Testimonies

“Mama” Judith Knutson

Sister Diana Rasmussen recently shared a post on FaceBook and Judith replied:

Diana replied to Judith and called her “Mama Judy”. Sister Judith then replied: “Funny u should say that because that was prophesied over me at Calvary Tabernacle in Beloit by the Pastor:

‘You are like a mother in the church’.

I loved that! Comes normal when you’re a mother, right? Did I tell you that before? Quite a few younger sisters in the Lord call me Mama or “Bonus Mom” and “Bonus Grandma”. Family keeps enlarging! Love it. Thank You Lord for an awesome place in the church .I hope and pray that I can live up to it! Always giving You the glory Lord! Amen!”

Qualities of a Sound Church: “But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience; the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.:” – Titus 2:1-5

Carmen Hanson

A testimony about the Lord’s provision

It was a normal Sunday morning just getting ready to go to church. I suddenly
got a sharp pain in my left side. I have had this kind of pain before so already
knew it was a kidney stone. After going through the ER tests, I was sent home
to follow-up with my urology doctor on Monday.

Monday morning, I was scheduled with a different doctor who only fills in
once a month or so. He sent me home with no additional pain meds and told
me to give it one week to see if the stone would pass. I didn’t believe it would.
Each day was getting harder trying to work every day in pain. I prayed! I
prayed that by some miracle I could get into my regular doctor earlier than the
following Monday.

It was now Thursday around 10 am. Suddenly, a strong thought came to me
to go and check my phone. I had a voicemail from my doctor’s office saying they
could see me at 11am that same day. I was so happy to hear that!

At my appointment my regular doctor walked in, looked at my ER scan stating that the stone hadn’t moved much. He picked up the phone and called down to the surgery department asking how soon I could get in. I was in for the procedure at 3pm that day. Praise the Lord! God provided and saved me a
minimum of four more days with that stone. Thank-you Jesus!
– Carmen Hanson

Diana Rasmussen – Worship Leader, Blogger, Videographer

from Prayers and Promises Blog

My pastors have been asking us to write a testimony about what God has done in our life. Like any intelligent woman I thought this will be easy – I’ll just ask Google!

So I have the Chat On AI app on my phone. Probably came with the phone, lol! I typed in a few items: “Diana Rasmussen, Prayers and Promises, WI, Songwriter, Worship Leader, Janesville Apostolic Ministries, Shop owner of Groovy_Grandma on Poshmark”

Ready to see who Goggle says I am?

Bio for Diana Rasmussen

Diana ‘s Bio Here’s a biography based on the information you’ve provided:

“Diana Rasmussen is a multifaceted creative, known for her diverse contributions as an author, shop owner, songwriter, and worship leader. As the author of “Prayers and Promises,” she has touched the hearts of many with her insightful reflections and spiritual guidance, inspiring readers to deepen their faith and connect with their inner selves.

In addition to her literary pursuits, Diana Rasmussen runs her own shop, Groovy_Grandma, on Poshmark, where she curates a collection of unique and stylish items, reflecting her vibrant personality and passion for fashion. Her shop is a testament to her entrepreneurial spirit and her commitment to providing quality products to her customers.

As a talented songwriter and worship leader at Janesville Apostolic Ministries, Diana Rasmussen uses her musical gifts to uplift and inspire congregations through heartfelt worship. Her songs resonate with themes of hope, love, and devotion, creating an atmosphere of praise and connection within the community.

With a blend of creativity, faith, and entrepreneurship, Diana Rasmussen continues to make a meaningful impact in the lives of those around her, sharing her passions and talents in every endeavor.”

Oh my goodness, that is certainly a mouthful. Yes, it’s true but it’s kind of dry. I think that it is interesting that the sane blog that I started 10 years ago, Prayers and Promises, has over 1 million views now. I haven’t really advertised it and have been selective on which ads I allow, certainly no popups, I hate those.

My point is that Google scraped the same info I wrote about and did NOT include GOD or any of the things God has helped me overcome! There is NO GOD IN AI (Artificial Intelligence)!

Where is the info on:

Living in and being delivered from domestic violence multiple times.
Being stalked by multiple people.
Being raped.
Trading love for lust in most relationships.
Being raised in an alcoholic household.
10 plus years of those 12 step meetings.
Years of counseling.
Participating with n sexually deviant behavior to be accepted and loved.
Having my now ex-husband sleep with my best friend.
Losing placement of my kids during my 1st divorce.
Multiple trips to the Psych Ward for self harming with razors snd script drugs.
Broken leg from ladder twisting 180 degrees, broken arm, car crashes, 3 totaled cars
Peripheral Neuropathy, Degenerative Disc Disease, paralyzing back pain.
Too many falls to count then walkers, crutches, canes.
Heart Attack during Covid – no visitors.
Losing my job due to my disability and then losing friends too.
Grief from death of both parents and both in-laws.
Feeling helpless with my husband’s ongoing pain after falling off ladder and onto stainless steel counter resulting in 7 broken ribs. God heal him now in Jesus Name!
Having that Empty Nest feeling after all your kids move out and go on without you. I know they are doing what we taught them – go live life and love it.

Yes, the enemy desires to kill, steal, and destroy me. There have been many accidents, illnesses, and various attacks on my body and my mind and spirit.

But guess what enemy? GOD is greater and He will deliver me!

What about all that Google? Where is that on my AI (artificial intelligence) biography? God has delivered me or is still delivering me from all that stuff! Let’s testify what GOD has done in my life. Here is my testimony!

I have repented and admitted I was living my life without God. I wanted that to change. I want God’s help now. God has forgiven me of my sins, past, present, and future. He knew I wasn’t perfect and loved me anyway.
I have been baptized in Jesus Name. My sins were washed in the water and I called on the Name of Jesus Christ.
I have been given a deposit of my inheritance, the gift of the Holy Ghost with speaking in other tongues.
God has and is still teaching me in His Word, the Bible. He helps me make better choices and shows me how to live and be more like Jesus.
GOD has delivered me from self harming. God has renewed my mind as I read his Word and I no longer believe the lies of the enemy.
God has delivered me from lust and taught me what real love looks like.
God has restored my view of marriage and what pleases Him. I didn’t know what love was, only abandonment and abuse. God had to heal my heart and my thoughts.
God has healed my heart 100%. One year later my heart is totally and completely healed! No more cardiology visits and no more heart drugs! Praise the Lord!
God has delivered me from unfaithful men. My husband is a man of God with a great weight of glory upon him. He is one of the Pastors at our church now. I and my family are so blessed to have a man that believes and talks to God. What an amazing testimony he has too!
God has provided me an opportunity to use the gift of music to usher in His presence in a Bible believing spirit filled church, Janesville Apostolic Ministries Thank you Lord for music!
God has given me an outlet to share what God has done in my life, my blog Prayers and Promises! My therapist at the time said I needed a place to let out my feelings. Now I find it easier to write than talk, lol!
The Holy Spirit continues to heal my grief. I am learning to trust God and be grateful that all 4 of them are at peace now with no more pain.
God has provided for me and my family. When we (me and 2 kids ages 6 and 3) left for the domestic violence center we had 2 black garbage bags of belongings. God has restored it ALL seven times over!
God has blessed me with 4 kids and 2 step-kids and 5 grandkids with 1 more on the way! My relationships with my children are being restored.
God has protected me from evil. He has taught me to put oil on my door posts and above the windows so the enemy will pass over me. Just like they did in the Old Testament when the Israelites put the blood of the lamb on their doorposts.
God has and is teaching me how to apply the blood of Jesus on my life, my body, my marriage, my church, my family and every situation for health and healing.
God has taught me to hold up that shield of faith to stop the enemy’s darts from getting in.
God has given me discernment, the hard way, He taught me not to let every spirit in my house.
God has and is delivering me from infirmity as I walk this out in faith.
God has and is restoring my hope in the future. For many years I couldn’t dream or have future goals. God has restored hope because He said in his Word that He had plans for me for good, and for a future.
The Holy Spirit is helping me remember what Jesus said. He is comforting and healing me more every day.

Life is way more than what we do or what Google says. Now that is my testimony! God is real and He is still in the delivering business!

Thank you Jesus You redeemed my life. You pulled me up out of the darkness and into the light! You have restored all that the enemy had stolen from me. Jesus you have renewed my body, mind, and spirit and are continuing to do so. God you bring me hope every time I read your Word. You are my anchor in the storm. He who the Son sets free is free indeed!

Pastor Jeff Hanson

I married at the young age of nineteen not really knowing what was love was. But God was calling, shortly after we had moved to a small town called Rib Lake, WI and traveled back to the Milwaukee area often to visit family. On one of these trips as it was snowing we had a terrible auto accident in which another driver coming the opposite way lost control and ended up sideways as we collided, two of the people in the other car were killed and two children injured. I was saved pretty much with just a cut on my chin, a banged up nose and chest, my wife broke both bones in her lower leg and received a nasty gash to her chin. The thing that left the greatest impression on me was that I heard later that the two ladies in the other car were heading home just after having their “Wills made out”. But unfortunately I wasn’t ready to hear about God as I continued my drinking, partying and carousing.

After my third child was born God was going to change my world upside down. After a routine checkup we were told to take her to Childrens Hospital because he didn’t think something was right. I sat outside as doctor after doctor went into the room in wonder what was going on and eventually they brought us into a room and told us the horrible news, “Your daughter has cancer”. As they placed my daughter into my arms my heart broke as I felt tremendous guilt and actually felt that his child was suffering for my sins much like Jesus had suffered for our sins two thousand years ago. Well they had surgery the following day and removed a tumor about the size of orange but the cancer had spread to her liver and she would have to undergo chemotherapy and were cautioned about having too much hope (heard later that the Mayo clinic had several of this type of cancer with very poor results).

But I went home that night and cried out to God telling Him that He should take my life not hers, Praise God He heard my cry, because from that moment on my life changed. I was eventually baptized in Jesus Name, filled with the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues and answered the call to the ministry. By the way my daughter received a healing and is now a mother of three beautiful children.

Brother Kim Olson

My name is Kim Olson and I feel like the most divinely protected man alive. For nearly 30 years I was held in bondage by Chronic Alcoholism and many other destructive addictions. I spent nearly three years institutionalized in treatment centers, halfway houses, and jails. I had many brushes with death in hospitals and on the streets. I’ve been beaten beyond recognition,
stabbed, left for dead and shot at. In the early 1970’s I was a Radio-Teletype Operator in a Viet Nam Support Unit. I don’t remember a day when I wasn’t using alcohol, drugs, or both.

Through everything I had a strong feeling someone was watching over me. I was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous for over 20 years and had some periods of sobriety. I had a huge void in me and I knew I needed much more because my addiction was more powerful than I was. One day I woke up in jail very sick and very depressed. I remember getting on my knees and praying for deliverance out of my Hell. I prayed for something I never had…a normal life. I had already ruined my marriage and ruined my relationship with my son. My life was a series of missed opportunities, blackouts, brusher with the law, and failed relationships.

I finally put my life in God’s hands where it belonged all along. Things began to happen. I married a Spirit filled woman and was blessed with a Spirit filled daughter. Deliverance from my addictions occurred with no withdrawal. I began to live with a new sense of strength and confidence. I found a job that I’ve held for many years. This is significant because I was diagnosed as hopeless and told I’d never be able to work and would be on Social Security the rest of my life. That was a lie from the depths of hell.

Today I’m a Spirit filled member of God’s Kingdom. I’ve got a clear mind and good health and I realize everything I have came from God. He gave me back everything Satan stole from me and much, much more. Praise God!

Brother Jeffrey A. Thompson

My name is Jeffrey A. Thompson and I was born January 3rd, 1965. I came into this world breech which may explain all the backward choices I made in my life.

I grew up in a Christian home where, while imperfect, both my mom and dad were believers in Jesus Christ. In the 5th grade I was forced to change grade schools which began my downfall. I knew nobody and the only group that accepted me, a newbie was the smokers and drug users. So I soon began smoking, drinking, using drugs, and it never stopped but only grew as I got older.

Were it so that these were my only vices, I also began stealing, acting out in school, and disrespecting my dad. My drinking and drug use continued to grow as I didn’t like my life and tried to escape. In the 6th grade, my teacher Mrs. Colby decided that I wasn’t being challenged enough in school and came up with the solution to push me forward into the 7th grade at the halfway point of the year. This created another headache for me because now the older kids in the Junior high school resented me. One more reason to fall deeper into drinking and drug usage!

My acting out at home also became a greater problem which put me into the juvenile justice system which led to several out of home placements. The Rock County Youth Home, a group home in Stoughton and eventually Mendota. They made the determination that I was fine and let me go home. None of it worked and I went off to my first stay at Ethan Allen which led to a placement in a Beloit juvenile halfway house where I was promptly kicked out and returned to Ethan Allen. This lasted until an attorney found an error in the paperwork and I was sent to Norris Farms. I remained in there until the end of the school year in which I was released to my home in 1981. My appearance back at school brought mixed reviews as many wouldn’t talk to me, some remembered past friendships, and once again the users embraced me which I relished. I never did graduate from school and in 1982 my dad passed away from heart failure.

This seemed to set my path, I drank more, and began to use heavier drugs (Hallucinogen’s) My life was now simply one of partying. I continued to think I was managing but I was hiding inside. In January of 1986 it all seemed to come to an end as on January me and two others planned to rob a liquor store. Each of us had different roles and I was one the one to enter. Things didn’t happen as planned and I wound up shooting and killing Steven Raby, this happened on January 23rd and was arrested on January 25th. Two trials later I was found guilty of 2nd degree murder and armed robbery the judge gave me the maximum of 70 years. The memory of Steven, what I did to him became my inspiration, I never wanted to hurt anyone again.

While inside I went through college but more important for me were the bible studies I did by mail. By God’s grace on May 16th, 2017 I received a grant and came back to Janesville. I try to do as best as I can with the help of Jesus Christ and on September 3, 2017, I was again baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. I truly did repent of my sins and now wait on the blessings of God. I trust in His holy word for 1Corinthians 6:11 says, “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” I am forgiven and I know I am sanctified in His Holy name! Amen. God bless you all and it is my prayer that this inspires you to never give up!