Nothing happens by accident and I know this to be true now more than ever. I was invited to visit Victory Baptist Church in Roanoke Rapids, NC back in September of 1991. I sat in the balcony. The Preacher preached hard on "hell" that day. I had never heard it told to me that I needed Jesus as my Saviour, for remission of my sins or else I was bound for hell when i died. Well, I didn't want to go to hell, so I was stirred in my heart to go forward in that service to talk to someone and get that thing settled. I mean, for years, I knew about Jesus and God and church, but those things were actually just stories and mysteries to me, but when i heard that Preacher preach, I knew right then and there that Jesus was more than a story. He is REAL and i needed Him to get to heaven because even though I was a nice person, I was also a sinner without Christ and without Him I would not make it into heaven. I wanted to be saved from Hell right then! The preacher saw me raise my hand when he asked "if there was anyone who was not 100% sure that if they died today that they'd go to heaven." He asked me to look up at him and please come down to talk with someone about that. Oh, I wanted to, so badly, but I wouldn't move. I was afraid that people would watch me and they would know I wasn't saved yet.
         Well, that was on a Sunday morning and being new to "church stuff', I did not understand that I needed to go back to church that night for more, so on that following Tuesday, September 13th, 1991, at 6pm that Preacher man knocked on the door of my home. Boy, was I glad to see him because, for 2 days, all I could think about was how if something were to happen to me and i died that I would not go to heaven and i lived in "fear" those two days. Praise the LORD for Soul-Winners because I was ready to get my eternal future settled and ask Jesus to save me from hell so I could go to heaven some day when I died. Of course I could have asked Jesus to save me all on my own before the Preacher man came to my house, but I didn't know how or even who to ask because I didn't know many people that talked about these things. I had heard my Daddy, many years ago, tell me that he got saved and I saw a change in him that was truly different but he never shared with me how he did that. But any way, when that Preacher man came into my home, I wasn't concerned with anything else at that moment and was very thankful that Pastor Rob Madden came to me and led me to JESUS. I wouldn't change being "Saved in Christ" for anything this old world could offer, but I would change one thing about how i got saved and it is this: Instead of worrying for 2 days about my salvation, I would have rather jumped out of that balcony and gotten that thing settled the first time the preacher asked me, so that I could have been a child of God sooner.
           September 13th, 1991 is the day that I'll never forget nor will I forget the man God used that led me to Christ because that moment FOREVER changed my life and I pray daily for God to use me whenever He wants to, so that I can make a difference in someone else's life that is lost without Christ. Everybody needs Jesus so once we know Him personally, we need to tell others too! Oh yes, and I went to church that next night which was a Wednesday. That was something I had never done before but it felt right when I went. I also got baptized that next Sunday to show others I got saved. I wasn't ashamed any more of what others would think.
      Well, there's a lot i could tell your about what happened to me "from-then-to-now" but the most important thing I can say is this: Jesus makes "the difference" in a life and God is real and I'm glad I personally know Him.
       Sincerely In Christ; Jodeana Huss King
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 Sincerely In Christ;
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