TESTIMONIES

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TREVOR AND DEBORAH
It was a warm Jamaican evening and we were looking for a place to live as we had to leave the apartment we were staying at in two days. We decided to go around the corner and look at a house opposite the local fire station which someone had told us about. Unfortunately the owner was not around nor did he answer his phone, so we decided we were going to go home, but God had other plans!

All of a sudden a man named Garfield saw we were looking for someone and asked us where we wanted to go, we said that we are looking for a place to live. He told us about a guest house just around the corner from where we were currently staying. We took the information Garfield gave us about the guesthouse and thanked him.

The same night we looked at the guesthouse and told the lady who owned it who is from Canada what we were looking for, she shouted with a strong voice, “Tallman” which was his nickname and told him to show us a house and when we’d seen it she would sort out a price. We were not sure if we wanted it so we went back home and we were thinking about it.

We went back the next day during the day with the lady where who’s place we were staying in and found we liked it more. Deborah, the owner gave us a really good deal so we decided to take it and moved there the following day.

We saw that Deborah was very open to the gospel, and she said that she wants to rekindle her spiritual life. Within one week she asked us if we can baptize her, so we baptized her.

Then about a week later an evangelist came from the USA and spoke to her husband about being a disciple of Jesus and being baptized. The husband agreed to be baptized so the Evangelist and Steven baptized him. The husband, Trevor is in his 70’s and the wife is in her 60’s.

Sometime later their daughter came from the United States and within a couple of weeks Steven engaged her with the gospel and her heart was also open and she decided to be a disciple of Jesus and get baptized as well. In addition, she asked if her very young children could be baptized but Steven advised dedication instead due to their understanding. Now all that is left is her husband in the USA. Watch this space……..

The latest update to this testimony is that Deborah went to be with The Lord Jesus and left us a few months after being baptised

DAVID
​This is David's testimony since he got baptised:
Awesome. Getting more into the Bible now, which has always been a weakness of mine. I feel like God is holding me more accountable!!!

SID'S BAPTISM
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​We were out in town one day and just about to have dinner when we noticed a man sitting near us wearing a hat and silver chains around his neck, who looked like he wanted something to eat. We saw this as a good opportunity to share the gospel with him, so my Mum started a conversation with the young man named Sid, and we found out that he had just left prison two weeks ago.

My Dad soon took over the conversation and began preaching to him and asked him if he’s ready to be baptized, he answered “soon” with a strong Jamaican accent which is a very common response here in Jamaica, but we said he could be baptized now just like Paul quoted in Acts 22:16. And that was it. We were soon heading to the beach again which was just around the corner after we had brought Sid some soup. (Us children always make the most of our visits to the beach when baptizing someone and even bring our swimwear sometimes!) 

It was actually 6:00 pm at the time and the beach was closed, but the security guards at the beach who know us well let us through for free to baptize people which is a blessing. So there and then on the beautiful beach of Ocho Rios with tall coconut and palm trees surrounding us, Dad buried the old Sid, and up came the new Sid, a child of God.
After being baptized he said that he felt like a burden had lifted off him, and he also felt that some anger that he had towards some people had gone. Praise Jesus. “I feel like a new man,” Sid said.
​Faith aged 13

SOPHIA

​I praise God for this blessed ministry! God in His faithfulness bought Steven and Tamara into my life at a crucial point. My daughter was in a state school and was not able to express herself freely. I had been considering christian homeschooling for her. I was praying for her and believing for the salvation of my children. I also had a past in a cult and was under attack frequently by the enemy. Me and my daughter have been set free and experiencing liberty and joy now by the prayers and fellowship with Steven and family. My daughter has been baptised and filled with the holy spirit, she speaks in tongues also. I also was re-baptised in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Sophia

ANDREW
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One day we went into our town, and we were just buying some fruit from a lady street trader that we have known since the last time we came to Jamaica. A homeless man called Andrew from New York walked up to Dad and begged him for some money. Dad had just spent all his money and said that he had nothing to give him. 

Anyway, as he does, Dad told him about Jesus and what our Saviour has done for us and asked if he would like to be baptised He wasn’t quite sure at first because all the clothes he owned was what he was wearing, Dad told Andrew to pray and ask God what he should do. Obviously God told him to go ahead and get baptised! He kept on repeating, “I have little faith”. Dad encouraged him and said, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed you could move mountains.”

When we got to the gate for the beach Dad said to the security guard that he wanted to baptise Andrew and asked if we could just come quickly without paying. He said “We’re closed and you can’t come in.” 

As we had been there a lot of times before, we got to know the manager and asked if they could call him and ask if we could come in. Another guard phoned the manager and said that we may go in. The other security guard apologised for being difficult. Anyway, despite the difficulties, Dad baptised Andrew. Afterwards we found out that he had been living in New York and was deported back to his homeland due to drug dealing.

He found it a struggle to walk as he had been wearing the same shoes for months and his feet had become sore, so Dad prayed for him and Andrew said that they were feeling a little better.  We got him some new flip flops, then we all ate at KFC together.  Another homeless man called Sid who we had baptised a few weeks ago, came over to join us and he said that life was getting better since the baptism. 

We thank God for all the people He has bought to us, and are praying that he would bring even more!
Mercy aged 12

BEN
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​I was brought up in a Christian home with my 2 sisters and 1 brother and was taken by my parents to Pentecostal Churches from as young as I can remember. I always believed that God existed and that the universe was created by him, but I did not give Him place my life until the age of 18.

When I was at the age of 9 years old I remember getting sat down in our living room by my father and being told that my younger brother who was 3 years old at the time had been diagnosed with Leukaemia. At that age, I couldn't fully comprehend the seriousness that cancer of the blood really causes to your health.

At the beginning of my teenage years, and after many years of being in and out of various different specialist cancer hospitals, watching my brother get worse and worse in his health it started to take a negative effect on me and my relationship with my parents, especially my father. My faith in God also deteriorated rapidly. I started to look for something that would take my mind away from the pain and suffering that my brother was enduring.

From the age of around 14 I got involved with a large group of boys (mainly older than me) who were all heavily involved in the use of drugs, illegal raving, fighting and general criminal behaviour. For many years I would hang out with this group on a very regular basis. We would go to illegal raves and take drugs every single weekend for around 3 years straight from when I was 14 to 17. As you can imagine this caused serious problems for my mental and physical health. Through these years my physical health was poor. I had extremely bad skin from all the drugs I was taking and had a very skinny, timid appearance from a terrible diet, lifestyle and sleep pattern. My mental health was also not in a good place and I often struggled with reality. In short, I was completely addicted to smoking cannabis, going out with my mates and rebelling against God.

I was getting in bad trouble at school, in fact, I got expelled from two secondary schools and my use of drugs and raving lifestyle was no secret to my fellow students and teachers. As you can imagine my life was a complete mess at this point and I felt like my parents were ashamed of me but still loved me. I was beginning to get fed up and started to look for a way out of this lifestyle and for a way to get out of this group of bad influences.

At the age of 17½ years old, I remember my mother and older sister encouraged me to join a gym. I thought to myself “what's the harm”? So I went for my first weight training session which I fell in love with straight away. I quickly started seeing some extremely positive effects on my body, I grew muscle and my complexion got healthier. I enjoyed the mental and physical health benefits along with having a structured and healthy meal plan.

As I got more and more into the gym, I started to seriously cut down my cannabis usage and the number of times I would go on nights out. In turn, this led me to see my friends less and less as none of them were interested in joining a gym. The bad lifestyle I was previously involved in comparison with the healthy one at the gym, just did not go hand in hand.

Throughout this period, my brother was getting more seriously unwell. At one point he was not allowed out of a sealed hospital room for around 8 weeks and I had to visit him through a glass window.

On November 11th 2014, I was cycling home from college. My brother had been extremely unwell that week. The hospital advised us that he should be sent back to our home address so we could spend some time with him in private. They knew at this point he had not long to live. At around 4 pm I walked in the door and I remember hearing my family shout for me to come into the living room. They all knelt down by the sofa surrounding my brother. I also knelt down and held him in my arms as he took his last breath.

From that point onwards my life changed. My whole perception of the gift of life completely changed. It made me realise how real and close death is to us at any moment! For the next few months after my brothers' death, I didn't want to leave my house and entered a dark place in my life. I spent a large amount of time in my room praying to God and dwelling in his Spirit. I spent many hours crying at the feet of God and asking him for forgiveness for my sins. I had deep remorse in my heart and repentance towards God.

For the next year after the death of my brother I grew closer to God and really started to live a life that pleased Him. I completely stopped all drugs, raving and most importantly, had completely cut off all my old friends.

Of course, Satan had other ideas. As you can imagine he slowly tried to worm his way back into my life and sent me off course in a completely different manner to the way in which he previously used.

When I was 18 I met my first ever girlfriend. This relationship quickly became one of sin. For the first time in my life I was taken over by the spirit of lust and began to fornicate on a regular basis with a girl who I was not married to, nor was I evenly yoked with. I felt very trapped in this life of sin. I thought I loved her. But deep down, I knew I wasn’t. I could feel the weight of the sin down inside me.

This un-godly relationship went on and I would just try and sweep my sin under the carpet and try to forget about it. But after a year into the relationship, the weight of the guilt and sin built up and it was too much for my heart. I eventually built up the courage to end things with her as God was really calling on me to end it and I knew it was best for both of us.

In that time period of being single, my faith continued to grow once again. I got baptised in water and the Holy Spirit by Steven James. A couple of months later I was somehow drawn back to her and fell back into the routine of sin. I just could not get myself away from the relationship. Satan kept pulling me back in through the fleshly desires of sex, lust and a false sense of love. Being unequally yoked, the relationship continued to go downhill and I started to lose respect for her. Eventually, the relationship fell apart after 3½ years of being on and off. I was left feeling extremely distressed and depressed, knowing how much time I had invested into this girl who I thought I loved, for nothing in return. I was left with nothing but hurt and resentment in my heart. At this point, I felt like my relationship with God had grown extremely distant as I had spent too long turning my back on him for the desires of my own flesh. I was left feeling at rock bottom with my faith torn apart.

After the relationship ended and for the next year afterwards Satan continued to work in my life and quickly tried to fill that sinful hole inside me by influencing me to living a life of clubbing, holiday in Ibiza, drinking alcohol, going to festivals and chasing women.

3 weeks ago I became incredibly unwell for 6 days straight, in fact, this was the most unwell I had ever felt in my life. My symptoms were piercing headaches which lasted all day, fever, cold sweats, flu symptoms, loss of appetite and a lump on my skin. two days into this illness I realised I was not getting any better and actually getting worse.

On the second day of the illness, I started to weep at the feet of God and cried my heart out for forgiveness for my sins and for my illness to be healed. This deep repentance went on for 6 days and eventually I was forgiven and healed!

God continues to forgive me for all the awful sin in my life. He was giving me another chance to start afresh and to live for him and not for the world! He is a loving and fair God! I am now on fire for God and have no intentions of ever turning back into an unfruitful life of sin, guilt and shame.

Ben

DONIQUE
It was a Saturday afternoon and my Dad (Steven) had decided to hold the first church meeting in the main park in town in a pergola. This provided shade from the fierce afternoon sun. We invited a few people. The first to arrive were two young men, one of whom we had previously baptised named Dwain. Dwain suffers from diabetes which has affected his legs so he gets around in a wheelchair. The other was his cousin Donique who was pushing the wheelchair. 
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My Dad (Steven) started to preach the gospel to them. After my Dad preached, the expression Donique’s face looked like he was about to cry. He said to Steven that he would like to be baptised straight away. So my Dad baptised him. Dad found out afterwards that when Donique was 11,  he saw both his parents shot in front of him. He had been traumatised for 10 years and God started to heal his heart.
​Joshua aged 10

PASTOR AUSTIN

​T​hank you sir for your ministry today
Your supernatural approach has awakened something in the church
God increase you more and more
Shalom
Pastor Austin

MARK & KYLIE'S WEDDING

​Our names are Mark and Kylie... If you are reading this then like us, you too are being lead to experience Jesus`ministry through One way Jesus. This testimony we share is that of marriage , unity and blessing all to Gods glory , with His provision and through His people.
We were introduced to the James family by a lovely lady from Church who thought we should meet to talk about home educating, so we did.
We shared faith, views, life and we were so inspired by their way of living. At some point marriage entered the conversation-we had been together 16 years, two beautiful children, newly born again Christians and unmarried. The sad fact being there had always been a barrier/excuse delaying us.
Stephen and Tamara offered to marry us and asked us to pray about it. They then invited our family to stay with them that weekend, we happily accepted.
After talking, eating and praying together that Sunday Stephen wed us in the most beautiful, public place...openly declaring our promises of love and entering into covenant .
Together we felt so right with God, our breast plate of amour was on and He was well pleased.
We had done it His way not ours and encouraged by this wonderful family.
Our blessings did not end here... truly I tell you....we felt Gods grace in a new way,  over the whole of our household and He called us into a few way of living. We now too home educate!
We know that Jesus went before us, put Stephen, Tamara and their 5 awesome children in our path to bless us.
 Our prayers and love rest with this family and ministry. X

Caution: if you do have the opportunity to meet with the James` do expect a breakthrough with Jesus.​

MEENA

​2 years ago I suffered depression.  There were a number of reasons for my depression.  The fact that due to circumstances I've moved to 10 houses in the past 16 years. Lost our home, went through a divorce, went through bankrupcy, then having to find money to pay insolvency within a year, bringing up a teenager with behaviour problems.  He also wouldn't get up to go to school so that was a struggle for 5 years.  
We were both in a hostel, then I rushed into renting a house, where we were both unhappy.  I didn't feel like making it homely. I lived just for my children.  I didn't feel no joy whatsoever.  I fell asleep very late at night, then I would get up and kept having thoughts throughout the night, I struggled out of bed with very little sleep, as soon as I dropped my son to school, I'd cry all the way to work. Couldn't eat anything in the morning, struggled to eat at all, but forced myself to have something.  I felt like drinking alcohol which I did occasionly. I wasn't a heavy drinker just 1 or 2 glasses of wine. 
One day a friend of mine took me to a Church.  I went looking awful, didn't even dress properly. As I sat there I couldn't stop crying.  From then on I went every Sunday to church.  Then I was baptised.
After a few months I started to go to church near where I lived.  I used to go to the altar  and tell the pastor to pray for my depression to leave. I went to so many healing services.
Then I started praying and worshipping early in the morning and I read a few Pslams . I was praying for my 25 year old daughter at the same time because she was smoking weed and following Islam.  For the first time I had the holy spirit, and I felt that there was God after all, it gave me hope. 

Months went by and I was still depressed, until one day I said to Steven, I've decided to go to doctors to get anti-depressants.
I didn't want to take medication but I just didn't want to feel the way I was feeling every day.  Steven advised me not to take anti-depressants and he prayed for me.  Within days my depression went.

My daughter and I wasn't close, we became close again, she started asking me to help her.  I had everyone praying for her. I also used to go to Steven's and Tamara's house and we would pray together for her salvation.  My daughter is also now a Christian, Steven himself baptised her, and she stopped smoking weed completely and goes to Church every Sunday.  But that's another testimony.
God is such a good Father. Thank You Jesus, Thank you Steven. 
Just my 2 sons to be saved now and I know that our Father will save them.  We are nothing without JESUS. We need Jesus every second,every day.  He gives me strength each and every day.  Without Jesus I wouldn't be here today.  Without Jesus we would be like the lost souls we see on the streets drinking alcohol first thing in the morning. I LOVE JESUS. He's done a miracle with my daughter.  Thank You Lord. 

​By Meena

SUZIE'S BAPTISM

In Jamaica we live up on a high hill, at the bottom was a shopping centre where we used to go quite often called Island Village.

One day when we went into a shop  we got talking to one of the staff who were working there. We were trying to tell her of the importance of salvation and baptism and although she realised this, she said she wasn't ready to be saved and be baptised.

The other member of staff, Susie, who was listening in, knew of her need for Jesus but she hadn't yet committed her life to Him, so we led her in a prayer of repentance and she received the Holy Sprit and fell on the floor in the shop and was shaking under the power and presence of God, she started doing this each time we went to visit her.

One day she felt convicted that she had to get baptised, so she got some spare clothes to wear from the shop she worked in so that that she could get baptised. We baptised her straight away in the local beach that was part of Island Village, and after we baptised her she fell back into the water because she felt the power of Holy Spirit again!

Soon after we baptised her mother too!

By Mercy, age 9

KAREN

​Hi Steven, I would like to share my testimony with you
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10/09/2017
From 1980- 2014 I was in an extremely controlled abusive marriage during this time I was not allowed to have keys to my own home or any access to funds that I worked for, during this time. The only contact I had with people was during my working day other than that I had been conditioned throughout my life to keep my mouth shut, this stems back from child hood, so it was easy for me to do exactly that. In the latter years I had really really had enough truth is I wanted to die as I saw that as freedom.

I had always believed in God and I prayed every day and I know he was always with me as I would have gone insane without him in my life (this is what often infuriated Martin) because no matter what I went through because of my belief I would never ever give in and say I didn’t believe.

Anyway, things were getting far worse than they had been and I mistakenly took to many pain killers. As a result of  looking after him and his also abusive mother, I believe this was my turning point because from that moment on Jesus took over every step of the way and freed me and what a wonderful day that was. Sadly, when I was free the world was a different place from what I remembered I felt like I had been in a coma, I wasn’t angry, but I couldn’t really communicate with people I felt guilty when I did. I went to Alpha but didn’t want to talk to anyone, I went to Beta and still didn’t want to talk to anyone
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I was getting better but didn’t really want to talk to anyone, I did commitment and it changed me in so many ways. I had a vision and I knew exactly where God wanted me to go but this was a struggle.

Because I could not speak out loud or pray in public or speak in tongues out loud many people had prayed over me, as so many times in church my heart would break, at watching TV my heart would break even seeing things in the street my heart would break I felt I was feeling everyone’s pain (I now know why this was happening) 

I felt God was talking to me more and more about what I should be doing but I just kept saying how can I when I can’t pray out loud and I joined the connect group as I was getting better but I still Wasn’t really connecting with people until I met you Steven, we had to sit with your family and as lovely as they are  I was really still quite nervous and was waiting for your friends to come, because I knew that I would be called elsewhere, your friends did come but I was invited by you to stay and I am so thankful for that, I believe whole heartedly that you was sent by Jesus to free me from the chains of my past and you have set me free, so free that I am experiencing the love of our Lord Jesus who has done some wonderful things in my life, I now speak in tongues out loud (I have always understood what I said in tongues) but I now know that is a gift, I have translated tongues, and I have had visions with every message that Jesus has given me some wonderful things that I have had to pass on and things I know are for a later date that Jesus will take me to, I can also write my tongues down and I now know that is another gift.

Through your praying over me Steven was so powerful that I actually felt them break and I almost heard them snap in Jan I had a vision whilst in commitment class there was a beautiful small bridge with trees either side in the most beautiful colours, colours that I know but far to wonderful to explain if that makes sense, over the bridge was a wonderful field I didn’t cross the bridge but I could see it and there was again the most wonderful trees with a beautiful glow of colour above them it was so peaceful I wanted to cross the bridge but I couldn’t , I now know that thanks to Jesus love through you that I have crossed that bridge and I am now able to fulfil God’s plan for me.

​Karen

CAMERA LEFT BEHIND

We entered a bus to start our journey home after a long day baptising people in Jamaica, we had videoed the baptisms on our camera.
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We got off the bus and entered a taxi then we noticed that we had left the camera and Faith's bag in the bus, (in Jamaica things like that would have been taken especially because they are very poor).
So we told the taxi driver that we had left things in the bus and the taxi driver said that he could try to follow the bus till it stops so we could get the camera and bag that we had left as we were believing that they were there.
We were praying that it would still be there, the driver was driving fast so that we would get it in time. When the bus stopped we went back into the bus and everything was still there! What a miracle!

By Mercy, age 9

WILLOW

​Greetings Evangelist,

There aren't enough words to express how AMAZING I felt since last Friday. I was Baptized May 19th by Pastor Paula who is by the way TRULY ANOINTED. Thank you so much for putting me in contact with her. Everything went well, I'm still high off the spirit since then. That experience was so enlighting and fulfilling, I knew I chose the right time to commit myself to Christ. You have been a blessing for me, honestly, I don't know how I would have completed this task without your help. I appreciate you so much. I pray that God continues to bless you, your family, your church, and any and everybody you're connected to! Stay Blessed! 

Thanks Again,

Willow

CHRISTIAN​

I am Christian age 10 and was baptized at 11 o clock pm on April 29, 2016.😇
Thank u to all the children who shared with me about baptism.

Thank u Steven and Tamara
​Christian

ZOE

​Steven, Tamara and their beautiful family stayed with us and we were so blessed. Steven talked with me as if I were a adult and told me that he would support me if I want to go to the mission field when I am older and I was so touched! Tamara and us children prayed in tongues together and everyone got pictures and visions. The Steven James family are doing amazing work for the kingdom and should be proud of it.
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We love you guys and God bless you and your family!
Stay in God s bountiful mercy and grace.

OUR FREE CARS

In 2014 We had been given a family car car of an old Mazda 5. It lasted about 6 months then the gearbox went. We tried to get it fixed but couldn't as it broke down again after a long journey and using it for a few weeks. The man who fixed it was a Caribbean man and was taking drugs unfortunately.

We arrived in our 4 week house sit in Somerset to have our new baby Liberty there. We were in our last week when the gearbox broke only 3 days before our baby was going to be born and just 6 days before we had to leave to go to our next place of abode in Hamble Southampton.

​We prayed and put out a request on our homeschool network and asked if someone would like to sell or donate a 7 seat car to us. That night Joshua had a dream that we had a silver 7 seat car on our drive. The very next day we had an email back offering us a £6000 Silver Citroen C4 Grand Picasso for free. This represented our most generous ministry gift till date.

The only problem was that the car was in the Isle of Wight and not locally. However the Isle of Wight was just a ferry ride away from the place Hamble we were going to!
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​The other amazing thing was that our private christian midwife who didn't charge us one penny to help give birth to our new baby, arranged a ride for us to go to our new home and asked the same man to give us a crib for our baby! What an awesome God we have! As if that isn't enough, the generous man who offered us the Citroen brought the car to our doorstep the very next day! The car could have been anywhere in England but it wasn't, it was right near the place we were staying at. Glory to God!

MORMONS AT THE FRONT DOOR

Once a Christian lady who we met in McDonalds came over to our house. She often comes quickly for prayer for her husband because he is not saved and she would love him to be.

One time when she came mormons came to our door and rung the bell while we were praying for her, my mum answered the door and said “we are just breaking generational curses would you like to come in?” They looked quite amazed and they came in. When they entered mum, dad and our friend were praying in tongues, my mum told them to take a seat so they sat down on the sofa observing quietly.

​After we prayed some more our friend said that she had to go home so she thanked us for praying with her and went home.

So we were left with the mormons who were very amazed and wanted to find out what we were doing, especially as we were speaking in tongues, so my dad explained to them what we were doing.

​We were able to preach the true gospel to them and although they didn't pray the prayer of salvation we know they definitely experienced God.

By Mercy, age 9

PAUL

We were walking down the high street in Ocho Rios one day and a man approached us full of the fear of God after reading a tract. We are known by the people of the town as ministers of the good news of Jesus.
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​He asked us how he could be saved, so we told him what to do and said repent, receive the Holy Spirit and then baptised him immediately leaving no time for the devil to get in and delay it. Paul went onto Teen Challenge where he was totally set free of a life of cocaine addiction. He was a cocaine user for 27 years.