This is a post that I posted to Facebook in 2016…the story hasn’t changed. I always wonder who were the saints that prayed for me because I’m a true miracle of salvation.
Stepping out in faith not really knowing why God is doing what He’s doing can sometimes be scary but being obedient and bold enough to do what He has called you to do is the MOST rewarding!
I’m not at all ashamed of my testimony. I’m actually always quite honored to share it. It’s just the question as to why on FB….and what exactly is God planning to do now…..
The Lord has been speaking to my heart to share my personal testimony as to how I came to know Him. My job now is to be obedient and trust that He has a divine plan.
I was not raised in church nor was I allowed to even go to church with my friends. My parents had a bad experience in my early childhood years and they didn’t want me or my siblings to experience the same thing.
Until that day when I was age 17 and was able to attend church and sat under the Holy anointed preaching of Bro Raymond Chronister. He preached from Luke the 16th chapter. The visual of Bro Raymond pouring his heart out to the congregation will forever be in my mind and a part of my salvation testimony. He stood with his long arms outstretched with a hanky in one hand and tears rolling down his cheeks as he carried a burden for his congregation and wanted them all to “be saved”
I didn’t really even know what that meant. He continued preaching about the rich man in hell and how he was begging for just one drop of water to cool his tongue while being tormented in the flames of hell.
Bro Raymond then gave an invitation and invited those that didn’t know Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior to come forward and receive Him as their own. My hands clenched the pew in front of me for only a few seconds before I let go and before I could stop myself I was on my way to the alter. Before I actually made it to the alter I felt as if I had walked through a heat (that’s the best I can explain it) it was only later as I grew in my Christianity that I realized “that heat” was actually the Holy Spirit coming to dwell within me. Jesus knew my heart and even tho I didn’t know the things to say to even receive Him as my Savior….He knew my heart was begging for Him to come in….and He did. I had some precious people from the church that knew how to walk me through a sinners prayer and I begged God to forgive me of my sins and I truly whole heartedly repented of them. When I stood from that alter I literally felt like I was floating. Such a huge burden had been lifted and I was walking sin free and truly forgiven….my sins were “under the blood”
I have made many many mistakes over the years. The difference for me now is that I have an instant gnawing in my heart by the Holy Spirit that quickly convicts me and then I have to make the choice to ask forgiveness over that sin in which I committed.
I do pray my life ALWAYS reflects Christ. I pray my attitude is always in check and that I display Godly fruit. I’m not always successful but I strive to be more Christlike every single day. It’s my honor to be a prayer warrior and stand in that spiritual gap for others and to pray for souls to be saved. For each person has a choice to make. Either to accept or to reject His Salvation. We each will spend an eternity somewhere and had it not been for the praying saints I never even met…. I wouldn’t be serving a God today that holds my eternity.
Yes….I initially was saved out of my own selfishness because I did NOT want to go to that devils hell that Brother Raymond preached on. It scared me to think about all the sinful things I had done up to that point. Now….over time I’ve fallen so deeply in love with my Lord that my desires have changed and my desires are to please my Heavenly Father and to walk in uprightness and be full of integrity and having the ability to be Humble each day of my life but yet being able to come boldly before the throne of His Grace to make each of my needs known before Him and asking Him to guide me each and every step I take.
Thank you Jesus for shedding your life’s blood for me. Thank you for dying for my sins so that I can live eternally with You one day.
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