My testimony

MY TESTIMONY
Sis grace:  we are all welcomed to today’s night of testimonies. We are all going to be given the chance to share our testimonies. But I am sorry to restrict us, today is going to be a night of the testimony of our salvation. And to open this floor, I would like to welcome to the podium, sis tolulope a.k.a. pearlytreasured by God as she shares with the brethren, how she got saved.
Everybody claps as sis tolu walks to the podium. She takes the microphone and starts with a song.
“oh what a wonderful wonderful day, a day I will never forget, after I’d wondered in darkness away, Jesus my savior I met, oh what a tender compassionate friend, that day he met all the needs of my heart, shadows dispelling with joy I am telling, he made all the darkness depart. Ohhh…. Heaven came down and glory filled my soul, when at the cross, the savior made me whole, my sins were all washed away, and my night was turned to day, heaven came down and glory filled my soul”
I remember who I was when I was growing up, to everyone outside; I was probably a perfect child. I sing in the choir, I teach the youth fellowship sometimes; I was quiet, moral and always looked like the perfect Christian. I am sure this testimony would be shocking to so many; especially those we grew up together and sang together in the youth choir. But then, I strongly believe God did not just place this in my heart, if it weren’t to bless someone somewhere out there.
To some extent, my siblings knew me; I fight, lie, and do a lot of things. And they are only the ones that know that it is when retreat or success camp is drawing close that I pretend to be a Christian so that I won’t be grounded from singing in the youth choir. I would always ask for forgiveness whenever I hear a message on hell, heaven or any touching message. But it would only last for a very short time. There are so many terrible things I do that even my siblings or parents are not aware of; I just can’t be mentioning everything here. I continued this life, until I gained admission into the university. On gaining admission, a part of me, wanted to go fully wayward, and the part of me yearns for a change because I was totally empty. Because I dress well, I was quickly assumed to be a Christian. I go to church, because there was no other choice, and behave like one because I was only a moralist.
To cut the very long story short, a day came, when I was in 100 level, I think first semester. We went for a weekend program at deeper life high school, before it was changed to group based now. I have forgotten the theme now but it was a November program. After the message of that day, I knew something had touched my life. This is not my normal self. G.s made the altar call, but pride would not make me raise up my hand. The program ended that night, and my friends left me in the auditorium to sleep. I really did not know what made me stay back. Then a spirit told me I must look for my pastor, which was pastor sola adeyemo then. I searched round the auditorium but couldn’t find him. I wanted to leave because it was getting really late but I couldn’t. A spirit was controlling me that night.
Suddenly I started craving popcorn. So I went to the supermarket, just right at the supermarket was my pastor. That was when I realized that, this is mercy. God really wants to have mercy on me tonight before my life would crumble and the devil would just waste me. I hurridly went to him, and told him, “sir, I have to see you this night.”
He led me back to the auditorium. As I began to narrate my life experiences, and all I had done, I felt really ashamed of myself. I cried so much that night. I surrendered my life to Christ and the most awesome peace I had ever known settled on my heart. That experience is what has helped me till today, and has brought me this far. Not because I was a deeper life member because I had been since, not because I grew up in a Christian home but because mercy found me that night and I couldn’t let go.
This is my testimony.