Who was instrumental in your salvation?

[kitty1]

Jesus knew exactly how to get through to me. Not who, more like what.

My childhood was a nightmare and I grew up disconnected from people. I never had any friends and wanted it that way. Later I learned to use people to get what I wanted and wouldn't think twice to lift a finger to help anyone. I would go so far to say I never cared for people, unless they had something I needed. I was a user and it worked for me.

But I had a soft spot for animals, even bugs, I would pick earthworms off the road to save them from getting squished by a car, and chances where if it was a person even a child I would just walk away.

There would be no way any person could lead me to the Lord.

So the Lord used a microspider, you know, one of those super small tenny tiny red transparent spiders, you can usually find then between the pages of old books.

Well one day when I was in my 20s I was reading a book and I found one. I stopped reading and just sat there watching this super small spider. I was quite taken by it, and the next thing I realized I was looking up in the sky talking to God.

I said " You created this?"

It was the single most powerful experence of my life and I was crying, crying like a baby.

I was having a spritiual awakening, I was looking at the green on the leafs of the trees and the grass. How was it I never noticed all the different shades of green before?

and that was it.

I was never the same.

I slowly slowly changed my ways. It felt wrong to use people and when I did, I was so anger because for the first time it bothered me, I was no longer content in my sin and I had to fingure out what God did to me. So I found and dusted off my grand ma's old bible and started to get to understand Mercy and Grace.

A year later I was baptised and the congeration said I was now born again a new creature, but I knew I was baptised to show Jesus I was trying to obey him and make a public decloration of my faith and trust in Jesus Christ. I was truly born again the year before and it was just between Me, My Savior and that tiny tiny red spider

[jackie d]

sweet

[Scarletprayers]

I was brought up in church and I waxed and waned in my "devotion" for years..........it took a death to bring me here to Worthy and from Worthy to my knees, the loss of everything to me at the time, brought me back to life.

[Trusting Jesus]

For me it was my mother and my grandmother. Two ladies who loved Jesus and made Him a part of life for me. One of my crystal clear memories was when I was 7 I woke up in the morning and my grandmother was at our house. Now Grandma only lived a short ways away, but she never visited - she was a bit of a hermit. I was so excited! Grandma at my house! Well, as it turned out, my brother had been killed in an automobile accident the night before and my mother and father were taking care of business and Grandma was there to tell me what had happened. My joy of seeing Grandma crashed, but she comforted me so much. I crawled up in her lap and she explained to me that my brother was in Heaven and that even though we would miss him, he was safe with Jesus. That was such a comfort. Still is.

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Nathele

[jackie d]

I was brought up in church and I waxed and waned in my "devotion" for years..........it took a death to bring me here to Worthy and from Worthy to my knees, the loss of everything to me at the time, brought me back to life.

praise God you are here...

[Scarletprayers]

For me it was my mother and my grandmother. Two ladies who loved Jesus and made Him a part of life for me. One of my crystal clear memories was when I was 7 I woke up in the morning and my grandmother was at our house. Now Grandma only lived a short ways away, but she never visited - she was a bit of a hermit. I was so excited! Grandma at my house! Well, as it turned out, my brother had been killed in an automobile accident the night before and my mother and father were taking care of business and Grandma was there to tell me what had happened. My joy of seeing Grandma crashed, but she comforted me so much. I crawled up in her lap and she explained to me that my brother was in Heaven and that even though we would miss him, he was safe with Jesus. That was such a comfort. Still is.

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Nathele

[redwing]

We know that is God who saves. But God uses people to reach us with the gospel. I would be intersted in hearing who God used in your life. I think it would be beneficial to get back occassionally to the rehearsal of how it all happened in our lives.

my" granny". i won't go into detail's but my grandmother, from the grave, showed me what the lake of fire looks like.

[patricia1]

no human person...

[chin]

a brother brought the gospel to me in jail at age 17. some brothers brought it again to me in jail at age 19.i was saved the second time. in the middle of the night the SPIRIT convicted me, i got down on my knees and asked CHRIST to save me. PRAISE GOD! jim