did you 1st find God in a church building ?

[tranquility]

It was a month before i turned 13
I have heard all my life that the age of accountability was 12
(i don't know where i heard that from)

And I was ready to turn 13

So i was getting worried about going to hell.
One day riding down the road in the car,
That's when i started asking questions to my Mom.
and Thank God, she answered everyone of them for me perfectly!

The next time I went to church i was under conviction soo bad!

you would think i had ants in my pants
(even though i had a dress on):shy-animated:

I couldn't sit still, and that night I got saved
and cried for the next two weeks I would look
at my Mom and start laughing ( i felt so silly, laughin
one minute and crying the next)


I ask my Mom what was wrong with me and she told me
God broke that ol stone heart
and replaced it with a brand new one!

It was the best thing that ever happened to me still til this day!!

I LOVE JESUS AND WHAT HE
DID FOR ME THAT DAY
AND EVERY DAY SINCE!!!!

 

[spirit1st]

THANK YOU FATHER GOd in the mighty name of JESUS CHRIST!

 

[LETS_TALKJESUS]

No---March 13, 1973 at 9:30pm---Atascadero, Ca.---In the process of preparing to commit suicide the Lord graciously reached out and redeemed me to Himself---I have never, nor will ever stop giving testimony of how a loving God can intervene in the ways of wicked people like myself and utterly change them from the inside out.

Happy

WOW!

That is just about the most beautiful thing i ever read!
isn't it wonderful no matter how low we sank he can still reach us

Isaiah 59:1

With tears of JOY in my eyes,:romantic:
God Bless You!

 

[servoguy]

Jesus Saves

Jesus is still walking the streets of the world looking for people to save. Not everyone wants to be saved, but those that want to, He will graciously save them. He is absolutely wonderful. Praise His mighty name
Bruce

 

[tranquility]

I've been back to this post ten times
hoping to feast on some more wonderful answers!

This is a great one!
I love hearing about how people's lives
were changed by God.

makes me Giggle for Joy!

 

[krys]

I was watching a television program where I heard a gospel presentation. then, I prayed a few days later in my room. I would have never of heard how to receive Christ in the church I attended as a boy. It was and is completely dead

Same here. Televangelism does work!

 

[Ruwach10]

I found my love for Him in a church building as I was very young and my mom made sure we went to church every Sunday and acquired all of our "sacrements".....but He let me know how much He loved me back when He "came to me" as I was sitting under a bridge, on the rocks of a riverbead just about 30 yards from where 2 gang members were about to be initiated. (we know that as one of them, unfortunately, did not make it through the initiations with his mortal life intact). I felt an awesome prescense all around me and knew without a doubt that on that day I was not alone and that it was Jesus, Himself, sitting with me. I returned home unscathed and realized how close I was when we watched the news and my mom asked me where I was that day......I told her the truth and from that evening, I have delved into His Word and although I fall short, I do my best to live as He instructs us to. God Bless each and every one of you and very good question..........

 

[fotini1]

On talk jesus!!

I was saved some two and a half years ago on Talk JESUS. Right here on this site, where a precious friend of mine, Mac, talked to me about Jesus and His Love for me, and I accepted Jesus into my life, right there and then, professing my faith for a Father I had not known till that very moment, and confessing that I was a sinner who needed His redemption.

I am so very grateful for Talk Jesus and the beautiful christian friends I have made on here. Thank you Jesus!

Fotini

 

[Strangederby]

I was about 8 years old I think and my parents took me to hear an evangelist called Eric Delve speak. It was in a rented theatre and they had an"alter call" at the end.

 

[GodWithUs]

because I felt the need to learn the Bible....

Hi,

Well as for me, it came during our college term break. I took the time and reassessed what had happened during the past term and what had been going on in my life at that point. Life still seemed to be pointless for me even if been already working hard and studying hard for years. "Like where am I headed?", "How can you really be happy and truly be successful in life?", I asked myself. Then there was the thought of God...

In my mind were these messages, "Put God first", "Place God above all things", "God is what is important", "God is the solution to all your problems", "God is the one who good give you everlasting happiness" At that moment I questioned myself, "have I put God first in my life?" After that I felt the great need to work on my responsibilities to God and put Him first.

So one day, after I finished registering myself for the next school term and was suppose to be on my way home when I bumped to these three. They were Korean students who were offering free basic Hangul / Korean language lessons. Then I thought , what the heck, its free so maybe I'll try it out. So I went to their office and going there became the turning point of my life.

Later I found out that those three students were missionaries who's main objective was to preach the Word of God (and that Korean lessons where just their front! lol). So from there I learned about what are Christians (all my life I thought Catholics were Christians!), learned to say sorry for my sins to Jesus and accept Jesus in my heart, how to have a personal relationship with Jesus by praying, reading & applying the teachings of the Bible.

After a few months, a classmate who like got curious what's been going around to me lately started preaching to me about being Born Again. Then I found my self consulting with his dad who's a pastor and later on I was attending their church which is now of course my home church as well.

As of now I'm a year and four months old of being with Jesus and still needs to learn a lot. It's been really a very rocky and bumpy ride. A lot of things had happened that were really really bad. But slowly I've started to understand, believe & see the light in the Words of God that all of these challenges are molding me to become a stronger Christian (Romans 5:3) and that the brightest future can only be found in Christ (Colossians 2:9-10).

 

[DeiSponsa]

I found God in my grandfather's death. And I accepted Christ on the floor in the corner of my bedroom. Granted, my journey has had it's up and downs but God is persistent A year ago, when my aunt and cousin passed away (cancer, and a random car accident) I re-dedicated myself, if you will, to my faith. I don't think I could turn back now even if I wanted to. Which I don't!

 

[The Robster]

I first heard about Jesus at a service in a Catholic Church as a little boy.

 

[LeanaJo]

My first encounter was with my Grandma Minnie (my earliest memory is around 3 or 4 years old). She was a Born-Again Christian and took me with her, on some Sunday's, to church with her. By the time she died, when I was 12 years old, I quit going to church. I haven't been to church again until 2004 when I got saved.

 

[spirit1st]

THANK YOU JESUS!
She Planted the Good seed in your heart! Bless her !

 

[O2BLikeU]

He sought me and He bought me with His redeeming love

Approx 10 years prior to accepting God I had left the false religion of Jehovah's Witnesses. That 10 years was perhaps the most confusing of my life ... so many circumstances hit me hard .. yet because of the mind control of the JWs I was hesitant to go into any church. But at last I hit bottom and, in despair, alone in my bed one night, I called out to Him. Immature, lacking total understanding, lonely and selfish, but with the need great upon my heart to have Him save me from despair, I cried to Him, and He answered with such an overwhelming love that I could not stop weeping for months.

Not in a church, not for an altar call, but at home, alone, upon my bed.

22 years ago and Boy am I grateful! I'd probably be one of those old ladies, drunk in a bar somewhere if not for Him.

 

[O2BLikeU]

God is sooooooo good~

What a blessing it has been to read all your replies to this question. Some of you made me weep, some made me laugh ... but all of you made me rejoice at the great Love of God for all His children.

He is amazing.

 

[David777]

Now this is variety.

What an incredible display of God's hand at work. So varied, no discernible pattern. Saved in talk Jesus, now that's a wonder in itself.

Found God while reading the New Testament. I was only reading it to find it's faults. Jesus Christ blew me away.