SALVATION AND MY SON -A Personal Testimony

On Sunday, October 11,2009 the Lord gave me a gift I will always remember and will treasure forever. Monetary value can not be placed upon it and in this world during this day and time it is a rare 'jewel' indeed. My Pastor, Dr. John. C. Evans jr. spoke the word over us coming from Deuteronomy 28:1-68. When he came before the people, he told us that he was going to preach a sermon like he had never done before. He asked if we were with him and then he began to read the Word. He read the chapter in it's entirety and then when he read the last verse and said the last word, he announced he was finished !

He stood before us and spoke to the people. He told us that we needed to make a decision. It comes down to either we are going to be obedient to God and live obedient lives to receive the blessings of God or we were going to be disobedient and receive the cursings of God but we were going to receive one of the two. He told us it was time to be serious about our relationship with God. I thought it was AMAZING the way he just read the Word and stopped. He said he was done and he had preached and he was right. The Word is RIGHT all by itself. You do not have to add anything to it to make it any better or more powerful. You can speak it and it puts things into motion in the atmosphere. Well this Sunday it moved in the place and when pastor made the altar call, they slowly began to come forth....as I was watching the people come forth who had made decisions to repent and change their lives, I heard my husband say "Ok. we will go." I looked over at him and PJ and I asked where they were going because sometimes PJ goes to the bathroom or to get water.

This time I got a response I was not prepared for, my husband looked at me and said, " PJ says he wants to go to the altar." I can not explain to you the feeling that came over me. The seriousness of what had just been poured into my ear and tunneled into my soul was so deep I was speechless. I just told my mind to tell my feet to move and let them go forth ! I was overwhelmed by the move that had just gone forth upon my own child. My son whom I gave to Christ a long time ago. I moved and allowed them to go past together as Father and Son . I stayed by my pew overwhelmed and filled with awe as I watched my two boys go before the altar. Jason stood behind our son and I could see he was emotional himself. This was a very special moment for us both. I never took my eyes off of my son.

I took in every moment of what the Lord had blessed me to be present to see. I gave God the praise for what he had done. I thanked him for his WORD that is so powerful you can just speak it and things can change. The very atmosphere around you can change. Your heart can change without a physical touch because of the spiritual power of the WORD of God. Because I feel it is so important for my son to see his Father praising God, and see him pray and see him be a husband to me, I stayed in the background. I wanted him to go with his Father before God and give his life. The pastor asked the souls at the altar if they believed in Jesus Christ and that God has raised them from the dead and they said 'YES' and when he said the Word of God says 'Thou shalt be saved" I can not explain the river that flowed forth from my belly and my eyes. I was so very grateful and thankful to the Lord for allowing me to see my son give his life to the Lord.

He and I have talked about salvation and I did tell him that it would have to be his choice of when he decided to do it. He has made the choice as a young child to be a part of the next generation that serves the Lord and makes him the head of their lives. I am eternally grateful to God for that. I am grateful for his WORD that went forth and performed a thing within my son's heart and soul. I will continue to build upon his decision by teaching him what it truly means to be a Christian. I want him to know he can not live according to what man says is the right way, he has to live according to what the Word says. I want him to know that a Christian is not perfect. Only the world thinks they are suppose to be. I want him to know a Christian has made a choice and they strive to live their lives to please the Lord.

I want him to know Christians are wrapped in flesh and within flesh is no good thing. I want him to know only God can perfect us. We have flaws. I want him to know what the Word says is true and is real and the Word is powerful and can cause things to happen in the spiritual and manifest in the natural. I want him to know that a Christian man can fall down , but he has to know his God and his relationship with God and know the Lord will forgive if you truly repent and that he will take you back because he Loves you. I need him to know that if a weight so easily bestows him, he can lay it aside, he can be delivered from what keeps him bound and I want him to know that he can be used to do a work for the Lord.

He is not to young to be about his FATHER'S BUSINESS. It is our responsibility as parents, to teach our children and show them the way. What good is food, clothing and shelter if they do not know the source of it all ! What good is an education if they are ignorant to the ways of the Lord ? If they are ignorant to the Laws of God but know all the sexually explicit lyrics to a popular song ? They need to know how to pray. They need to know how to bow their heads in prayer before the Lord. They need to know how to enter into the house of God and how to leave. They need to know not to eat in the house of the Lord for it is HOLY. They need to know they should stop in their tracks when the Word is being read out of reverence for God and his most Holy Word.

We have to teach them to stop all the walking back and forth in church, especially during prayer. We have to teach them about Holy Communion and the importance of it and the sacredness of the act itself. We have to be the examples, if we fall we have to show them how we get back up and fall back in line with God's way ! If we teach our children they can be the one to remind us when we can not remind ourselves. If we teach our children they will go and get the oil and pour it upon our heads. If we teach our children they can go prostate before the Lord and enter into the Holiest of Holy's. If we teach our children they can speak a Word to the enemy when we can not do anything but MOAN !

If we teach our children we have done as God commanded. 'Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he are old, he will not depart from it'-AMEN. Proverbs 22:6

PEACE be unto you and your seed !