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Jesus, A Life Time Adventure
Christ found me on Good Friday afternoon
at 2-30pm in 1970. I was a very unhappy
lady and emotionally imbalanced because
of being involved with the occult. Having
been married since 1964 I was still childless
and constantly in stress about that fact.
It was an issue of unhappiness in our
marriage. I had married a man who had no
faith in God because of his upbringing he
was deeply against religion. I had for some
months battled against conviction about the
darkness in my life and this was the day that
Jesus came to find me as a lost sheep who
believed in Him but didn’t know how to live
for Him. That afternoon the Jesus film spoke
to my heart while I was all alone and I shed
buckets of tears as the walk of the Saviour
up to Calvary became so very real to me. I
just could not bear the heartbreak of it. The
more I wept the more I felt clean and light
inside, yet since no one had shared the gospel
with me I was unaware fully of what was
going on in my heart.
Suddenly, the tears turned off like a tap and
I was at peace with myself as I went through
my home drawing all the curtains out of
respect for my saviour’s death on the cross.
My neighbour was washing and I remember
how upset I felt to see it for, I wanted so
badly to tell her not to do such a thing on
the crucifixion day of the Lord. When my
husband Jim arrived home, the first thing
I asked him was, if he would take me to
Church on Sunday. He felt it strange but
out of love he agreed. From then on God
began to rearrange our lives for the Church
we went to had a born again Vicar and some
young couples in it who had passed through
similar experiences to me.
It would be another year before Jim found
Jesus for himself and during that year God
used the Vicar to set me gloriously free from
a demon that was tormenting me whenever
I was in the Church service. I was *anointed
by the reverend in his study after confessing
all my demonic activity of the past and all
my fears also tumbled out. When the mark
of the cross was placed on my forehead I
felt the heat of it and knew deep inside I
was different to when I had entered. The
Bible became my constant companion and
I spent more than a year repeatedly going
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through Christ’s life in the four gospels. We
moved out of the area and the Lord arranged
another Church for us to go to with a *saved
Vicar so we continued to grow and within
two years were baptised in the Holy Spirit
and in water.
Meanwhile, God taught me how to write
devotional poetry. Then God began to speak
to me about becoming a preacher and would
get me up out of bed to write 500 word
sermons. Being filled with the Spirit and
getting water baptism it began to be evident
that the Church we were in was not meant
to be our resting place. We prayed to the
Lord about the right time and sure enough
the day came when He used a Pentecostal
Pastor’s visit to lead us out and into the Full
Gospel Church he ran. There I took classes
for preaching for three and a half years and
God began to use both of us in the *gifts.
My poetic ministry also increased until I
had books full of poems worshipping and
praising the Lord Jesus.
God used this period to put us into a
faith class for provision and we saw Him
wonderfully provide often in astonishing
ways. I had at that time also become involved
as a Church singer and learned also the
importance of intercession for souls. The
day came though, when God called us on
missions to Scotland, where we took part in
open air ministry while living in the beautiful
country cottage that the Lord provided, with
a job for both of us. More lessons were
learnt there, before coming home a year
later to Wigan, where once again we had to
lean on God for our provision. He didn’t let
us down in our desperate moments as we
trusted Him. He also used our flat to gather
friends together for Saturday night meetings
where we saw wondrous things happen by
the Holy Spirit moving.
He healed me fully of the hurt of childlessness
and has used me in many ways, including as
part of an evangelistic choir going round
both Churches and prisons. I look back on
that as a truly great part of my life.
Eventually we would move again to Southend
on Sea where I became a care assistant in a
Care Home. Evangelism had to be part of
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