Pastor Hargrave:

WOW!!!  What an amazing sermon I heard on TV today!!!  Oh, IT WAS SO EXCITING to hear someone be SOOO TRUTHFUL about when one has truly received SALVATION, and how they will truly be CHANGED if they have!!!  I actually liken it to the fact that one will actually "vomit" THE GOODNESS OF ITS CONTENTS (sorry, it's crude) after having truly been changed (from salvation)!!  "Witnessing" will thereby not be something one "struggles" with at all when salvation has truly struck them, for witnessing is only a mere vomiting side effect that comes from the contents of SALVATION.

We are all sinners, but if we will begin to ponder, feel, and come to grips with the possibility that it has truly had effects on not only ourselves and our loved ones, but the one who has truly loved us, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, only then will one truly be able to be in position to truly GRIEVE their sin and REPENT OF IT with a pain like no other. And only then will one be lined up to even begin to petition the holy of holies in hopes of being struck by this beautiful thing called salvation. 

For even then is it still up to God, as it is only He who can measure one's repentance and the depths from which it comes and thereby grant the most beautiful gift of all, that of a sweeping hug and body engulfing force that pierces deep within one's physical form a feeling of forgiveness, love, acceptance and joy, and an experience that one cannot otherwise describe in human terms. 

This happened to me 11 years ago this month, and oh how my life has never EVER EVER been the same -- and witnessing has just been a natural SIDE EFFECT of the contents of that gift I received.  I drive people crazy, but it is an "incurable" illness, of which the side effect is that which I can do nothing about. 

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR BOLD MESSAGE TODAY!! I AM SO BLESSED!!!

- Angie Murin...Edmond, Oklahoma