When you got saved

[looksgood]

Tell us when and how.

For me I was 17 in july. I had no thought of God and didn't care either. I thought I could get saved on my death bed and live as I wanted. But this one day I sat and thought of the day and what I would do the next day. Suddanly I actualy hear Gods voice. "Do you really want to chance it?" Came out of no where. I can't explain His voice so please don't ask lol. But I answered that I didnt want to chance it. I heard nothing else.

I cried out all night for God to save me. I cried myself to sleep begging God. When I woke up I continued. Though I thought that night I would not care in the morning. I was wrong lol. I woke up and turned on a christian tv chanel. A man said "Did you pray it?" I answered yes. "Did you mean it?" Again I said yes, siting on the edge of my seat. I felt like he was about to say something that would change me forever, and I didnt know why I thought that nor did I know what it would be. He said "Then it is done!" LOL. Faith hit me and finaly...I believed! That second praise erupted! Never again was I the same. And I never will be.

So what about you?

 

[haya]

I was in my freshman year of college/uni. I started making friends with some people in my classes, etc, who invited me to their campus fellowship (IVCF). I thought, why not, so I went to check it out. It really blew me away. My family's not Christian (we celebrate Christmas and Easter though, but we "worship" Santa and the Easter Bunny... lol), and I had never met young people MY AGE who actually believed in God. Seriously. I thought it was just for old grandmas.
It took me a good while before I made the decision to accept Christ, by God's grace. It basically took me the entire academic year. I kept going to these fellowship meetings, and one of the weekly Bible studies. I had so many questions. I didn't know ANYTHING about Christianity. I remember asking one time, "so, um, do you guys really believe that there's a devil?" I couldn't grasp the concept. After all, a long time ago when I was a kid I dressed up as the devil for Halloween one year. Seriously.

Anyways, during my freshman year, I'd decided that I wanted to transfer to a different university, and by the end of the year I'd gotten my acceptance and knew I'd be leaving. (I still wasn't a Christian at this point.) My new friends invited me to an end-of-the-year IVCF retreat. I wouldn't have gone, except they gave me a scholarship. Wow. So I went, and it was during that week of intensive Bible studies, questions, and those new friends prayin' for me, that God opened up my heart to accept Him.

There are some other background things that happened too, but I've already written a novel here. hehehe.. sorry.

 

[looksgood]

LOL, wonderfull story.

By the way, I love the quote in your sig. It is very powerfull.

 

[ChristsChick]

It was just over a year ago, on new years day, so I would of been 15. I was really depressed, at a total low in my life, I was with a guy who treated me badly, but everytime I ended it he'd say he was sorry and he loved me and I'd take him back. I was mixed up with all the wrong sorts of people, and a lot of things I'm not proud of now. I'd been acting really recklessly, trying to find something to fill the gap in my life.

So there I was, hungover, lying on my bathroom floor, with scissors in my hand, ready to cut myself. I'd come close a lot of other times, but never actually been able to do it. I ran the blade across my wrist, and suddenly I couldn't stop crying, and I just knew, I can't describe it, but I had to talk to God. So I prayed, I lay on the floor for over an hour, crying and praying and that day I became a Christian. And even though I've slipped up a lot since then I've never looked back!

 

[CHRISTIAN COUNSELOR]

Like most Christians I thought I was saved because I attended church and was water baptised.But I was deeply troubled by living in such a violent and war-mongering a nation.So I kept asking God to tell me if He approved of war.One day the words,"sermon on the mount"kept occuring to me.I had no idea what that was.So I picked up an old bible that fortunately had an alphabetical index (old bibles don't have an alphabetical index and when I later looked at the bible,the index was gone)so I turned to the page listed for the sermon on the mount.There I was astonished to read things never mentioned in the church I had been going to for years.Like "love your enemies"(really hard to do if you blow them up)A few days later,God spoke to me and gave me a long explanation of why war was evil and morally sick.(DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU)At this same time I was given the baptism of the Holy Spirit and realized that for the first time I had received salvation.(John 3:3-9) I then wrote down the detailed explanations God gave me and I appeared at various church group meetings in my city as their guest speaker and just read from my notes.In time this resulted in an F.B.I. investigation which including placing a tap on my phone.Oh well.Even F.B.I. agents need to hear the Prince of Peace talked about.Maybe one of them even decided to worship God instead of the government.

 

[godchick03]

well ive always gone to the same church and have grown up in a christian family. i always thought i was a christian but all i did was go to church. i joined my church worship team coz i love to sing. from there i joined the youth worship team as well. a few weeks later two girls from the youth invited me to come to the youth group the next night. it took a bit of convincing but i said yes in the end. i am so glad i did though.
that first night at youth was heaps good. before that i didnt really know anyone my age that were christian. i could see how much they all loved god and i decided that i wanted to have what they had. so from then on i decided to live my life for god and not care what anyone thinks. ive never looked back. and now i love him soooo much with all my heart and soul!!!
On the 7th March i will have been a christian for a year!!!!! woohoo!!!!!!!
God Bless You All!!!

 

[samah]

wow, your testimonies are all great, im actually in school at the moment, should possibly be doing work but hey ho, i thought id share my becoming a christian-ness first.

well, it was last year, June in fact, just before my 17th birthday that i first went to church volountarily, i mean there was no particular reason for me to go i just felt compelled. Id been thinking about God for a while, whether he was real or not. and then something happened and i just knew i had to give him a chance.

i kept going to church for about 3 months before i finally decided to ask Jesus into my heart. The final thing that convicted me on top of all of the fantastic sermons the pastor (and visiting pastors gave) was a trip to 'camp'. this is well basically, a five day christian camp with worship and messages and games and stuff. I wasnt able to go for the whole thing but was able to go down and visit one night. Im so glad i did.

the message really spoke to me, it wasn't actually about being saved, but about doing something for God. I thought, what better thing can i do at this moment than accept his son Jesus. i was really shaking and nervous at the idea, but decided to think about it a bit more.

So i did, and the following sunday i asked the pastor to show me how to get saved. and he did, it was the most amazing feeling, and i know that it doesnt have to be amazing at all but for me it was (if that makes sense). I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. and ive never looked back.

 

[LuxPerpetua]

I was born and raised in a Christian family. I was baptized at age 12 because that was the "thing to do" and I wanted everyone to know of the faith I had inside. I never had a "conversion" moment. I've always had extremely devout faith since I was young. I'm totally in love with God, always have been, and pray I always will be.

I really admire everyone who does have a powerful testimony, and I can't help but think 'Wow! What incredible experiences!.' God is amazing, don't ya think