{"id":798,"date":"2021-05-25T17:09:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moktashef.org\/?page_id=798"},"modified":"2023-07-10T15:55:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:55:14","slug":"personal-stories-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/moktashef.org\/en\/personal-stories-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"798\" class=\"elementor elementor-798\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d57bb2c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d57bb2c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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I was not like everyone else, and I did not want to be like everyone else. I knew that though I was in the same school, clubs, and organizations, I did not think like all the others. I was different. I saw the world differently than the rest.<\/p><p>Then I met a group of people who helped me to understand for the first time in my life who Jesus really was. Once I met the real Jesus of the Bible, I understood why I was different. I was different because God had been slowly revealing His truth to me all along through my thoughts, but I was totally unaware it was Him. 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