Phyllis
01-08-2005, 09:10 AM
Phyllis's Testimony-Miracle of God's Love,Grace & Mercy
[How I found Arms Around the World Ministry and How it
Changed my life for ever}
John 8:32, 36 says; "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Some construction workers left a heap of trash; a seed had fallen into a
crevice, and out of the rubbish grew a flower. Who can make a miracle happen
in a pile of rubbish? Who can make a trash heap come alive with beauty? The
only possible answer is that this was the works of a Supreme Creator. The
Lord Jesus Christ.
My life was like that heap of trash, that pile of rubbish for many years. I
started out life with parents who did not want me and who put me up for
adoption. I was adopted at age two and grew up as an only child. I had
everything life could offer materially but I never felt loved. I believe
this was due to the fact that my parents gave me everything in an effort to
buy my love. There was however a lack of discipline in my life and I began
to think nobody cared.
>Submitted by Phyllis
As I approached my teen years I began to rebel against my home situation,
school, and society. I went around with the wrong crowd and eventually began
trying different drugs. The first drug was hash and very quickly I began
getting into trouble.
My parents felt they could not handle me and contacted our family doctor who
took charge its seems. He began to give me pills & needles that made me feel
wonderful and like I was in a different world. I had no cares while on these pills
and did not realize that they would lead me into a life of addiction. I trusted
this physician as anyone would and kept going back to him. Each time he
would give me more pills or a needle until I could not live without them.
It got to the point that to function I had to take pills morning, noon, and night.
Without them I became very ill. . Twice, I went to the teen challenge center in
New York for treatment but left both times. I was not ready for the help they
offered or the discipline. I wanted both worlds help and the drugs. This of course
did not work. You can only receive freedom from addiction when you are willing
and want help. I had not reached that point of extremity in my life yet to gain by
any help offered.
To make a long story short, after about 27 years of a life on drugs,and sexual and
physical abuse I did reach that point of extremity in my life. I had gotten married and
have two sons. In the fall of 1979 after having taken two many drugs that became toxic
to my system I went on a crime spree. This ended me up in court facing nine charges.
After a plea bargain five were dropped and I received time in prison for the other four.
One was for attempted armed robbery. I was a first offender and therefore received a
short sentence.
While in prison I felt life had come to an end. My family did visit meincluding my two teen-age
boys. This was very difficult for them and for me as well I remember my youngest asking me
if I was okay. He was concerned I would get hurt there. I had finally reached that place in my
life where I knew I had to have help or life was over. A minister visited me weekly and counseled
me and did Bible study with me. He helped me see my need of the Lord in my life.
One day in my prison cell I asked Jesus to come into my life. I remember
praying this prayer, "Lord there is not much left of me, but what there is
you can have. Come into my heart and save me. Forgive me of my sins and free
me from my addiction." Immediately, I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit
engulf my entire being . Tears streamed down my face as I realized
what Jesus had done. This was the beginning of the work of the Lord in my
life and unknown to me much more would take place later.
When I was released from prison I knew God had a ministry for me. I had felt
his call in my life while still in prison to help those in conflict with the
law. However I attended much counseling for the first year. After a time of
proving in my life God began to open up doors of ministry and I became a
court worker and parole supervisor and had received a pardon from the
government of Canada and I began to visit the same prison I had been in and
to counsel inmates and their families. God gave me favor and blessed me.
One day I was surfing the internet and I came across the messenger paltalk and
decided to download it . On doing so I looked under Christianity and found the
room ARMS AROUND THE WORD.I felt led to go there and this was the beginning
of new jouney in my life. I had been brought up in Trinity chruches all my life my
dad being a deacon in one of the chruches for years I did not know much about
Jesus name teaching. and feft I had fulfilled what was required for me to be saved but
I was wrong .The sinners prayer was not enought I learned. to get me into heaven.I
studied several courses from a Trinity Seminary but that would not save me either
for all the intelectual & theological knowledge in the world will not save you.
I listend on a regular basis in the arms room and I leaned that to be saved one must
follow Acts 2:38, 39 which says.
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name
of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as
many as the Lord our God shall call.
. I had been baptized in Jesus name many years ago but did not fuly understand what it meant.
and family would not allow me to attend the church where I was baptixed in JESUS NAME
which was an apostolic chruch. so it was a long time before God brought me into full truth.
and I have Pastor Rutledge and the Arms Around The World Ministries and all my sisters and
brothers there to thank for that. I want to thank all there for the help that they have given to me
and expecially my dearest friend sister Sharon know as K-cat on paltalk She was always there
for me and has influenced my life greatly Thank sister Sharon. .
.I also went and spent 6 months at Norwich Ct. USA and helped in the ministry there and sat under
the most wonderful anointed preaching one could ever sit under and pastors who cared so much for
my soul . I am planning to return to Norwich this coming April Lord willing to help in the Minsitry there
again I had never in my life been in a church where there is so much love and unity It is wonderful and
I would ask anyone reading this to visit the Arms Around The World ministries and if you have a chance
go to visit Norwich Tabernacle . You will be blessed .
God has baptized me in the Holy Ghost and has opened up doors of ministry to me via the Internet
where under the anointing of God I try and minister to hurting people on a daily basis. Jesus led me
on a long journey from darkness to light, from prison to Praise .
If you are out there and you do not know which way to turn, with your life going no where and you
feel helpless, lonely and desperate, then turn your life over to Jesus. He can and will bring healing and
set you free from drugs or anything else that may have you bound. He will give you the same hope
that he gave to me. He will give you something worth living for. If I can be of any help to you please
contact me and I will, with God's help do all I can to help you find the Savior that I have learned to
love and serve.Any member of the Arms Around World Ministry will also be glad to help you find the Savior.
When I found Jesus Christ as my Savior I experienced the greatest miracle of God's love, the gift of his
salvation and my life became a brand new one. I have freedom within my soul; a freedom in Christ that I
experienced and that is so real today. What will you do with Jesus? Will you obey Him or reject him?
What will you answer be? I hope you will choose to experience God's miracle of love .God bless.
One of my favorite choruses I often sing is this one and I leave it with you
"You won't leave the way you came in JESUS NAME
Blind , oppressed , tormented , sick and lame
For the Holy Ghost of Acts is just the same
You won't leave the way you came in JESUS NAME."
In the Master's Service,
Sister Phyllis Corbin
[How I found Arms Around the World Ministry and How it
Changed my life for ever}
John 8:32, 36 says; "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Some construction workers left a heap of trash; a seed had fallen into a
crevice, and out of the rubbish grew a flower. Who can make a miracle happen
in a pile of rubbish? Who can make a trash heap come alive with beauty? The
only possible answer is that this was the works of a Supreme Creator. The
Lord Jesus Christ.
My life was like that heap of trash, that pile of rubbish for many years. I
started out life with parents who did not want me and who put me up for
adoption. I was adopted at age two and grew up as an only child. I had
everything life could offer materially but I never felt loved. I believe
this was due to the fact that my parents gave me everything in an effort to
buy my love. There was however a lack of discipline in my life and I began
to think nobody cared.
>Submitted by Phyllis
As I approached my teen years I began to rebel against my home situation,
school, and society. I went around with the wrong crowd and eventually began
trying different drugs. The first drug was hash and very quickly I began
getting into trouble.
My parents felt they could not handle me and contacted our family doctor who
took charge its seems. He began to give me pills & needles that made me feel
wonderful and like I was in a different world. I had no cares while on these pills
and did not realize that they would lead me into a life of addiction. I trusted
this physician as anyone would and kept going back to him. Each time he
would give me more pills or a needle until I could not live without them.
It got to the point that to function I had to take pills morning, noon, and night.
Without them I became very ill. . Twice, I went to the teen challenge center in
New York for treatment but left both times. I was not ready for the help they
offered or the discipline. I wanted both worlds help and the drugs. This of course
did not work. You can only receive freedom from addiction when you are willing
and want help. I had not reached that point of extremity in my life yet to gain by
any help offered.
To make a long story short, after about 27 years of a life on drugs,and sexual and
physical abuse I did reach that point of extremity in my life. I had gotten married and
have two sons. In the fall of 1979 after having taken two many drugs that became toxic
to my system I went on a crime spree. This ended me up in court facing nine charges.
After a plea bargain five were dropped and I received time in prison for the other four.
One was for attempted armed robbery. I was a first offender and therefore received a
short sentence.
While in prison I felt life had come to an end. My family did visit meincluding my two teen-age
boys. This was very difficult for them and for me as well I remember my youngest asking me
if I was okay. He was concerned I would get hurt there. I had finally reached that place in my
life where I knew I had to have help or life was over. A minister visited me weekly and counseled
me and did Bible study with me. He helped me see my need of the Lord in my life.
One day in my prison cell I asked Jesus to come into my life. I remember
praying this prayer, "Lord there is not much left of me, but what there is
you can have. Come into my heart and save me. Forgive me of my sins and free
me from my addiction." Immediately, I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit
engulf my entire being . Tears streamed down my face as I realized
what Jesus had done. This was the beginning of the work of the Lord in my
life and unknown to me much more would take place later.
When I was released from prison I knew God had a ministry for me. I had felt
his call in my life while still in prison to help those in conflict with the
law. However I attended much counseling for the first year. After a time of
proving in my life God began to open up doors of ministry and I became a
court worker and parole supervisor and had received a pardon from the
government of Canada and I began to visit the same prison I had been in and
to counsel inmates and their families. God gave me favor and blessed me.
One day I was surfing the internet and I came across the messenger paltalk and
decided to download it . On doing so I looked under Christianity and found the
room ARMS AROUND THE WORD.I felt led to go there and this was the beginning
of new jouney in my life. I had been brought up in Trinity chruches all my life my
dad being a deacon in one of the chruches for years I did not know much about
Jesus name teaching. and feft I had fulfilled what was required for me to be saved but
I was wrong .The sinners prayer was not enought I learned. to get me into heaven.I
studied several courses from a Trinity Seminary but that would not save me either
for all the intelectual & theological knowledge in the world will not save you.
I listend on a regular basis in the arms room and I leaned that to be saved one must
follow Acts 2:38, 39 which says.
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name
of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as
many as the Lord our God shall call.
. I had been baptized in Jesus name many years ago but did not fuly understand what it meant.
and family would not allow me to attend the church where I was baptixed in JESUS NAME
which was an apostolic chruch. so it was a long time before God brought me into full truth.
and I have Pastor Rutledge and the Arms Around The World Ministries and all my sisters and
brothers there to thank for that. I want to thank all there for the help that they have given to me
and expecially my dearest friend sister Sharon know as K-cat on paltalk She was always there
for me and has influenced my life greatly Thank sister Sharon. .
.I also went and spent 6 months at Norwich Ct. USA and helped in the ministry there and sat under
the most wonderful anointed preaching one could ever sit under and pastors who cared so much for
my soul . I am planning to return to Norwich this coming April Lord willing to help in the Minsitry there
again I had never in my life been in a church where there is so much love and unity It is wonderful and
I would ask anyone reading this to visit the Arms Around The World ministries and if you have a chance
go to visit Norwich Tabernacle . You will be blessed .
God has baptized me in the Holy Ghost and has opened up doors of ministry to me via the Internet
where under the anointing of God I try and minister to hurting people on a daily basis. Jesus led me
on a long journey from darkness to light, from prison to Praise .
If you are out there and you do not know which way to turn, with your life going no where and you
feel helpless, lonely and desperate, then turn your life over to Jesus. He can and will bring healing and
set you free from drugs or anything else that may have you bound. He will give you the same hope
that he gave to me. He will give you something worth living for. If I can be of any help to you please
contact me and I will, with God's help do all I can to help you find the Savior that I have learned to
love and serve.Any member of the Arms Around World Ministry will also be glad to help you find the Savior.
When I found Jesus Christ as my Savior I experienced the greatest miracle of God's love, the gift of his
salvation and my life became a brand new one. I have freedom within my soul; a freedom in Christ that I
experienced and that is so real today. What will you do with Jesus? Will you obey Him or reject him?
What will you answer be? I hope you will choose to experience God's miracle of love .God bless.
One of my favorite choruses I often sing is this one and I leave it with you
"You won't leave the way you came in JESUS NAME
Blind , oppressed , tormented , sick and lame
For the Holy Ghost of Acts is just the same
You won't leave the way you came in JESUS NAME."
In the Master's Service,
Sister Phyllis Corbin