My life testimony
(Jimmer Monserate)
Good morning everyone. God has altered my life and allow me to humbly share the highlights with you:
I was a very shy boy - too shy to do no anything much more - sing. In my elem days, believe it or not, I, the musical director of Northwinds, has flunked in my music subjects. 😀 So my father pushed me hard and had me enrolled in voice and piano lessons.
And my path changed from there. In high school, the once shy boy had now been winning one singing contests after the other bringing fame and honor to our school. It was in 1992 that I became a Christian. Our church was Tuburan sg Kasabag in Hinigaran and we had our mid week services at Tita Lulu Montfort Montinola’s house. Having been a new Christian I was so faithful and I pledged to dutifully serve in my church.
Then my musical journey went on in college at UNO-R. It was there that I came to know of Kulay Pikata. Back in the early 90s we were like the Backstreet Boys! We were so famous and highly in demand that we had performances and guestings left and right. Until we became regular talents of ABS-CBN. Artists moving from one station to its rival station is nothing new like Bea Alonzo from ABS-CBN moving to GMA! We had the same experience too - from being a kapamilya to a kapuso. 😀 More exciting offers came through! I was hired by the RGMA 6 to be a DJ at their station- my air name was Papa Franco Gutierez. Eventually I became the station’s program director and I was really at the peak of my career. Kulay Pikata continued to thrive with me as the group’s Musical Director and we’ve been all over performing across the region.
Being famous truly had its own perks and downsides too. The fame and glory blinded me. I lost the appetite to serve and I have forgotten the Lord. I succumbed to vices, women & all sorts of temptation which sadly wrecked my marriage and family. I was a different person. I turned my back on the Lord.
That didn’t stop there. My life has even gone worse - I got sick. One day - all of a sudden my muscles were failing, I couldn’t walk, I experienced unbearable back pain, I can’t sleep and we went to see a number of doctors but no single physician can come up with any diagnosis. They can’t seem to understand what’s wrong with me! I was confined to my sick bed, I was weak and helpless.I was given medicines that didn’t seem to help at all. I was angry and gripped with extreme self-pity and severe depression. It felt like I was in a cave of total darkness with no possible way out!
One day, after feeling totally hopeless, in pain and left with no other option - in bended knees, I cried my heart out to the Lord. I sobbed like no other and fully surrendered my life to the Lord. I asked God for a 2nd chance. I asked to be forgiven. I asked to be made anew. That was a humbling experience that I will never forget.
Our Lord is indeed beyond faithful! You know what happened next? True to God’s promise in
Jeremiah 30:17, “ I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal declares the Lord.”
Weeks passed, the pain slowly went away. Out of nowhere, I recovered with no medical intervention. Pain and illness completely vanished!
What happened to me, my recovery, my healing, was beyond human wisdom but I believe that no situation is beyond the Lord. Indeed, there’s nothing impossible with our Lord Jesus Christ, where medical science and human understanding fail, His power starts.
Dear brothers and sisters, today I am a living witness of God’s existence, power, love and compassion. My life is changed forever by God’s miraculous healing. And I am deeply humbled to receive such a blessing- and such a great gift will forever be an eternal opportunity to glorify God and grow my heart in trust and surrender to my Abba.
Let me close my testimony with an utmost and sincerest gratitude and promise to commit my life to the Lord. If ever there is a time to believe God, to cling to Him, to dig into scriptures, and sing my favorite worship music, it is now. Yes, I fervently pray that there’ll be no turning back Lord! This is the path you have set out for me.
Let’s take these two verses to heart: “Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be my light.” (Micah 7:8 NIV)
Yes, though I have fallen, I will rise. I certainly rose and was made anew. From the deep darkness, the Lord pulled me out and has brought me to the light- a path that I will bravely walk through and journey on with confidence and God’s strength.
That’s my life, my story. I pray that you’ll be blessed and remember let’s all trust God to help us bounce back and grow in our faith from strength to strength. Thank you and God bless.
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