Hi! My name is Eduardo and I live in Brazil.When I was a very young kid I went a few times to catholic church (very few times and usually forced to) and also to evangelical churches, but just very occasionally and have never declared to be from any denomination. My dad were a freemason (if it is really possible to not be anymore? He doesn't go anymore to the temples but I don’t know). I remember that one of my earliest memories (I was VERY little) was entering a "secret chamber" (with two other friends and without my dad knowing) of a freemasonry temple and seeing a black goat, a human skull, a mercury dust and some other stuff. I didn't pay much attention at that time but this memory kept recorded. My mom used to go to a specie of a witch club, but I didn't know too much.
After these occasional and rare visits to churches, when I became a teenager, I started to go to an evangelical church but only to practice breakdance and to entertain myself because I didn't have interest in what the preachers were saying. After I quit dancing breakdance I also stopped going there and about the age of 15-17yrs I started to study harder in school (where we learn all that false science) and I started to affirm myself as an atheist. I was invited on other occasions to go to other churches but never cared to what was being said and never declared myself from a denominational church. A little time after the start of my graduation (2014) I started to date a girl who went to one of the churches of the Assembly of God. I used to go there because she insisted but never enjoyed it nor accepted any of those teachings much because I thought the earth was a globe and god was a myth and everything else (I didn't believe we came from monkeys but the truth is I never stopped to think about it deep). And in the end of 2017 I was staring at my bookshelf (which had a lot of books that weren't mine) and one of those was "The Secret" from Rhonda Byrne. I started to read and for some reason I believed in what she calls "the power of the subconscient" or something like that. Then strange things started to happen. I was “able" to turn on a projector in the university only with the "power of the mind" and to do some more things that the book says is possible if we believe. But in a glimpse that I can only thanks to the creator, I reflected and said to myself: "if ANYTHING that I want I can obtain if I believe, then I want THE TRUTH!" - and I remember keeping in my mind that I wanted it no matter what was it or what it was going to cost me. So I started saying to everyone that "if you seek the truth and believe in it it will appear to you" - even without knowing the scriptures nor what was the truth or if it existed. Then my sister, after hearing this, started to send me some articles (I think some would say from the 'deep web' I don’t know) that talked about the illuminatis, the flat earth and SO MUCH other things that were true and others that were not... And not just her but many other friends starting to send very very strange links. I was at that time internship in a cabinet of a Minister of Brazil's Supreme Court... and at one specific day that I was still receiving a lot of links, I remember opening a lawsuit to analyse it and the whole lawsuit was illegible or corrupted (I really don't know what happened), but in the middle of that mess there was only one thing legible: a certain book from a specific author - that was available at the Supreme Court's library. I first ignored it but then in the next lawsuit THE SAME THING happened and, again, everything was messed up and the same book from the same author was there and was the only thing readable. So I ran to the library and despite the fact it was a law book, it started in the introduction talking about "aliens, odisseia 2001 and the bible" (it was a really old book). I never finished reading it, I was very intrigued and confused and the links kept coming. Then a friend that is still from Jehova's Witness started a conversation on whatsapp saying: "I'm here to help". I can say I was really confused and afraid and I told him: "Who is that?" (I had his number and knew his name but said this I don’t know why). Then came the answer: "YHWH". I have never heard of this name and immediately googled it and I'm pretty sure google (or was just me seeing this I don’t know) showed me that this was a name for "devil". (ps.: I googled it a long time after all this and google showed it was the hebraic name for God of Israel). But at that time I had what the doctors called a "panic crysis" and spent almost 3 months wishing to die due to the fear, the confusing information and for not reaching the truth and all of that.
Then one day at bed I remembered that anagram, "YHWH". I don't remember knowing how it was pronounced, but somehow I called upon it and something (Yah) led me to ignore all the doctor's "advice" and "prohibitions" and to turn on the computer and start searching in facebook. I didn't know what to search for but then I opened the "flat earth page" that is most famous in Brazil and saw that video from wlc "Jesuits and the global conspiracy..." and instantly I was convinced it was true. I saw some other posts from that page but were always being guided to see the wlc website. Then some months passed and I kept secretly searching the wlc website and then after understanding a bit more I felt cured from all that fear and all the terror (they said I have a mix of schizophrenia and bipolar). Unfortunately, after a time I was reckless in keeping his word "a light into my path" and returned to using marijuana, having sex and all that sins... But thanks to Yah and his mercy I felt the urgency to decide to whom I was going to yield myself right after the start of coronavirus and then since the start of the pandemy I kept studying the scriptures and increased the frequency of my prayers (something I neglected for a long time). And then I felt that it was time to be baptized (re-baptized because the previous one was made by someone who was not a believer) and follow everything that is written in the scriptures. So I read all the precious promises of doing the public act of receiving the baptism and after I received it in the right way being aware of what it implies, I was finally released from that "pet sins" and so many others against which I used to have much difficulty to fight.
Of course I must watch every time of every day but now more than ever (and I pray it increases every single day) I have a faith in Him and His son that allows me to abhor sin and moves me to trust in Yah and in his son and his merits each day more and to want to discover every little sin that I might be indulging.
May you that is reading be confident through Yahuwah and the outpouring of His spirit through His son and remember always to STRIVE to enter the strait path but without depending on your own strength! Hope to meet you at New Jerusalem and talk about all the precious gifts He gave, gives and will always give us!