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"Lord, I don’t care what anyone else says - from now on I am going to take God at His word and believe Him..."
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I came from a protestant background, read the Bible in school, and went to Sunday school each week, learned from the Bible parables and stories about Jesus in the Girls Brigade, even had certificates for exams on the Bible. I would have believed the bible was the Word of God but it had no relevance in my life, I never knew that I needed to be “Saved” or “Born Again”, or that I deserved to go to hell or that I had sinned against God.
I married my husband who was from a Catholic background, neither of us practised our religion and God had no place in our lives. Our 15 years of marriage was on the rocks and my husband cried our to God for help and God saved him. He would read the bible from morning to night and when he tried to share it with me it made me very angry indeed. My pride welled up against him, “how dare this person who never read the Bible before tell me that I was a sinner and needed to get right with God”.
I was working with some people who were in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and they asked me to go to a meeting with them, which I did. After a while I decided to become a Catholic and a nun gave me a book that was used in the schools to teach the children, she thought it might help me learn more about Catholicism. By this time I was praying and reading my Bible every day, attending meetings singing Christian songs, even fasting but not saved.
One morning while having my prayer time, I decided to read the book, which the nun had given me, I was indignant when I read that God had devised a plan to save the world through Mary. Everything in me rejected this because I knew that Gods plan to save the world was through His Son, The Lord Jesus Christ, that it was Jesus who died for our sins. I cried out to God, I said “Lord I know you died on the cross for my sins, Lord I don’t care what anyone else says from now on I am going to take God at His word and believe Him”.
As I read Gods Word it was like a light had been switched on in my head and it became so real to me. God Himself became so real to me. He gave me understanding; it was like the message of salvation had been hidden from me until that moment in time. That was February 1981. I left the Charismatic meeting and I went to my first Christian meeting shortly after that. God has proven Himself to me over and over again and I have grown in grace and in the knowledge of Him.
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