What Happened The Day I Said "Goodbye" To The World And "Welcome" To Jesus

It seemed just like any other day. I was in a joint-fellowship meeting on campus and also part of the choir.

Although I wasn't yet saved at the time, i didn't feel out of place there because i had already gotten used to being active in that capacity in church, leading praise and worship and also choir ministration despite yet being a sinner. But the words i heard from the preacher on that day was so compelling, it made me finally make that defining decision to say yes to Christ.

This was after I had come out for several alter calls prior to that without truly repenting. However on this particular occasion i didn't even go out for the alter call, so no one else in the meeting may have noticed what had just taken place. But on that day heaven bore witness and was rejoicing because a change had truly taken place in me, and a soul which was previously lost and bound for hell, had become saved and won into the Kingdom of heaven.

One remarkable difference I noticed in my life after I made the decision for Jesus was with respect to my strong inclination to steal.

Now I was such a chronic thief. I used to steal for country. It got to the extent that I would break into people's houses and cars to steal, some of them were even my neighbors and (family) friends who welcomed me into their family homes and treated me kindly but I still stole or tried to steal from them. It was that bad.

I have a feeling that the strong drive to steal then was driven by my materialistic and covetous tendencies. That's the reason why I am very careful with teachings which encourage such in the church, because I know how far such can push someone into doing the wrong things.

No wonder why Jesus strongly discouraged and sternly warned against such things:

Luke 12:15 (KJV)

And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

Although mine, thankfully, didn't get to the extent of wanting to injure or kill someone physically in other to get what they had, as it often does, as illustrated by the instance of Judas the disciple of Jesus who betrayed Him because of money to show how far it could push someone.

Mine was still bad though regardless, but what shocked me was that on that day, in that very moment I made that decision, that inclination in me instantly dried up. That is to say, i suddenly stopped stealing and turned to the opposite of what I used to be in that regards from that day onwards.

This became evident just days later when my best friend in school had finished the assignment and given me to copy from him, as we usually did beforehand to help each other in class, but to his greatest surprise, I told him "no, thanks", that I was going to do it myself.

That was how he came to realize that I was no longer the man he once knew.

It was indeed a brand new me.

God bless.

Another occasion where that change which took place in me was showcased was in a bus, after i had given the conductor 2 hundred naira to give me change, but the conductor gave me over 5 hundred naira as change.

This was sometime in the year 2000, and what he did to me used to be a dream and strong desire of mine. It was a temptation that I didn't even wait to come to me, but that which I would manufacture myself in a bid to cheat the conductor and extort more money from him.

But after this one gave me the money and I looked at it, instead of celebrating and rejoicing that a conductor had formed "mugu' for me and start singing "maga don pay", I returned the money to him and told him he had given me more money than I even gave to him.

The conductor himself was shocked and admitted that if it were him, he wouldn't have done what I did.

This is to illustrate the drastic change of attitude, that turned me from a chronic thief into someone that some people even began to trust with their own money more than themselves.

I once told someone about how someone else i didn't have ties with, but who knew who I was, came and was giving money to keep for him because he didn't trust himself as much to keep it safe. While i was still talking to him, he said he had also thought about doing the same thing.

On yet another occasion, i was staying in a house with individuals who came from the same place and part of the country, about four of them. They didn't even like me that much because my way of life was different from theirs to add to the fact that I wasn't their "brother".

A times they'd even be mocking and laughing at me in my presence using their language, because they thought I won't understand what they were saying. However when it came to the matter of money, they don't joke with me as i was the one they trusted with it because they felt it was safer with me than with their own brothers.

It was that glaring, it amazes me up to this very day whenever I see such things happen, because I can still vividly remember who I used to be in this respect before I made the decision for Jesus.

These are some of the things that made me believe that a change really occurred in me on that day, and God is able to change and transform the life of anyone regardless of who the person is.

All they need to do is to truly repent and turn back to Him, and God would take it from there.

God bless.

So which universe you they now?

AntiChristian:
So which universe you they now?

The kingdom of God.

John 17:14 (KJV)

I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

You're fooling yourself if you say goodbye to the world while you still have what belongs to the world in your bank account.

And you that is shouting "the end is near" and you're still paying your children's school fees, and saving to pay your rent or buy a land, your mumu na follow come. Na yourself you dey deceive.

jesusjnr2020:
The kingdom of God.

John 17:14 (KJV)

I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

You're no more in this world but in the kingdom of God. Has the kingdom of God come?

AntiChristian:


You're no more in this world but in the kingdom of God. Has the kingdom of God come?

Of course.

Luke 11:20
But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.

Luke 17:20-21 (KJV)

And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Hmmm

it been all most 2 years now have been to church now. and god still day bless me

Righthussle:
You're fooling yourself if you say goodbye to the world while you still have what belongs to the world in your bank account.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean you're not in the world it simply means you don't behave or react to things or situations the way people without God would.

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Wake me up after op comes back from his hallucinations.

ok

Righthussle:
You're fooling yourself if you say goodbye to the world while you still have what belongs to the world in your bank account.

bible no talk say dou sha not make money oh

But you are still in the world

I love the way religious people think… These guys are proof that the human being’s mind is capable of anything.

Nah your problem be that no disturb us

Immediately I accept Jesus in my life.... I lost alot of friends in my life.....

Because Darkness and lightning are not working together..........

Dreadlock69:
Nah your problem be that no disturb us

Why at thou vawulent

Another brainwashed sermon on the Mount.

Gullibility takes over from that moment onward.

Nice one brother

That day will be an interesting day.

Booked

Adeling:

Saying goodbye doesn't mean you're not in the world it simply means you don't behave or react to things or situations the way people without God would.

do if fire burn you nah you no go shout, or if shit catch you, u no go fit shit.

A man will never know what true happiness, freedom and joy means until the spirit of God takes over him,I know for sure what I write, nothing can ever replace that hunger and taste for God,even though I can't say for sure why it's so, sometimes I feel like we are ""spiritually genetically'' attached to him which makes us feel very incomplete whenever we stray away from him.

harmargedon:
do if fire burn you nah you no go shout, or if shit catch you, u no go fit shit.

Yeye shild that's not what I meant ...I know you understand

For instance the bible says when someone hit you on the right you turn the left chick..even if this passage has been misquoted over and over again it simply means be patient and don't act with anger or take laws into your hands at that instance hence Jesus Christ said if any man offends you, you should forgive them 7 * 70 (patience). But if it gets out of hand there are laws and of course steps to deal with the situation except if it's life threatening then you act to defend yourself.
But the people of the world would take action immediately without consideration just to prove to the other person. (Be gentle as a dove and wise as a serpent comes to play as a Christian)

OtemAtum:
Gullibility takes over from that moment onward.

comrade don they pay tithe