A Special Day.

so here is how it goes,
God had been dealing with my heart about being saved a few times before June 14, 2009, but it was different on that day.

i just couldn't believe that the same God that had been letting everything happen that was going on in my life actually cared about me.
i would always think in my head that if he really loved me then he would make things better and not let things keep getting worse.
i was also afraid about going to the alter with all those people watching, and if i went to the alter that would mean that everyone would know that i wasn't saved.
i would always say, well i'm not as bad as some people. [famous words]
I'm sure if your reading this then your problem thinking how dumb those reasons are, but at that time in my life they were real to me.
now i realize how stupid, it was to think things like that.

anyways,
the night i got saved was on a Sunday night.
it seems like just yesterday now that i think about it.
Bro. Kevin had decided to let a few different preachers preach that night.
i don't really remember exactly how many preachers had went before Bro. Holt,
but when Bro. Holt got up to preach, he preached on Hell.
i sat there and listened like i had done times before when preachers would preach on Hell.
Again, out of the Grace and Mercy of God, God dealt with me again about needing to be saved.

i tried to come up with the same old excuses i had used before,
but this time it was different.
i knew this was the line in the sand, the last time God was ever going to deal with me.

i finally realized that God had always been there, and he had his reasons for the way things were, and that all the people that i had been afraid to go to the alter in front of already knew that i needed to be saved and all they cared about was me getting saved. nothing else.
i knew i was a sinner, and that i needed to be saved.

Praise the Lord! the only people that God saves are the ones that finally realize that they are a sinner, and deserve to be in Hell.

so i went down to the alter, and ask God to save me.

& He did. imagine that. God actually saves people that want to be saved.

i will never forget the expression on Bro. Kevin's face when i told him i got saved.
it was the happiest night of my life.

so that's my story. i hope its a blessing to the people who read this note.
-- Brittany.

John 3:16 [KJV]
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.


Me telling my Granny I got saved. :)