Hi, my name is Terisha Gilbert, and this is my testimony. Like most people, I grew up in church...literally, so every Sunday my family and I religiously went to church and it became a custom, almost like a routine for us. Everyday my mom would wake myself and my sisters up at exactly 5:00 am to have devotion, where we would pray and she would teach us about God.
Growing up, my parents were both strict and religious, so my sisters and I were not allowed to go to school dances, have crushes, or even cheerlead at sports meets. At first, those rules caused us to feel left out, but as we got older, we secretly started going to dances, having boyfriends and even social media accounts. At this point I became so good at having this secret life, I did some things that I wasn’t proud of, all while still going to church every Sunday. When I got into Secondary School, I started using obscene language, going to parties and I gradually started drinking alcohol. That was my life, so many things happened, I was broken and in need of saving, but I didn’t know…I didn’t realize that I was lost.
It wasn’t until I saw a video of a woman on TikTok urging people to give their life to Christ, that the realization hit which pierced my heart because I was not living for God. I had knowledge of God, but I didn’t have a relationship with him. To this day, I believe it was God who allowed my heart to be pierced by that video, because it wasn’t the first Christian video I saw that day. A few weeks after that, the New Testament Church of God Grenada had their annual convention, where I took a bold step and gave my life to Christ fully at the altar call.
I didn’t automatically stop sinning, but eventually my desire for the things I used to engage in before changed because I was no longer living for myself, but rather, I was living to please God. I got baptized on 24th December 2021, and from that day I made the decision to follow God, and even when I mess up, I will still follow Him because He saved me. To this day, the motto I live by is Galatians 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
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