“There was always that conviction within me. But when I really looked at the word, and I looked at Romans 1:26 and it says, ‘Women were having unnatural sex with women,’ I could no longer justify my lifestyle.” -MJ Nixon
News Staff : Jan 17, 2019 : CharismaNews.com
[Charismanews.com] The Holy Spirit is moving among this generation in miraculous ways. Charisma reached out to nine “new voices” who are advancing the kingdom of God around the world. Each story is featured in our Charisma January issue, and we’ve posted the transcripts below. This interview has been edited for grammar and clarity. For the full interview, be sure to download the podcast. (Photo: MJ Nixon/Courtesy/via Charisma News)
M.J. Nixon is a former lesbian who shares her radical conversion to Christ through her organization, Uprooted Heart.
Can you tell the listeners a little bit about your testimony?
So, my story starts as a young little girl with hidden attraction. I was that little girl who, looking back, wanted to be a little boy. I always wanted to be the prince rescuing the princess. I never wanted to be rescued. I grew up in the Church. So, I knew about God, but I didn’t really have that relationship. So, throughout my adolescent years, my middle school years and into my high school years, I just hid it; I just suppressed it.
And getting into high school, I got involved with the wrong group of people. I thought if I partied, I thought if I drank alcohol and became part of the cool group, these attractions would go away. But what I found is that I was at those parties, and I was just trying to drink away my sorrows, but I would wake up the next day and still have these attractions. So, I was always in that in between, of not knowing what to do, wanting to act out on them.
But also, then, on Sundays, being in church and hearing that homosexuality was a sin. And I really see as I look back on my life, right before I went to college, for the first time in my life, I opened up to another bisexual male in my school. And I said to him, for the first time, “I’m gay,” and it wasn’t even a few months later that I was in a full relationship with another female that I went to school with. And we ended up being in a relationship for over five years, did everything that couples do, even propose.
I had the life I finally always wanted. I wanted to live with one person, have a monogamous relationship, be able to live the American dream, and I had that. But at the same time, I always had the inner conviction—I say conviction, it was never condemning—but it was always this still, small voice that said, “M.J., I have something so much greater for you. If you would just surrender your heart, and you would lay down this part of you, your sexuality, and give it to me, then you would live in the fullness of what I have for you.” So that was one of the hardest decisions we both ever made in our lives, but we decided to end the relationship completely, cut it off and go full-in with Jesus.
How have you used your salvation and your testimony to just minister to people around the world even?
Yeah, so it’s actually been seven years since I surrendered my life and gave my full life to Jesus Christ. And it’s been the best seven years of my life—you know, true joy, true happiness. Like I said, you know, drinking, partying, being around people trying to fulfill, you know, this piece that was missing inside of me, my whole life, this relationship with Jesus. Now I truly can celebrate. I truly have joy and peace.
And as I started to realize there weren’t many people sharing their stories of overcoming homosexuality, as I started to share, God gave me this vision of my heart. He gave me Matthew 15:13. It says any plant that the Father has not planted would be uprooted. So, He showed me my heart in the weeds of deception, of homosexuality, and uprooting it and planting it in His garden to flourish and to grow. So that’s how I got Uprooted Heart Inc., and that is my nonprofit ministry. And we are actually established to uplift and show light to other testimonies of people who have come out of the LGBTQ lifestyle. And so, we’ve been doing that now for four years.
That’s amazing. I know you also had a vision for a documentary. Can you tell me a little bit about that?
Yes. So, the documentary is called Here’s My Heart, a documentary about surrendering to freedom. The Lord awakened me in the middle of the night. And He downloaded this whole vision of taking six males and six females from all over the United States and sharing their testimonies. And I was so excited about that, because the biggest thing I get when I go to minister is, “I didn’t know people could come out of homosexuality.”
But I really wanted to share the true stories of individuals whom I knew were overcomers that were living, you know, the fullest identity of who they were really created to be before the foundation of the earth. So, we’re just excited. We’re traveling now. We love to encourage the Church to really be…
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