Hey, I'm a 17 year old christian boy. I am really really touched by your seemingly amazing and truthful testimony. I believe that what the enemy actually planned about for your bad, God used it for your good. I'm really really inspired by your boldness and confidence. I pray God continues increasing His favor, love, mercy and grace towards you😭🙏
Thank you for sharing! God set me free from homosexuality in 2010. He called me so salvation while i was in a long term lesbian relationship and He completely delivered me. So glad I followed Him!
Happy that you find Jesus. And I really like to hear testimony about ex gay. And see How powerful God is . So thank you for sharing your testimony. (From France 🇨🇵)
Thank you so much for doing this. For being open and vulnerable and real. And for being obedient to our Father. Thank you, truly. As a teenager struggling through same sex attraction, I didn't have any fellow Christians who were bold enough to share their stories with me. So I assumed I didn't belong there and left the faith for a while. Thankfully Jesus pursued me and I found my way back to him. I too have been apprehensious about sharing my homosexual testimony, but it's brothers and sisters like you who encourage me to be vulnerable and open about it. Yes there is pain there, but I will not let the enemy shame me into not sharing a story that could help someone to Christ. Bless you and your ministry brother. I'm praying for you.
I just found your videos and I'm blown away. I bought your book and have already cried in the first bit I've read. It's like seeing my story written by someone else. I experience same sex attraction and I have bipolar disorder, but I'm a Christian and it creates a L O T of cognitive dissonance as I try to walk in faithful obedience to Jesus and yet have seem to have two bombs that try to blow up every few minutes. Thanks for your book; it means so much.
I been there and done that. I tried to be the person God wants us to be. Problem is we can never do it. Then one day I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. As I could never live up the standard God wants from us. So I heard the voice in my head telling me. Pull into this Church on a Wednesday night. As I was driving home. I listened to it. Sit in the back and wait till they did an alter call. To be prayed for. I got up and went forward. They prayed for me. Then when walking away they said, Now come back and get filled with the Holy Spirit. I stopped and turned around. Said I want it all or nothing at all. They took me back stage and laid hands on me. I started speaking a whole new language I didn't even know. They said he got it. I asked them I got what? They said God looked on your heart and seen you was open to his Holy Spirits gifts. I had no idea what they we're talking about. I never heard of such things. I just knew it was real.. I never been the same since. That was back in 1986....And it's had it's up and downs. But now I can get back up and get on with living. As the whole reason Jesus Christ come. He does what we can't. He redeems us through faith. Not by our perfection or works. It's his gift. As gifts can't be earned. Good Luck. You have something most people have no idea about. It's like something out of Star Wars. Strike me down Darth. And I'll shall become more powerful then you could imagine...
Loved this testimony, Taylor!!! Your book has given me such perspective! I’ve already read it twice and am starting to read it for a third time. No book has ever made me cried before and that book had that much of an impact on me. Looking forward to future content! Stay strong in the faith. Love you brother!!
I didnt realized i almost finished watching this video already, it felt like only a few minutes went by but its almost 1 hour long. Thank you for sharing bro Taylor, glory to God. Its powerful, and it is going to inspire people to share their own testimonies to people publically. The church needs this, so much, this message is anointed. The Lord bless you bro and also everyone who is watching this.
you are so brave. one can only acknowledge your honesty and vulnerability. May you never will have to deal with the devil planting seeds for the rest of your life!
Hey man thanks you for opening up and talking about your struggles , it was very moving and made me love people who are in the position you were before even more, I myself have struggled with porn addiction and heterosexual lust since a young age and it definitively isn't easy , but thank God for his grace and everlasting mercy and love for us we can keep fighting.
I finished reading The Desire Tree a couple of weeks ago. I shed tears several times while reading it. Even though I personally have never struggled with homosexuality, the book still resonated with me as a Christian as well as hearing your testimony! It was like the Holy Spirit was flowing through the pages. As a fellow Christian who loves to write fiction this book was inspirational and just an overall blessing to my soul! Thank you for sharing it and your testimony! God bless you!!
Thank you so much for your testimony! It was wonderful to hear about how God has worked in your life and the part where you yelled in the car gave me goosebumps. Then the part where you said you don't have same sex attraction anymore almost made me cry. Our stories have many similarities when it comes to porn and chatrooms. But God is so good and faithful!
You truly are a beautiful person. I loved your testimony and the purity that transcended your heart. Pure and vulnerable, loving you from Israel. Shalom
Thanks for your courage and being vulnerable with others about your innermost feelings and struggles regarding your faith and confusion. You are definitely an amazing young and faithful Christian disciple
Praise Jesus .. this was very encouraging for a mom heart who has a son living in this lies of a lifestyle .. may the Lord Jesus have mercy and Grace upon my son and open his eyes to His truth. May the Lord put someone like you on my son’s path … God bless I will be buying your book ❤
You are such a wonderful, good looking amazing Man Of God Tailor, I am a Mom of a 22 year old son who loves Jesus and leads a very Godly life. Nevertheless, I know how important it is to be with young adults in their difficult times, being anxious about the future and whatever the hurdles come their way. Your story touched me so deeply, and I am sending you Love and Blessings ❣ I am sure you will be an awesome Dad someday to your own kids. Before that, I pray that God sends you an amazing Women of God... so you can really build a God centered life together! God Bless you!🧡🙏🙏🙏
So happy you came to Christ. Porn is the most evil wicked thing plaguing our society today. I stress to my children so much the horrible impact it had upon my life and I never even realized it until I was much older.
This is a very helpful testimony to even someone who never struggled with homosexual but with sexuality in general. I never grew up With porn access but we live in a world that is steeped in sex, so we all vicariously experience influences no matter how hard we try. There is power in handing your struggle over to another believer and having someone pray with you. This scripture in James comes to mind, “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.” The body of Christ needs access to other believes with the understanding that we can be men and love one another and bare these burdens with each other.
There are demons that make you think you are attracted to the same sex. God can set you free from that. Thank you for posting this. I am sure many will be helped by your honest testimony.
Thank you for being real. That is how to reach the depths and connect to the heart. Congratulations on your book and meeting Yeshua our jewish messiah!
Boy!! what a testimony, Thank you so much, Taylor, for sharing your amazing testimony, I am not gay but know people very close to me who fight those feelings. God is beautiful and amazing and he is really a good Father. God bless you !!!
Thank you for sharing your honesty and touching testimony, we all struggle with so many things in this life, but God is always with us and He will bring us to our peace that we all desire. Blessings to you.
Taylor, your powerful bold and honest testimony will encourage others in the same situation and struggle with life in this world to be at peace with themselves, as how you felt when you poured out all your pain to Jesus and accepted him as your lord and saviour. We all are equal and one in God’s eyes, no matter what race or sex. God loves us and we all our special individual to HIM that he sent his only son to be a sinless sacrifice to save every individual on this earth . We all need to repent and surrender our lives to him and once we surrender he takes care of everything and gives us everlasting peace, physical strength, mental stability and spiritual uplifting. He persues after us that no one is lost but come back to him. Thank you for your honest, raw and open testimony. God had given you this task to let others know about him and how one can be saved. God bless and shalom.
That’s an amazing testimony. Because I was addicted to straight porn for seven years from elementary in 4th grade to high school and my addiction got so bad that every time I looked a woman I thought of sex but the high school year I was going to graduate when I prayed to God He told me tell your parents and when I did I did not have that porn addiction ever again and after that I repeated and confessed for every sin I did to GOD.
God bless you Taylor. I don't want to say too much, but I do have someone close to my fiancé and I that is gay, and though he was brought up in church until his teen years he now doesn't want to know anything about God. Myself and my fiancé both pray for him but I feel like since we both are not living a true Christian life that our prayers are not working. Part of me thinks that I am wrong, but the other part of me thinks I'm right.
Thank you so much for sharing this. Your testimony will touch many lives, especially to those who are struggling with homosexuality. It will encourage them to pursue God’s will and His great plan for them instead of the enemy’s. Your testimony also gives hope to Christian parents, who are on their knees for their own children.
A brave Testemony. So glad you listened to the LORD. He often asks us to do seemingly impossible things, but as you found, these difficult tasks bring healing and restoration to our souls. Satan approached you early in life to keep you from doing God's work. So glad that you worked through it,and look where you are today! Keep on going! The LORD knows that you will make a difference in someone's life. I whole heartedly believe that Satan will pounce upon a small opportunity and then drag you in farther and farther until you seemingly have no way out. But, the Truth is that Jesus is ALWAYS the only way out..of any kind of circumstance. Praise be to GOD for our Advocate! He is for us, and yes, He loves us individually to the point that He would have died on the Cross even IF you were the only one who needed salvation! All you have to do is say "Jesus save me" and He will turn to you. You can Believe that!
thank you so much for this. I am a Christian mother with two boys who claim to be gay. One has cut me out of his life because I will not support his current relationship. This gives me hope. I love them very much.
@@jarviscoghlin2131 it’s interesting that you blame this Mom for the separation between her and her child. Like the Son had no choice in the matter. If her Sons had murderous thoughts would you call her a bad parent for not agreeing with them wanting to kill people? As parents our job is to teach our children right from wrong and when we see them doing something wrong we tell them the truth even if they don’t want to hear it. God’s ways are not the world’s ways. In fact they are completely the opposite. God gave everyone free will to make choices and not every choice a person makes will be beneficial to them or others. This Mom knows there are very serious consequences for the choice her Sons have made by choosing a homosexual life style. They are going against God’s moral laws, it is separating them from God. What you fail to understand is what is wrong with this world is sin. God hates sin and as followers of Jesus, as representatives of Him, we can not accept sin as being okay. That being said it doesn’t mean we don’t love people, quite the opposite actually. We love people enough to tell them the truth, weather they listen and accept it is up to them. I don’t know your situation or what you have been through but from your comment it seems clear that you are hurting and when we are hurting we often lash out. It also seems from your comment that you don’t have a clear understanding of God. Yes God is love but it is a pure love not a tainted love that we all have learned from the world. He is Holy and can not go against himself. He hates sin because it is destructive, it brings nothing but destruction into a person’s life. Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” He loves people so much that He put himself into his creation. He took on flesh, He was born of a virgin, He dwelt amongst us. He gave his life on a cross and paid all of humanities sin debt, yours and mine. He paid it in full that is why his last words were “It is finished.” He was buried and he rose from the dead three day’s later. He defeated death and hell. And he holds the keys to both death and hades. If you haven’t given your life to Jesus I encourage you to give him a chance. He will change your life, there is freedom in Jesus. As a follower of Jesus I love and care about people, I don’t want anyone to be separated from God and sin is what separates us from Him. All we have to do to be reconciled back to Him, to be saved is to repent of our sins, to turn away from sin and believe/ trust that what Jesus did on the cross was more than enough to save us. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God will dwell inside of you, He will change you and help you overcome whatever sin you are struggling with. No one can make the choice for you, everyone has to make the choice for themselves. God wants you to come to Him because you want to not because someone tells you you have to, that wouldn’t be genuine. I hope you will take to heart what I have said to you. May God bless you and keep you❤️
@@jarviscoghlin2131 Jesus himself refuted your dumb statement by saying _"If anyone does not hate [...] their son they cannot be my disciple"._ If your relationship with your child is more important than your relationship with God, then you are not a follower of Jesus Christ.
@@dirtdiv3rIt's obvious you never have. How dare you judge a mother for what happened between her and her son. You don't know the full story. Judge not lest you be judged in the same way you judge you will be judged. What kind of a Christian attacks a mother like that. Stop judging more loving ❤
See here is the uncondemning, faithful love of God. That He is still talking to you as a decent human, like you have some purpose and He has a plan for you, even though you are feeling low and worthless and ashamed about your proclivities. No condemnation at all from Him. He's practical and yet gentle. Just like, I know you feel all these things but let's get on with doing what you were here for and in the process, you'll rise above the things trying to deviate you from your purpose. This is what it means when they say that God loves gay people. It's not to say accept the gayness or embrace it. But it's just to say to you, like any other human struggle, you're not worthless because of what you struggle with but worth loving and bringing out of it. God bless, Tay.
I wasn’t raised a Christian. But having Jamaican family I’ve seen how Jamaicans hate gay people growing up. I don’t know if things have changed but that’s what was instilled in me growing up. So I also began to see that sin as wrong & grew up hating the sin of being gay and hating gay people. Looking back, I don’t understand how they make so much noise about 1 sin and not the other. For example, they would be willing to kill gay people in Jamaica for the sin of being gay, but what about drunkenness? Or adultery? It’s odd. Anyways, ever since I became a Christian, I’ve stopped hating people in general, but for the sake of this video & topic, I’ve stopped hating gay people too ever since I became a Christian. And watching this video seeing how patient God is in your life, shows how much he truly loves us and knows our true identity, so much that he’s willing to go through long vulnerable processes with us to set us free. I’m so happy that I’m opening up more as a Christian and beginning to love people for who they are and who God has made them. God’s love is so good. And brother, thank you so much for being this vulnerable with us. And trusting us with your testimony by sharing it with us. We love you brother, forever. God will save us and deliver us from all evil and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. It’s a process. For anyone else with a testimony, let’s continue to walk with God faithfully, and in due time, let’s share our testimonies with each other. There is so much power in doing so. And we never know who’s listening and just needs that hope. God bless you all so much!
(Edited for spelling error) We are born into rebellion. The nature of our flesh is apt to defy the laws of creation in all ways, gay or straight. So to say that someone is born gay is not so far off and should be handled with empathy for the person who is struggling. For them, they may have felt this their entire life not being able to identify the point when they became or accepted their circumstances. . How do I know?... because I was that kid. I struggled with it even before kindergarten having a deep crush on my cousin, hugging him and kissing him on the cheek all the time. In every photo of family events you can find one or two where I am holding him or kissing his cheek. From the age of 2 until about 4 or 5 when it became uncomfortable for my family to see. I was raised the exact same way as my three siblings and I was the only one who ended up dealing with it. Even my older brother who was molested was straight as an arrow. (so there goes that theory) I can to this day name every boy I had a crush on each year all the way through college. I lived as a gay man in the "community" for 17 years. (though I personally never experienced community anywhere in it) Do not confuse my dissertation with a condoning of it, but rather a plea to the church to stop thinking you have all the answers regarding it, you may be doing more damage than you think. Yes, of course, always tell the truth and rebuke sin but do it as Paul teaches, not harshly toward the person. We are commanded in ephesians chapter 4 to be gentle with one another. I promise you, telling them the truth is harsh enough without your sharp words and corse attitude. Ministering with urgency doesn't require elevating your voice and expressing your personal disgust. You are only thickening their skin. Like Derek Prince said one time, "there's no need to scream at a demon when rebuking them, they have perfect hearing and are able to hear you perfectly well. The words of Jesus Christ are power enough without your temper." Minister through the one thing that the gay community doesn't have. Speak with patients, kindness, compassion, empathy and a sense of brotherhood they long for because all these things have been withheld from them their whole lives by people who browbeat them, most of the time out of self-righteousness. Remember especially that Jesus said if you have broken one commandment you have broken them all. He was trying to tell you that you are no different than they are. The Lord holds no esteem for one man above the other. Keep in mind when you tell that little white lie you are committing abomination the same as they are. There are no white lies in scripture, a lie is a lie which is abomination and there are sum 26 sins in scripture defined as abomination and are all equal in severity and like each other. It is our broken intellect that tries to categorize sin when all the while the scripture defines it for us. Who are we to rewrite the words of the Holy Spirit... When you go to them, go as a fellow sinner, not as a "holier than thou". Do like the apostle Andrew did when he was captured in Greece by the Roman soldiers who were searching for the apostles, to put them on trial, convict them and execute them.. When they found him, they marched him for 2 days back to their encampment, beating him, kicking him, spitting on him and demeaning him in every way imaginable. He never once offered a harsh word back to them or wished for the judgment of God upon them.. He ministered the gospel to them the whole way, using every word he spoke to glorify Christ and to offer hope to them which would maybe make them realize that they were sinful and that they needed Christ in their life. He told them that he was not better than them because he knew these things, in fact he was just like them and the gift was just as much theirs as it was his, they simply had to repent and receive it. Andrew's testimony of his capture and death is what helped me trust in Jesus again, because the church certainly did not. Heed the words of a former member of the gay community and minister as he is telling you. In the end you will capture many more souls for Jesus than doing it the way the church commonly does. Jesus already gave you the words to use, be like he was with the adulteress who fell at his feet seeking his protection from the mob who sought to stone her. Remember his words.... John chapter 8:10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. If they don't recieve your ministering, then supplicate yourself to the Holy Spirit in prayer for them in Jesus Name before the Throne of Abba. You will do much more than you think if you obey how we are taught by Jesus.
From my [limited] experience, it seems to me that gay/straight attraction and gender identity both occur on continuums with some people at each polar end and many others strung all along the continuum experiencing various degrees of gay/straight attraction or gender identity. It could be partly biological at least for some people and partly due to external influences/environment for others. This is not to say it is ok- any more than the other things people do that are against God’s plans for us. I am only bringing this up to say that probably a large number of us who look like we have it all together have gone through some self-questioning on these issues. I feel that I could have become gay or transgender, myself, but felt it was not the right thing to do since there are Biblical admonitions against it. Being gay was not a severe temptation for me but rather something that crossed my mind as a possibility that I consciously rejected. Accepting my gender was a bit harder for me, mainly because I felt from childhood that women were looked down on by society and were mainly viewed as sexual objects, and I did not like either of these things. But there came a point in college where I decided I had to just accept being a woman and not fight it any more. Both of these decisions were made before I had a relationship with Jesus Christ. However, I was raised by a devout Christian mother, and did not want to disappoint her. In addition, I wanted to be close to God and took the Bible seriously. But the point I am trying to make is that I do believe people are born with various degrees of the traits we usually associate as male or female (physical traits and psychological traits). In addition, multiple environmental influences ranging from sexual abuse, pornography, attitudes of the people around us, what we read, etc. all interact with whatever traits we are born with to influence what we consider our propensity or temptation to engage in gay or transgender behavior. Many of us experience these thoughts and feelings to various degrees, but choose to not act on them.
@@kindnessheals The one thing I have the hardest time trying to get so many people in the church to realize is that for some people there is no choice, it's the only thing they've ever known.. When they tell me that's impossible, there's no way someone is born gay, I tell them to reflect on the behavior of an infant, to watch it closely, to make every observation they can and to identify sin in the smallest ways. Take for example a nearly newborn. How many times have you seen them cry while turning purple and raging with anger? Anyone who's dealt with infants has seen this frequently. So just as someone can be born angry, or have the propensity for anger, they can also be born with the nature to fall into being gay.. Just as some people do not have a necessarily overtly angry nature, there are also those who do not have the overt nature of homosexuality. Yet both are a sin, both are abomination in the scriptures and both are things that are found in every family unit in the world. Now let's advance it a couple of years to observe toddlers. They know how to lie without anyone showing them how to do it.. "Who took that cookie from the cookie jar?"... and they'll blame the dog, or a stuffed animal or one of their siblings. The age of accountability in the scripture is not a reference to the point when we begin to sin, we sin from the beginning. it's when we consciously choose to sin and ignore the consequences knowing that they exist. When we choose to go and do the wrong thing knowing that there's a punishment for it and we don't care about the punishment, we just want to have the self-satisfaction of doing whatever we want, at that very first point we make that choice, that's the age of accountability. A young child doesn't know necessarily what they are doing, they might have a feeling that it's wrong but they don't know about accountability yet, they don't know that they are making a conscious choice to defy a righteous law. The second thing that is difficult in ministering to people in the church is that there simply is abomination, there are not abominations, there is only abomination, it is a state of being or a character or a mindset. Additionally difficult is also getting them to understand that there is no level of severity between the sins, they are equal in the eyes of God. That's why the scripture lists sins as abomination, not abomination 1st degree or 2nd degree or 3rd degree, simply abomination which is identifying the separation of that thing from God, it is completely amputated from his existence. When we look at the Hebrew definition of abomination, it means that it is separate from God, his character is void of that thing, it has no part of him at all, he is not present with it , it will not connect with him. There are 26 sins in The Bible identified as abomination and most of them are not sexual and also the overwhelming majority are things that every person in the world has done. At one time or another we have all committed abomination before the throne of God in heaven. Christ Jesus makes it very clear that we need him on a moment to moment basis, with every breath we draw.. He makes it very clear that we cannot walk in this world without him and be safe, be completely free from the dangers of sin and darkness. The reason he tells us this is because it is a nature of this flesh that we live in, it is filled with the aptitude and likelihood to sin and to rebel. It is our nature from the beginning. This is the reason why when we are called into the air at the end, he does away with our old flesh and gives us a new one incapable of sin. As long as we remain In this current vessel, we will continue to contaminate our souls. That's what his parable about the wine jars is about. I pray for the church as much as I pray for the gay community, they are 2 peoples at odds with one another and both don't even realize that they're all seeking happiness and joy. To the church I would say take accountability for your predecessors who built religions and organizations which falsely taught the nature of the scripture by hiding behind other sins through elevating them to a more severe degree than their (church leaders) own. And to the gay community I would say stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater, not every Christian is against you Even though they are not condoning what you're doing. I would tell them to sit and listen for a moment, to a truly humble Christian who is willing to confess their sins to you so that you might understand that they are struggling just like you are but know the dire necessity to be distant from active sin. It's a more difficult ministry toward the gay community than toward the church. Paul wept for the religious, but today he would sob for the gay community. One has to remember, these people feel as though they've been robbed, they're being jilted out of the right to enjoy a portion of life that heterosexual people seem to get to do with no consequence or castigation of any sort like they themselves have experienced. What I try to remind them of is that there is a huge sum of actions in the heterosexual community which are sins and they should not be doing either. The account of Josephus speaks to that and it makes many people, even in the church, very uncomfortable to read it because it identifies a lot of things people do that they should not be doing. There are many things that heterosexual people in the church feel they have a right to do and there's no sin in the eyes of God with it and yet the scripture says directly otherwise. The Bible very clearly does not say a that married people can do whatever they want with each other, that falls in the realm of vile affections. Rule of thumb... if it creates disease, disfunction or injury of any kind then it is a sin. That's what vile affections means, it does not mean gay like the church once again likes to teach. Nor does strange flesh mean gay either, it means exactly what it sounds like, sleeping with someone unknown to you, being loose. All I can do is is stand firm and hold fast in the word for both groups of people. I am always so overwhelmed with joy and happiness when I hear a story of someone coming out of the gay lifestyle, even if they are struggling with temptation, the fact that they see the broken nature of it and are willing to reconcile in one way shape or form with the Lord and ask for his help is always a victory in my eyes. And likewise it always touches my heart deeply when someone in the church realizes how cruel and foolish they have been by offering a ministry that has caused someone to grow further from Jesus By elevating someone else's sin above their own, essentially hiding behind it and making themselves look more self righteous and holy in the eyes of God. I've said it once and I'll say it thousands of more times I'm sure… the Lord Jesus Christ made himself less than an angel, came to this Earth to walk with us shoulder to shoulder and give us a way of life.He did it happily, humbly and filled with love all the while holding true to the expectations of our Father in heaven and we should be no different than he was and is.
It`s so cool, because I have seen so many testemonies about people getting free from religions and come to Christ. And I see we are in a time and our that is new. God is letting people get free now from false identity and religions, and really get to know who they really are i Jesus Christ!! Amen! Thank you Jesus!
Thank you for sharing Taylor it was very brave, and people may never understand. Cover yourself in the whole armour of God and speak out his word, i cannot say this enough, the enemy tested Jesus and so we will go through the same, The word of God is your keeper and sometimes i wrestle but i cannot argue with his word, and there are so many voices out there but His word has the final say, God bless you young man and stay close to Jesus much love to you.
wow I'm speachless so beautiful testimony, God is using you so greatly. I deal with same sex atraction when I was a teenager, I suffer from depresion by that I was so insecure at that time, but God showed me his love throght Christ, he healt all my pain now I love my feminity and desire one day to have a marriage with a godly man for the glory of God.
Amen. You're so brave, and you are now are glowing with the Holy Spirit. Your channel will help many. May God bless you and give you strength as you grow in your relationship with Yeshua. Oh and I'm sure you know of Becket Cook? He he's a great channel.
Thank you for sharing this my brother. Really gave me a perspective I haven't seen about people who struggle with this. I was an atheist and 24-year heterosexual porn addict before Jesus saved my soul and delivered me from it all, halfway to my 37th bday. So I can relate when you say your full testimony is too much to share in one video. God bless you bro!
He has an artistic mind. Why he tried 75 times to make a video.. Don't worry it always gets better with experience. How we learn new skills. You have to be willing to fall on your face. Then get back up and do it again. Then one day you realize you don't fall down anymore.. And When you meet the living God. You will never be the same again. I meet him in 1986.. It's been up and down at times. But I still get back up and keep going. As God teaches us new things through adversity. It makes us stronger better person.
Raw and unedit testimonies are perfect testimonies. Jesus is the spirit of testimony. you are seen and you are loved brother in Christ. The love of the FATHER ,how he meets you where you are ,and nothing you have done is hard work to him. He made you a light to "unlit" candles your testimony is a "match" for all that are struggling with the same fleshly desires. James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. One of the best life story I ever heard. Heal, Seek, and Love Taylor Simon Maxwell
Hey, I'm a 17 year old christian boy. I am really really touched by your seemingly amazing and truthful testimony. I believe that what the enemy actually planned about for your bad, God used it for your good. I'm really really inspired by your boldness and confidence. I pray God continues increasing His favor, love, mercy and grace towards you😭🙏
Thank you for sharing! God set me free from homosexuality in 2010. He called me so salvation while i was in a long term lesbian relationship and He completely delivered me. So glad I followed Him!
How did you overcome it
Happy that you find Jesus. And I really like to hear testimony about ex gay. And see How powerful God is . So thank you for sharing your testimony. (From France 🇨🇵)
Thank you so much for doing this. For being open and vulnerable and real. And for being obedient to our Father. Thank you, truly. As a teenager struggling through same sex attraction, I didn't have any fellow Christians who were bold enough to share their stories with me. So I assumed I didn't belong there and left the faith for a while. Thankfully Jesus pursued me and I found my way back to him. I too have been apprehensious about sharing my homosexual testimony, but it's brothers and sisters like you who encourage me to be vulnerable and open about it. Yes there is pain there, but I will not let the enemy shame me into not sharing a story that could help someone to Christ. Bless you and your ministry brother. I'm praying for you.
I just found your videos and I'm blown away. I bought your book and have already cried in the first bit I've read. It's like seeing my story written by someone else. I experience same sex attraction and I have bipolar disorder, but I'm a Christian and it creates a L O T of cognitive dissonance as I try to walk in faithful obedience to Jesus and yet have seem to have two bombs that try to blow up every few minutes. Thanks for your book; it means so much.
I been there and done that. I tried to be the person God wants us to be. Problem is we can never do it. Then one day I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. As I could never live up the standard God wants from us. So I heard the voice in my head telling me. Pull into this Church on a Wednesday night. As I was driving home. I listened to it. Sit in the back and wait till they did an alter call. To be prayed for. I got up and went forward. They prayed for me. Then when walking away they said, Now come back and get filled with the Holy Spirit. I stopped and turned around. Said I want it all or nothing at all. They took me back stage and laid hands on me. I started speaking a whole new language I didn't even know. They said he got it. I asked them I got what? They said God looked on your heart and seen you was open to his Holy Spirits gifts. I had no idea what they we're talking about. I never heard of such things. I just knew it was real..
I never been the same since. That was back in 1986....And it's had it's up and downs. But now I can get back up and get on with living. As the whole reason Jesus Christ come. He does what we can't. He redeems us through faith. Not by our perfection or works. It's his gift. As gifts can't be earned.
Good Luck. You have something most people have no idea about. It's like something out of Star Wars. Strike me down Darth. And I'll shall become more powerful then you could imagine...
Loved this testimony, Taylor!!! Your book has given me such perspective! I’ve already read it twice and am starting to read it for a third time. No book has ever made me cried before and that book had that much of an impact on me. Looking forward to future content! Stay strong in the faith. Love you brother!!
Thank you Timothy! Blessings my brother!!!
I’m happy you didn’t delete this video. You have a very likeable personality
I didnt realized i almost finished watching this video already, it felt like only a few minutes went by but its almost 1 hour long. Thank you for sharing bro Taylor, glory to God. Its powerful, and it is going to inspire people to share their own testimonies to people publically. The church needs this, so much, this message is anointed. The Lord bless you bro and also everyone who is watching this.
Great testimony brother! You’re so naturally funny….”do we ever plan on crying” lol
I got born again when I was 28. It’s been a great ride! I’m 66 now. 😀
you are so brave. one can only acknowledge your honesty and vulnerability. May you never will have to deal with the devil planting seeds for the rest of your life!
Hey man thanks you for opening up and talking about your struggles , it was very moving and made me love people who are in the position you were before even more, I myself have struggled with porn addiction and heterosexual lust since a young age and it definitively isn't easy , but thank God for his grace and everlasting mercy and love for us we can keep fighting.
I finished reading The Desire Tree a couple of weeks ago. I shed tears several times while reading it. Even though I personally have never struggled with homosexuality, the book still resonated with me as a Christian as well as hearing your testimony! It was like the Holy Spirit was flowing through the pages. As a fellow Christian who loves to write fiction this book was inspirational and just an overall blessing to my soul! Thank you for sharing it and your testimony! God bless you!!
In a lot of ways your testimony is similar to mine. Thank you so much for sharing! I'm looking forward to whatever video you make next!
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Thank you so much for your testimony! It was wonderful to hear about how God has worked in your life and the part where you yelled in the car gave me goosebumps. Then the part where you said you don't have same sex attraction anymore almost made me cry.
Our stories have many similarities when it comes to porn and chatrooms. But God is so good and faithful!
You truly are a beautiful person. I loved your testimony and the purity that transcended your heart. Pure and vulnerable, loving you from Israel. Shalom
Thanks for your courage and being vulnerable with others about your innermost feelings and struggles regarding your faith and confusion. You are definitely an amazing young and faithful Christian disciple
Loved your testimony. May our God give you strength and wisdom as you walk and grow with Him.
Praise Jesus .. this was very encouraging for a mom heart who has a son living in this lies of a lifestyle .. may the Lord Jesus have mercy and Grace upon my son and open his eyes to His truth. May the Lord put someone like you on my son’s path … God bless I will be buying your book ❤
What an Absolute Sweetheart I had to keep pausing as I didn't want it to end too quickly
You are such a wonderful, good looking amazing Man Of God Tailor, I am a Mom of a 22 year old son who loves Jesus and leads a very Godly life. Nevertheless, I know how important it is to be with young adults in their difficult times, being anxious about the future and whatever the hurdles come their way. Your story touched me so deeply, and I am sending you Love and Blessings ❣ I am sure you will be an awesome Dad someday to your own kids. Before that, I pray that God sends you an amazing Women of God... so you can really build a God centered life together! God Bless you!🧡🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for being so brave and vulnerable. Hugs from Chile 🇨🇱 ¡Dios te bendiga! 🙌🏼
Man, I am encouraged by your courage and honesty. Talk about a turn around. God bless you abundantly and may his light and favor be with you.
Wow man, i can't form words. That was really deep, and thank you for sharing.
So happy you came to Christ. Porn is the most evil wicked thing plaguing our society today. I stress to my children so much the horrible impact it had upon my life and I never even realized it until I was much older.
Wow great testimony ! A great gift to humanity! Thank you. Jesus is so good!
You are a very strong man Taylor 💪 brave and pure 🙏🏼 .
I love your story.
Taylor you are an amazing human may GOD Keep guiding you and bless you truly you just touch me deeply. Amen 🙏
Amazing testimony !
Thanks for sharing so openly and honestly. I’m so proud of you Tay.
This testimony brought me to tears Taylor , you are so strong what a transformation . God bless you.
so open and honest. this will mean a lot to pple struggling with the same issue. God bless you!
This is a very helpful testimony to even someone who never struggled with homosexual but with sexuality in general. I never grew up
With porn access but we live in a world that is steeped in sex, so we all vicariously experience influences no matter how hard we try.
There is power in handing your struggle over to another believer and having someone pray with you. This scripture in James comes to mind, “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.” The body of Christ needs access to other believes with the understanding that we can be men and love one another and bare these burdens with each other.
God bless you! You’re so brave! I don’t know that I could be so open with my past. Maybe some day 🙏🏻♥️
There are demons that make you think you are attracted to the same sex. God can set you free from that. Thank you for posting this. I am sure many will be helped by your honest testimony.
Sending much love ❤️🙏🏻
Good stuff. Thank you for your bravery and strength.
What a beautiful testimony. May God continuously bless you and keep you in His arms. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
God bless you brother 🙌🏻✨
Power!! We serve an awesome God. Well done. Your face reveals how free you are- beauty for ashes…
Wow brother an amazing testimony
Thank you for being real. That is how to reach the depths and connect to the heart. Congratulations on your book and meeting Yeshua our jewish messiah!
Wow! 🤔
Boy!! what a testimony, Thank you so much, Taylor, for sharing your amazing testimony, I am not gay but know people very close to me who fight those feelings. God is beautiful and amazing and he is really a good Father. God bless you !!!
Thanks for sharing God’s testimony in your life!
Thank you for sharing your honesty and touching testimony, we all struggle with so many things in this life, but God is always with us and He will bring us to our peace that we all desire. Blessings to you.
"Before you have to start writing you have to be Free" 🙏🏼 inspiring testimony. Keep it going!
Truly a blessing, dear brother!!! Thanks for your authenticity. God bless!!!!!
AMEN TO YOU SO PROUD OF YOU TO HAVE THE COURAGE TO OPEN YOURSELF UP TO THE WORLD 🙌
Thank you for sharing your testimony! May God bless you and continue to guide you!
Thank you so much Taylor.
Powerful testimony! God bless you!
Taylor, your powerful bold and honest testimony will encourage others in the same situation and struggle with life in this world to be at peace with themselves, as how you felt when you poured out all your pain to Jesus and accepted him as your lord and saviour.
We all are equal and one in God’s eyes, no matter what race or sex. God loves us and we all our special individual to HIM that he sent his only son to be a sinless sacrifice to save every individual on this earth . We all need to repent and surrender our lives to him and once we surrender he takes care of everything and gives us everlasting peace, physical strength, mental stability and spiritual uplifting. He persues after us that no one is lost but come back to him.
Thank you for your honest, raw and open testimony. God had given you this task to let others know about him and how one can be saved.
God bless and shalom.
Thanks for taking the first step
I’m really five months later.. 🙌🏾 thank God you were on tiktok so yeah I found this testimony.
Thanks for sharing, God is a good n loving person you can reach out to him in your dire need.
You're perfect!
That’s an amazing testimony. Because I was addicted to straight porn for seven years from elementary in 4th grade to high school and my addiction got so bad that every time I looked a woman I thought of sex but the high school year I was going to graduate when I prayed to God He told me tell your parents and when I did I did not have that porn addiction ever again and after that I repeated and confessed for every sin I did to GOD.
Amen Brother, welcome to the family, where God's love is greater and his plans are better. You will find more in Jesus than the world.
Thank you for your testimony Taylor.
I’ve watched Becket Cook testimony as well and I loved it also !
Beautiful testimony brother, thank you for your courage ! Glory to God
It is a joy to hear your testimony. May you continue to grow in His love. God bless you.
Love from Michigan brother Taylor!!!
I loved hearing your incredible testimony! It's great to see the power of God in others. I feel so inspired. Thank you! God bless you, Taylor!
Good for you, Brother in Christ!
God bless you.
God bless you Taylor.
I don't want to say too much, but I do have someone close to my fiancé and I that is gay, and though he was brought up in church until his teen years he now doesn't want to know anything about God. Myself and my fiancé both pray for him but I feel like since we both are not living a true Christian life that our prayers are not working. Part of me thinks that I am wrong, but the other part of me thinks I'm right.
God bless you!
You have a beautiful and powerful testimony brother!! The Lord Bless all the days is your life ❤️💕
Amen, thank you !
Thank you so much for sharing this. Your testimony will touch many lives, especially to those who are struggling with homosexuality. It will encourage them to pursue God’s will and His great plan for them instead of the enemy’s.
Your testimony also gives hope to Christian parents, who are on their knees for their own children.
Thank you for sharing brother. God is so good. I am so grateful for this testimony and all the lives He is going to touch through you.
So proud of you for letting the Lord use your life and testimony!!! Excellent video, very well done 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️
I really do love Christians who are true honest and just raw about their Journey with Christ Love u and so does Jesus ❤️
A brave Testemony. So glad you listened to the LORD. He often asks us to do seemingly impossible things, but as you found, these difficult tasks bring healing and restoration to our souls. Satan approached you early in life to keep you from doing God's work. So glad that you worked through it,and look where you are today! Keep on going! The LORD knows that you will make a difference in someone's life. I whole heartedly believe that Satan will pounce upon a small opportunity and then drag you in farther and farther until you seemingly have no way out. But, the Truth is that Jesus is ALWAYS the only way out..of any kind of circumstance. Praise be to GOD for our Advocate! He is for us, and yes, He loves us individually to the point that He would have died on the Cross even IF you were the only one who needed salvation! All you have to do is say "Jesus save me" and He will turn to you. You can Believe that!
What a story, my man, Yeshua HaMashiach bless you till the end of the age, AMEN✝️🕊️🕊️
thank you so much for this. I am a Christian mother with two boys who claim to be gay. One has cut me out of his life because I will not support his current relationship. This gives me hope. I love them very much.
A true Christian wouldn't let something like this ruin their relationship with their own child. You are a bad parent
@@jarviscoghlin2131 it’s interesting that you blame this Mom for the separation between her and her child. Like the Son had no choice in the matter. If her Sons had murderous thoughts would you call her a bad parent for not agreeing with them wanting to kill people? As parents our job is to teach our children right from wrong and when we see them doing something wrong we tell them the truth even if they don’t want to hear it. God’s ways are not the world’s ways. In fact they are completely the opposite. God gave everyone free will to make choices and not every choice a person makes will be beneficial to them or others. This Mom knows there are very serious consequences for the choice her Sons have made by choosing a homosexual life style. They are going against God’s moral laws, it is separating them from God. What you fail to understand is what is wrong with this world is sin. God hates sin and as followers of Jesus, as representatives of Him, we can not accept sin as being okay. That being said it doesn’t mean we don’t love people, quite the opposite actually. We love people enough to tell them the truth, weather they listen and accept it is up to them. I don’t know your situation or what you have been through but from your comment it seems clear that you are hurting and when we are hurting we often lash out. It also seems from your comment that you don’t have a clear understanding of God. Yes God is love but it is a pure love not a tainted love that we all have learned from the world. He is Holy and can not go against himself. He hates sin because it is destructive, it brings nothing but destruction into a person’s life. Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” He loves people so much that He put himself into his creation. He took on flesh, He was born of a virgin, He dwelt amongst us. He gave his life on a cross and paid all of humanities sin debt, yours and mine. He paid it in full that is why his last words were “It is finished.” He was buried and he rose from the dead three day’s later. He defeated death and hell. And he holds the keys to both death and hades. If you haven’t given your life to Jesus I encourage you to give him a chance. He will change your life, there is freedom in Jesus. As a follower of Jesus I love and care about people, I don’t want anyone to be separated from God and sin is what separates us from Him. All we have to do to be reconciled back to Him, to be saved is to repent of our sins, to turn away from sin and believe/ trust that what Jesus did on the cross was more than enough to save us. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God will dwell inside of you, He will change you and help you overcome whatever sin you are struggling with. No one can make the choice for you, everyone has to make the choice for themselves. God wants you to come to Him because you want to not because someone tells you you have to, that wouldn’t be genuine. I hope you will take to heart what I have said to you. May God bless you and keep you❤️
@@jarviscoghlin2131 What does that even mean? Have you read the bible?
@@jarviscoghlin2131 Jesus himself refuted your dumb statement by saying _"If anyone does not hate [...] their son they cannot be my disciple"._ If your relationship with your child is more important than your relationship with God, then you are not a follower of Jesus Christ.
@@dirtdiv3rIt's obvious you never have. How dare you judge a mother for what happened between her and her son. You don't know the full story. Judge not lest you be judged in the same way you judge you will be judged. What kind of a Christian attacks a mother like that. Stop judging more loving ❤
You’re a special person Taylor. Welcome to Christ
See here is the uncondemning, faithful love of God. That He is still talking to you as a decent human, like you have some purpose and He has a plan for you, even though you are feeling low and worthless and ashamed about your proclivities. No condemnation at all from Him. He's practical and yet gentle. Just like, I know you feel all these things but let's get on with doing what you were here for and in the process, you'll rise above the things trying to deviate you from your purpose. This is what it means when they say that God loves gay people. It's not to say accept the gayness or embrace it. But it's just to say to you, like any other human struggle, you're not worthless because of what you struggle with but worth loving and bringing out of it. God bless, Tay.
I wasn’t raised a Christian. But having Jamaican family I’ve seen how Jamaicans hate gay people growing up. I don’t know if things have changed but that’s what was instilled in me growing up. So I also began to see that sin as wrong & grew up hating the sin of being gay and hating gay people. Looking back, I don’t understand how they make so much noise about 1 sin and not the other. For example, they would be willing to kill gay people in Jamaica for the sin of being gay, but what about drunkenness? Or adultery? It’s odd. Anyways, ever since I became a Christian, I’ve stopped hating people in general, but for the sake of this video & topic, I’ve stopped hating gay people too ever since I became a Christian. And watching this video seeing how patient God is in your life, shows how much he truly loves us and knows our true identity, so much that he’s willing to go through long vulnerable processes with us to set us free. I’m so happy that I’m opening up more as a Christian and beginning to love people for who they are and who God has made them. God’s love is so good. And brother, thank you so much for being this vulnerable with us. And trusting us with your testimony by sharing it with us. We love you brother, forever. God will save us and deliver us from all evil and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. It’s a process. For anyone else with a testimony, let’s continue to walk with God faithfully, and in due time, let’s share our testimonies with each other. There is so much power in doing so. And we never know who’s listening and just needs that hope. God bless you all so much!
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. God bless you my brother in Christ. x
I agree that being real and raw helps others who may be struggling, to trust us.
(Edited for spelling error) We are born into rebellion. The nature of our flesh is apt to defy the laws of creation in all ways, gay or straight. So to say that someone is born gay is not so far off and should be handled with empathy for the person who is struggling. For them, they may have felt this their entire life not being able to identify the point when they became or accepted their circumstances. .
How do I know?... because I was that kid. I struggled with it even before kindergarten having a deep crush on my cousin, hugging him and kissing him on the cheek all the time. In every photo of family events you can find one or two where I am holding him or kissing his cheek. From the age of 2 until about 4 or 5 when it became uncomfortable for my family to see. I was raised the exact same way as my three siblings and I was the only one who ended up dealing with it. Even my older brother who was molested was straight as an arrow. (so there goes that theory)
I can to this day name every boy I had a crush on each year all the way through college. I lived as a gay man in the "community" for 17 years. (though I personally never experienced community anywhere in it)
Do not confuse my dissertation with a condoning of it, but rather a plea to the church to stop thinking you have all the answers regarding it, you may be doing more damage than you think.
Yes, of course, always tell the truth and rebuke sin but do it as Paul teaches, not harshly toward the person. We are commanded in ephesians chapter 4 to be gentle with one another. I promise you, telling them the truth is harsh enough without your sharp words and corse attitude. Ministering with urgency doesn't require elevating your voice and expressing your personal disgust. You are only thickening their skin. Like Derek Prince said one time, "there's no need to scream at a demon when rebuking them, they have perfect hearing and are able to hear you perfectly well. The words of Jesus Christ are power enough without your temper."
Minister through the one thing that the gay community doesn't have. Speak with patients, kindness, compassion, empathy and a sense of brotherhood they long for because all these things have been withheld from them their whole lives by people who browbeat them, most of the time out of self-righteousness.
Remember especially that Jesus said if you have broken one commandment you have broken them all. He was trying to tell you that you are no different than they are. The Lord holds no esteem for one man above the other. Keep in mind when you tell that little white lie you are committing abomination the same as they are. There are no white lies in scripture, a lie is a lie which is abomination and there are sum 26 sins in scripture defined as abomination and are all equal in severity and like each other. It is our broken intellect that tries to categorize sin when all the while the scripture defines it for us. Who are we to rewrite the words of the Holy Spirit...
When you go to them, go as a fellow sinner, not as a "holier than thou". Do like the apostle Andrew did when he was captured in Greece by the Roman soldiers who were searching for the apostles, to put them on trial, convict them and execute them..
When they found him, they marched him for 2 days back to their encampment, beating him, kicking him, spitting on him and demeaning him in every way imaginable.
He never once offered a harsh word back to them or wished for the judgment of God upon them.. He ministered the gospel to them the whole way, using every word he spoke to glorify Christ and to offer hope to them which would maybe make them realize that they were sinful and that they needed Christ in their life.
He told them that he was not better than them because he knew these things, in fact he was just like them and the gift was just as much theirs as it was his, they simply had to repent and receive it. Andrew's testimony of his capture and death is what helped me trust in Jesus again, because the church certainly did not.
Heed the words of a former member of the gay community and minister as he is telling you. In the end you will capture many more souls for Jesus than doing it the way the church commonly does. Jesus already gave you the words to use, be like he was with the adulteress who fell at his feet seeking his protection from the mob who sought to stone her. Remember his words....
John chapter 8:10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
If they don't recieve your ministering, then supplicate yourself to the Holy Spirit in prayer for them in Jesus Name before the Throne of Abba. You will do much more than you think if you obey how we are taught by Jesus.
From my [limited] experience, it seems to me that gay/straight attraction and gender identity both occur on continuums with some people at each polar end and many others strung all along the continuum experiencing various degrees of gay/straight attraction or gender identity. It could be partly biological at least for some people and partly due to external influences/environment for others. This is not to say it is ok- any more than the other things people do that are against God’s plans for us. I am only bringing this up to say that probably a large number of us who look like we have it all together have gone through some self-questioning on these issues.
I feel that I could have become gay or transgender, myself, but felt it was not the right thing to do since there are Biblical admonitions against it. Being gay was not a severe temptation for me but rather something that crossed my mind as a possibility that I consciously rejected. Accepting my gender was a bit harder for me, mainly because I felt from childhood that women were looked down on by society and were mainly viewed as sexual objects, and I did not like either of these things. But there came a point in college where I decided I had to just accept being a woman and not fight it any more. Both of these decisions were made before I had a relationship with Jesus Christ. However, I was raised by a devout Christian mother, and did not want to disappoint her. In addition, I wanted to be close to God and took the Bible seriously.
But the point I am trying to make is that I do believe people are born with various degrees of the traits we usually associate as male or female (physical traits and psychological traits). In addition, multiple environmental influences ranging from sexual abuse, pornography, attitudes of the people around us, what we read, etc. all interact with whatever traits we are born with to influence what we consider our propensity or temptation to engage in gay or transgender behavior. Many of us experience these thoughts and feelings to various degrees, but choose to not act on them.
@@kindnessheals The one thing I have the hardest time trying to get so many people in the church to realize is that for some people there is no choice, it's the only thing they've ever known..
When they tell me that's impossible, there's no way someone is born gay, I tell them to reflect on the behavior of an infant, to watch it closely, to make every observation they can and to identify sin in the smallest ways.
Take for example a nearly newborn. How many times have you seen them cry while turning purple and raging with anger? Anyone who's dealt with infants has seen this frequently. So just as someone can be born angry, or have the propensity for anger, they can also be born with the nature to fall into being gay.. Just as some people do not have a necessarily overtly angry nature, there are also those who do not have the overt nature of homosexuality. Yet both are a sin, both are abomination in the scriptures and both are things that are found in every family unit in the world.
Now let's advance it a couple of years to observe toddlers. They know how to lie without anyone showing them how to do it.. "Who took that cookie from the cookie jar?"... and they'll blame the dog, or a stuffed animal or one of their siblings.
The age of accountability in the scripture is not a reference to the point when we begin to sin, we sin from the beginning.
it's when we consciously choose to sin and ignore the consequences knowing that they exist. When we choose to go and do the wrong thing knowing that there's a punishment for it and we don't care about the punishment, we just want to have the self-satisfaction of doing whatever we want, at that very first point we make that choice, that's the age of accountability.
A young child doesn't know necessarily what they are doing, they might have a feeling that it's wrong but they don't know about accountability yet, they don't know that they are making a conscious choice to defy a righteous law.
The second thing that is difficult in ministering to people in the church is that there simply is abomination, there are not abominations, there is only abomination, it is a state of being or a character or a mindset. Additionally difficult is also getting them to understand that there is no level of severity between the sins, they are equal in the eyes of God. That's why the scripture lists sins as abomination, not abomination 1st degree or 2nd degree or 3rd degree, simply abomination which is identifying the separation of that thing from God, it is completely amputated from his existence.
When we look at the Hebrew definition of abomination, it means that it is separate from God, his character is void of that thing, it has no part of him at all, he is not present with it , it will not connect with him.
There are 26 sins in The Bible identified as abomination and most of them are not sexual and also the overwhelming majority are things that every person in the world has done. At one time or another we have all committed abomination before the throne of God in heaven.
Christ Jesus makes it very clear that we need him on a moment to moment basis, with every breath we draw.. He makes it very clear that we cannot walk in this world without him and be safe, be completely free from the dangers of sin and darkness.
The reason he tells us this is because it is a nature of this flesh that we live in, it is filled with the aptitude and likelihood to sin and to rebel. It is our nature from the beginning.
This is the reason why when we are called into the air at the end, he does away with our old flesh and gives us a new one incapable of sin. As long as we remain In this current vessel, we will continue to contaminate our souls. That's what his parable about the wine jars is about.
I pray for the church as much as I pray for the gay community, they are 2 peoples at odds with one another and both don't even realize that they're all seeking happiness and joy.
To the church I would say take accountability for your predecessors who built religions and organizations which falsely taught the nature of the scripture by hiding behind other sins through elevating them to a more severe degree than their (church leaders) own.
And to the gay community I would say stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater, not every Christian is against you Even though they are not condoning what you're doing. I would tell them to sit and listen for a moment, to a truly humble Christian who is willing to confess their sins to you so that you might understand that they are struggling just like you are but know the dire necessity to be distant from active sin.
It's a more difficult ministry toward the gay community than toward the church. Paul wept for the religious, but today he would sob for the gay community.
One has to remember, these people feel as though they've been robbed, they're being jilted out of the right to enjoy a portion of life that heterosexual people seem to get to do with no consequence or castigation of any sort like they themselves have experienced.
What I try to remind them of is that there is a huge sum of actions in the heterosexual community which are sins and they should not be doing either. The account of Josephus speaks to that and it makes many people, even in the church, very uncomfortable to read it because it identifies a lot of things people do that they should not be doing. There are many things that heterosexual people in the church feel they have a right to do and there's no sin in the eyes of God with it and yet the scripture says directly otherwise. The Bible very clearly does not say a that married people can do whatever they want with each other, that falls in the realm of vile affections. Rule of thumb... if it creates disease, disfunction or injury of any kind then it is a sin. That's what vile affections means, it does not mean gay like the church once again likes to teach. Nor does strange flesh mean gay either, it means exactly what it sounds like, sleeping with someone unknown to you, being loose.
All I can do is is stand firm and hold fast in the word for both groups of people. I am always so overwhelmed with joy and happiness when I hear a story of someone coming out of the gay lifestyle, even if they are struggling with temptation, the fact that they see the broken nature of it and are willing to reconcile in one way shape or form with the Lord and ask for his help is always a victory in my eyes. And likewise it always touches my heart deeply when someone in the church realizes how cruel and foolish they have been by offering a ministry that has caused someone to grow further from Jesus By elevating someone else's sin above their own, essentially hiding behind it and making themselves look more self righteous and holy in the eyes of God.
I've said it once and I'll say it thousands of more times I'm sure… the Lord Jesus Christ made himself less than an angel, came to this Earth to walk with us shoulder to shoulder and give us a way of life.He did it happily, humbly and filled with love all the while holding true to the expectations of our Father in heaven and we should be no different than he was and is.
It`s so cool, because I have seen so many testemonies about people getting free from religions and come to Christ. And I see we are in a time and our that is new. God is letting people get free now from false identity and religions, and really get to know who they really are i Jesus Christ!! Amen! Thank you Jesus!
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for sharing Taylor it was very brave, and people may never understand. Cover yourself in the whole armour of God and speak out his word, i cannot say this enough, the enemy tested Jesus and so we will go through the same, The word of God is your keeper and sometimes i wrestle but i cannot argue with his word, and there are so many voices out there but His word has the final say, God bless you young man and stay close to Jesus much love to you.
wow I'm speachless so beautiful testimony, God is using you so greatly. I deal with same sex atraction when I was a teenager, I suffer from depresion by that I was so insecure at that time, but God showed me his love throght Christ, he healt all my pain now I love my feminity and desire one day to have a marriage with a godly man for the glory of God.
Glory be to God
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Good for you buddy,
Amen. You're so brave, and you are now are glowing with the Holy Spirit. Your channel will help many. May God bless you and give you strength as you grow in your relationship with Yeshua. Oh and I'm sure you know of Becket Cook? He he's a great channel.
Thanks 🙏❤️!
Love you brother !
Thank you for sharing this my brother. Really gave me a perspective I haven't seen about people who struggle with this.
I was an atheist and 24-year heterosexual porn addict before Jesus saved my soul and delivered me from it all, halfway to my 37th bday. So I can relate when you say your full testimony is too much to share in one video.
God bless you bro!
Thank you for sharing. In this society plagued with pro-LGBT propaganda, you are truly blessed by God for your boldness!!
Good for you just be your self, vulnerability is beautiful so is shyness.
Wonderful Testimony....May God bless you ☺
He has an artistic mind. Why he tried 75 times to make a video.. Don't worry it always gets better with experience. How we learn new skills. You have to be willing to fall on your face. Then get back up and do it again. Then one day you realize you don't fall down anymore..
And When you meet the living God. You will never be the same again. I meet him in 1986.. It's been up and down at times. But I still get back up and keep going. As God teaches us new things through adversity. It makes us stronger better person.
So beautiful, thank you so so so much for the bravery and for sharing, God gloryfies With your testimony, blessings!!
Raw and unedit testimonies are perfect testimonies. Jesus is the spirit of testimony. you are seen and you are loved brother in Christ. The love of the FATHER ,how he meets you where you are ,and nothing you have done is hard work to him. He made you a light to "unlit" candles your testimony is a "match" for all that are struggling with the same fleshly desires. James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. One of the best life story I ever heard. Heal, Seek, and Love
Taylor Simon Maxwell