I Fell in Love with Jesus!
I want to take the time to testify about how I fell in love with Jesus Christ. It all started when I was 12 years old, when my uncle let me watch a movie called, “A Thief in the Night.” After that my awareness of Jesus and my pursuit toward living for him started. I couldn’t sleep for days after that LOL, it was like I was awakened LITERALLY (Insider, hehe). I started to look for Jesus, so He started speaking to me and showing me things. At that time I didn’t live for him wholeheartedly like I should have. I lived according to what I was taught, and I am very grateful for that because, in that; I learned how to be faithful to God’s house. Around that time, in high school, I kept saying to myself, “There has to be more than this!”. So I started asking God to give me a real desire to live for Him, and I never stopped that prayer until I received it. Then during my first year in college, my roommate shared her experience of receiving the Holy Ghost with me. I didn’t understand then, because I never heard of that experience until I started to seek more and more years later. However, a seed was planted. In my early adult years, I kept on trying, I kept seeking and through it all Jesus never left me. He kept speaking to me. I loved Jesus for sure, but I wasn’t “in love” with Him. Then, in 2008, I received “THE CALL”! Jesus spoke audibly to me when He called me to do His work! Still I wasn’t “in love” yet. In 2009 I learned how to devote my time to Jesus, and His voice was even clearer. By 2010 I was planted into a church, Abundant Life Ministries, to be exact! (Turns out they had the truth all along 😉.) There, I learned how to pray effectively, I learned how to fast, how to live a holy life, what it meant to worship in spirit and in truth, I learned the oneness of God, and what that meant, I learned how to be obedient to my leaders, and the list goes on. Finally, in June of 2011, I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost 🙌🏾! And that moment is when I completely fell in love with Jesus! I was completely consumed and I literally got weak in the knees. Jesus swept me off my feet that day 🥰. At that point is when I received the power to truly live the way I was being taught to live. I was completely sold out for Jesus! Anything He asked me, I did! I didn’t move unless He told me. I moved when He told me. Was it hard sometimes? YES! I lost relationships, friends, family, even the one I thought I was going to spend my life with. But I was in love with Jesus, so only what was pleasing to Him is what I wanted. Even if at times it felt like death! But that’s what I had to do, I had to die out! But make no mistake about it, the blessings that came with putting Jesus first above all else are STILL overflowing in my life today in 2021! I came to find that John 14:23 (KJV) was true, it says, “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”
FALLING IN LOVE WITH JESUS
WAS THE BEST THING I’VE EVER DONE!
Sis. Jennifer