How many of you can remember?

Question

Can you remember when you first got saved that everytime you heard the word of God preached, you either cried, or maybe lifted your hands and just praised God for his word? Can you remember when you first got saved how you wanted everyone to know Jesus, like you knew him now?
Can you remember when you first got saved how you could not wait to get to church to hear more of God's word?
Are you still like this?

Answer 1

I was one of those people that don't remeber when they were saved but can tell you why I am. It's like I heard about salvation and everything, but just never came to right away. Eventually hearing I accepted the Lord Jesus as my saviour. I do however remeber the feeling in my stomach, the Holy Ghost. I love the feeling of it too, I felt the presence just reading this question. I am not the type that shows emotion but I remember this one revival meeting and man Jeff King preached his heart out. The depiction he gave of Jesus going to the cross and dying just made me cry, I was like wow, but of course it was tears of joy, you know. Witnessing for me is hard I am very shy, that is why I use this R&S. But confronting people is really hard for me to do. Yea I was so thristy for God's word, it was like a drug. It is sad now though I still yearn for knowledge but get lazy at the fact of getting up and going to church. But when there I am happy I went, I just pray for help. I really enjoy the pastors that get loud and excited and let the Holy Spirit move in there sermon. God Bless you sister.

Answer 2

I remember when I first got saved. It was December 21, 2001. I went up to the altar and before I knew it the Holy Ghost came down upon me and the next thing I knew I was getting up off the floor where I had passed out in the spirit. I still give God wave offerings and praise His Holy Name. I even praise God when I am singing. I couldn't wait to go to church then and I still can't wait for church services to begin.
I had a friend who wasn't saved who got to the point that he would cross the street just so he wouldn't have to speak to me. He told me I was crazy. I told him Yeah I was crazy for God. And I still am.

Answer 3

Sorry, but I am a bit skeptical of people who claim they suddenly "got saved", as if they had never heard of Jesus before that moment. They make it sound as if the experience were like a brick suddenly fell on their head.
I believe it is more like a flower, opening to the sun...it is a gradual, and a beautiful process, like a man wooing his bride.
I can remember being a young lady (12) and being given my first "big girl" Bible...it was white, and had a little cross hanging on the zipper. I can remember how excited I was to read the wonderful stories of great men and women and how it all lead up to Jesus. (OK, so I skipped through the "begats" and I sort of missed Leviticus and Deuteronomy...I was TWELVE, for goodness sake!)
Especially, I remember reading the Gospels, and being thrilled by them. Nobody had bothered to give me any pre-conceived notions of what Jesus and His followers would be like, so I was free to learn about them on my own.
It was glorious.
The thing is, I still love to spend quiet time with the Lord. Yes, I want to share Him with others, and yes, I do sometimes pray in public...but I don't feel the need to cry, or lift my hands...nor do I need to go to church to hear God's word, since I carry a small Bible most everywhere with me in my purse (it makes good reading while waiting at doctor's offices, for instance).
I believe Jesus still has the same affect on people now as He did when He was with us here on the earth. Of course, everyone's experience with Him will be different...the harlot weeps at His feet, Zacchaeus climbs a tree, Matthew leaves his taxes and follows Him, Mary Magdalene is the first to meet Him alive after His resurrection, Peter denies Him (but then reaffirms his love on the lake shore), Paul is knocked off his high horse, Luke is inspired to write about Him and the beginnings of His church...how He affects you will not be the same as the way He affects me, or other people. That doesn't mean for even one instant that my faith, or someone else's, is inferior to yours.

Answer 4

Well, I can remember being forced to become saved lest I be shunned at the dinner table. I can remember being chastised because I didn't lift my hands up in church. I can remember being coerced into getting the flea-dip baptism. And I can remember being forced to sit in the closet until I "got" the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. How's that for some happy memories?

Answer 5

here's a story i would like to share:

A third year engineering student was going home one afternoon with a heavy heart. he was not only sad, he was also worried of what his parents would say. That day he recieved his midterm grades. he failed in some of his subjects. the conplication was that he was nearing the tolerable number of failures. His chances of staying in his college school would all depend on his outcome of his final grades that term. As he was going home via the North Gate, he saw the usual big glass filled with scriptures texts on strips of paper prepared by some religious people. He got one but didn't bother to read it and placed it in his pocket.

After dinner, as he was about to start the routine of studying, he remembered that small piece of paper he kept in his pocket. he opened it and read: "Trust in Him, and He will help you. Make your ways straight and hope in Him" (Sirach 2:6). From his gloomy face and down-trodden heart, a spark of confidence was born. Touched by the word of God, he went down on his kneesand entered into a dialogue with the Lord. There and then he experienced being rebuked: "Make you ways straight! How many times have you wasted time playing pool instead of studying?" the following morning he shared this story to his Religion teacher and throughout his life, he has always been doing something productive instead of wasting his life for pool.

Answer 6

I can't wait to read my Bible and be with Him in quiet prayer and find any excuse to spend my time in forums where I can discuss all things biblical...my fervor has changed but I consider it more sober and intellectual than giddy and emotional now. Christian music does the emotional thing now and sometimes in prayer I long for Him to just come on back and lets get goin'...this world is so full of hate. I remember when I first got saved I went for a walk in this camp ground...I was about 25 and I couldn't stop singing hymns...people just stared. Some waved...I was so freakin' happy. Now, all I have to do is see the sky, the mountains, the sunset over the ocean, or my children running through the yard with grins on their faces and I'm right back there for an instant. I wish everyone could know Jesus the way I know Him now. Ya'shua Messiah is Jehovah!!! I want to shout it from the hilltops...sorta like Wind in His Hair in that last scene of the movie Dances with Wolves...only just like him, no one would know what language I was speaking and what the heck I was saying without subtitles. Its unfortunate...love in Christ, ~J~

Answer 7

Yes I do remember all of this and much of what you say is true. This was many years ago, and like most Christians, my faith has been strong and also weak at various times. Lately it has been stronger than ever, although there has been some weakening in recent weeks. I still cannot wait to hear and examine the word of God, and the truth of God, and of Christ, and of the prophecies in the final book of the bible, and throughout the bible.

Answer 8

as i am still growing in god n he is teaching me many things i cotinuee with the same zeal......ya!yet der are some fluctuations in my faith,but he liftz me up.as believers v should hav ever increasing faith n desire 4 him but not decreasing one...only den v can b witness 2 people n make disciples!!!!!!!!!d purpose 4 which v r created n chosen

Answer 9

I can equate to some of what you wrote, but I found Christ and salvation through him by leaving a church and going to the Bible. So I have no desire to go to a church, where some people have their personal agendas who wormed their way to the top. I go to the Word of God.

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Answer 10

I as a mature Christian have seen the..... EMOTIONAL.... Displays of those Only... " Pretending To ".... KNOW CHRIST...!

The Work of Grace..... DID NOT TAKE PLACE.... in their Hearts..... " BECAUSE ".... THEY..... were.... Still .... HOLDING.... ON TO..... THEIR SIN....!

(Luke 16:13) No servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

THEY..... REALLY.... Never Came to JESUS.... because they.... HELD ON TO THEIR SIN.....!

After years of WILDERNESS..... when they SPENT.... the Pleasures of SIN.... and found themselves in Devastation.... then ..... THEY..... " THEN "...... CAME TO CHRIST.....!

(1John 2:19) They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out so that it might be revealed that they were not all of us.

(1John 2:19) They went out from us,
but they were not of us;
for if they were of us,
they would have continued with us.
But they went out
so that it might be revealed
that they were not all
of us.

Thanks, RR