Greetings

ezra517 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 07:31 PM

Hello everyone!

If you havent noticed I am new to this forum. I believe that the KJV is God's perserved word in the English tongue. I have been saved since March 15th of 2002. Below is a short version of how I came to know Jesus Christ personally.
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In my early years I spent some time back and forth going to churches with my grandmother and other family members. Not truly knowing much about God. For I only got fed with table scraps of scripture. My teen years I started to show a interest in to the occult practices. And by my senior year of High School, I became a Wiccan until my early twenties. Thats when everything changed.

My brother and this Pastor were doing some work on this old dance studio in hopes that it would be a fine place to have a church. This place was in nasty shape with its pink and purple walls if I remember correctly. And the floors! Boy I could not tell if they were concrete or tile. Come to find out they were tile, thats where I came into the picture. I am a custodian/maintenance for a school system and was back then as well. My brother came to me requesting my help with the floors. Truthfully I wanted to know part in helping them. They were Christians more than that they were Baptists! I had no liking for these people being a Wiccan. I know now that I was afraid of what I did not know more than anything. So setting my feelings aside I decided to help my brother and the Pastor with this task.

So here I was one March night working inside this small old dance studio in Middletown Connecticut. Something came over me while working there Not to sure what the feeling was I was enjoying what I was doing. For some odd reason I was enjoying it because I was doing it for the Lord. I know now that the feeling I had was my heart being tugged on by the Lord. In the back room of the studio they had a small radio playing tuned in to the local Christian station 104.9 FM. Chuck Swindoll was giving a message which I did not show much interest in the entire night, not until it got to the end that is. At the end of the sermon Chuck Swindoll gave a invitation to accept the free gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ.
I asked Jesus to forgive me for the way that I have been living my life. I repented for the way that I was living and how I was not living for Him. I accepted that He died on the cross for me and raised again the third day. I asked Him to come in to my life and take control of it for I was giving it to Him. When I raised off my knees from saying that simple prayer, I felt new. I felt washed and cleaned, but on the inside. All the burdens that were on my heart, the heaviness that was on my chest for so long vanished away. I felt an overwhelming sense of joy within me! Most of all felt forgiven.

With making that step in life I did lose some things that were dear to me at the time. Those things that I have lost do not add up to how much I gained with Christ Jesus. I was born again, sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. I had the free gift of eternal life, I was secure in my salvation knowing that the Lord will never leave me nor forsake me. Making that step was worth it. I had a second chance in life! That free gift can be yours too if you haven't already accepted Him in to your life. Just go to Him as you are right now. Don't try to do anything to improve who you are or how you are. The Lord knew you before you took your first breath. He doesn't look at you with mans eyes, but with His own. He is looking at your heart, let Him make you whole. I am thankful that I have answered the call. My only prayer is that you do the same. So we both can enjoy our mansions in glory together.