Late in 2011 God drew me near to Him, He put an
urgency in my spirit to get right with Him, to live for Him. God drew me to Jesus a long time ago. I was a Christian because I believed in Jesus but I was not obedient, I was in serious sin. I had a godly sorrow over my sins in 2011.
I asked forgiveness from those I hurt and I forgave those who hurt me. I am born
again and a new creation. I am not who I used to be. God put new desires
in my heart. He totally took away my old loves and replaced it with new
loves and desires.
I care deeply about lost souls but God lay a
heavy burden on my heart one day when I was reading 1 Corinthians 5. I have seen many ugly sins in the institutional church among some Christians; hate, adultery, sexual immorality, gossip, cliques, manipulation, persistence in deliberate sins.
I know that I have not reached perfection yet. He who says he has no sin is a liar. Thank God our Father for our Advocate and Intercessor Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.
With God all things are possible
and I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength and God has
already done so much and has been my strength many times. Things I would never
have dreamed to do, Jesus helped me to do. God is amazing and faithful and all He asks is
that we trust Him! Like Abraham did! I love you, my God. Thank you for
saving my wretched soul and my husband, my parents and sibling. I will praise you forever more! ♥
JESUS King of kings! Lord of lords! Amen.
Let me make it clear, I was saved and received the Holy Spirit the moment I believed in Jesus. I was not saved because of anything I did but through God's grace by faith. I was not with a denomination. Some Christians with no love was saying if you are not water baptised that you are not saved. Well, my mother was not water baptised and she was saved. My mother did what Jesus commands us to do.
Some also claim if you do not speak in tongues that you are not saved. Don't get me started on the Judaizers who crossed my way.
The thief on the cross next to Jesus was not baptised in water and did not speak in tongues but he believed in his heart that Jesus was who he said He was!😁 I knew I was saved. You know in your inner man. You have that peace that surpasses all understanding. (My Ma went home to Jesus from Alzheimer's dementia in Dec. 2022. Her spirit is home with our Lord Jesus. I miss her and my Pa so very much!)
I asked my mother-in-law if she would baptise me and she was happy to baptise me in our bath on the 31st of December 2011. (9 years later on 31st Dec. 2020 she went home to Jesus. She died from breast cancer. Her body died. Her spirit is home with Jesus.) After she baptised me and as I was standing up out of the water, she started speaking in tongues! She said it was yet another tongue God had given her. It was so very beautiful, the language she spoke, even though I did not understand it. She said it was a prayer about me going up. Later she gave me the interpretation of the tongues she spoke about me. This is what God said:
I am holy, righteous & redeemed by the blood of Jesus
Christ that washed my sins whiter than snow. Thank you Jesus my Lord!
“You are Mine” says the Lord my God. I am bought at a price, the blood
of Jesus. Jesus set me free from the power of sin. I do not depend on my
obedience to the law of God for acceptance with God.
I believe in Christ for life and salvation and serve the law of God as
in the hands of Christ, the only Lawgiver and King in his church, in
testimony of my gratitude to him, for the blessings of grace received by
him.
I am under the law of Christ, that is, the law of love!
Thanks for reading, God bless you in Jesus' Holy Name :)
