Eduardo

          I’m Eduardo Alonso, I’m 30 years old, and I’m originally from Mexico City. I grew up in a dysfunctional home, like many others, in a well-known and dangerous neighborhood in the city. My parents separated when I was 9 years old and that was the beginning of many bad decisions in my life and the denial of the existence of God. At age 11 I started to get involved in the world of neighborhood gangs and I was involved in them for the next 15 years, where I got lost in drugs, alcohol, and violence. So many times I was in danger of death by constant conflicts in that environment. In 2005 I had a very serious car accident with great consequences needing emergency intervention since my liver had been split in half. This was something that greatly marked my life. God was actually talking to me, but I kept in my foolishness. May of 2013 was when God began this extraordinary work in my life through a very difficult health situation due to the excesses of alcohol and drugs. During that situation God used the life of my mother to share the gospel with me again and, for the first time, I cried out to God and thanks to my mother for no longer tolerating my sinful decisions. It was then that I asked God's forgiveness for my sins. I recognized my condition and need before Him- that night, May 11, 2013, I accepted Christ as my only and sufficient savior.

          Since that moment God began an amazing work in my life, He completely renewed my whole being, and from that day forward I didn’t want to know more about the things of the world; I became involved in church and after a few months God had put in my heart a new and very big challenge- to prepare myself to serve Him full time. And so I began a great process in my life in which God gave me a great lesson on His will. I spent a little more than a year praying for God's guidance and that, if it was His will for me to prepare myself in a Bible Institute, He would open the doors and provide the financial means necessary to study at Word of Life.

           And that was the beginning of a new challenge. The first challenge was to know God more, He has grown my faith, and I know that now my life belongs to Him and that He will make of me what He wills. It has been a year of many trials, but above all of a lot of blessings, and total dependence since shortly after reaching the Institute I was left without financial support. Only my church helped me, but not enough to financially cover my expenses and Bible school. But God has given me a great lesson in depending completely on Him and allowed me to serve in a beautiful ministry called "Born Again to a Living Hope" and Bible Clubs. He’s allowed me to grow a lot as through the classes and has spoken so much into my life.

           Now I'm about to take my second year of Bible school and every day God keeps surprising me because up through today He has continued to provide for me.

          This has been a year in which I give many thanks to God for the great blessings that He keeps giving me and today I have it more than clear that my life is in full service to God and that God will use me to according His will.

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