My Testimony of Salvation (continued-page 3)

by Gene Easley    

    The first thing I wanted to do after the assurance came into my heart was to stand up, lift my hands, and say, “Hallelujah!”  I had watched the people in that church on various occasions without anyone to prompt them lift their hands and say, “Praise the Lord,” or, “Hallelujah.”  I couldn’t understand why they were doing this.  But as salvation came to my soul, I thought to myself, “I understand now why they do that.”  I understood why they wanted to praise the Lord.  One can’t get real salvation without wanting to tell somebody else and without wanting to praise God for it.  So, I did it.  I stood up and lifted my hands for the first time in my life and said, “Hallelujah,” and, “Praise the Lord!”  Though I felt strange about what others might be thinking, I didn’t care.  I was thankful for what God had done.  

    Today, I am so thankful there was someone who witnessed to me about Christ, invited me to church, invited me to an altar of prayer, and stayed there and prayed for me until God did a work of salvation in my heart.  Salvation is real, and we can know we are saved.  Jesus said that He came to seek and to save that which was lost.   

    Thank God, after all of these years since that Sunday in February in 1962, I still know I am saved.  I am glad He found me!  Thank God, He is still leading people to an experience of forgiveness of sins and a new life in Christ!  We don’t have to understand all of the theology; we just have to come to Him!

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