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Dee's Testimony, continued...

I was 10 when I got saved. I had been to church camp and some mighty good preachers had preached wonderful sermons.
Kids lined the altars and cried and gave their hearts to God, but I was not one. I did not feel moved at all when the invitation came. Months later one of the ministers came to our church in Memphis, Tennessee. He preached a sermon about the Good Shepherd, and the lost lamb.
Suddenly it was personal. It really connected to me that Jesus loved ME, that he was the Good Shepherd and I was that poor little lost sheep, and that even if I was the only one in the whole world He would have come to save me.
He loved me that much.
I knew that I was lost, and when the Pastor asked people to come and be save, I knew that I needed to go. I knew that, but my sister went up to the altar.
The devil told me then that I couldn't go. "Everyone will think that you are copying your sister" he seemed to say.
But God is patient, and kept encouraging me to come. I gripped the back of the pew as I fought with myself, but God seemed to continue to call me, and finally I went up to the altar and prayed. I cried and asked God to forgive me of my sins, and I told Him that I wanted him to be my Master, my Shepherd. I felt so clean, so happy!
I wish I could say that I stayed close to Him, and have lived for Him ever since, but I didn't. When I was a teen, I fell away. I did many things to break God's heart.
Thinking of them today still breaks mine.
But God is faithful, when we are faithless, and patient, and merciful.
I met my husband when I was 15. He was raised in a Godly home, too, a Pentecostal home. We married when I was 16 and he was 18.
It has been about 40 years now, and we have been blessed with a wonderful daughter, and son, and now a daughter-in-law and two super-special amazing GRANDchildren!
Robert does the sound for the Liberty Belles, and has been a wonderful support and encouragement. He loves Southern Gospel as much as I do, and we talk about being "Gospel Groupies" when we retire. Of course, we hope to travel and sing as long as our health and strength hold out!

I praise God that He is mighty enough to use ANYONE in His service, even me!

If you have been blessed by Dee's testimony, email her!

"I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding." 1 Corinthians 14:15