I was on the road to hell when Jesus saved me!!

Before I recieved eternal life, I was a hopeless wretch drowning in the depths of my sin.

Although I was quite a popular teenager with loads of friends, I felt empty inside. My lifestyle was completely rebellious.. and I was a surrounded with a bad group of people. To fill up this feeling of emptiness I would usually be going to parties, clubs etc drinking and taking drugs/weed to be seen as 'cool' but really because I was afraid of being myself because all I could hear is a voice telling me that 'this is not you' 'something is missing'.. I just knew it deep inside that I was living a lie, but I didn't know how to break free from this lifestyle. I had no power to.. I was a slave to sin. I remember waking up in the mornings , feeling ashamed and condemned thinking is this really my life forever.. ? Lost and confused, I would ask questions to myself and could never find any real answers. But then the viscous cycle of fake joy would repeat over and over again . My friends who I thought I'd never separate with were always there, we started popping pills just to start off the day. The devil really wanted to destroy me fully and keep me busy enough from knowning the truth.

One beautiful evening, I was at home for once, having supper with my sister and my mum who has always been praying and preaching to me but I never understood cause I thought she was just being my mum. We were listening to a preacher on YouTube. I remember him saying in simple words that the only way to be set free completely is through Jesus Christ because He is The Way, the Truth and the Life. I strongly felt the Holy Spirit speaking to me that day and later I went into my room, shut the door and cried out to Lord to save me and forgive me of my sin. That day I was transformed into a new creature and my mother was so joyful as all her prayers for me to be saved has finally been answered.

Now that I accepted Jesus into my heart, I am free at last. I am longer lost and empty. I am complete in Christ.

Now that I follow Christ alone, I no longer associate with any of my friends anymore. My life is completely changed. I have a purpose in my life as a child of God and that is to proclaim the work of the Lord and to spread the good news and love.. I am spiritually revived and alive from the dead, enjoying my walk with Jesus as I am learning more day by day the riches of His grace. Even in my tribulations I rejoice because I know He is with me. I want to be used by Him to encourage other people to recieve Christ. If I can change then surely anyone else can. I now experience real inner peace and I do not desire to do things of the world anymore because my old spiritually dead self is gone. It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives within me.

The promise of eternal life through Jesus Christ is what keeps me going to fight the good fight of faith. Nothing in the world compares to the promise I have in Him. So for that, I choose to deny myself , pick up my cross that I may inherit into the glorious kingdom of God where no thief can enter, where there is no more sorrow and where peace reigns forever and ever :-) I am so grateful for what the Lord has done in my life. To God be the Glory forever and ever. Amen