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Jesus changed my life,

About 15 years ago, I was a typical teenager, engrossed in pop culture, bound by peer pressure, the media and the entertainment world. I found my self desiring a closer connection to God. Up to that point, I would occasionally attend church when I felt like it. When I remembered, I would pray and give thanks to God for watching over me. I believed in God and that he loved me. I had a relationship with God, but it was distant. It was one way, on my terms, whenever I felt like calling him basically. I didn’t really give sin much thought back then. I had heard all the classic stories of the Bible and the gospel, but never took much to heart regarding God’s commandments and standards of what is righteous and good and what is unrighteous and harmful. I simply believed in Him and called on Him when I needed something…

But God allowed something unexpected, and it changed my life…

 I had come to the conclusion that there was more to God than what I was experiencing. I may not have been aware of it, but inwardly I was seeking truth. I was longing for the reality of God. I was unsatisfied and had grown tired of shallow, stale, superficial, monotonous spirituality and man made religious rituals and traditions. I knew that God was so much bigger than those things. I was determined to discover Him in a deeper and greater way.

I was on a road trip with a Christian friend of mine, and one evening he invited me to go to a prayer meeting at his friend’s house. When we arrived, the home was filled with people sitting and talking. A couple guys had guitars and everyone began to sing along. They were singing to Jesus. As I listened and looked around the room, I was struck by the sincerity and the passionate display of worship flowing from their hearts. They were not concerned about the other people in the room. They weren’t singing because it was what you were “supposed” to do. They were truly offering thanks and praise to God, freely and openly without shame. My heart and spirit leaped. This was what I was longing for. I could sense the depth and sincerity of faith in the room. I wanted to exercise my faith and worship God with the same freedom and passion I was observing, and this was my chance. So I closed my eyes and began to sing along. As we sang to the Lord, I had an overwhelming sense of God’s presence in the room. As surely as our voices filled that room, so too, did Christ’s presence fill the room. It was powerful! You couldn’t see Him, but inwardly you knew He was there. As I sang, I felt Jesus was inviting me unto Himself… and I accepted. I opened my heart and experienced the sincerity and freedom the others had.  I knew that I had experienced God’s Holy Spirit in a very real and tangible way.  From that night on, I knew without a doubt that Jesus was real, His Spirit was real and His Word, the Bible was real. I decided to give my life completely to God and to live to serve him and glorify him with all my being.

Since then, I have learned that it is possible to experience an unbroken, close and intimate relationship with the risen Jesus of Nazareth. I have learned that God, in love, has created all of mankind with purpose and that His greatest desire is to have a relationship with us. But everyone has descended from Adam and therefore have inherited a sin nature. The consequence for sin is death and eternal separation from God. So Christ bridged the gap between sinful men and a holy God by taking our death upon Himself. The death that you and I deserve because of our sin has been paid by Jesus. It’s a free gift to those who will accept it and believe it. It costs you and I nothing, but it cost Him everything. He did it so our sin could be washed away by His blood and therefore enable us to know God and have an unbroken and sweet relationship with Him in this life and the one to come. This is Christ’s promise to all who seek and obey Him,

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” Mathew 7:7

Thank you for reading my story. I pray you are encouraged and blessed.
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