My testimony:
At the age of 14 a friend invited me to a
summer church camp up in the Sierra Mountains above Fresno,
Ca. It was a nice place to go up in the mountains. After we
ate dinner my friend Bill said ok lets go, I said were are we
going? He said to meeting. I thought what meeting, I was there
for the fun. The preacher gave a valiant call to be saved, but
I did not respond until the last night of the meetings and I
was so under conviction that I went down to the front and
recieved Jesus as my savior. The next day we rose up and
everything was so different, The clouds seemed brighter and my
heart was changed. I thought everyone would be excitied to
find out that I was saved, but their espressions said
otherwise. This continued for the next serveral weeks and I
found myself on the outside of what was normally accepted by
my friends and family. I found myself falling back into the
old ways within weeks. Fast forward to 1980 , I had been out
in the world for 7 years and was so miserable because of my
sin. But one night I woke up around 12 am and a light was
shinning in my room and a picture of Jesus hanging on the
cross was over my bed. Two things hit me, 1st it was my sins
that put him on that cross, 2nd he must have really loved me
to suffer the shame of the cross. Immediately the Spirit of
God flooded my room and I let Jesus back into my life. Life
has never been the same since then.