I accepted Christ as my Savior on 11 June 2011 while attending and adult bible study class at the Church that my wife had found for us to attend earlier that week. I know this sounds like it was quick and easy, which now that I look at it in retrospect it was. But the actual way that it played out, I now see this was a decision I had been trying to come to for years.
My earlier years of life I really never knew the Church or Christ. I will tell you that I have always believed that there was a God just because of some of the things that I have seen in my life, but I never came to know Christ. Now don't get me wrong, I know that there was a time when I had attended a Church when I was young, and that I had wanted to get baptised, but at that time it was not something that I was allowed to do.
I lived the younger years of my life, and by that I mean the years from 16-30 in a life of sin. I was a drunkard, druggie, and overall bad person. It wasn't trully until I met my current wife that I started to change the ways of my life to the better.
I began to attend some various Church services offered by the military wherever I was stationed, but none of those services really spoke to me and draw me to Christ or the Church. One amazing thing though was that through both of my combat deployments, I probably had more conversations with God during that time than I had my entire life. I said the Lords Prayer everyday, and continuously asked for protection so I could make it back to my wife and family. I also asked everyday for the guidance to make the right decisions in all that I had to make during my deployments. I feel that everything I asked for was answered, first off I came home from both deployments relatively unhurt, and never did I make a decision while I was deployed that I felt guilt about.
Now lets fast forward to today. The week that I became a believer and accepted Christ into my life was truly driven by God. I was admitted to the hospital that previous Friday night with a bowel blockadge and got to spend 5 wonderful nights in the hospital with a tube in my nose. The day after I got out of the hospital my wife took me to my first adult bible study class at our new Church. From that first moment of being in the class around these people I did not know, I knew something was different. The group did not shun me for some of my opinions that I had and that piqued my curriosity. I found my self going to work the next day and having some of the best conversations I had ever had at work, and those were all about god. So after a week of adult bible school I attended my first men's prayer breakfast and this is when everything got crazy. Our guest speaker was awesome and there was a powerful feeling in the room. At the end it was pointed out numerous times that there was something being left undone inside the room, everytime it was brought up I found myself wanting to get out of my seat and say Please Save Me but for some reason I couldn't. After the breakfast was done I went home feeling extremely happy and content, but at the same time, completely drained of all energy. I told my wife that I had to lie down because I was exhausted but could not explain why. That evening during our Bible study I found myself not listening to the class but praying siliently for my salvation and devoting myself and my family to God. BAM, all that weight that was on my shoulders was gone, and I was able to concentrate again. This was the moment that I completely surrendered to the Lord and dedicated my life to Christ.
G.E.D.D.
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