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Yes! Yes! Yes! Thank God! I love Jesus with all my heart and soul. He is so kind and good to me. When I confess my sins to Him, He actually washes me clean of the dark spot. I feel free in Him - His being and love.

Being such a sinner, I was beating up on myself one dark night. I could not see how He could love me so I asked Him in prayer,”Do you love me?” Instantly, my mind flashed with many incidents in my life where He had saved me...like He saved me from aggressive cancer, gave me my sons, and much more. It happened in a flash but it ended with me knowing He loves me a lot and is with me always. That was so kind of Him. He is so merciful, holy and powerful.

Sara, you've beautifully demonstrated the personal Savior you serve by sharing your personal testimony. It inspires me to do likewise:

HE GAVE

I used to feel unloved, alone
My ache was real, my heart a stone
But God gave me, with all His heart
At Calvary a brand new start

He felt my thirst, He saw my strife
He gave me first eternal life
I had no friend to share that life
He gave me then my precious wife

His love so great, He showed us how
To love our mate, fulfill our vow
Such love above; what could we do?
We learned to love each other, too

Well, I'm no Adam and she's no Eve
We'll never give Him cause to grieve
He'll make us worthy to receive
He gave Himself, He'll never leave

Gift upon gift He heaped and piled
Made our hearts lift: He gave a child!
She'd need, she'd call, for love and care
But, most of all, our fervent prayer

Her new sister cooed and bubbled
With love for her, our prayers doubled
Now as they've grown I've come to see
What God has known my need to be

I have the need to know God's love
I made Him bleed, He rose above
A slave to sin, He bought me back
Now He's within. I have no lack!

Well, I'm not Adam and she's not Eve
We'll never give Him cause to grieve
He'll make us worthy to receive
He gave Himself, He'll never leave
He gave Himself, He'll never leave
He gave and gave, He'll never leave
He gave and gave, would He stop now?
He gave and gave, could He stop now?

I've read and re-read your #61 4 or 5 times and I see your love for Jesus and His love for you

In 1981, after committing a couple of felonies, I went on the run (seriously synopsizing, here) and went to (I didn't know it at the time) a Messianic Jew's house for assistance to leave the state I was in

Little did I know that on August 15, 1981 at his kitchen table, about 7:30 in the evening ... after Eddie had talked with me for some time, I realized I was a sinner in need of salvation, or I was going to go to hell when I died

I didn't want that

So I bowed my head and closed my eyes ('cause that was what I thought the meekest position I could take, at the time) and I told Jesus I was sorry for being an a###### (yes, I did say that) and would he forgive me and take me to heaven when I died

I might have said some other things, but I don't remember ... it was 1981

Eddie had told me about salvation and being born again and all that, but I had been raised to be a Catholic, so THOSE words were not that impactful to me .... going to heaven when I died WAS

During the next couple of months, God led me and fed me through the Bible (for the first time in my life I actually READ it ... ( Catholics, in the 50's and 60's didn't encourage people to read the Bible) and GOD HIMSELF WITNESSED IN MY HEART A SINCERE DESIRE TO BE BAPTIZED .... which is weird because, Catholics are baptized as infants and don't NEED to be baptized ... but I attest to you here and now ... God was the One that put that desire in my heart ..... I was living alone in a rural setting with very little human contact and no TV

I looked in the phone book for a Baptist church (where else ?) and made a call

I got picked up the next Sunday and I have been in church every Sunday since !

I've given my testimony before and only ONCE, here in FR did I develop the entire story (1999, I think) and EVERY born again believer HAS A NOVEL FOR A TESTIMONY ABOUT THE TIME HE WAS SAVED

Just sayin'