Special Blessing

I wanted to share this real quick. I ran across a blog called “The Better Mom” while I was looking at things on Pinterest that I’ve done to show you (tomorrow). Anyways, I decided to follow it for a while to check it out and see if it was something I’d be interested in staying with – my disclaimer – I have not read all the content on this blog, and therefore by sharing this one post I read I am not necessarily endorsing or recommending this blog as a “Good Read” quite yet. – disclaimer finished! :) whew now on to what I wanted to share.

Some of you know that Kenny and I have had a rough couple of weeks. Its been an emotional time of testing and uncertainty for both of us and I would ask your prayers on our behalf as we have some big decisions to make in the coming weeks. (If you do not already know our situation I would like to politely request that you not ask questions but rather keep us in your prayers knowing that God knows what we need. Thank you in advance.) As I was saying before, I ran across this blog and read one of the posts for today. if you would like to read the whole thing you can follow this link. It was a very good, and to the point post that was worth reading.

The writer of the post was quoting a paragraph from a book she was reading called “Dancing With My Father” by Sally Clarkson (Again, I have not read this book myself but merely received a piece of comfort from this excerpt).

To dance in the midst of terrible suffering is to resolve, “I will not be a victim. I will not allow this situation to determine the response of my heart, because I have this life, this chance to trust God, to show his reality through my circumstances. I resolve to remain strong and faithful because of the loving God who holds my hand.” ~Sally Clarkson, Dancing With my Father

That thought “I resolve to remain strong and faithful because of the loving God who holds my hand.” it makes me continually think “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” – Hebrews 13:5. God has not left us to go through this trial alone, He’s been there all the time and will continue to be here, with us.

The other encouragement from this; my role in the situation at hand and the ones that will come in the future is to resolve “…not to be a victim. I will not allow this situation to determine the response of my heart, because I have… this chance to trust God.”

Bex

My Salvation Testimony

I gave you Kenny’s testimony this morning, you can read about it here if you missed it. I wanted to go ahead and give you mine today as well. Both of these will be linked to on the ‘All About Us’ page here on the blog as well as the story of how we met and all that jazz :)

 

I, like Kenny, grew up in a Christian home. I don’t really remember what prompted it but one day when I was 5 or 6 I started asking my Dad about different members of our family and whether or not they were saved. Because of my questions my Dad believed I was ready to be shown the plan of salvation. My Mom and I sat on the porch swing as she took her Bible and read different verses about how you can be saved. I remember saying a prayer but I struggled later on with whether I had really understood what I was doing. Sometimes a preacher would say in his message that if you can’t remember the verses you read or the words of your prayer then your probably not saved – which, by the way, is a false statement, its not what you read or what you say that makes you saved, its your recognition that you are a sinner,

Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”

and your believe in Jesus Christ’s death on the cross as payment for your sins to give you eternal life (salvation).

John 3:15 “That whosoever believeth in him (Jesus) should not perish, but have eternal life.

Unfortunately, I continued to struggle with my salvation. By the time I turned 16 we had switched churches and my new friends just assumed that I was saved and I was too embarrassed to admit my problem. I went to Camp Barnabas – a Christian camp for teenagers - that summer. In Monday evenings message I was under a lot of conviction to go forward and talk to someone about salvation but I was worried what my friends would say, that they would make fun or be mad at me for lying to them. The preacher said something that night in his invitation that I’ll never forget “No one will make fun of you for coming forward for salvation, if they are your true friends they will rejoice along with you that you have finally gotten this settled.” That was all I needed, I all but ran to my counselor. The preacher was right too, they did rejoice! :)

Don’t be like me, waiting, struggling, wondering about salvation. If your not sure or if all of this is new to you, don’t wait, talk to someone today!

Kenny’s Salvation Testimony

I wanted to share a little more about Kenny and I here on the blog and a major part of what makes us who we are is the fact that we are both Christians. I asked Kenny to write out his personal, salvation testimony for me to post on here, so this is Kenny, my guest blogger for today!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“I was Born and raised in a Christian home.  At the age of seven, me and my family rode bicycles to a fourth of July fireworks celebration.  on the return trip, late at night and after dark, I began to get frightened at all the noises I heard and things I saw.  I spoke with my mother when we got home, because I was scared about where I would be if I died.  During the invitation the following Sunday I went with my mom and talked with my SS teacher about how I could receive Christ.  It was on that day that I knew I was a sinner and if I would have passed into eternity that I would have spent it apart from Jesus Christ.  So that day, in child-like faith, I put my faith in Christ.  I believed that He came to earth to die for me, was buried and rose again on the third day. The best way I knew how I asked Jesus to come into my heart, to forgive me of my sin and to save my soul.  Rom. 10:9-13

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Through the years, mostly because of my age, I have doubted whether I was truly saved.  The one thing that really confirmed in my mind that I have received Christ is an event that happened to me at the age of 16.  On that day I was going out with my dad to help him finish a roof and I fell asleep at the wheel and rolled the truck.  No one was hurt at all and that in itself is a miracle.  Needless to say something like that makes a person think and I thought of how close I came to dying that day.  I know that God has a special plan for my life or I would not be here today.  But I knew that day that if I had died that I would be in heaven right now.  I would just ask if our places were switched and you had died in that accident would you be able to say the same thing.”

So what about Kenny’s question? Would you know where you were going to spend eternity? If your answer to these questions is no, you don’t know where your going or maybe you just not sure, please feel free to contact me. I would love to show you how you can be 100% sure that your going to Heaven.