MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH GOD

noytnaafrmaeidisto seayrlI liotvheolGeoadn.dIIwaams causionngcme yfofoloistsht,eapnsdfsroinmruGloed tmoydehpeart.,

I was lost, yet esus hrist sought emve.rTyohnroeuwghoouuldt gmoytloife eIabvelnie, vbedcatuhsaet ebvuetruyonnfoeritsuancahtieldlyo, fI Gwoads, sworIotnhgo.uTghte, ofibthleesdaeyvsiǣlǢDzfoer thaetdceovmilmsinttneetthhsfirnomis the beginningǥdz

I knew that there was a God. ouotwtehveerre, msoymheewarhte. re, but I didnǯt know God in

1 John 3:8 mIyn tshiestyeerar ʹeͲnͳǦͳ, shalelvsahtiaornedtehseǦ r itihtmewofnaysmwimliytyhǢ fhlteiheearaerasrnvtiwienntgaiyatimhsnatedtto be born again. tarlpulotnohhfeftrahoriminsg tohf Geod, oI fredlt ocvoenrvmiycotwend sipne.aGkoidngwatos mioasItnhunfwyegmdsahyyttseeounshaariǯrrrnrntteif,wʹsutpbotͲlie.ullͳinlItfe͸ǦentǦ, tIernedminemg aberibalteǦ ustruddayyoǦnsoamaetǦ dnthoienngev IbehearǦd ftImcahoossykawnretpecadter.lliirqomdnuweetieen,asdgtnidosanlsvaǦ tion. Thatǯs the day I sincerely and diliǦ genytlyfirsstatretnedcosuenekteinrgwthiteh Goord.was on IawnuasarsyoͶe,nʹcͲoͳu͹r,aIgaetdtebnydethde tiebalechcianmgps,. wanedlcothmeinsgaovfedmep.eople there were so foIllroewallyhrwisatn. tendthtoe blaestsdavayedofacnadmtpo, a saved you,nDzgemekanyeqtuhoeteodrad vwehrisle hine hmeayisbneefaoru.dznde, csalildytehuerpeonmhayimcowmheilae

Isaiah 55:6 tinmoewwinhgetnhatht emyosrindswwiellrneontobt efofroguivnedn. wanidththmaet tehveryorsdingelseudsayh, rIicsot uwladsnaǯtnlgivrye with myself.

I lhlaItewdamntyeldifewǨaȋs to be righȌt uwaitrhy GͳoͲd, .ʹͲnͳ͹th, eI nreigphetnotfedanoǦf

Luke 14:26 my sins. I believed in the ord ecsounsfidherniscte, ipnlacimngfaolrl tmhye sliaevviendg oinf myislodsetastohu, bl.uIrbieaǦl and resurrection, which is the true and only gospel of salvation. ȋ1

3Ǣ 1:16Ȍ. Icboeulliedvewdatshhataownaly Gmody

Corinthians 15:1- Romans snianms.eIocfatlhleed uoprodnȋthe coinmfe. sstǦ

Rominagnmsy1s0i:n1s3tȌo, the moormdenestuIsriencteoivmedy hdeanrtofbymfyaistihn, tahnedbtuhreǦ mwgiaossneeriny. sGittoadhnataodnocekaouiutssaelldyl awday,Ǩ I nctoonthinisuveertoy have peace and Œoyoinw,mIyǯmheaabrlte. tpleoase mysearvieouarn. IddteoǦ nsiortemtoydoowniswwilill.l Tanhde ible says, DzTherefore, if any man be in hrist, he areispa snseewdcraewaatuyrǢebǣ elhdotlhdinaglsl things become new.dz

PRIDE

IF

(Courtesy pic) I received the Lord Jesus into my heart by faith, the burden of my sin and the misery it had caused was instantaneously gone.