TESTIMONIES...
Just a few stories of how people have become Christians.
Angela
PSALM ch.18 verse 16
“He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.”
The home I grew up in was a happy one but my family did not attend church.
However, one thing my mother encouraged me to do was to pray. Mostly it was just “God bless mum, dad etc.!” and the same prayer every night.
Les and I met when I was seventeen, he was eleven years older. At that time he was a “Sparks” or Radio Officer in the Merchant Navy. We met in the month of May, spent time together every day then he went back to sea for five months.
We wrote long letters in that time and when he returned to Liverpool he asked me to become engaged.
We saved hard for two years and were married in 1965. In 1967 Maxine was born, then les left his first love” the sea” and work on board ship and began a job ashore. It was wonderful to have him home every evening just like everyone else. We were settled and happy, Helen was born in 1969.
In 1972 our ordered life was changed, Les was informed by his employers that there was no longer any work for him in Liverpool, however, he could except promotion and move to Scotland. We did not want to move but we felt that money was tight and the mortgage had to be paid.
I was very close to my mum and dad, indeed they kindly came to stay with me while Les went on ahead to find a house for us to join him.
So you can imagine how I felt when just two weeks moving house dad died suddenly of a heart attack. I had to leave mum and family and go to live in Hamilton near Glasgow. God was shaping our lives… God was drawing me.
A very sad eighteen months followed and although I wasn’t a Christian, by grace the Lord constrained me to pray and answered my prayer. Les was sent back to Liverpool. God was piecing our lives together.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end”.
Of course I did not know this then and so all this was difficult to cope with. Two house moves, a bereavement and a slow loss of hearing. Ill with my nerves and a bowel complaint my weight went down to six and a half stone! “Though I have afflicted you I will afflict you no more”
My health began to improve, I put weight on and we were all happy to be back in Liverpool. The girls joined Sunday school in a local church and began to bring home scripture texts and Bible stories. An inner conviction was forming in me.
Then an “accident” happened, our Helen fell down stairs at home and broke her wrist. A few days later her Sunday school teacher called to see her and he asked if the Pastor of the church could call to see us. So Bill came and invited us to church. Our first visit was on Christmas day, just the girls and I. God was drawing me.
The Word of God preached by the Pastor began to work in my heart. Yet I was like a thief climbing over the back wall into Heaven. John 10 verse 1
I wanted to find God my way but the more I tried to meet His standards, the more I failed and miserably! I just could not find God.
One day I sat with Les, who wasn’t a Christian at the time, but in anguish of soul I said “I can’t find God”. Well he answered maybe that’s because you are knocking on the wrong door! Les didn’t know it then but he was quoting John 10 verse 9 Jesus said; “I am the Door: by Me if any man enter in he shall be saved”
Christ alone is the door. He alone is our righteousness, our way into heaven.
Jesus saith unto him; “I am the Way the Truth and the Life”
By grace through faith in His finished work alone. God the father draws us, the Lord Jesus comes to us, his Holy Spirit opens the door to our heart.
I went to the Saviour and asked Him to cleanse my heart, my very soul. Finding forgiveness, Peace, in Christ my Saviour. A little while after, I went in the bedroom and knelt, He met with me there. No bright lights or audible voice but a deep conviction of his awesome, Holy presence. …….2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 12 “for I know whom I have believed”
I can’t really tell the moment but something of His utter Holiness, Beauty, Love, Righteousness, the very heart of God was revealed to me a sinner!
I received Baptism on the following Easter Sunday my scripture text being Isaiah chapter 43 verse 1 “I am His and He is mine forever”
God drew me to himself.
Psalm chapter 18 verse 16
“He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.”
P.S
As the years have gone on I have had the joy of seeing Les become a Christian and receive Baptism. Also the wonderful blessing of both girls Baptised and their Husbands and their families attending church.
Our son Jonathan (he came later) has also been Baptised. Joy of Joy Grand daughter Rebekah received the Lord as Saviour and has also been Baptised.
We thank and praise God for all His mercies but most of all for our Saviour Jesus Christ.
PSALM ch.18 verse 16
“He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.”
The home I grew up in was a happy one but my family did not attend church.
However, one thing my mother encouraged me to do was to pray. Mostly it was just “God bless mum, dad etc.!” and the same prayer every night.
Les and I met when I was seventeen, he was eleven years older. At that time he was a “Sparks” or Radio Officer in the Merchant Navy. We met in the month of May, spent time together every day then he went back to sea for five months.
We wrote long letters in that time and when he returned to Liverpool he asked me to become engaged.
We saved hard for two years and were married in 1965. In 1967 Maxine was born, then les left his first love” the sea” and work on board ship and began a job ashore. It was wonderful to have him home every evening just like everyone else. We were settled and happy, Helen was born in 1969.
In 1972 our ordered life was changed, Les was informed by his employers that there was no longer any work for him in Liverpool, however, he could except promotion and move to Scotland. We did not want to move but we felt that money was tight and the mortgage had to be paid.
I was very close to my mum and dad, indeed they kindly came to stay with me while Les went on ahead to find a house for us to join him.
So you can imagine how I felt when just two weeks moving house dad died suddenly of a heart attack. I had to leave mum and family and go to live in Hamilton near Glasgow. God was shaping our lives… God was drawing me.
A very sad eighteen months followed and although I wasn’t a Christian, by grace the Lord constrained me to pray and answered my prayer. Les was sent back to Liverpool. God was piecing our lives together.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end”.
Of course I did not know this then and so all this was difficult to cope with. Two house moves, a bereavement and a slow loss of hearing. Ill with my nerves and a bowel complaint my weight went down to six and a half stone! “Though I have afflicted you I will afflict you no more”
My health began to improve, I put weight on and we were all happy to be back in Liverpool. The girls joined Sunday school in a local church and began to bring home scripture texts and Bible stories. An inner conviction was forming in me.
Then an “accident” happened, our Helen fell down stairs at home and broke her wrist. A few days later her Sunday school teacher called to see her and he asked if the Pastor of the church could call to see us. So Bill came and invited us to church. Our first visit was on Christmas day, just the girls and I. God was drawing me.
The Word of God preached by the Pastor began to work in my heart. Yet I was like a thief climbing over the back wall into Heaven. John 10 verse 1
I wanted to find God my way but the more I tried to meet His standards, the more I failed and miserably! I just could not find God.
One day I sat with Les, who wasn’t a Christian at the time, but in anguish of soul I said “I can’t find God”. Well he answered maybe that’s because you are knocking on the wrong door! Les didn’t know it then but he was quoting John 10 verse 9 Jesus said; “I am the Door: by Me if any man enter in he shall be saved”
Christ alone is the door. He alone is our righteousness, our way into heaven.
Jesus saith unto him; “I am the Way the Truth and the Life”
By grace through faith in His finished work alone. God the father draws us, the Lord Jesus comes to us, his Holy Spirit opens the door to our heart.
I went to the Saviour and asked Him to cleanse my heart, my very soul. Finding forgiveness, Peace, in Christ my Saviour. A little while after, I went in the bedroom and knelt, He met with me there. No bright lights or audible voice but a deep conviction of his awesome, Holy presence. …….2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 12 “for I know whom I have believed”
I can’t really tell the moment but something of His utter Holiness, Beauty, Love, Righteousness, the very heart of God was revealed to me a sinner!
I received Baptism on the following Easter Sunday my scripture text being Isaiah chapter 43 verse 1 “I am His and He is mine forever”
God drew me to himself.
Psalm chapter 18 verse 16
“He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.”
P.S
As the years have gone on I have had the joy of seeing Les become a Christian and receive Baptism. Also the wonderful blessing of both girls Baptised and their Husbands and their families attending church.
Our son Jonathan (he came later) has also been Baptised. Joy of Joy Grand daughter Rebekah received the Lord as Saviour and has also been Baptised.
We thank and praise God for all His mercies but most of all for our Saviour Jesus Christ.