaning my room, I found a booklet brought by my board mate that talks about Jesus and the things that He did on the cross for my sins. When I read that booklet, I realized that I need to receive Christ as my Lord and Savior for me to experience change from the inside out and experience freedom from sin. After that, I made a decision in my life and received Him, by faith through prayer, surrendering my life to Him.

My new life with Christ enabled me to cope with peer pressure, rebellion, lust and cheating. I hungered for God’s Word and desired to grow in my relationship with him. It was in my relationship with God that I experience true freedom – freedom from sin and freedom from do’s and don’ts. God assures me that I am forgiven through Christ’s death on the cross and I am set free from sin because of what He did. He helped me understand the process, not to live in performance to gain His favor and love, but to live in freedom in obedience to His Word out of love and gratitude for Him. Finally, I am truly FREE!

War Story #1 Spiritual Multiplication

Let me share the impact of Spiritual Multiplication. It was in 2001 that I received Christ. In 2002, one of the volunteer staff of CCC shared Christ in our classroom and one of my classmates, Albert, received Christ as his Lord and Savior. After that moment he expressed his desire to grow in his relationship with God. My discipler told me that I would help him grow in his relationship with God.

At first I was hesitant to handle him in our bible study because he was an idealistic man. He had an activist heart; he believed that change in the society will happen only through civil war. He had a rebellious heart towards the government. But God changed him. He realized that only God can change man from the inside out and in turn will result to a change in society.

In 2003, Albert shared the Gospel to Mark and discipled him. In 2004, Mark led Jan Michael to Christ and discipled him. Jan Michael became passionate to share Christ with other students. In 2006, he also led his father to Christ. His father became involved in a Church and is growing in his relationship with God. That is 3 generations of disciples in 4 years. To God be the glory!

War Story #2 Broken Man

I met a guy 2 years ago. His name is Christian. I shared my faith to him and discipled him. He came from a broken family. He was involved in different kinds of vices like drugs, liquor and premarital sex before he became a Christian. When I shared Christ to him, he received Him as his Lord and Savior. After that moment he still struggled with his identity and had a hard time understanding and experiencing God’s love because of his past.

At times doubts crept in his mind. He had difficulty trusting God about his struggles. After one year God changed him slowly. God mended his broken heart. God helped him to overcome his vices. He experienced God’s love and forgiveness and learned to trust God with his life. Last year he learned how to share his faith and how to help others grow in their relationship with God.

Through his experience he became passionate in helping students know Christ. He realized that there were some students like him that needed the Lord. He also had the opportunity to minister to one of the students that also came from a broken family.

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The MIRACLE in Business…

Jesus replied, “Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” ~ Matthew 17:20

Does God do miracles in business?

Is He concerned about the mountains we face in our work life?

Does He want us to bring the everyday problems we face in the workplace to His attention?

The answer to every one of these questions is yes. God wants to be involved in every aspect of our lives.

Gunnar Olson, the Swedish founder of the International Christian Chamber of Commerce, tells a story about God performing a miracle in his own business a few years ago. He owns a plastics company in Sweden. They make huge plastic bags that are used to cover bales of hay in the farmlands across Europe. It was the harvest season and they were getting ready to ship thousands of pallets of these bags to their customers.

More than 1,000 pallets were ready to ship when an alarming discovery was made. Every bag on the warehouse floor had sealed shut from top to bottom. Scientists declared the entire stock as worthless trash. Nothing could be done. The company would go out of business.

Gunnar, his wife, and children sought the Lord in prayer about this catastrophe. The Holy Spirit spoke through various family members. The wife said, “If God can turn water into wine, what are plastics?” The daughter said, “I don’t believe this is from the Lord. We should stand against it.”

Gunnar sensed they were to trust God for a miracle in this situation. They began to pray. They took authority over this mountain of a problem based on Matthew 17, which gave them the authority to cast a mountain into the sea if faith only the size of a mustard seed could be exercised.

The following Monday they went to the warehouse and laid hands on every pallet asking the Lord to restore the bags to their original condition. It took several hours.

Later, the employees began to inspect the bags. As they inspected the bags, they discovered that every single bag had been restored to its original condition! An incredible miracle had taken place.

What obstacles have been placed in your life that need a miracle today?

Could God be setting the stage in your life for you to trust Him at new levels you’ve never trusted before?

God sets the stage to allow His power to be revealed for those willing to exercise the faith of a mustard seed.

All things are possible with God.

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Who Is Your Daddy?

A number of years ago a seminary professor was vacationing with his wife in Gatlinburg, Tennessee where they were eating breakfast at a little restaurant, hoping to enjoy a quiet family meal.

While they were waiting for their food, they noticed a distinguished looking, white-haired man moving from table to table visiting with the guests.

The professor leaned over and whispered to his wife: “I hope he doesn’t come over here.” But sure enough, the man did come over to their table. “Where are you folks from?” he asked in a friendly voice. “Oklahoma,” they answered. “Great to have you here in Tennessee,” the stranger said. “What do you do for a living?” “I teach at a seminary,” he replied. “Oh, you teach preachers how to preach? Well, I’ve got a really great story for you.”

And with that, the gentleman pulled up a chair and sat down at the table with the couple. “See that mountain over there?” (pointing out the restaurant window). Not far from the base of that mountain, there was a boy born to an unwed mother.

He had a hard time growing up, because every place he went, he was always asked the same question: ‘Hey boy, Who’s your daddy?’ Whether he was at school, in the grocery store or drug store, people would ask the same question, “Who’s your daddy?”

He would hide at recess and lunchtime from other students. He would avoid going into stores because that question hurt him so bad. When he was about 12 years old, a new preacher came to his church. He would always go in late and slip out early to avoid hearing the question, “Who’s your daddy?”

But one day, the new preacher said the benediction so fast he got caught and had to walk out with the crowd. Just about the time he got to the back door, the new preacher not knowing anything about him, put his hand on his shoulder and asked him, “Son, who’s your daddy?”

The whole church got deathly quiet. He could feel every eye in the church looking at him. By now, everyone knew the answer to the question, ‘Who’s your daddy?’

This new preacher, though, sensed the situation around him and using discernment that only the Holy Spirit could give, said the following to that scared little boy… ‘

Wait a minute!’ he said, ‘I know who you are. I see the family resemblance now. You are a child of God.’ With that he patted the boy on his shoulder and said: ‘Boy, you’ve got a great inheritance. Go and claim it.’ With that, the boy smiled for the first time in a long time and walked out the door a changed person. He was never the same again.

Whenever anybody asked him, ‘Who’s your Daddy?’ he’d just tell them, ‘I’m a Child of God.’ The distinguished gentleman got up from the table and said, “Isn’t that a great story?”

The professor responded that it really was a great story! As the man turned to leave, he said, “You know, if that new preacher hadn’t told me that I was one of God’s children, I probably never would have amounted to anything!”

And he walked away. The seminary professor and his wife were stunned. He called the waitress over and asked her, “Do you know who that man was who just left who was sitting at our table?” The waitress grinned and said, “Of course. Everybody here knows him.

That’s Ben Hooper. He’s the former governor of Tennessee!”

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