I prayed for you to read this...

Our soul waits for the Lord: He is our Help and our Shield. Psalms 33:20

I just had a free minute to kneel at my alter in my room and pray.

I asked the Lord to guide me in my daily writings. I don't want to do anything in myself.

I don't have social media, except this blog of course, at all. I have no other way to "advertise" this blog of mine. But, I have the greatest tool of all. Prayer. I don't care if only one person reads my post today, the Lord knows my heart. I asked Him specifically to send the people who are to read this post, to my blog today. So, if you are reading this and you are a Christian, Muslim, Atheist, or anything in between, you were meant to read this today.

On my alter, I have a Bible. It is a purple Bible that says in silver, Hannah Jo.

I opened the front cover and it reads, "I, Hannah Jo Gaston, gave my heart to the Lord on March 15th, 2006. (PM service- Jason Bruns)"

That was the best day of my life.

When I woke up that morning, I had no intentions of giving my life over to God that day.

The man, Jason, gave his testimony for the very first time to the youth that night. He gave an alter call and he said that if anyone would like to accept the Lord to come forward and someone could pray with them. Nobody came. My heart was pounding. I felt something drawing me, but I wasn't sure what it was. I just knew I had to pray though. The song came to an end and he said, "I just feel there is someone in here who needs to come forward." I knew exactly who that somebody was. I stepped out of my seat, and fell at the alter. His soon to be wife, Anna, held my hands and explained the simplicity of accepting the Lord.

She helped lead me in a prayer of repentance and I believed in Jesus Christ as my Savior at the moment. She then told me the next steps after salvation were baptism, telling others I was born again, and developing a strong prayer life and reading God's Word. She told me to go home and pray and ask God what He would have me to read. I did just that. I went home and prayed and opened my bible to John 15:16-19.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Jesus spoke those words. Years ago. But what I find absolutely amazing is that He spoke them to me on the very night I accepted Him into my life.

The next day I told my friends who were sitting at the same table as me. They all looked a little confused and concerned, and one, my best friend at the time, said to me that this was just a phase. I assured her it wasn't.

Around 10 days later I was baptized by my pastor. It was such an amazing and spiritual moment.

I lost lots of friends. I gained more though. True friends. People who cared about me spiritually and who would pray with a and for me. Yes, I gained true friends.

I devoted my "what would have been," senior year, to God. I had quite a bit going for me. But God laid it on my heart to focus that year on Him. So, I went to a college a few times a week for a couple months and got the two credits needed to graduate through homeschool.

My life wasn't immediately perfect. And it still isn't. But, one thing I can say, is this. I have grown. I am still growing. Through God's constant mercy and grace that he bestows upon me, I am able to move forward, not backward. I am able to go through valleys and know that I will soon be on a mountain top. I am able to walk through the darkest of nights, and know that morning will come. I can go to sleep knowing that if I died in my sleep, I would meet Jesus immediately.

You may want what I have. What is the plan of Salvation?

In the back of my Bible, there is a short paragraph that words it wonderfully.

It states,

A long time ago, a Roman Jailer asked the Apostle Paul the most important question that could ever be asked, "What must I do to be saved?" Paul's answer was immediate, to the point, clear, and concise. He said:

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house" (Acts 16:30-31)

That's how simple that it actually is. A man named Nicodemus pretty much asked Jesus the same question. Jesus answered him by saying, "You must be born again" (John 3:1-8)

Jesus wants you. He died for you. Ask Him to save your soul and to cleanse you from all sin! Salvation can only come through Jesus Christ! Accept Christ into your heart! Confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead! Call upon His name!

If you accepted Him today, tell someone! God will walk with you when nobody else does!

GOD BLESS YOU and YOU BLESS GOD!