Katie's Irvinisms: Is God calling yet?

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Is God calling yet?

Josiah has been asking lots of questions about being saved. He has the "head knowledge"...we're just waiting on the "heart knowledge." His Sunday School teachers told us Sunday that they thought he was possibly under conviction. I told her he'd been asking questions and had been very curious for several months now. Please pray for his little heart to be open and ready when the time is right. Please pray that we'll lead him in a plain path and that he'll know that he knows that he knows that Jesus is living in his heart. I'm so excited and of course I'm crying while I type this. I just want that peace of knowing that all 3 of my boys are saved and going to Heaven. That is, without a doubt, THE MOST important thing in my life. I want to be the right kind of mama that they know they can come to me with ANYTHING. I want them to see that God is the #1 priority in this home and their mama & daddy love each other...but that they love God even more.

I heard a testimony on a CD this morning of a man talking about Hell...how real it is. It made me think back to just before I got saved. I, too, had to realize how real Hell is and that I WOULD go there if I didn't have Jesus living in me. It scared me to death!! But you know? That's the place we ALL have to come to first. Josiah has to realize first that he is lost before he can be saved. Please pray the Holy Spirit speaks to his little heart and that he answers.

1 comment:

Brittany said...: I am confident Josiah will answer when God calls him. I know he has been taught well, and we are all praying he knows he's saved for sure when that time comes.

Love y'all!; September 17, 2009 at 8:56 PM

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My Testimony

I was 9 years old and terrified that I was going to Hell when I died. I kept asking my mama questions about it. She would always just reassure me that I'd know when it was my time to ask Jesus in my heart. I went to Bible Camp that summer for the first time. The Lord spoke to my heart that Monday night during the preaching service through a sermon by Butch Lee. I didn't go down. I was afraid what the other kids would say...especially being new at camp and not knowing everybody. On Tuesday, I worried ALL day long because I KNEW WITHOUT A DOUBT that if I died, I'd open my eyes in Hell. So back in the service on Tuesday night, I could hardly wait for the preacher to give the invitation. Sure I was still nervous, but I knew I needed him more than I needed to be nervous! I went down and got my counselor by the hand. My friend Libby followed. We knelt outside on the sidewalk and I repeated a prayer after my counselor. I don't really know that it would've mattered the words I said because God knew what was in my heart. I got saved that night and haven't been the same since! He put a wonderful peace in my heart that nothing else in the world can ever replace. I thank Him for that sweet moment of salvation and pray that I can be an example along the way for those I meet. You know, you're never too old or too young really to be saved. If you feel God speaking to your heart right now, just bow your head, close your eyes, and ask Him to come inside your heart and make you clean and pure and holy and be your Savior. It's that simple. Then YOU can have that wonderful peace that passes ALL understanding!