I was reading through my facebook posts and this womans testimony caught my eye… it inspired this…
Hearing the Gospel as a Child.
I was just 8 years old, and my father had started Family Devotions each night.
It was a wonderful time in our home, Dad would read the scriptures and ask questions and we would pray,
No religious exercise here, just creating a love for the Word of God and Prayer.
During those nights, he read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the Book of Acts.
I remember so specifically him reading Acts 2 :38 and 39 to me… and my little 8-year-old brain saying, “Oh that’s how you do it…. “.
It was the pure Word of God that gave me the plan of Biblical salvation.
Then 10 years later, the Lord was working on my heart, and I knew it was time to get “saved”.
Living and growing up in a very religious community, we knew what each denomination believed and taught, and when it was time for me to come to the Lord I compared all the denominations against what I had heard as a child… going through each and comparing their water baptisms, their belief in the infilling of the Holy Ghost etc.
Finally, I was left with only one church in town that I knew believed, taught and practised the salvation message I heard my father read from the Bible.
I called them and within 4 months the Lord lead me through a powerful repentance, I received the infilling of the Holy Ghost, speaking on tongues just like the Bible said would happen, and was water baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of all my sins, fulfilling the message I heard my father read to me as an 8 year old child.
Acts 2:38, 39
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
That was 43 years ago.
They said I would never last, they said it was a phase… but when you find the real Jesus of the Bible and do things his way… a powerful relationship is born that lasts a lifetime.
I am just so grateful to my parents; my father gave me the love for the Word and my mother taught me how to pray before I was two.
Their spiritual legacy was and is the most precious thing they have ever given to me… I am so blessed.
My parents made sure I was in the ARK!
Biblical Salvation is a private thing, make sure you and your children are in the ark!
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