church groups Testimonials
R.D.
Six months ago God found me eager to spend my Sunday nights with three beautiful women.
I knew that God had placed me in ONE on ONE with GOD for this time intentionally as I was already feeling like I needed to step out of the singles’ group for awhile and surround myself with people who were walking through a different time in their lives than I was.
I came open, willing, and ready to embrace this journey. I leave refreshed, excited, and ready to share His Word with renewed confidence. I am changed! I read God’s Word differently. I see it and walk in it. I share His Word differently because of how I now read it.
I came thinking this would be a refresher course; I leave realizing how much I still have to learn about God and how He speaks to me. I came ready to learn; I leave craving even more of God. I came not knowing how I sometimes view God as small; I leave seeing a big God. I came yielding to myself a lot; I leave yielding myself to God more.
I leave this study knowing that my purpose, my determined purpose, is to know God. He is good!
R. D.
L.B.
Fifteen weeks ago, God found me content.
I was quite comfortable with where I was in relationship to Him, but He knew how much I was missing. I was excited to enter ONE on ONE with GOD, but I never dreamed of the great journey that it turned out to be for me.
I feel that I wrestled with God the first month. The Holy Spirit was stirring deep within me, sayng, Child, are you serious about Me? Are you going to give Me all you have? Changedeep, true changeis what I was wrestling with. There was such a part of me that still wanted to believe that where I was was fine, but Jesus knew my life was not full of His abundance.
I surrendered all the deepest parts of me to Him through this journey. I laid myself at His feet and said to Him, Jesus, I don’t want any of me anymore. That was the beginning of a great awakening for me. I can tell you with full assurance that I knew Him then but not as I know Him now.
I came once to a session of ONE on ONE and exclaimed, God is not speaking to me through His Word; He is shouting at me! And He was. I have found that when I am yielded and fully surrendered, I taste the life He intended for me.
I could never have imagined I’d lose my sister in the middle of this road, but I praise God that I was able to stand on the Rock of Christ through that great storm. I continue to trust Him as He heals my heart.
L.B.
K.J.
Before I started ONE on ONE with GOD, I had a consistent time with God but was weak in several spiritual disciplines.
My personal evangelism was in need of renewal. I was personally stuck in some emotional sadness.
Today, after completing the study, I am renewed in my focus of seeking to know Christ above and beyond any other motivation in my life and ministry. I have learned how to ponder, picture, and pray, moving my knowledge from my head to my heart. My joy in memorizing the Word has been rekindled. I am enjoying the daily cleansing experience of being in the Word. My heart to share the gospel with others is at a higher level of passion.
K.J.
A.E.
A little over a year ago, I was broken and at the lowest point in my life.
Every area of my life was a mess, including my marriage and my finances. I felt my twelve-year-old daughter pulling away, and my four-year-old son was pushing my patience with his disobedience. Also I drank too much. All the important relationships in my life were not healthy.
I went to church every Sunday. I prayed every once in a while, but I still felt a void in my life. I knew God was the answer because I was raised in church. I couldn’t understand why I felt this way if I had Him in my heart. He was supposed to take care of everything. That’s what I was taught in Sunday school. He loved me. Why was everything such a mess?
Then one Sunday I heard a sermon that touched my heart. The pastor said, with tears in his eyes, God wants you to want Him more than anything! More than a reconciled marriage, more than financial stability, more than anything! It was right there and then that I realized what was missing. I didn’t want God enough. I wanted everything else more, and I wanted Him to give it to me. I wasn’t sure how to want Him more, but I got into a church home team and started serving in the children’s ministry, and I got into a Bible study. I met some wonderful people who poured into my life.
Then in October of 2008 I was asked by one of my new friends if I would like to do another Bible study called ONE on ONE with GOD. This study was a tool that taught me how to have a relationship with God and how to discipline myself to spend time with him every day. It was a fifteen-week study. I agreed.
I was convicted about my drinking. So I decided to give it up for fifteen weeks. I knew that I would not be able to get up in the morning if I had gotten drunk the night before. That was a tough one to give up, but I thought, Okay, God, I am choosing to want You more than my alcohol.
The verse that we meditated on everyday was Philippians 3:10 (AMP):
[For my determined purpose is] that I may know Himthat I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding [the wonders of His Person] more strongly and more clearly. And that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers]; and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope].
The first time I read this verse, I knew that this was how I was going to want Him more. And it was! Here I am, a year later, and I now have a more intimate relationship with God. Words cannot describe the joy and peace that I have. He has transformed me into His likeness. I want Him more than anything. I can’t imagine my life without Him. He has healed my marriage. My finances are so much better. I have an awesome relationship with my thirteen-year-old daughter, and she serves in the children’s ministry right alongside me. God showed me how to handle my disobedient son. He is such a good boy who loves God. There was one more thing that God did for me. That I wasn’t expecting.
After the fifteen weeks was up, I had a drink. But it was different this time. I didn’t want it. I had no desire to drink. Just like that! He took it from me. I give God all the honor and glory.
I don’t claim to have it all together, and I know that God is not done molding me to His will. I still have problems just like anyone else. What’s different now is that He carries me through it all. During the heartache and stresses of life, He comforts me and guides me through it all.
A.E.
M.M.
Fifteen weeks ago God found me struggling with a lot of different issues.
Through His Word and promises, I feel that I have begun to develop a much deeper and more intimate relationship. He becomes more precious to me every day as He reveals Himself more and more. He has also given me an appetite to never be satisfied with where I am.
M.M.
Terry S.
Fifteen weeks ago I was without any structure of even a daily quiet time with God.
Now I have one as well as a full day of being saturated in God’s Word. It has changed my life forever. I am motivated and confident in myself, with the Lord’s help, to lead others in ONE on ONE. I am so thankful for this program! It was an answer to prayer in my life.
Terry S.
Bill M.
When I started ONE on ONE with GOD, I was busy, with a measure of reluctance to commit to anything else.
I had been unwilling for a long time to lead a ONE on ONE group because I wasn’t following the daily disciplines myself. After completing Session 15, I’m very grateful to be back, spending time with God each morning. I’m thankful that God is not through with me, hasn’t given up on me, and is teaching me the wisdom of investing in eternal things.
Bill M.
Business owner
H.G.
We are on the threshold of moving to our residence in Jamaica for an extended stay, and nothing would please us more than to be able to offer ONE on ONE with GOD to at least five couples in our community.
Herbert G.
Bonnie W.
ONE on ONE with GOD has helped me take a second look into my study of the Bible and given me a tool to use to strengthen my walk in Christ.
Bonnie W.
M.W.
Before I took ONE on ONE with GOD, I was a Christian struggling with ups and downs, and I didn’t have much commitment or discipline or an active walk with our Lord.
I did not read daily the Word of God, but I did feel His presence throughout the day. I prayed daily but not on a committed level for those people dear to my heart. I found myself falling into the flesh throughout different times of the day, not knowing how to get out of the flesh quickly to again walk in the Spirit. The list could go on.
But forgetting the past and looking on to the future, ONE on ONE has taught me and made many lasting changes in my earthly life. I have learned to participate in an intimate relationship with my Heavenly Father. I desire to know Him and please Him each day with my every thought, word, and deed. I gain that relationship through His Word each day as I seek His will for me in the Word. I am a disciplined Christian now. I seek daily to be obedient to Him. I yield myself to the Holy Spirit each moment of the day. Now when I sin, I am convicted right away and confess my sin before the Lord. My love for others and myself has grown beyond my own human understanding. As the Lord speaks to me in His Word, I now apply it to my life. I now memorize scripture with a deeper understanding and with His help and strength. The Lord is everything to me. He is constantly in my thoughts. I turn to Him for every need or praise. ONE on ONE has shown me the abundant life of knowing my Heavenly Father in a more personal way.
M.W.
Pat K.
ONE on ONE with GOD has been a great blessing in my life.
It is a study and a plan I have waited for and longed for. I feel I have met Jesus again in a real and personal way, just as I did the night I gave my life to Him as a twelve-year-old.
Pat K.
P.S.
ONE on ONE with GOD was a tremendous challenge to discipline me regarding study and memorization of God’s Word.
P.S.
S.M.
Twelve weeks ago the Lord found me not consistently in His Word or fellowship with Him.
I was lost as to where to start! I was not immediately confessing sin or showing love to others. I was trusting in my ways, not His; loving Jesus but not knowing or experiencing Him; and caught up in the act of being a Christian.
After completing ONE on ONE with GOD, I am walking with Jesus daily! I know where and how to spend time with Him, and I find myself longing for that time each day. God is bringing my sins to my mind and leading me to confess them immediately. I’ve realized that His ways are best and am learning to desire and yield to His will. I’m trying to allow the Holy Spirit to love others through me. I feel I am getting to know Jesus better and better and am looking forward to a life of knowing Him more deeply each day. My husband and I are sharpening each other spiritually, experiencing Jesus together, and passing on a legacy of Christ-centered living to our children.
S.M.
Homemaker
C.L.
When I started ONE on ONE with GOD, God found me barely having time to read a short devotional each morning before work, hoping that I would find little gems to help me through the day.
I was struggling with many things with no answers.
Now God finds me spending more time in His Word and looking forward to the time I spend with Him. I am praying more consistently and learning to trust Him more —and realizing more every day that He has good plans for me and that He is in control. I am learning more about the Bible —where things are and in what context some of my favorite Scriptures appear in the Bible. I hope to become more knowledgeable and more useful to the Lord by knowing His Word and applying it to my life daily.
C.L.
Ministry assistant
L. N.
When I started ONE on ONE for the second time, God found me struggling to keep my head above water.
In every aspect of my life, I was relying on my own strength and understanding to live. But at the end of the course, I was broken, humbled, and totally relieved! I realized God was there all along, with His hand stretched out to keep me from drowning and to take me with Him to the amazing places He desires me to go.
L. N.
M. K.
Before I started ONE on ONE with GOD, my love for God was stagnant.
I needed true accountability and someone to lead me to fall in love with God again. I felt myself just going through the motions and reverting to where I was comfortable in my ministry rather than looking specifically to God for guidance.
Since completing ONE on ONE, I find myself taking the Scriptures and making them alive in my life. Memorizing Scripture has kept the Word alive in my life each day. I feel that Philippians 3:10 has come alive in my life, and each day I am searching for how the Lord wants me to become "more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him. "
M. K.
Minister’s wife
Emily Haynes
After forty years of teaching women’s Bible study classes, she said, “Going through ONE on ONE with GOD is one of the most important things I have ever done in my Christian life.”
Emily Haynes
Retired School Teacher
Steve Seaton
ONE on ONE with GOD in just a few short months has made a significant impact
on our church’s ability to follow up and disciple new Christians.
We are
finding this tool to be thorough, completely Bible-based, and life changing.
The course has an insightful blend of precept, application, and illustration
that is easily transferable. Perhaps its most significant element lies in
the fact that the multiplication of this ministry can be felt in just a few
months!
Steve Seaton
Associate Pastor
Oklahoma City, OK
Kristin Wilsey
Fifteen weeks ago, before going through ONE on ONE with GOD, God found me confused and wishing I knew how to spend quality time with Him.
I was inconsistent with my quiet times, and I certainly didn’t understand the importance of meditation. Time with God consisted simply of prayer. I felt distant, yet I tried to be close to God. I was frustrated because I knew there had to be a better way to show my love and devotion to Christ.
After fifteen weeks of ONE on ONE, I am keenly aware of the importance of reading, studying, praying, memorizing, and, most of all, meditating. I have found intimacy with Christ like I never imagined! Each morning I look forward to my one hour with Him because I know that as a result of that time, I will know Him more deeply. My relationship with Christ is so much more real now! I have seen Him work in awesome ways in my life, and now I recognize Him so much more. ONE on ONE has helped me to love God with my whole being. I am much more personal with Him, and I love it!
Kristin Wilsey
Director of High School Ministries
Oklahoma City, OK
Marty Grubbs
ONE on ONE with GOD has been a tremendous addition to our Christian education efforts at Crossings.
We reviewed many different discipleship programs and curriculum and saw very quickly that ONE on ONE with GOD was the obvious choice. I have personally been through the material in a small group and saw firsthand the benefit of this wonderful approach. It is systematic, consistent, and biblically and doctrinally sound. It provides a daily tool for reading and applying God’s word, spending time in prayer, and growing closer to the Lord. It changed my life. It has changed our church.
Marty Grubbs
Senior Pastor
Oklahoma City, OK