My Personal Salvation Testimony

My father was a religious man, but no one had ever shared with him the Bible truth of the gospel. My mother had no interest in spiritual things. After children were born, my father took my toddler sister and I to services at his church.

At the age of four, I asked my mother a question about God, to which she had no answer. She called the church to find out if there was a class for children that could deal with my inquiries. The next Sunday my father began a quest to find a church with a Bible teaching program for children. In the next month, he never tried the Baptist church that was only a short walk from our home. After discovering our special family need, our neighbor offered to take my sister and me to Manor Baptist Church in San Leandro, California. After three years of faithfully attending Sunday School and our neighborhood Good News Club, I finally understood the gospel.

One night, I was alone in my room saying the evening prayer that my father had taught me,

“Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.”

My young heart realized that evening, that saying a prayer would not provide a home in heaven. The Lord helped me understand that I was a sinner, on my way to eternal damnation in hell, and that He had paid the price for my sin when He shed His blood the cross. I knew and believed Jesus Christ had risen from the dead on Easter morning 2000 years before. I realized He could forgive my sins, make me His own, and give me a home in heaven after I died. Hence, with the faith of a seven-year-old child, I prayed that night and asked the Lord to come into my heart and save me from my sins and give me a heavenly home. As God promised in Romans 10:13, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” He answered my prayer. I can honestly say there has never been a doubt about my personal relationship with Christ. With confidence, I look forward to the day I will live with Him eternally in heaven. The following presentation carefully explains what the Bible says about your eternal destiny.

The presentation here carefully explains what the Bible says about your eternal destiny.

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