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How I Got Saved! Written By BS |
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And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, (Romans 8:28) I got saved when I was about four years old. It was the first time I prayed to the Lord in my room by
 myself. After that, especially in elementary school, I always had sweet fellowship, but I didn't know it was the Lord. I just really enjoyed when I prayed. I was Catholic, and I did all the rituals and all the things we were supposed to do, but in every ritual I had some reality. I always turned my whole being, but I didn't know it was the Lord. I just really enjoyed and was happy, and the Lord always kept me and preserved me and saved me from many things through the prayer I had with Him. I prayed many things every single day, and many times during the day I turned my heart. I talked to the Lord, but I didn't know it was Jesus. I grew more and more. I found I enjoyed very much talking about God. Everybody said I was strict in anything related to God, and the Lord gave me wisdom in the things of the Lord. But I didn't know it was from the Lord, and I couldn't understand, really. It was just kind of natural. It was part of myself. Until the Lord arranged things for me so I could come to the States. At that time when I was ready to come to the States, I had graduated two times. I had two degrees. I had a very good job, which they would hold for me for a whole year, so I thought it was good to come. I was searching. I liked to write, and I wrote a lot about everything: About humanity, about people, about everything. I also wrote very sad because, although my home was not bad, when I started confronting the world and the people in the world more and more, I found out there's nothing man can do for me. Outwardly it looks good, but when you look inwardly, there is no way men can help you with that. I started seeing the power of the fallen nature. But everybody was that way, so I thought it could be a mistake of God. He made everybody wrong. I never had a real touch with somebody that really knew the Lord. My Momma(1) was really good. She may have known the Lord, but she couldn't speak about the Lord in a deep way, in a real way. My father(1) always prayed and made us fear the Lord. We all prayed at the table, but he couldn't explain to me anything about the Lord. I would speak of my experiences about God, and they loved to hear, but I myself didn't know that much. I didn't have any reality.
So, when I came to the United States, I had a heart to search for the Lord, a heart to search for people, for ways, for culture, for lot of things. Then I found myself in the place where I had to make a decision to be for God and to live God because the way I was living I wasn't living anything out. I started doubting, which I never did before, and because I started doubting, I started searching the reality, the truth.
The Lord allowed someone to be brought into my life who knew the Lord. First, my roommate was saved. She didn't talk to me about the Lord. She read the Bible, and I read the Bible. She kind of prayed, and I always prayed, and I didn't see any difference.
Then, on the campus of the university, two girls approached me and asked me if I believed in Jesus. That question, so directly to me, really spoke to me. I remember after that, I came to my room, and I said, "I don't really know. I think all these wonderful things about Jesus, but He's not real to me." Then I started reading the Bible to know what He really said, to know if I will believe Him or not. I read the Bible, and I started really believing, enjoying more and more. One day I started meeting more people that knew the Lord. I had studied philosophy, psychology, sociology, history, all kinds of things related to man, just to know about man. I didn't want anybody to tell me any more things because I knew it was very confusing. Everybody said something different.
So I started reading the Word, and as I read the Word, the Lord touched me, and I started praying. I found myself at a tremendous fellowship with the Lord. I met the Lord. When I met the Lord, I gave myself to the Lord. I didn't know how to follow the Lord. The Lord wanted me to follow Him, but I didn't know how. It was wonderful. My life completely changed from that day on. Before I was a dreamer. Since I came to the Lord, I do not say my dreams have been fulfilled, but my life has been filled up, my heart has been filled up. I feel my whole being was made whole. My whole being has a meaning. The Lord gave me an answer to every question I had. I finished searching and I started living. The Lord didn't give me everything I ever wanted, everything I thought I was living and working for. This was not according to my expectations, but according to the Lord that's the best for me.
The Lord has to show me more. My life is a school with Him, because of Him. The Lord is real, and I appreciate the church as the place where He is, where He can work in us and where He dwells, where His testimony can be expressed. Amen!
Note: BS gave this testimony in ~1981. Since then, both her father and mother have come to love and know and serve the Lord.
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