The Bible and Life: A Testimony

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

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I was a wild sinner when I got saved! I was smoking five packages of cigarettes a day, drinking martinis like they were going out of style, was the life of every cocktail party because I knew more dirty jokes that anyone else, and couldn’t open my mouth and say four words unless one of them was a swear word!

Then I met Jesus!

And He turned my world around! I went to an altar a wild sinner, and because we’re called to be saints, I rose up a saint of God! God placed in my heart an instant hate for evil. I looked at sin and it made me sick, so I turned and ran as fast as I could in the opposite direction. My life was completely transformed in that one single moment of time.

When I stood up from the altar, even though no one counseled with me and no one prayed with me, I was an “instant” fanatic. In the twinkling of an eye, I had become a brand new creature in Christ! Somehow in a supernatural way which I do not understand to this day, God allowed me to instantly grasp and comprehend the principles of the Bible, even though I had never read it.I understood there was no room for sin in the life of a Christian.

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I immediately understood that I had to die to self because Jesus had come to live inside of me. He was in my heart and I knew it! I had an instant revelation that I had to give away to everyone I met, what God had given to me. All of this had to be a supernatural revelation of the Holy Spirit, but whatever it was, I knew that holy living and total commitment were the only way to go.

I had stood there just moments before, totally oblivious to everything that surrounded me, only aware of the fact that I had made contact with a living God. I said, “God, I’ll make a deal with you. I’ll give you ALL of me, for all of YOU!” He accepted my offer and I gave away my total being to serve Him. Never again did the woman named Frances Gardner (my name at that time) live. It was a totally new creature who stood up with the knowledge branded on my heart that Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, was actually living His life in and through me.

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That new creature took off like a rocket that day! My daughter and I got into the car together and I drove down the highway toward the shopping center where my printing company was located. I literally tried to “beat” Jesus Christ into the head of every person I met. Something had happened to me, and I had this zealous desire in me to give it away to everybody. I have often said, “Jesus Christ opened my mouth, and I haven’t shut it since, and I don’t intend to ever shut it where He’s concerned!”

I could not contain within myself the wonderful thing that happened to me. I was not a “silent”

witness. There had been such a radical change in my life that I wanted every person with whom I came in contact to experience the same thing. There was a peace, a calm, a joy, a happiness, a zeal, and a fervor to share what had happened to me that could not be stopped! And I’m still the same way today!

- Francis Hunter ( His Power Through You )