Christians tell your testimony. How did you get saved?

Question

Was it a Billy Graham special? Was it a life/death experience? Tell your story.

I not asking how to find Jesus. I already found him or rather he found me. I'm asking what's your salvation experience.

Thank you all and God Bless You All. It's really nice to know there are a lot of brothers and sisters in Christ out there. I wish I could hug you all... I'm looking forward to seeing you all in heaven praising God together....

I became a Christian in V.B.S like a lot of kids do at age 9 became a Christian accepted him as my Savior and Lord invited him into my heart ,but it wasn't until I got to be about 13 that I really knew of him and his Love. I remember I wanted to kill myself I didn't think anyone cared then I heard God's voice it was peaceful gentle and quiet as he said I love you, I care for you and I've been feeling that love ever since. It is an intense Love.

...And of course I Love him more than anything. He is most definitely my Savior, redeemer and friend.

Answer 1

I was saved at a very young age, at seven. I was allowed to go to church with an elderly couple that lived in our area.

It was summr bible school and I went forward everyday all week. I heard the message each day, that I had to believe (and I did) and that I had to pray (and I did). I was praying for a very specific thing to stop in my life and it didnt stop, not matter how many times I went forward when I got to go to church or how much I prayed.

I knew nothing more than that about God and Jesus, just that I was going to heaven and for some reason I was a toy for evilness on earth.
No one at that little baptist church (that I can remember anyway) ever told me to read my bible (I didnt own one anyway) or to begin my walk with God.

As the years went by, I would still pray, but usually during really difficult moments. ( I realize now that God was with me, I was never killed or permanently harmed).

I still went to church if given a chance, but as I got older I was allowed to do less and less.

The evil in my life stopped abruptly when i was 16. I still to this day do not understand why it stopped, I was just grateful it stopped.
I graduated and started college and for the first time had a bit of freedom in my life. I met a guy, got married and we started a family right after I graduated.

Life tends to just fly by when you are just living from day to day and following the worlds idea of good times and hard work.

True to my upbringing, I would allow my children to go to church with friends, but I didnt go myself, and neither did my husband. We would go to the special programs that the kids were in, but that was the extent of it.

One day when marital stress was getting the better of me, I remembered my spiritual mothers invitation over and over the years to please come to church with her.

I announced to my husband that I was going to church and it didnt matter if he wanted to go with me or not I was going. My oldest son was about 12 at the time and he piped up and said that he would go with me.

I went and kept going. Eventually my Catholic brought up Husband consented to go with us. After he went, he kept going back. Somewhere in this time, I started reading my new and first real bible. I really listened during the sermons and could read along, as he always preached straight from the bible. One day, I realized that I was never going to get better (mature) until I could forgive the wrongs that were done to me.

It really felt like a demon was in my bedroom that night, telling me that I could never, should never forgive something so horrible. But I kept on praying and crying and praying. Sometime during that very sleepless night, the feeling of dispair and the sense of that demon in my room left. I was calm and I felt not only forgiven ,but forgiving.

It has been a walk that I still learn new steps to each day, but it is a walk worth learning more and more about. Life did not become perfect and it still isn't. But I know God is perfect and he will teach me as much as I am willing to learn and as fast as is his will.

Thanks for asking, I dont usually tell my testimomy out loud, it makes people cry and that is not how it makes me feel anymore.
I dont tell detail unless the person being told needs to know, (if they are enduring the same evil).

Answer 2

My testimony actually begins long before I asked Jesus into my heart. It involves a life / death experience.

When I was only a few weeks old, I started to go into cardiac arrest. Then I had congestive heart failure on both sides of my heart. In case you don't know, congestive heart failure is suppose to be fatal. I was rushed to the hospital and nearly died. I don't remember seeing a bright light or any thing though. I was just a baby then, so my mind wasn't fully developed. I don't even remember these events personally.

Anyhow, I ended up surviving the congestive heart failure, of course. (As of right now - at age 23, my official diagnosis is anoxia cardiomyopathy. But this is only theoretical. Doctors don't know why I had these problems to start with.) My cardiologists are baffled why I lived. But I now know that it was the healing hand of Jesus Christ that saved me!

When I was ten years old, I watched my dad and older brother get saved and baptized. (My mom already was a Christian before I was born. She was a pastor's daughter.) That instilled in me the desire to ask questions about their decisions. The Sunday that my dad was baptized was the same Sunday that I asked Jesus Christ to be my Lord and Savior! It was the best decision of my life!!!

Everyday, I have a genuine appreciation for having the ability to draw in breath. The reason why I am able to do so is because Jesus has a plan for me. It has been my mission in life to find that plan. I believe I have. Over the course of my life - even now - I have lead many of my friends to the Lord. I have worked in a puppet ministry at my church and taught First grade Sunday school. But all of these works cannot compare to the sacrifice Christ made on the cross for my sins. Because without His sacrifice, all of my works would have been for nothing.

I hope this answers your question. Sorry if I rambled on about details, but I wanted you to get the full effect of my testimony.

God Bless!

Answer 3

Dearest reader,
I had searched through college courses about relgion and experiencing the tarot cards, witchcraft. I began drugs and alcohol in 8th grade (rebellious teenager from an alcoholic violent home). I had always believed in God, but altho I had religious church training and knew all of Jesus's stories, I did not believe he was the Saviour of the world, the Way, the Truth and the Life and no one comes to the Father by me.
I was lonely with a hole in my heart that never filled.
After graduating from college I returned to my little home town to help my dad care for my mother in the last stages of cancer. He slipped into the world of alcoholism, mom cried, I was losing my best friend, as I was enmeshed with her and have three older brothers, so I was the girl she always wanted. My fiancee of two years was angry and no close friends. I escaped twenty five years ago onto the lawn to pick up garbage off the highway and prayed for the first time to Jesus, not just God...and he came in and I was no longer alone. I had been a feminist and believed in abortion...but met my husband of 24 years in church that fall and wanted to learn how to have a Godly marriage and have children.
I became a new life.
Thanx for asking and God Bless,
Darcel

Answer 4

I became a christian the day my father died in1979. I was out doing Christmas shopping and while I was gone he died of a massive coronary. He was only 47 years old. It was then that I realized that life was short and that God can call you home at any time and if you're not ready you could spend eternity in hell separated from God. I was 19 years old. He died 6 days before Christmas and 9 days before my birthday.

Answer 5

I was an unpleasant spoiled child. When I started a Church of England middle school in the UK, the teacher was a Christian and he talked about the cross after class. After a few weeks I realised I needed God`s forgiveness so one day walking home from school I asked God into my life.

Answer 6

At a Wednesday night church service. The preacher made an alter call and everyone went to the alter. I was always afraid to go up there but that night something kept pushing me to go. I stayed my seat for a few minutes and watched the people up front and I said "Lord, save me." Then I finally went to the alter. I wasn't afraid anymore. Everyone was looking at me and saying "I'm so proud of you." Then my sunday school teacher came to me and said "do you love Jesus?" and I said "yes". then she said "do you know that Jesus love you?" When she said that I burst into tears. And I said "yes". Then she grabbed the preacher and they lead me into the sinners prayer. I asked God to come into my heart and to forgive me of my sins. Immedialetly after that prayer I felt the cleanest feeling I have ever felt. It felt like I was new, it felt like I was totally washed clean of everything that I did before. I will never ever forget that feeling I felt after praying the sinners prayer.

That's my story. :)

Answer 7

It wasn't any of these. I knwe from a very early age that Jesus was my Saviour!

I used to ask classmates if they believed in Jesus and got mixed answers.

I'd say that my story is boring for what you're trying to find, but I just Knew!

Answer 8

Although I grew up in a church and knew "who Jesus was and accepted him", I did not begin a personal relationship with him until I was 42. In a legal situtation with an uncle, I knew my aunt was a Christian woman who had influenced my life, but what I was not prepared for was her unconditional love for me when I was hurting the person on earth who she loved the most...her husband. As she continued through this horrible legal mess to love me and encourage me....like "God can handle your anger...he just wants you to keep talking to Him.....He loves you so much". This literally blew my mind and I slowly began to realize that her unconditional love for me must be the kind of love Christ Jesus talked about in the bible. I dropped the suit and fell on my knees begging forgiveness from God. The day I called my uncle to say that I had forgiven him.........those words didn't come out of my mouth to my surprise!!!!! Instead I heard my words saying, "Can you ever forgive me for hating you so much??" From that moment on I asked Jesus to please come life in my heart and guide me to live in His will.....not mine.... thanks for listening....I, too, love to hear testimonies....everyone's is so special and different for each individual...do we get to hear yours??

Answer 9

In prison and I do not want to go into a relatively long story. And it was not some bull sh** thing. Far as I can tell and with what I know, for me it was totally convincing and all I needed to believe absolutely.

Answer 10

Jesus saves by shopping wisely and using double-coupons!

just kidding, he doesn't exist.

have a nice day!