Why I became a Christian. A healing story. (cont'd)
brothers' lives. I was coming to a point where I knew there had to be something more than what I was experiencing in life.
I finally decided to go to church with my brother Ray. After the church service I was getting ready to leave and Ray asked me if I would have someone pray for me at the front. I had had lots of people pray for me before and had never really noticed anything happen. This time a man prayed for me and then asked me if I would accept Jesus into my heart. I said yes.
One word changed my life! It was like everything that was weighing me down was completely gone! Most people probably would not have said that my life was that bad or even noticed that I was a little depressed. But now something had definitely happened that I could not explain. It was a big miracle to me, since I had had many people pray for me had never seen anything happen. This was a turning point in my life–maybe you could say that a seed had been planted. I did not really have any church friends and did not feel like introducing myself to anyone. I still felt uncomfortable reading my Bible for some reason—probably since it felt like it was cold religion that I grew up with. I talked to my brother John about going down to Colorado Springs and went down at the end of May 2000. That's when my life changed.
The environment here was very uplifting. The church there was also something that I had never experienced before. When I had visited that church a couple of years previously, I had noticed something different about the atmosphere in the church, but had never really pursued it. I later learned that this was the presence of the Holy Spirit, and this is how my prayer life started to take off. I was also hanging out with Christians who had lived lives like mine and much worse and now were living for God with their past lives behind them. I had tons of questions and started reading my Bible every day.
It made such a big difference to live and hang out with Christians and finally read the living Word. My brother later told me how he was praying and fasting for me all the time before I became a Christian. I knew at certain times that someone was praying for me because of things that didn't happen that really should have. Sometimes I would get really mad, but I knew that I could never do a thing about it.
Now of course, I am so glad now that I had that protection of prayer. God has done so many things in my life. Since giving my life to Jesus I have seen and heard of so many miracles that have happened in the churches that I have attended. I know now that God does exist in church when people humble themselves and ask Him to come in. I also learned that God does speak to us if we will listen.
Thank-you for reading,
Sam
