The talk and the walk.

I attended Garden City three weeks ago as a guest with my childhood friend John. It was an ordinary day and I wasn't expecting much. During the sermon, I heard the gospel for the first time. My legs were trembling, and my heart was sweating. I felt Jesus for the first time.

I began to reflect on my experience at Church for several hours, and something felt different about this religious experience than other ones I have had in the past. I was born a Hindu, and attended several religious events with my family in my life. I had never really "believed" in Hinduism and partook in the worship very systematically. In church, there was something very different about the environment and different how people were acting, and it made me feel different.

I wanted to feel and meet Jesus. Who was this man who took led me in this church and give me this experience? Why him and no one else?

That same night I went out to a friends house and began talking of the gospel. I found myself feeling a sense of exhileration as the right words seemed flow through my mouth at the right time.

I reached out to John who suggested we sit down and talk about what I was feeling. Two days later, i met with John who broke down the gospel into a story, and explained to me why Jesus died for our sins. We began to talk about my Sins and how Jesus, could be my savior, if I let him. I let him in.

That same evening we went back to John’s house and began to Pray. The type of Prayer was very shocking to me. I spent much of my life "praying" to whom i was a "non-believer" without building a "relationship."

Praying has helped me open up to really understand what I am feeling and thinking. Getting to know Jesus through prayer took a huge burden off me. No longer was I alone, no longer was I praying but not really praying. I now know how to pray, I now have a relationship with Jesus, and am free'd from my sins.

“Im free’d from my sins!, Im free from my sins!”” where the exact words I kept saying for the next several days. I was happier then I had ever been. Without sin, I felt like I had more energy to be happy and even give back to Christ!

I attended a neighborhood group meeting with several other believers of whom I shared my story and spoke of the gospel more. I also began to spread the message of Jesus to non-believers, and have brought my best bud, Phil, closer to Jesus.

In the past three weeks, I have changed so much. I have gone from being lonely, low self confident, and not really wanting to live. To being full of life, having a relationship with Jesus, extra energy to give back to god, and a church that I look forward to attend every Sunday