I was a soldier in the Roman Catholic catechism teaching and working in the various activities of the parish of my country. Every Sunday I went to Mass, where I was reading on the altar and sang along with other young people. In political life had begun a journey, in sport (my passion) a very long time. I was very busy social life, I thought that the many works could help me be at peace with God and then, I thought so to gain your attention. Being active as volunteers, just 19 years, president of an association and all, in that small village ciociaro, respect me and thought it was a fine young man. My parents themselves were satisfied with me. But every night when I reduced my room, reciting those prayers that Catholics call and it seemed that God wanted to make those sacrifices carnal I had done during the day and, for its part, the Lord seemed indifferent to everything that I did . So, my heart always seemed empty and unsatisfied. People continued to praise my beautiful works, I tried for their political purposes, I worked a lot for young people and so many families I tried to explain their problem with their children ... it seemed that I was a young man of success but in my heart: Empty! One day in March 1994, mend my bookshelf, I found one of those new wills written with beautiful and precious cover that often enrich the libraries of good Catholics. I remember living in me that thought that crossed my mind: "I am a catechist, but I do not know what Jesus says in the Gospel." I began to read. I was twenty and a half years, the last time I questioned my religion was about four years ago, when tired of serving "institution" I tried other ways a religion that I propose new emotions, but the Lord had his eye on me and did not allow me to go and serve one of the many strange gods like Buddha or proposed much less than Hinduism Islam. At the time I was only sixteen years old (already for some time many activities in the Roman Catholic church), I rituffai with all my heart that a little later would prove to be a false Christianity. In that March 94, something supernatural happened since I was sitting reading the book had passed only two hours, in which my eyes could not pull out those wonderful words. In those two hours I read all four gospels. When I closed the large volume of that edition Art of the gospel, that I had read the words continued to flow in my heart, asking many questions to my high "religiosity": "Let the little children come to me"! And a voice said, "what soul is purer than that of a child? Why deceive others by saying that without baptism are lost! And again: "Look at them, like being in first place and to be revered and respected in the streets ... do not enter and do not enter! And still the voice kept saying to my conscience, "Jesus did not have a bed to lay his head, did not worry about politics, was the work of God, ministered to the dead but rather funeral processions turned into a great celebration ... He is alive! It was a hammer to my mind! I thought about talking with the man I thought was a servant of God, my priest. I told him everything that happened to me and he told me a ready answer: "let it be the Bible! If the laws do not live anymore! Instantly, the voice said to my heart: "If you die and be born again you will not see God's work"! Yeah! Nicodemus, a doctor of law could not understand what Jesus said. The ground was no lack of culture, but that very religion that closes the heart, like my heart was closed. Continuing, in the following months sank into a deep internal crisis, no one could understand me. My friends saw me change, but many did not understand why. Extended to the rest of my reading of the Bible. As you read, understand that the false teaching. Nothing I had learned and that consequently I was looking forward to match the reality of the Bible. The intercession of Mary, purgatory, baptism to children, the rituals performed in so-called sacraments, the same sacraments, the celebration of the mass appeared to me now as magical practices and not as a commandment of God In the meantime, I did not go to catechism more with the books that gave me the religious organization, but I brought my bible. I began to change the way I do and what caused in contrast, and my colleagues during the debate.
I tried to put aside those instincts that God moved in my heart, but more and more His Spirit put me in trouble, I changed my way of praying, now the only prayer that "recited" Our Father "was, if not the other was in the Word of God This condition still dithering in the following months, until, after five months of anguish and oppression, one evening in August, I found by chance by my cousin.
shares with him a lot, but I never spoke to him about religion. I knew it was not a Catholic, so I thought a poor deluded and lost! This generates the religion, distorts the truth in this point that the rest of the world other than you lost! But on that historic night, God opened his mouth his and his wife in those places where I was in the scuffle with the Lord. I had taken many times the statue of "Madonna" in the various processions around and now I was really hard to admit that this was not the will of God! We fight! It seemed that those words did not want to accept any way! But when I left them two in the morning and I was once more alone in my room with my thoughts and my own fighting words that until recently had refused, time seemed to be the answer to my questions, my why. That night for the first time in my life I turned to God as a "father." In the months before I asked him the signs, the practice test that was really existing and living ... often told him, 'Lord, if you do not become an atheist manifestos. " I was tired of the emptiness at the heart, could not stand the silence of my prayers as I read in the Word of God: "He who believes in Me rivers of living water will flow from within him"! Rather death and frost gushed from my heart and that made me suffer. Now it seemed that everything was cleared in front of me. My cousin was a beloved frat. Joseph Antonelli and his wife, beloved source. Ines, continue to show the love of God ... I still fight, but at night I prayed to God asking "what they had them! "I want what is in their hearts! I had recognized in their words, the same life I had noticed in the Holy Book of God, they spoke to me to be religious but with a transport time did not understand, but later learned to recognize: the anointing of the Holy Spirit! I tried them, they simply instructing me, I continued my research into the records ... everything was wonderful! In December, on an afternoon where I had held a meeting with the guys that I was preparing for confirmation, I went to frat. Giuseppe who seemed to me to be waiting: God had spoken! Together with his wife told me that the Lord had revealed what I prayed in the privacy of my room! I felt like a prospector who had found the richest deposits of the earth! Do not you see I gave (until then I had always been my own master and very proud), but in my heart that God wanted to speak to me again! I was hoping that I am invited to pray with them! So the Lord heard me and I was invited to go to them to pray together after dinner. Of course I went there. I felt like when you attend a big event. The hour came when they told me to close my eyes to pray. As a good religious I never prayed, but because Catholics do not pray but read! The rosary is a set of performances like the Hail Mary, Our Father, eternal rest etc.. But I did not know that prayer meant to open our hearts to God and speak with him just as I was led in the last few months. As soon as we started praying, I had the feeling of being enveloped in a whirlwind of air that passed through me in every part of the body, shaking and making me vibrate like a leaf blown by the wind. My sinful life crossed my mind. I could see the deception in which I lived, the lies that I had said, the lusts of the flesh and fornication ... I realized that I had achieved success in regard to humanity and that brought me pride in the good guy was a terrible deception! God did not think the same thing as me! His Holiness the shock of my life, I had a fall of my certainties, of the ideas so far looked good. In those moments I lost control of myself and began to cry like a baby. As soon as I broke into tears of repentance, the Holy Spirit, the investment source. Ines and through the prophetic voice of God spoke to me. It was for about half an hour I sat with his head between his knees, prostrated as never before in the presence of God while I was in the secret questions (ie not opened my mouth, but I thought just what I wanted to ask him) and He answered me through the prophetic voice. We continued to pray, my body was shocked by the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus showed himself to my heart, He was just the shape of my unbridgeable gap. In those hours of prayer confessed my sins, I wept as to wash the floor and when about two in the morning, after about four hours of prayer, I came home I could not sleep, my body was still shaking, I felt that many links were broken. I had twenty years now and I had lived a full life in the world. That night was just what Jesus advised to Nicodemus: I was born again! Alleluia! Glory to God! The next morning, I looked forward to a surprise witness. Maria Assunta (we were engaged recently) a wonderful experience. It was the first in which I talked about Jesus and she accepted it in his heart! Alleluia! The night before, God had told me that our union would be fought, but blessed Him, so I talked about Jesus at my in-laws and even they came to Christ with my brother Tony and many other young people who witnessed the love of God without ceasing, that in my country to spread the news and some even called me to pray in their homes and their patients. With frat. Joseph and surprising. Ines we met almost every night and the Lord blessed us and abundance of His presence. Just frat. Joseph and surprising. Ines were in the midst of a very strong test. Having had first hand what Job calls "the depths of evil" called a bit all over the world to seek a "man of God" to take care of their suffering. Local churches, without the Holy Spirit, did not care them and judged them by saying that it was not possible for a child of God feel bad! But this was the classic cliche of men religious. I remember in particular the source. Ines praying, shouting, "Sir! Possible that there is no longer a man like Elijah, Isaiah ... as a true man of God! " Everywhere we hear of men particularly blessed called. Vicchio often spend the fifty thousand or more just to make us understand that telephone from Italy. One evening we called in Korea, then in Spain ... well, we toured the world with your phone. I cried with them. Longed for the presence of God, together we realized that they needed a "Shepherd". Even if God blessed us beyond measure, we believed that we needed a guide pastoral teaching and take care of us. One day, after one of the many phone calls, surprise. Ines heard "a blessed ministry in Sicily." So do not lose heart and called 12 of the SIP, the calling number of an evangelical church in Sicily! "One word! Replied the! Sicily is one of the largest regions of Italy and perhaps would have been better if we had access to at least the city! "Look at Messina" - source continued. Ines. The operator began to list the endless list of Evangelical Churches in the city of Messina. None of the names eager to convince the heart of the source. Ines. "Ma'am, we try to Palermo? The operator did his best! "What? Palermo? Yes, yes! Palermo "- source said. Ines. This time the list was just endless! With courage, the operator began to name the list you had before his eyes: "Evangelical Christian Adventist Church, Evangelical Christian Church ADI ... Evangelical Christian Church International, Chie ..." "How? Evangelical Christian Church International "? "Yes! That's right! This enthusiasm with the! "Give me that number! Sor. Ines heard that name in the answer to our prayers! Forthwith and dialed the number from the other side the sweet voice of a true man of God Pastor frat. Anthony Chinn! Alleluia! He listened carefully to the testimony sad and full of suffering brothers and said: "My daughter! Where you have found! Hell!? "Yes! A man of God! A man of God by the sheep! The best! With love you load their weights! And as Jesus said, "puts his life for the sheep"! Due to the sensitivity and seriousness of the case, there was an urgent need of constant care and pastoral care as the beloved frat. Anthony Chinn to over nine hundred kilometers from the province of Frosinone, advised her to turn to his spiritual son, Pastor frat. Salvatore Fiorino, stationed in the province of Caserta and pastor of a church in Naples, certainly more within our reach. Note the love, not selfishness to "grab" poor and helpless souls like today many so-called "pastors" dare to do! It was for us the beginning of a new path. For about two years, Pastor frat. Salvatore Fiorino took care of the dear brothers phone. 
Many times it happened that frat. Joseph received a phone call late at night. The Holy Spirit of God revealed to man in relation to an urgent need them. Frat. Joseph was so relieved through the anointed Pastor's Prayer (frat. Joseph when he received the phone call was standing before God, weeping and seeking help!). Exactly two years later, the man of God second room devoted to the Lord and invited us for the occasion. Because of the many disappointments of the churches, was in the frat. Joseph a certain fear and distrust, so we decided to go just me and him, leaving women and children at home. The impact was amazing! The cult was explosive and our hearts we felt relaxed. I experienced what I experienced in the crowd described in the Gospel of Mark, when you say that "the Lord saw them tired and like sheep without a shepherd." We were fed by the Word of God revealed in the lips of Pastor General frat. Anthony Chinnici (Palermo spoke with a dear and precious servants of God). At the end of the service, the embrace between the Shepherd frat. Salvatore Fiorino and frat. Joseph was very moving. Who knows how many tears and suffering during those two years! We were invited to stay with them at night and when we got home we realized that there was a change in our hearts. The Holiness of God began to touch our lives. We decided at first to attend the Church of Naples at least once a month, then every fortnight and at the end we missed a Sunday except for serious reasons.
meanwhile continued to meet at home: my in-laws were made available their dining room for meetings. Brother Joseph preached to us the word and in his absence I was appointed to replace him. Day by day we climbed that holy step toward the sky, under the watchful care of the beloved Our Shepherd. On 12 March 2000, dedicated to Lord of the current House of God in St. Apollinaris, a small town in the province of Frosinone, about eighteen miles from Cassino. On that occasion I was anointed deacon and director of the new work of God, preaching and working in all matters relating to his service to God The Lord Jesus has enriched with precious treasures. The biggest was to be entrusted to a real ministry. Our Pastor, beloved frat. Salvatore Fiorino has taught us, we have taken care of and has not spared the encouragement to better serve and remain faithful. In the same year 2000, was united in marriage by my pastor with the precious source. Maria Assunta which has been anointed member of the choir. A St. Apollinaris we served the Lord until March 2003 when we were sent by the ministry (my wife and I) here at Citta di Castello. Since that time we are learning to serve in a different way, giving ourselves to Him every day for the advancement of the Kingdom of God collaborating with our Shepherd who lovingly around us and encourages us.
This is the summary of my testimony of how Jesus began His work in my life. In During these years, together with my wife we \u200b\u200bwere eyewitnesses of the great works that God performs through our pastor, and countless personal experiences and the many supernatural intervention in our lives, the last of the birth of our children, Samuel, Susanna and Deborah .
As the Lord will push me to do so, I will participate in the wonders that he alone was able to accomplish in our lives, even if we follow Him not only for the miracles but because he loves us and gives us eternal life!
I tried to put aside those instincts that God moved in my heart, but more and more His Spirit put me in trouble, I changed my way of praying, now the only prayer that "recited" Our Father "was, if not the other was in the Word of God This condition still dithering in the following months, until, after five months of anguish and oppression, one evening in August, I found by chance by my cousin.
shares with him a lot, but I never spoke to him about religion. I knew it was not a Catholic, so I thought a poor deluded and lost! This generates the religion, distorts the truth in this point that the rest of the world other than you lost! But on that historic night, God opened his mouth his and his wife in those places where I was in the scuffle with the Lord. I had taken many times the statue of "Madonna" in the various processions around and now I was really hard to admit that this was not the will of God! We fight! It seemed that those words did not want to accept any way! But when I left them two in the morning and I was once more alone in my room with my thoughts and my own fighting words that until recently had refused, time seemed to be the answer to my questions, my why. That night for the first time in my life I turned to God as a "father." In the months before I asked him the signs, the practice test that was really existing and living ... often told him, 'Lord, if you do not become an atheist manifestos. " I was tired of the emptiness at the heart, could not stand the silence of my prayers as I read in the Word of God: "He who believes in Me rivers of living water will flow from within him"! Rather death and frost gushed from my heart and that made me suffer. Now it seemed that everything was cleared in front of me. My cousin was a beloved frat. Joseph Antonelli and his wife, beloved source. Ines, continue to show the love of God ... I still fight, but at night I prayed to God asking "what they had them! "I want what is in their hearts! I had recognized in their words, the same life I had noticed in the Holy Book of God, they spoke to me to be religious but with a transport time did not understand, but later learned to recognize: the anointing of the Holy Spirit! I tried them, they simply instructing me, I continued my research into the records ... everything was wonderful! In December, on an afternoon where I had held a meeting with the guys that I was preparing for confirmation, I went to frat. Giuseppe who seemed to me to be waiting: God had spoken! Together with his wife told me that the Lord had revealed what I prayed in the privacy of my room! I felt like a prospector who had found the richest deposits of the earth! Do not you see I gave (until then I had always been my own master and very proud), but in my heart that God wanted to speak to me again! I was hoping that I am invited to pray with them! So the Lord heard me and I was invited to go to them to pray together after dinner. Of course I went there. I felt like when you attend a big event. The hour came when they told me to close my eyes to pray. As a good religious I never prayed, but because Catholics do not pray but read! The rosary is a set of performances like the Hail Mary, Our Father, eternal rest etc.. But I did not know that prayer meant to open our hearts to God and speak with him just as I was led in the last few months. As soon as we started praying, I had the feeling of being enveloped in a whirlwind of air that passed through me in every part of the body, shaking and making me vibrate like a leaf blown by the wind. My sinful life crossed my mind. I could see the deception in which I lived, the lies that I had said, the lusts of the flesh and fornication ... I realized that I had achieved success in regard to humanity and that brought me pride in the good guy was a terrible deception! God did not think the same thing as me! His Holiness the shock of my life, I had a fall of my certainties, of the ideas so far looked good. In those moments I lost control of myself and began to cry like a baby. As soon as I broke into tears of repentance, the Holy Spirit, the investment source. Ines and through the prophetic voice of God spoke to me. It was for about half an hour I sat with his head between his knees, prostrated as never before in the presence of God while I was in the secret questions (ie not opened my mouth, but I thought just what I wanted to ask him) and He answered me through the prophetic voice. We continued to pray, my body was shocked by the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus showed himself to my heart, He was just the shape of my unbridgeable gap. In those hours of prayer confessed my sins, I wept as to wash the floor and when about two in the morning, after about four hours of prayer, I came home I could not sleep, my body was still shaking, I felt that many links were broken. I had twenty years now and I had lived a full life in the world. That night was just what Jesus advised to Nicodemus: I was born again! Alleluia! Glory to God! The next morning, I looked forward to a surprise witness. Maria Assunta (we were engaged recently) a wonderful experience. It was the first in which I talked about Jesus and she accepted it in his heart! Alleluia! The night before, God had told me that our union would be fought, but blessed Him, so I talked about Jesus at my in-laws and even they came to Christ with my brother Tony and many other young people who witnessed the love of God without ceasing, that in my country to spread the news and some even called me to pray in their homes and their patients. With frat. Joseph and surprising. Ines we met almost every night and the Lord blessed us and abundance of His presence. Just frat. Joseph and surprising. Ines were in the midst of a very strong test. Having had first hand what Job calls "the depths of evil" called a bit all over the world to seek a "man of God" to take care of their suffering. Local churches, without the Holy Spirit, did not care them and judged them by saying that it was not possible for a child of God feel bad! But this was the classic cliche of men religious. I remember in particular the source. Ines praying, shouting, "Sir! Possible that there is no longer a man like Elijah, Isaiah ... as a true man of God! " Everywhere we hear of men particularly blessed called. Vicchio often spend the fifty thousand or more just to make us understand that telephone from Italy. One evening we called in Korea, then in Spain ... well, we toured the world with your phone. I cried with them. Longed for the presence of God, together we realized that they needed a "Shepherd". Even if God blessed us beyond measure, we believed that we needed a guide pastoral teaching and take care of us. One day, after one of the many phone calls, surprise. Ines heard "a blessed ministry in Sicily." So do not lose heart and called 12 of the SIP, the calling number of an evangelical church in Sicily! "One word! Replied the! Sicily is one of the largest regions of Italy and perhaps would have been better if we had access to at least the city! "Look at Messina" - source continued. Ines. The operator began to list the endless list of Evangelical Churches in the city of Messina. None of the names eager to convince the heart of the source. Ines. "Ma'am, we try to Palermo? The operator did his best! "What? Palermo? Yes, yes! Palermo "- source said. Ines. This time the list was just endless! With courage, the operator began to name the list you had before his eyes: "Evangelical Christian Adventist Church, Evangelical Christian Church ADI ... Evangelical Christian Church International, Chie ..." "How? Evangelical Christian Church International "? "Yes! That's right! This enthusiasm with the! "Give me that number! Sor. Ines heard that name in the answer to our prayers! Forthwith and dialed the number from the other side the sweet voice of a true man of God Pastor frat. Anthony Chinn! Alleluia! He listened carefully to the testimony sad and full of suffering brothers and said: "My daughter! Where you have found! Hell!? "Yes! A man of God! A man of God by the sheep! The best! With love you load their weights! And as Jesus said, "puts his life for the sheep"! Due to the sensitivity and seriousness of the case, there was an urgent need of constant care and pastoral care as the beloved frat. Anthony Chinn to over nine hundred kilometers from the province of Frosinone, advised her to turn to his spiritual son, Pastor frat. Salvatore Fiorino, stationed in the province of Caserta and pastor of a church in Naples, certainly more within our reach. Note the love, not selfishness to "grab" poor and helpless souls like today many so-called "pastors" dare to do! It was for us the beginning of a new path. For about two years, Pastor frat. Salvatore Fiorino took care of the dear brothers phone. 
Many times it happened that frat. Joseph received a phone call late at night. The Holy Spirit of God revealed to man in relation to an urgent need them. Frat. Joseph was so relieved through the anointed Pastor's Prayer (frat. Joseph when he received the phone call was standing before God, weeping and seeking help!). Exactly two years later, the man of God second room devoted to the Lord and invited us for the occasion. Because of the many disappointments of the churches, was in the frat. Joseph a certain fear and distrust, so we decided to go just me and him, leaving women and children at home. The impact was amazing! The cult was explosive and our hearts we felt relaxed. I experienced what I experienced in the crowd described in the Gospel of Mark, when you say that "the Lord saw them tired and like sheep without a shepherd." We were fed by the Word of God revealed in the lips of Pastor General frat. Anthony Chinnici (Palermo spoke with a dear and precious servants of God). At the end of the service, the embrace between the Shepherd frat. Salvatore Fiorino and frat. Joseph was very moving. Who knows how many tears and suffering during those two years! We were invited to stay with them at night and when we got home we realized that there was a change in our hearts. The Holiness of God began to touch our lives. We decided at first to attend the Church of Naples at least once a month, then every fortnight and at the end we missed a Sunday except for serious reasons. meanwhile continued to meet at home: my in-laws were made available their dining room for meetings. Brother Joseph preached to us the word and in his absence I was appointed to replace him. Day by day we climbed that holy step toward the sky, under the watchful care of the beloved Our Shepherd. On 12 March 2000, dedicated to Lord of the current House of God in St. Apollinaris, a small town in the province of Frosinone, about eighteen miles from Cassino. On that occasion I was anointed deacon and director of the new work of God, preaching and working in all matters relating to his service to God The Lord Jesus has enriched with precious treasures. The biggest was to be entrusted to a real ministry. Our Pastor, beloved frat. Salvatore Fiorino has taught us, we have taken care of and has not spared the encouragement to better serve and remain faithful. In the same year 2000, was united in marriage by my pastor with the precious source. Maria Assunta which has been anointed member of the choir. A St. Apollinaris we served the Lord until March 2003 when we were sent by the ministry (my wife and I) here at Citta di Castello. Since that time we are learning to serve in a different way, giving ourselves to Him every day for the advancement of the Kingdom of God collaborating with our Shepherd who lovingly around us and encourages us.
This is the summary of my testimony of how Jesus began His work in my life. In During these years, together with my wife we \u200b\u200bwere eyewitnesses of the great works that God performs through our pastor, and countless personal experiences and the many supernatural intervention in our lives, the last of the birth of our children, Samuel, Susanna and Deborah .
As the Lord will push me to do so, I will participate in the wonders that he alone was able to accomplish in our lives, even if we follow Him not only for the miracles but because he loves us and gives us eternal life!
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