Stefan James Christian Testimony | How I Became A Christian & My Spiritual Journey ❤️ #Best Education Page #Online Earning

hey everyone this is Stefan James from

project life mastery and today I'm going

to share with you something a little bit

different something that I don't

normally talk about here on my channel

and that's my spiritual life my

spiritual journey and beliefs how I

became a Christian a follower of Christ

and how that's enriched my life now I

know this is a topic that can be

controversial to some not everyone's

comfortable with this topic and it might

even trigger certain things within you

you know they always say don't talk

about religion don't talk about religion

and Here I am talking about religion so

I understand the sensitivity of this

topic and I don't know what you believe

if you're an atheist or agnostic or a

Christian or a Jew or a Muslim or a

Buddhist or Hindu whatever you believe I

want to let you know that I'm completely

respectful towards your beliefs I'm not

here to convert you or make you feel

like my beliefs are right and yours are

wrong I'm for everybody I'm loving for

everyone and I want the best for

everyone and I understand we all have

different experiences and beliefs and

upbringing and I'm very sensitive to

that and I'm not here to offend you this

is not a religious youtube channel my

videos aren't religious or anything like

that this is one video out of a thousand

that I wanted to share with you because

this is a powerful experience and a

powerful part of myself you know I

started project life mastery as a way

for me to share the journey that I'm on

towards mastering every part of myself

and my life I want to be the best

version of myself and whenever I come

across something that's enriched my life

or benefited me I feel compelled to

share that with you and if you benefit

from it amazing great I love that and if

you don't benefit that's okay too

not everything I share if not everything

I say to do is for everybody but at the

same time I felt it'd be disingenuous

for me to not share this with you

because this is something that's been a

powerful and personal part of my life

and it is a big part of who I am and

it's more powerful than a lot of the

other things that I discuss here on this

channel and that's why I felt compelled

to share that because I want to be an

alignment with my integrity my values my

honesty my transparency that I've

started this channel here with at the

beginning so I want to say that I don't

want

offend anyone here if you're someone

that is offended by a topic like this

and it's a very sensitive issue for you

I understand that and might even

recommend not to watch this video and

that's okay whatever you want to do

that's okay if you have more of an open

mind you're more curious great and if

you're maybe a Christian like myself

great you might benefit from this a lot

and hearing my story so with that being

said I want to share a few a little bit

about my journey and about myself in

this way and I've never really shared

these things before and so I'm trying to

formulate some of my thoughts and I

don't want to ramble on too much either

so I want to be respectful of your time

but I want to share the most important

elements of this and kind of how I got

to where I am and who I am today so I I

grew up a Christian Greek Orthodox

actually my dad's Greek and I was

baptized when I was a baby

and when I grew up as a Christian I

didn't really you know we went to church

we weren't like a very religious family

we went to church twice a year maybe the

occasional time here and there as well

Christmas Easter and then you know every

once in a while we'd go to church but my

parents really didn't impose religion on

me much or anything like that now I grew

up Greek Orthodox but I don't speak or

understand Greek my dad's Greek my mom

isn't and so we went to a church where

everything was in Greek and I didn't

really understand anything I didn't

understand anything at all when I was

young I was gonna bored at church I

didn't enjoy going to church and I think

a lot of people might have that

experience growing up you know where

they're you know they're just not a fan

of religion whatever they had certain

experiences as a child or through their

parents or through the church or

whatever might be that can unfortunately

taint their experience with God and

Christ or whatever it is later in life

but for me you know I always believed in

God but I didn't really have much of a

relationship with God and it wasn't

until when I was 70 years old I started

getting into self-development and I you

guys know my story I got into wanting to

improve my social skills and my

insecurities and my self-esteem and my

confidence and my dating life and I was

on this journey of trying to transform

myself and I did but when I was around

21 years old

I kind of felt a lot of the self

development that I was doing was more

surface level stuff you know maybe you

can relate to this a lot of its

like goal-setting and habits and

routines and rituals and things like

that which are tremendously beneficial

and valuable and I believe and have

shared with you guys but I I know

there's a lot more deeper that I wanted

to explore that I'd never really did so

I actually had an experience when I was

around 21 years old I did something

called ayahuasca I'm not sure if you've

heard of this before ayahuasca is is

known as the spirit medicine in parts of

South America they use it in tribes and

they use it to heal heal trauma from

people's lives whether it's depression

or anxiety or features or whatever it

might be

it's a Hallucigenia certain way and you

have a hallucinogenic experience which

can be quite profound and spiritual and

life-changing and so for me quick story

as 21s at my friend's house we're having

all-you-can-eat sushi

another friend of mine de peche calls me

up and says hey Steph and there's this

shaman from Peru

that's might a town here they're doing

something called ayahuasca he explained

it a little bit I had no idea what it

was he said do you want to do it and I

was like all right sure let's do it I

was very open-minded at that stage of my

life and still am a little bit naive at

that stage in my life too but I was I'm

for anything that can improve my life so

I was like awesome great I'm open to it

I'll try it I did a quick like Wikipedia

search on it but I ended up going out it

was like an hour out in a suburb from

Vancouver Canada so it was in a place

called Langley and actually funny enough

it was that later someone who became one

of my spiritual mentors sati and Raja

was actually at his property there which

is quite unique I've been great man I

got to have him on my channel at some

point

anyways went out there I had no idea

what to expect you know I was a little

bit resistant actually because some of

the people I was meeting there are these

ultra spiritual people where they'd

greet you and they'd be like hi how are

you and they're gonna hug you and give

you a kiss and the very loving and I was

like at that stage in my life okay this

is weird I wasn't as comfortable with

myself I guess back then but anyways I

ended up having I ended up doing this

ayahuasca ceremony and the shaman was

there and you basically sit down and you

drink the liquid and within 30 minutes

it hits you and you have a crazy

crazy experience everyone's experience

is different but for most people

including myself what happens is all

your demons come to the surface all the

trauma all the things you suppress from

your past in your life all of it comes

up to the surface and you've got to

confront it and face it and deal with it

and it's very uncomfortable and the more

that you resist it the worse that it

gets so it feels like you've got you

went to hell it feels like the most

traumatic most painful thing that you've

ever been through in your life and part

of the ayahuasca journey is learning how

to let go and surrender because the more

you hold on the worse it gets when you

let go and surrender that's when you

release that all that pain in your life

and you you end up becoming I guess more

enlightened where you know you come to a

state of just total bliss and freedom

happiness and joy so for me it was a

very life-changing experience and might

be worth you looking into and exploring

about yourself and what happened from

that experience though is it really

opened me up and thinking about life and

ways never did before it made me

question things and never thought it

before maybe think about life in the

sense of like how are we all here and

where did we come from and what happens

when we die questions that I never asked

that a lot of people never asked because

the answers you don't know there's a lot

of uncertainty unknown that when you

really question things and a lot of

people want to live in that world of

certainty and for me that actually it

started me on a path of exploring

spirituality more and I kind of first

started with more than new-age

self-development spirituality you know

like the secrets for example the book

and the movie about the law of

attraction and you manifest things and

whatever energy you put out and I

believe in those things I think there's

you know provided tremendous value to my

life I ended up you know reading the

book the power of now by Eckhart Tolle

and a new earth and learning about

living in the present moment some great

valuable lessons from that that have you

know really benefitted from Wayne Dyer

and Deepak Chopra and Michael singer and

many other spiritual teachers out there

that had really enriched my life you

know Dan Millman the peaceful warrior

all these great books and resources and

so I started to explore that more and I

started to develop a bit of a

relationship with God and it really

enriched my life in

many great ways when you have a feeling

that there's something beyond yourself a

higher power something supernatural it

just really makes you go through life

the difficulties and the good times

knowing that you're not alone and that

you're being guided and that things in

your life they're happening they're

happening for a higher reason and

purpose that you might not understand in

the moment but you trust in something

greater than yourself

that it's happening for your benefit or

something that's gonna allow you to be

better off and so I I explored that and

then later on in my life too I wanted to

really learn about all the different

religions out there all the different

belief systems and so I started studying

the Bible for the first time the Old

Testament in the New Testament I started

studying the Quran I started studying

the Bhagavad Gita and the daodejing and

you know different belief systems

because I didn't ever want to just kind

of believe something blindly you know

I'm a seeker of truth and I wanted to

explore and understand every every

belief system that's there and I don't

I'm not an expert by the way on all of

these I have maybe more elementary

understanding I'd say of the different

religions that are out there but I

started to pull a lot of valuable things

from that you know Buddhism I enjoy i

get so much benefits from whether it's

non-attachment and meditation and a lot

of the principles from Buddhism I really

would take with me and that would

enhance my life and the same thing can

be said about all the different religion

you know religion belief systems that

are out there

so I kind of started dabbling I'd say

and the different belief systems and

pulling pieces from it and I wanted to

understand I started to go into church

and different churches as well because I

wanted to understand and just really

gain experience was my main goal I think

sometimes belief is a poor substitute

for experience if you could have an

experience that's much more powerful to

support a belief and so I you know went

to mosques and synagogues and churches

and you know just kind of went on a

little bit of a journey over a few years

of doing that and then you know I just

kind of felt myself being more pulled

towards Christ and you know a lot of the

Bible really spoke to me and I had

certain personal experiences

of Christ coming into my life and God

speaking to me that it's hard to

articulate and explain but it just

really enriched my life in so many ways

for me you know one thing I found is

that you know I was going about this

life and I felt there was always this

void in myself you know something that

was missing that I was trying to fill up

you know you try to fill it up through

money success goals relationships people

material things learning self

development all these things but as

someone that's been on this journey of

self development for over 15 years

pretty obsessively nothing nothing

filled that void and I had a realization

I did I did something called the 12

steps and 12 steps is usually for

originated from Alcoholics Anonymous and

I've never been an alcoholic I hardly

drink I don't do drugs

you know marijuana here and there you

know I don't have any like serious

addictions but I looked at and explored

the 12 steps as a path of self

development of spirituality and I've

been to a a meetings by the way to and

it's great again experience to be able

to learn to be exposed to that but one

core principle that I really benefited

from with the 12-step program is the

first step is admitting that your life

is unmanageable on your own and that's a

very freeing step in the 12-step journey

for me I realized that I've been trying

to fix my life and improve my life all

on my own I've been trying to find the

solutions and the answers and learn from

mentors and all that which is great and

beneficial but but I never I I

eventually came to the understanding

that I can never fix and solve

everything on my own that there are

certain parts of myself this void that

can never be filled on anything that's

natural that I needed something

supernatural on my nothi in my life I

needed a surrender to a higher power I

needed to let go of the ego and

believing you know certain things and

trusting is something greater than

myself and asking that higher source God

Jesus for help for guidance to pray and

build a relationship with that and that

was very freeing for me was

very transformational I had moments over

many years right hit rock bottom and I

admitted you know I can't do this on my

own I can't fix my life I need I needed

I needed God I needed Jesus and I would

have these experiences where I pray and

open myself up to it and I I can't

describe it guys but it was just very

powerful having God come into my life

and building that relationship with

Jesus and giving my life to that and

through that over the years that I've

been a Christian and a follower of

Christ and I'm not a perfect Christian

I'm gonna say that and put that out

there I'm I'm you know I've sinned in my

life I've made many mistakes I've lied

and she didn't stolen and done stupid

things and bad things and I've confessed

all of that and I asked God for

forgiveness and one of the greatest

benefits have gotten in my life from

being a Christian is it's made me such a

better person I always knew that I was a

good person I knew in my heart I knew

that my intention was always good and

pure and you know I've always been a

good person I've never committed a crime

or done anything illegal and I just knew

that I've always been good but at times

in my life I felt I was misguided I got

off that on track I got self-centered

ego you know I you know this the stupid

things that I ended up doing and some of

us also can relate to in her in high

school and in her early 20s that I went

through a little bit of so there's parts

of that that I feel that being a

Christian is this made me such a better

human being you know it's given me a

higher standard to live - in my life

it's forced me to be more loving more

generous more honest more giving you

know it's it's you know my my role model

my mentor Jesus Christ is is that

example for me who I strive to be like

and I never will be because Jesus was

sinless and you know we've all sinned

and he's come for us for that to forgive

our sins but you know I know that I have

sinned and I'm going to sin and having

that higher power there that can help

steer me right on the

right track and help me be a better

person that's been one of us valuable

parts of being a Christian as well as

just that deep relationship that I have

never being alone always having a higher

power there to support me to guide me to

love me to ask for help to have that

relationship with and I'm still

exploring that and going deeper and

deeper with it there's so much more room

and I'm excited for that

but it's truly been a life-changing

experience for me in part of my life so

for me when I surround surrendered my

life to Christ and became a Christian in

this way by the way last year I'm sorry

this year a few months ago actually I

got baptized again and I actually went

to Israel and to the Jordan River where

Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist

and I wanted to rededicate my life to

Christ which is something I always

wanted to do I was waiting for the

perfect moment which never comes but it

was pretty incredible to be able to do

that myself and Tatiana did and it was

one of the most emotional and powerful

moments in my life and I may be sure a

picture with you guys here for you guys

as well from that experience but it was

just really surreal to do that in the

Jordan River which is where Jesus was

baptized by John the Baptist but you

know guys I can't put into words how my

life is so much better than it was

before now if a video like this came up

10 years ago I wouldn't have been ready

for a video like this for me I remember

you know I I had a lot of conflicting

beliefs around religion and I get it and

I understand there's a lot of

controversy controversy I mean there's

in the Catholic Church there's

corruption there's people that you know

in certain churches and organized

religion I I get that and I'm not a fan

of some of that what goes on there are

some churches I think that are good and

some maybe not as much some people some

priests and pastors all that I think

every organized anything has has some of

that going on and it's unfortunate I

think that kind of paints a negative

picture and experience for people and I

think really the ultimate thing for me

is that relationship that I have that

personal relationship with God in Christ

and you know just finding a good church

community to be a part of and turning

sorry turning to the Bible and going to

that is a source of wisdom and guidance

and to you know I look at it I speak to

God every day through prayer and God

speaks to me through the scriptures and

everything and there's yes there's some

parts of the Bible and scriptures that I

don't understand and that I struggle

with you know around the homosexuality

and things like that that I I don't have

words for I don't have an explanation

explanation for and so I understand you

know that there's a lot of that

controversy I guess or discomfort that

can happen with it but I think all I can

share with you is my experience and what

I believe and how its enriched my life

and I think everyone that's watching

this going back to what I was saying you

know this video probably wouldn't

resonate with me back then because I was

at that stage in my life and I think as

I matured and evolved I started to look

at my life in different ways and had

certain experiences that led me to God

and I think everyone has their own

journey you know it's not something that

you can really force on someone I can

share my testimony my experience but I

think if you're watching this and you

maybe are a little bit open-minded I I'd

say just to explore your your own

spirituality you know go deeper into it

go to different churches and and read

different texts of Bible Quran whatever

it might be and just explore question

things you know don't just believe

things blindly either you know for me I

I question things a lot and then I go

and I try to find the answers to it or

try to understand things a little bit

more but I think coming at life I guess

from a place of an open mind because no

one ever really knows everything there's

no evidence to support all you know

everything I look at the Bible and all

these things and as the evidence to

support my beliefs but there's also that

personal experience that you have that

you can't that it defies logic you know

it defies science you can't really

describe what your personal experiences

and there might not be science to

support it there's miracles and things

that happen and occur that there's no

explanation for so what I would say and

maybe a message in this video is to

explore your faith and explore life and

explore

everything and come to your own

conclusions and beliefs and find

whatever that serves and supports and

empowers you for me it's it's going

through Christ and you know I remember

reading and if by the way if you want to

explore Christianity I recommend picking

up a Bible and the first gospel that I

would read to be the Gospel of John

which is the story of Jesus Christ and

for me it really moved me when I started

going deeper into it and you know I

remember at one point Peter and Jesus

were having a conversation and Peter was

asking certain famous and Jesus had said

that I am the way the life and the truth

and for me that hit me hard those words

that I've been looking for the way and

everything in self-development and and

business and this this and this and the

way all along for me has been Jesus and

it's most often the last place that I

was looking and what's changed in my

life is that's where I go first that's

the most important relationship and part

of my life and it's the foundation for

everything else that I do and experience

in my life so for me when I read the

Gospel of John and I started exploring

other parts of the Bible that hit me and

resonated with me that that's the way

and that's filled that void I can

honestly say it's filled that void

within myself in the ways that nothing

else could so I think we all have to

have our own experience I say have an

open mind be open to learning and

exploring different things and I think

you can eventually find what your truth

and what your experiences and what

resonates the most with you so my

friends I want to say thank you so much

for watching this I really you know

respect you so much for being here and

hopefully you know I know there's people

that judge and criticize and hopefully

you're not that you know I I try to be

non-judgmental and open to every

everyone and everyone what they have to

say an experience and their their

personal experience rather but I know

that there's some people will I know

some people this is not an easy topic

you know the easy path is to not even do

a video like this but I felt like you

know I'm not here on this life to do

what's easy and difficult I'm here to

share things that have enriched my life

and if it again enriches yours then

that's amazing and if not that's okay

too but I disrespect you just for having

an open mind and be willing to watch

this video

and to hear what I have to share on this

topic and you know again this is not a

religious Channel or anything like that

and I'm not a perfect Christian I swear

one snow pile and you know sometimes do

get off-track but I just try to you know

get back on track and try to be humble

and ask God for help and to guide me to

be the best version of myself and so I'm

very just very grateful to have this

opportunity to share this part of my

life with you and for you to be open to

hearing it so my friends I want to say

thank you so much for being here for you

know watching a video like this if you

enjoyed it give it a thumbs up subscribe

for more and I want to say God bless you

talk to you again soon take care

you

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