My name is Sarah Linde (aka Tianen L.). I have been a Christian since I was a child. God has always been faithful to me.
When I was baptized about thirteen years old, God told me I needed to be faithful to Him and whatever He tells me to do, I should do.
God taught me over the years many things from His word. I’ve asked Him many questions and He answers me. He also gives me joy like I’ve never known joy before.
I must confess I have not always obeyed God and even ignored Him in order to indulge in forbidden pleasures. One day while I was in an elevator, I could see angels surround me. They said: “Why are you sinning and doing things that displease God? See what you could be missing out on if you continue this way.” As they said this, the elevator moved up and a great joy I’ve never felt before came over me. The joy was so exceedingly great, there was nothing to compare with it. I knew it came from God. He was warning me to not continue to sin, because I could miss out on heavenly joy altogether.
But it took several attempts to get me out of my addictive sin.
The second time God gave me a dream. In the dream, I lounged by a swimming pool. I saw Jesus looking at me from a distance. But He left without a word. I ran after Him.
When I caught up to Him, I tried to shake His hand. He looked at me with piercing eyes. I knew from that look He could see straight through me, and I knew He saw some things that were not good.
Even so, I didn’t want to miss the chance of shaking His hand. I thought of this encounter as something like meeting a star — shake His hand, get an autograph, or something like that. But Jesus hid His hands. I tried searching for them in the folds of His robe with no success. I started to think He was too disappointed in me to shake my hand. But He suddenly reached out and wrapped His arm around me and hugged me to Himself. Without letting me go, He drew me next to Himself and we started walking like that with His arm around my shoulders. I rested my head on His shoulder and we walked on.
I thought to myself, if being with God is like this, I can go anywhere with You, Lord. Then the dream ended.
You’d think by then, I would have been following God very carefully. But I still occasionally fell into that bad addictive sin.
Finally, God did something drastic. I was spending some time with friends one day. Suddenly, I felt piercing pain in my abdomen, pain that caused me to double over. I quickly excused myself and rushed to drive home.
I cried out to God to help me. But the Lord repeated over and over: “How can My servant, whom I love, do such things?”.
There was no relief from the incredible pain until after I got home, laid down and repented. The Lord healed me. But He warned that my spiritual enemies had the right to attack me (spiritually and physically) because of my egregious sin. In order to overcome them, I had to follow God diligently, trust Him with all my heart, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
So from then on, with God’s help, I stopped the addictive sin. I try to follow Him wholeheartedly and trust Him with all my heart. God is filling me with His Holy Spirit.
There are many things God does on a daily basis, which are too many to record. But these are some of the things I wanted to share on this website so you’d know a little more about me.
