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TestimoniesJoanne McMahon |
It all began one evening while I was watching the film “Deep Impact” with my sister, who is a Christian. At the time I believed that the world would end with a comet striking it.After the film we started to talk about God. My sister had been preaching to me about God and the Bible for the past fourteen years, but this time it was different. We soon got onto the subject of death. I asked her, “So if I died tonight, would I go to Hell?” “Yes”, she replied. Though this thought frightened me, I believe that the Holy Spirit was working on my heart.I stayed in my mother’s house that night. When I was alone, I cried, saying to myself, “I’m a good person, I have never done anyone any harm”, in fact all the things people who consider themselves to be good say. But in reality I knew that I was not a good person, instead I was a sinner. When I arrived at my own home the next day, I felt different. I did not know why at the time, but nothing felt the same.A few days later, while I was speaking with my sister on the telephone, I asked her if she could get me a Bible. I collected the Bible from my sister and started to read from the Gospel of John, as advised on the note my sister had left in the Bible. Soon I came to John 3:3, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” The verse hit me that night. I prayed to God with tears and asked Him to forgive me for my sins. I asked the Lord Jesus Christ to come into my life.I m now a Born Again Christian. I thank God for using my sister to bring me to Christ. But for her I would still be a sinner on my way to Hell, instead I am a sinner on the way to Heaven!J. S. M. McMahon (28.02.01) |
