What event in your life....

[StogusMaximus]

What event in your life do think lead you to search for Jesus?

 

[Mandy]

The event that lead me to Christ was my parents' divorce. I was watching tv and came across someone preaching and felt in my heart that I needed Jesus and I received Him right then and there.

 

[soulsisterclaire]

Getting pregnant when I was 20 and not married, I really freaked out and God was there for me. My daughter's name: Jasmine Ashley Grace. I used Grace because I was "saved by grace"! Literally! Had I not gotten pregnant with her...who knows?

God indeed does work in mysterious ways!

 

[soulsisterclaire]

What about you stogusmaximus? If you don't mind my asking?

 

[StogusMaximus]

I posted it in the My Story.

Basically I have been a Christian all my life. I spent the better part of my teen years doing my own will and not wanting Jesus in my life.

A friend of my wife's invited us to church and I met the best people, I became friends with the kindess most holy pastor I have ever met. I was taught about Jesus and the Trinity and man from our associate pastor who just graduated from Wesley University. At that time I just felt my life do a 180 and I knew I had to start focusing on Jesus more and me less.

 

[AngelAmidala]

My event was actually a series of events someone might say was a line of bad luck.

My dad's car got totalled in the parking lot of the school where I was, my dog died, my dad was faced with losing his job...again, and as he was getting a medical checkup for a possible new job, we found out he had cancer.

It was all just too much and I pretty much gave up on God. But then I knew I had to fix my thinking, so I started going to a new Bible study at my church and eventually my faith grew even stronger then it had been ever before.

 

[FOMWatts<><]

I think a teenage depression lead me to Christ. I realized that I was truly useless and hopeless without God in my life. I also realized that any time that I had had JOY in my life it was from God, because He is the ONLY true source of JOY

FOMWatts <><

 

[JohnR7]

>>What event in your life do think lead you to search for Jesus?

My divorce 20 years ago. Actually, I was hurting and looking for a way to come out of the pain. Also, I knew divorce was a serious thing and I really did want to get myself right with God.

I was not seeking after Jesus, I was seeking after God. The Father introduced me to the Son. Jesus introduced me to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit then lead me back to Jesus, and Jesus pointed me back to the Father.

The Father spoke to me just as plainly before I got saved as after I got saved. Just not daily like He does now. Also, after we get saved, we quit rebelling, and start to DO His will. We start to know for she when it is God talking to us, and when we are being lied to.

 

[tom]

i think for me it ws being in a few accidents one that almost took my life. i feel that the lord wants me to draw
closer to him.

 

[hasbeens2000]

It was a series of events for me, too. First, I cared for my grandmother who had terminal brain cancer. Then my dad had a stroke. Finally, my wife of two years was diagnosed with a severe form of organ-threatening Lupus and nearly died. It was then that my pride was finally broken and I had no one left to lean on. God had to take away my 'security blankets', so I would look to Him--the Source of strength and comfort who would never fail me.

My experience was almost exactly like yours, John...

Originally posted by JohnR7
I was not seeking after Jesus, I was seeking after God. The Father introduced me to the Son. Jesus introduced me to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit then lead me back to Jesus, and Jesus pointed me back to the Father.

I cried out to God because I knew I couldn't handle life alone anymore. I didn't know Jesus. But God introduced me to Him. Through studying and following Jesus, I learned to recognize the Holy Spirit. Who, just like you said, led me back to Jesus, who in turn pointed me back to the Father. How cool is that?

 

[Didymus]

perhaps your question should be "what made you decide to accept Christ as savior ?" I had been raised in the church so i had a lot of head knowledge but it wasn t until I messed my life up sinning that I realized I needed Jesus.

 

[ZiSunka]

When I was 13 I realized that everything I had been taught about God was wrong. I started my journey then.

You wouldn't believe the things my childhood church taught about God, especially Jesus! Let's just say that He isn't at all who I was taught He was!

Of course, if they hadn't lied to me back then, I might not have cared enough to go find out who He really is, huh?

 

[Rob]

For me it was a series of things. I pretty much did not set foot in a church or even think about God for around 15 years. I was raised in a Lutheran church and had some knowledge about the gospel and Jesus. My church never taught about relationship or maybe I just didn't hear.

My 5 year son wanted us to take him to church. He had been going with his grandparents while my wife and I went to NFL football games on Sundays. We visited a church that let you wear jeans, played rock music used drama and a message that related to day to day life. They were also bible believing and Christ centered. Many seeker oriented churches are seeker centered and they water down the message so as not to offend anyone. This place was not that way.

I was having a really rough time at work with lots of extra job responsibilities place on me without any compensation. At about the same time my assistant who I have worked with for 18 years was diagnosed with Cancer. The combination of grief, being exhausted physically, and the Spirit I could feel in the worship service caused me to give my life to Christ one Sunday morning about 2.5 years ago.

 

[LouisBooth]

My mom making a 180 degree turn and totally changing who she was when she was saved....I literally thought she was a different person.

 

[Blessed-one]

like many others, i've been a "Christian" all my life, and not knowing exactly how to be saved, how to have a closer relationship with God, how to obey His words...
until i went into highschool and clung to God because of so many subtle rejections i received there.
He has done lots of miracles for me, and until last year, through a very unexpected circumstance, i came across (or really, God led me) the Left Behind books, and they just sort of threw me back to the path of God. He hasn't given up on me, and i've got to stop turning away from Him.

 

[amie]

It was when I was in a car accident when I was 19. I was in a coma and i was not expected to survive. I defied the laws of medicine...I died and it changed my life and I began searching for meaning. It was a horrible time for me, all of my friends that were in my car were killed, I broke almost everybone including both arms, both legs, all my ribs, my vertabrae, my skull was fractured in 4 places and my brain swelled. I was given my last rites and they waited, my funeral was planned and I was 6 months pregnant at the time. The accident caused me to go into labor, my son was 1 pound and he was too tiny to live. He died. since I was in a coma, I never saw him, but he came into me, he came into my heart, into my soul and he taught me how to love and then he left. I look frward to the day I will see him again. Recovery was painful and at the time I was given no counseling...just released out into the world. I was so massively depressed, all my friends were dead and my breasts leaked of milk that I had no child to feed. That night at 19, I took an entire bottle of pills as a suicide attempt. Miraculously, I woke up 3 days later lying in my own vomit. It was then that I finally realized I had work to do and it was not my time. In my desperation, I tried to die and when I didn't I realized what a horrible mistake for even trying to take my life! I had a purpose and for the first time, I felt God's presence and I learned, I was given a second chance to make things right, above all else, I learned to love. so thats what I'll do, for the rest of my life, I will love...
love and blessings
Amie

 

[fieldmouse3]

Like some of the others that have posted, it was a series of events.

I was sent to Sunday school and church when I was younger, but my immediate family was never very serious about Christianity. Still, I knew who God was, and who Jesus was, and prayed every so often, but usually just when I was in trouble or I needed something.
During this past year and a half, I did a lot of exploration of my faith, and what it meant to me. I'd make great strides, but I'd always slip back, and allow myself to be distracted.
This fall was when I really got serious. Bad things just kept happening to me: car accidents (yes, more than one), job problems, school problems, and to top it off, my friends were nowhere to be found during this time. I was alone, and I had nothing. Nothing, that is, except God. I turned to Him in full force during this time. I prayed endlessly, I studied the Bible, and I worked my way through devotionals. It wasn;t long before I realized that all the bad stuff that had happened to me was God's way of getting my attention. I couldn't get rid of the distractions in my life that were keeping from a strong relationship with Him, so He did it for me.
Things weren't necessarily perfect after that; I still found myself straying, and letting myself get distracted again. I soon learned to recognize the signs that that was happening, and I leanred how to pray my way through it. Now, my faith is stronger than ever, and so is my relationship with God!

 

[soulsisterclaire]

fieldmouse3, I can totally relate!

God does indeed chastise us when we stray so that we will come back to Him.

It is so hard to NOT stray sometimes. This world is so tempting and it just seems to be getting worse and harder not to get "worldly"!

I am struggling with that now. Actually I have been since the day I got saved about 15 years ago!

It seems to me that Satan just wants me to turn my back on God so he is messing with me to make that happen. Kinda like in the Book of Job! Course, Job was much better than me. I really respect him. I mean God let Satan take everything from him and still Job did not curse God! Whew!

Just a thought...

 

[fieldmouse3]

For a long time, I thought something was wrong with me because I struggled so much with my relationship with God. It seemed like I was always hearing stories of people who invite God into their lives in one incredible moment, then live a great Christian life from then on out. I had no idea why it was such a fight for me to even pray successfully! I talked to Christian friends about that, and they shared that they'd gone through similar stuff in their spiritual journeys.
Another note to my story: I don't think that bringing me closer to Him was God's only reason for having me go through everything that I went through this past fall and winter. That was a big part of it, yes, but lately, I've started to see my friends going through the same things I did. Since I've been there, I'm more able to understand and sympathize with them. So, I'm wondering if maybe God wanted me to be able to be there for my friends, and to do that, He had to show me what they were going through.

 

[Hishandmaiden]

I messed with spirits and is very very disappointed with the world. I wondered, what is the meaning of living. Why am I born? And thus, I searched for the one that create me. That leads me to Jesus.