About Me

Natasja's Testimony

God I found intriguing, through my Catholic upbringing, but through all kinds of other paths I lost sight of God.

At the age of 28 I came to know Jesus.

After a search for love, warmth and happiness in different places, I found my Saviour.

I sought it in fortune telling, palm reading, I read all kinds of spiritual books about the supernatural and I did yoga.

It made me emptier and emptier.

On a random Sunday morning, I was flipping through different TV programmes.

Suddenly I was watching Hour of Power.

I had to cry because I was touched by the warm words that were spoken. The singing and music also touched me enormously.

I was suddenly so deeply convicted by the Holy Spirit that an answer came to my question: that is where I need to go for all my questions.

God is the answer!

Three weeks later I ended up in a Christian bookshop.

There I had a special encounter with a lovely woman, she gave me a motherly feeling, a warmth I had never known.

And she led me to Jesus, there I gave my heart to Him. The Holy Spirit flooded my inner being with everything I had longed for so deeply.

Complete acceptance, warmth and coming home.

I was no longer the old Natasja, but the Lord had taken the reins.

He showed me that I had filled my emptiness without Him, because I was so broken and hurt on the inside.

I did not know who I was because I had always been a people pleaser.

A people pleaser because I was bullied at school for a long time during my childhood.

As a child my home situation was an enormous challenge for me. I could not be a child, my emotions did not matter. As a child I was already given full responsibility for the care of the family I grew up in.

The Lord has very patiently and with a great deal of love shown me who I am in Him. How He had intended me to be. Complete healing began. Little by little He peeled away my survival mechanisms. I was able to forgive everyone who had hurt me. His healing filled my deepest being.

Three months after my conversion, my husband also came to faith in Jesus!

Together we have learned to put Jesus first and have told our children about the love of Jesus for them.

We are so proud of our children, children-in-law and grandchildren!

I can now say wholeheartedly that I am the beloved daughter of the Most High and that He is my perfect Father. With Him I am truly home.

Never abandoned, trampled or forgotten again.

He is there every day in His compassion, He may lead me because I know that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life.