I cried out to God one night to show me if He was really there and if He really cared. I was fed up with how I was living and everything I was doing wrong seemed magnified to me and I felt sinful and horrible. I had known 'about' God from school and Sunday School but I never knew I could have a personal experience with Him and know Him as my Lord and Saviour.
About a week after this a couple of Faith Mission pilgrims came to our village and set up meetings. I found myself drawn to go along and find out what they were about (and because one of the pilgrims was a handsome lad I admit). However, once in the meeting, I forgot all about him and found myself drawn to what they were speaking about. I gave me heart to the Lord that night and was born again of God's Spirit and the burden of my sinful attitudes and wrong doings was forgiven and I felt freedom and release and the peace of God which passes all human understanding.
A few days later, the pilgrims gave me a little NIV Bible and told me to mark any verses that I thought God was speaking to me through. I thought "what on earth are they talking about?" but took the Bible home and read it in bed that night. I read the parable of the Lost Sheep and could not stop reading over the verses. The next night, I went along to the meetings and guess what they were preaching about? That's right - The Lost Sheep!
I told them what I was reading the night previous and they explained that they were supposed to have their mission meetings in another town in the area but somehow the hall they were to have their mission meetings in was overbooked and the only hall in the whole shire they could find at short notice to continue was the one up the road from my house. To me God confirmed through the passage and what the pilgrims said that I was a lost sheep and He found me - something I have had to use over and over in spiritual warfare when the devil has tried to make me believe otherwise.
To anyone who has been led to read this and if you are still not sure what to believe - I would challenge you to ask God to show you if He is real or not and if you really, really mean it and are willing for His response, then He will definately show you! I know for sure because I called out to God one night and not long after He led me to into His family - "For whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
About a week after this a couple of Faith Mission pilgrims came to our village and set up meetings. I found myself drawn to go along and find out what they were about (and because one of the pilgrims was a handsome lad I admit). However, once in the meeting, I forgot all about him and found myself drawn to what they were speaking about. I gave me heart to the Lord that night and was born again of God's Spirit and the burden of my sinful attitudes and wrong doings was forgiven and I felt freedom and release and the peace of God which passes all human understanding.
A few days later, the pilgrims gave me a little NIV Bible and told me to mark any verses that I thought God was speaking to me through. I thought "what on earth are they talking about?" but took the Bible home and read it in bed that night. I read the parable of the Lost Sheep and could not stop reading over the verses. The next night, I went along to the meetings and guess what they were preaching about? That's right - The Lost Sheep!
I told them what I was reading the night previous and they explained that they were supposed to have their mission meetings in another town in the area but somehow the hall they were to have their mission meetings in was overbooked and the only hall in the whole shire they could find at short notice to continue was the one up the road from my house. To me God confirmed through the passage and what the pilgrims said that I was a lost sheep and He found me - something I have had to use over and over in spiritual warfare when the devil has tried to make me believe otherwise.
To anyone who has been led to read this and if you are still not sure what to believe - I would challenge you to ask God to show you if He is real or not and if you really, really mean it and are willing for His response, then He will definately show you! I know for sure because I called out to God one night and not long after He led me to into His family - "For whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."