I first came to know Jesus when I was really young, being bought up in a Christian home, ever since I remember I always believed in God.
I was about 4 when I actually gave my life to Jesus, I asked Him to forgive me and come into my life, yeah I was young but I knew I loved Jesus and I wanted to follow him the rest of my life!

What followed was 15 years of ups and downs, just like any life really, but throughout it all I had the most faithful friend and God in my life.

School was good, I liked it, but I also liked Jesus, and towards the end of 1st school starting middle school at 9, I started to get bullied for it a fair bit.
At times I let it get to me, at other times I trusted God through those times and He brought me through them.
I met some great friends that helped to, and even though I sometimes got scared, I learned the hard way God is a faithful God.
Around year 7 or so things began to calm down a bit, some people still really hated me, some still do lol, but things had calmed down a lot.

It was around that time that God told me that I was to remember how he had brought me through this time as I was going to go through something worse, but I wasn't to worry because as he had brought me through the bullying so He would this.
I was like 'oh something worse that's great to know lol!', for a month or so after every little thing that went wrong I thought 'this is going to be it!' but it never was, so I just put the thought aside.

Six months later when that much worse thing started to happen.
I'd had the flu kinda bad, had had 6 weeks off school because of it, but started feeling better so returned to school.
The problem was it left me feeling constantly tired and at times feeling faint.
I tried to hide it at school, pride I guess, but rather than getting better it started getting worse, till in the end I was only going to school in the mornings.
By my last year of middle school I was only going to 1 or 2 lessons, and soon after couldn't go at all.
I was diagnosed with a condition that meant I didn't produce enough energy in my body, there's no known cure but over years and years you gradually do get better, but it's always very slow and gradual.
The worse you have it the longer it takes and I had it pretty bad.

I constantly got worse, was feeling more and more sick, having to sleep longer.
I'd always been fairly active, I enjoyed running, now I struggled to even walk.

For a few years of that time (hard to be specific as a lot of that time is really a blur) I was sleeping 23 hours a day, couldn't walk, I could barely talk or swallow food. I had a constant awful headache, was always feeling sick, just to take a gulp of water took all the energy I had.
Things really couldn't get much worse, and it was in that time God reminded me of His promise to me.
Although I learnt things through that time I knew it was never Gods will I was sick, and always trusted He'd heal me.

When things were at there worse God stepped in and did a series of miracles in my life.
At the start they were small things, but massive to me.
I hadn't been able to read or see a TV screen clearly, and God told me to try it and I now could.
I couldn't grip things, not even a pencil, God said to do it and I did.
Then one night I had a dream and God spoke to me saying how He was going to lead me to new places, and how this period of time was coming to an end.
And I woke up and God told me to walk, and I walked!
In the natural that does not happen with what I had everything's gradual, but God made sure He got the glory and did it instantly.

So yeah Jesus is huge to me, He's the reason I live, and the reason I will continue to live!

Thx for reading, and if you don't know Him you really should, you seriously will not regret it ^^

Jonathan :)