When I was praying my thoughts wandered back to the dark age when I did not know God, and I saw myself. The memories of my life in the past are still fresh, but in those visions they are fragmented.
I was at school, and all of a sudden I was in a pub; then I was in the university; then with friends ....it was everywhere, but at every stop I saw a lonely and broken me who needed restoration.
Then my memory stopped at the first time I stepped into a church. In the clear vision I was walking in to a very small local church, the usher greeted me with a warm welcome and asked if I was coming with anyone. I said I was by myself. Then I picked the back row. And the praise and worship began. People raised their hands and sang.
I closed my eyes and a very powerful feeling gripped my heart. I wept when the feeling of familiarity struck me. I knew my brokenness and emptiness was restored. One touch from God is enough to bring renewal to my life.
8 years later when I was in church I revisited that memory.
I whispered to God, ' Yes Lord, I have met You on that special day.'
God replied, 'But I have met you a very long time before that day.'
Psalm 139 is my favourite scripture at all time.
Psalm 139 verse 13: For You created my inmost being, You knit me together in my mother's womb.'
I was at school, and all of a sudden I was in a pub; then I was in the university; then with friends ....it was everywhere, but at every stop I saw a lonely and broken me who needed restoration.
Then my memory stopped at the first time I stepped into a church. In the clear vision I was walking in to a very small local church, the usher greeted me with a warm welcome and asked if I was coming with anyone. I said I was by myself. Then I picked the back row. And the praise and worship began. People raised their hands and sang.
I closed my eyes and a very powerful feeling gripped my heart. I wept when the feeling of familiarity struck me. I knew my brokenness and emptiness was restored. One touch from God is enough to bring renewal to my life.
8 years later when I was in church I revisited that memory.
I whispered to God, ' Yes Lord, I have met You on that special day.'
God replied, 'But I have met you a very long time before that day.'
Psalm 139 is my favourite scripture at all time.
Psalm 139 verse 13: For You created my inmost being, You knit me together in my mother's womb.'
