Post by lanabelle on Sept 28, 2007 7:10:11 GMT -5
I realize that I have been a member of this board since July and haven't yet given my testimony. I was raised in a loving and happy home, my parents took great care of us, I have a sister and a brother, we were fed, clothed, loved, disciplined and taught very high moral standards. I was one of the very few in high school whose parent were still together, I graduated in 1989. I don't like to sound like I am making derrogatory comments about my parents so if you think that some of the things that I am going to say sound that way know that I don't mean them that way. I was not taken to church regularly as a child. We went to the church that my dad was raised in sometimes, but not often as I remember. My parent expected good and moral behavior from their children, but as I grew older, got my drivers liscense and a job when I was 16 I began to see a different side of the world. The Bible says that there is pleasure in sin for a season. I saw how fun being a wild girl could be. I am not bragging but let me tell you, I had fun. My husband says that if you like somthing you'll give it everything you've got, I liked sin.
When I was 20 years old the Lord spoke to my heart, I didn't know that's what happend at the time, I didn't even know what Jesus had done for me or words like "saved" and "lost." I didn't go to Sunday School and learn about the Bible when I was little, I was just a little lost girl who didn't know what to do. All I knew was that if I didn't stop doing the things that I was doing I was going to go to Hell! That revelation came to me one night when I was all alone after a long time of extremely vile living. It scared the daylights out of me! Shortly there after I decided to go to church with some my extended family members, who I called "church people" at that time. Thank God for preaching! You talk about being scared before, after I found out about Jesus and what He had done and what I needed to do I was really scared. I didn't want to go up in front of all those people and look like an idiot. I tried to get saved at home by my bed, that didn't happen, finally on September 25, 1991 on a Saturday night at revival I was saved. I went to church that night to get saved and Thank the Lord he didn't let me down. Here I sit today, 16 years later, the wife of a Preacher. It's good to remember where the Lord has brought me from, I don't get proud that way. I have nothing to glory in anyway, it's all about Jesus and what he's done for me. I love Him today!
If you had know me before I knew Jesus, you would understand why I love him! Lana
When I was 20 years old the Lord spoke to my heart, I didn't know that's what happend at the time, I didn't even know what Jesus had done for me or words like "saved" and "lost." I didn't go to Sunday School and learn about the Bible when I was little, I was just a little lost girl who didn't know what to do. All I knew was that if I didn't stop doing the things that I was doing I was going to go to Hell! That revelation came to me one night when I was all alone after a long time of extremely vile living. It scared the daylights out of me! Shortly there after I decided to go to church with some my extended family members, who I called "church people" at that time. Thank God for preaching! You talk about being scared before, after I found out about Jesus and what He had done and what I needed to do I was really scared. I didn't want to go up in front of all those people and look like an idiot. I tried to get saved at home by my bed, that didn't happen, finally on September 25, 1991 on a Saturday night at revival I was saved. I went to church that night to get saved and Thank the Lord he didn't let me down. Here I sit today, 16 years later, the wife of a Preacher. It's good to remember where the Lord has brought me from, I don't get proud that way. I have nothing to glory in anyway, it's all about Jesus and what he's done for me. I love Him today!
If you had know me before I knew Jesus, you would understand why I love him! Lana