I FOUND GOD ... AGAIN
(By: Chantel Pirtle)
Growing up, my family wasn't too much into church. We'd go on holidays and that was about it.
My relationship with God has been rocky in my past 20 years of living. Once I got old enough to make decisions on my own, I never did the right thing. Drinking daily, skipping school, smoking weed all the time, being promiscuous, and just not living the life I needed to be living for what pleases God. I even had hit a point that I didn't believe the Bible. I wanted to believe what was being taught in classrooms and out of the wrong books instead of the truth of the Bible.
I slowed down recently and got myself a boyfriend and started going to college, but still had that void in my life.
Last week I found myself laying in bed, pondering life and what's out there and everything. I was half asleep - I suppose I could call it - and I was in heaven and with my father. My father passed away two years ago, but it was all so vivid. I can still see him there in the white-dress-looking thing.
And there were clouds in the road and I could feel a presence. I looked from my father to where the clouds were to see them parting, and a silhouette of a man was radiating this bright light. I couldn't make anything out about Him because He was so bright. He came to me and grabbed my hand and I started walking with Him and He tried to speak to me. His voice was so LOUD AND THUNDEROUS ... I dropped in fear and covered my ears.
I awoke immediately, had goosebumps, and my body felt tingly. I just burst into tears because of how terrified I was. It was so loud and felt so REAL and I woke my boyfriend up. He comes from a religious family and knows the Bible and God better than I do. We began talking and reading from the Bible.
I'm so very blessed to say I found God that night. I REALLY found Him! I've found Him before, but lost my way by all these temptations from Satan, but I'm glad to say I'm not going back. God put the fear in me that needed to be instilled.
Just knowing I've found the Lord has filled me with so much joy. I can't even explain it -- it literally moves me to tears. I never thought that it would all be so interesting and I've learned my soul has been craving this. It feels like He's filled a void in my life.
I've prayed at least three times a day (even for my enemies), quit smoking, and have been bettering myself and getting closer with Him since. I've never been happier in my life. With these hard times on earth and knowing there are harder times to come, it's good to know when He sends that angel with that trumpet, I'll be given eternal life in heaven because I have Jesus in my life.
I fear nothing on this earth. All I fear is God. So to Satan I say, "Get thee behind me. You NO LONGER have power over me, for Jesus died so I could have this chance to realize my mistakes and get right with God and repent so He can cast my sins into the pit of forgiveness and only fear HIM!"
This has truly saved me and I appreciate it and thank Him every day.
Dear Reader - are you at peace with God? If not, you can be. Do you know what awaits you when you die? You can have the assurance from God that heaven will be your home, if you would like to be certain. You can even have that assurance RIGHT NOW! Either Jesus Christ died for your sins, or He didn't (He did!). Are you prepared to stand before God on the Judgment Day and tell Him that you didn't need the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the Cross to have your sins forgiven and get in right-standing with God? We plead with you...please don't make such a tragic mistake.
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