AMEN! Very Powerful! Thank you for sharing! We do have an awesome God!.........Blessings, ~Joyce > What a powerful testimony Mickey. Thanks for sharing it. Praise God He is > still on the throne! > > In Christ, > R. Dean Pesnell, 205-821-4989, rdeanpesnell@... > Pastor, Katherwood Baptist Church > Officer/Chaplain, Birmingham Police Dept. > II Cor 5:17 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: mickey > To: pastorsforum ; pastormail@... > Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 9:37 AM > Subject: [PastorsForum] SALVATION this I know. > > > I have read every post about salvation and when and how it comes about. > All of them are over my head, so I am posting what I know. = A preacher > name Perry Bowers was preaching a revival at Bethlehem Baptist Church in > the early fifties. He came to our house and ask if he got us a way to > the revival would we come? My dad said that anyone who wanted to could > go, he was working second shift. I went. I do not know the year, month, > or day but I know that I went forward and ask Jesus to save me from > hell. I went home and tried to explain to my mother how I felt. She > laughed at me and made fun of what I said. Dad carried me back to the > church to be baptized. The first Bible I remember was a New Testament. A > man and his wife was on T.V. I wrote to Faith For Today; Box 8; New York > 8 New York. They sent me the new testament. I started to going to church > because my girlfriend (wife) went. We got married and her father tried > for 7 ½ years to get me to carry my family to church. We went (Easter; > Christmas and Old Fashion Day) On Aug. 7, 1971 at about 2:30 in the > afternoon I backed over my old son (age 4) with a riding lawn mower, I > picked him up and his intestines came out. I put them back in him with > my hands and all I could say on my knees in the front yard was " God > help" We carried him to the hospital; I drove. On the way to the > hospital I promised God that we would go to church and that I would do > anything He ask, just let my son live. He was sent to Charlotte, I > cannot explain it but I believed in my heart that God was helping him; > and the doctor and that he would live. His surgery was a little over 6 > hours. A Church of God pastor named Vernon Hulks came to the hospital > and set with us. For two weeks he was in a sterile room that we could > not go in. He was in the hospital for six weeks. Things looked better, > he was going to live, he had both legs and feet. One of his legs may be > still (strait) but he would have both legs. I had let my Asking God to > help; my promise to Him and His assurance that He gave me slip into the > background. > > I came home from work an Tuesday after he had come home the Saturday > before. He had a long yellow streak about the size of your finger down > his side where he had been laced up like a football. We carried him to > Charlotte, Dr. James Hamilton was the doctor in the hospital. He looked > at it and said "We are fortunate if this had abscessed to the inside you > would have been eaten up with gangrene before we would have know it and > there would have been nothing we could do." A voice in my head as > audible as any person ever spoke to me said "Mickey I am still in > control." I said yes Lord. I do not understand why, how or when > theologically God saves sinners. I do know that this sinner (then and > now) has been, is being and will be saved by my LORD Jesus Christ. He is > a miracle working God, every week I see my son I know that He is. HAVE > A GREAT CHRISTMAS MEN, EVERY ONE OF YOU ARE A BLESSING TO ME. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: > pastorsforum-unsubscribe@... > > "In essential things, unity; in non-essential things, liberty; and in all > things, charity." > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: > pastorsforum-unsubscribe@... > > "In essential things, unity; in non-essential things, liberty; and in all > things, charity." >