My Testimony

My Testimony Terry (Bobby) Conner 5-27-2010


Please take a few minutes of your time and read My Testimony. I am just a real human being, with real problems and striving everyday to Live for JESUS. May GOD touch your soul as you read these few pages. You can visit me on FACEBOOK by either going to the following searches on FaceBook……. My Hometown Ministries (Asheville, NC) or Terry Conner



I would like to first honor GOD from whom All blessing flow. One thing you can rest assured of as you read my testimony. I Love GOD, I Love My Family, I Love My Friends. I will not express anything within these few words that will be in any way a testimony to anyone or anything other than the Grace of GOD. I have surrendered to GOD’S calling, to be a messenger of GOD’S Perfect Words. These words are recorded in the HOLY Bible and I will not waiver in my Faith that the words contained within the King James Authorized Version 1611 Bible, are the Inspired, Infallible, HOLY, True, Words of ALMIGHTY GOD! I am just a sinner Saved by GOD’S Grace! For several years I have done my best to run away from GOD. I pulled out my little black, zippered Bible that was given to me by my Aunt Mamie Mashburn on June 21, 1974. I was 9 years old. I feel honored to have family that cared enough about me to give me GOD’S Word for a birthday present. As I flipped through the pages I see where I asked GOD to save my soul, May 24, 1981 and shortly thereafter I followed the LORD in Baptism at Cedar Hill Free Will Baptist Church by the Reverend Jerry Williams. As I look back, yet looking forward in time I see a 16 year old boy who had no idea what had happened. I see a 16 year old boy that began to start running, but, as I sit here at my computer, I began to run away from GOD. I did not begin to study GOD’S Word, I just started wandering. Wandering and Wondering if I was saved. I became a Dad shortly after I got saved. That was not exactly what a new Christian’s testimony needed. I did what I thought was right thing to do, after the news came, I got married. I was a junior in high school, a Dad and a Husband. As I struggled along, I barely passed into my senior year. I started working and going to school at 16. I did not put down the term study, as I didn’t do much of that. I just did enough to get by and longed to just escape from high school so I could start working full time. That was a dumb statement kids, you will have the rest of your life to work, enjoy your youth and just enjoy being a kid. I had no idea what being a Dad or a husband was about. I just know that thanks to my Dad and his willfulness to help us out, I graduated high school. I entered into reality quite quickly. How difficult supporting a family and everything involved could have ever been. There was no text book or easy 1, 2, 3 plans available for a young kid, now a young Dad and a young husband. I did not even acknowledge the fact that my HOLY GOD was there with me all along the way. How tragic a statement I have to make. Through all of this turmoil, my family prayed. My church family prayed. I tried my best to ignore the fact that I had been bought with a price, I was no longer my own. As time went on, I decided that I wanted to be single. I had missed out in life and now is time to live my life, exactly the way I wanted to. I packed up my wife and 2 children drove them and everything we owned from Fort Knox, KY to Fairview, NC. Unhooked my little blue Chevy S-10 and drove back to KY. As you can imagine, it all ended in divorce. I kept running. I started drinking pretty heavy, having unprotected sexual activity, running the streets, patronizing adult establishments, buying fast cars and living like Hell. I didn’t care if my sexual partners were married, engaged, single, of age or anything else. I drove around in a drunken haze most of the time. I went to work drunk and went home and drank some more. I lied, begged, borrowed, stole. I had married men chase after me, I have had to jump out of the bedroom door, half naked, because the husband had came home unexpectedly, and was swinging a baseball bat at me like he wanted to knock a home run, out of the park, and my head was the baseball. Again I say, through all of this which spanned about 11 years, GOD was still with me. I got tired of the single life and got married again. You know how I celebrated my second marriage? Infidelity, Sexually transmitted diseases and a quick plea to get out of KY and go to Korea. I volunteered to go to Korea, in July 1994. What was I thinking? That’s exactly what I needed. More alcohol, more infidelity, more and more sin. This was my escape from reality. As I was thousands of miles from home, my family prayed, my church family prayed and GOD was still there. After I returned home, went to Texas, KY and to Germany, my family prayed, my church family prayed and GOD was still there. Well I can tell you that during this time frame that again spanned another 10 years, I had the privilege to be in and out of church, under the sound of preaching by men of GOD. The HOLY SPIRIT dealt with me and I made a trail, up and down the aisle, got saved, got baptized, got rededicated and I didn’t know if I was going or coming. I didn’t know if I was saved, almost saved, close to being saved or just plain lost. May 2004 I heard a message at Fellowship Independent Baptist Church in Radcliff, KY that you can know for sure you are saved. You got it brother, I walked the aisle again, I wrote it in my Bible...38 years of sin and now I’m saved. Well I will tell you in that same year, February 14, 2004 I received a DUI. I left home in May 2005 and was on my way to another divorce. After about a year or so later I was divorced again. My family prayed and my church family prayed, and GOD was still there. Well my sexual desires turned into experimenting with homosexual acts, going to swinger’s bars and more alcohol. I will tell you that I was hospitalized in May 2008 with Pancreatitis. At that time I was drinking a 12 pack or more of beer daily. I steadily increased consumption little by little. I lived to drink and run around. I was in the hospital about 5 days and it didn’t take very long until I went from no alcohol, to a little bit and a little bit more. While I was in the hospital I received a phone call from my Dad in NC. He had been battling a severe lung disease and he just couldn’t take care of his requirements around his property any longer. Susie and I were married May 2007. All while my family prayed, my church family prayed and GOD was still there. June 2008 we packed up all we owned and left our 2 full time jobs in Louisville, KY and headed back to my hometown Candler, NC (nearest city Asheville). I was again hospitalized in February 2010 with Pancreatitis. GOD sent to me Pastor Mark and Pastor Jerry from Trinity Baptist Church. A dear friend Kim sent them to see me. Pastor Jerry led the way and we had a good visit. He told me that Pastor Mark would see me tomorrow. I thought…Oh Boy...I sure hope I am out of the room when he comes. Well I wasn’t and he did. I cannot tell you what exactly happened, but GOD showed up in a real way. I made a pact with GOD, I was out of the hospital on a Friday and I was in church at Trinity Baptist Church that following Sunday. I can tell you that while my family prayed, my church family prayed, GOD was there. HE picked me up, dusted me off, and said Son…I said HE said Son...Welcome Home!!!! I will tell you that GOD saved my soul in 1981. I did all I could to make GOD drop me, kick me out, throw me away...But GOD simply states in Romans Chapter 10 verse 9 “ That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the LORD JESUS, and shalt believe in thine heart GOD hath raised HIM from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” Chapter 10 of Romans verse 13 simply states “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved.” Romans Chapter 11 verse 33 says it all...”O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of GOD! How unsearchable are HIS judgments and HIS ways past finding out!” I am Eternally Thankful to GOD for keeping HIS HOLY SPIRIT after me. There was nothing I have done but Run!! I couldn’t run fast or far enough. I couldn’t place thousands of miles of water between me and HIM. I am not telling you all these details to boast of sin. I am not telling you these details to say being saved is a license to sin. I am a living testimony of the Grace of GOD. I can say Boldly that I was bought with a price. I was not and am not my own. The Apostle Paul makes a strong statement in a portion of scripture I want to make reference to in Romans Chapter 11 verse 1 “I say, hath GOD cast away his people? GOD forbid.” I write to you as a Trophy of GRACE! I ask you this question Can GOD? I stand and raise my hands toward heaven with a Thankful Heart and Boldly answers this question in my own soul…….GOD Can!!!!! Halleluiah!!!

GOD has a purpose for each and every one of us as Christians. It is past time we side with an ALMIGHTY GOD. You are either for GOD or Against GOD. You can’t serve GOD and Man...It’s Impossible. You are either going to believe the Devil and his lies or believe GOD and HIS Truth. I can tell you that there is a Hell to shun and a Heaven to Gain! I can tell you that the Devil is defeated. I can tell you that GOD has Won! I can tell you that if you are reading this you still have time to turn your life over to GOD! HE is Bigger than All your problems and Bigger than All your Fears! All you need is Faith. Faith as a little child has for their Mother’s and Father’s. Faith as a mustard seed. Oh that GOD will show HIS Mercy and Grace to you today. If I can be of further encouragement to you please I pray let me know how I can help. I can further point you to My Personal SAVIOR, My GOD, My Everything! I leave you with this challenge…If GOD be GOD, Serve HIM! GOD is one of three things to you today 1) LORD 2) Liar 3) Lunatic…I stand Boldly on GOD’S Word and I choose LORD!! What will you choose? GOD is too HOLY to make you do anything that you don’t want to do. HE is too HOLY to allow sin in HIS presence. HE is too HOLY to make you choose. But Dear Friend, You have to make a choice! I pray GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT will not let you rest until you choose Eternal Life over Eternal Death. We All will live somewhere forever. Don’t believe once you die you just stop existing or go into a state of not knowing or automatically go to Heaven. Sin has a penalty. Death is the penalty. There was no hope for sinful mankind. GOD looked into Eternity and saw Me and he saw You. GOD knew we had no hope because of sin. I owed a debt I could not pay and JESUS paid a debt HE did not owe! GOD sent HIS Only SON, Sinless, Prefect…To come to where we are, go where we will go, and through all worldly temptations, HE sinned Not! HE was mocked, beaten, betrayed, humiliated; HE became sin for Me and You. HE was crucified between two thieves, HE died, HE was buried in a borrowed tomb and sealed away with a huge stone and a guard was placed there to ensure JESUS’S Body was not stolen away. GOD had to turn HIS back on JESUS that day! Sin was the reason and JESUS was the remedy. JESUS gave HIS Life Freely. HE could have called ten thousand angels. Can you call to recollection the darkest day you have seen? Probably during a very severe storm. Matthew Chapter 23 verse 45 “And the sun was darkened.” Because of Sin the sun quit shining but Praise Be Unto My Risen LORD the SON will SHINE Forever and Ever...Amen!!! What a Savior! What a LORD! It is Good to Serve a Great Big GOD!! May GOD Bless each and every one is my prayer!