He Saved ME!

Ever since I was a baby, I went to church! Thats all I knew at the time. Each Sunday morning I would learn something new in Sunday School. How Noah built the arc, How the burning bush burned, Adam and Eve were disobedient in the garden, how virgin Mary gave birth to a baby named Jesus! The whole 9 yards. I was a child of God! Like I said in a previous post, I was really the only one out of my friends who would attend church every Sunday! I would beg Lindsey to come with me and she would sometimes! I used to give "sleep praise" as Aunt Crick would call it. Yes, sadly, I would fall asleep during church service. I didn't really ever listen because none of it ever made sense to me. I never had problems, except for when I didn't come inside when it got dark or when I got a horseshoe stuck around my waist. (Yes that did happen and I had to get it sawed off) When I was still about 8 or 9 I went to a judgement house with the young people of my church. When I tell you I went in as a scared person and came out as a SCARED person, thats no lie. The judgement houses are SO real its crazy. I remember there was a scene where the people were in a car crash and died and the spirits just came roaming out into the audience and they were literally moaning and screaming your name. YES they were saying Alexia. It was so real that I cried my eyes out for my mom! After that night, I never attended another judgement house. (HAHA)

As I grew older, The Word of God started to become more real for me. I would listen in Sunday school, I would ask questions and most importantly, I would pray. I didn't know if God ever heard me but I would cry out to Him. Sometimes I felt silly, sometimes I would question my faith BUT I also knew thats what faith was all about. I remember God officially became real to me at a revival. I was about 12 or 13 years old and the pastor of the night was calling people up to prophesied to them. A lady walk to the front of the church and the pastor began to speak as if he knew her personally (which he didn't) and i thought about it for a second then I was like "wait that was God speaking through Him" and as he continued to prophesied I just began to cry. The spirit hit me!

When I was 15 years old, on a Sunday afternoon, we were in church and we were about to have altar call. When the pastor (which is my dad) called to see if anyone wanted prayer this one girl stood up and walked all the way up into the pulpit. And if you know anything about church, technically no one is supposed to be in the pulpit. So it was kind of weird how she did that. So my dad told her to step down into the altar and she did. As soon as he laid hands on her, her head snapped back. Everyone in the sanctuary grabbed their bibles and begin to plead "the blood of Jesus." At that moment, I figured out that there was an evil spirit in her, taking over her body. I was SO scared. Hearing the devil speak through her and say outrageous things, was absolutely TERRIFYING. We were in church for about 5 hours while they were performing an exorcism in the church. When they finally got the spirit out, the girl threw it up. And when that happens you're supposed to burn it to send it back to Hell. So they did and I kid you not, that smoked for like 3 days straight and the fire wasn't a regular fire, it was very very weird. That same day after leaving church and eating, we had to go back. (I forget why but we ended up back there) When we arrived at the church, like 6 young people decided to give their life to the Lord. And I was one of them. After I got baptized we were all standing in the altar of the church and we were getting prayer. When the began to go down the line of people the Holy Ghost fell on EVERYONE. It was so awesome. I remember speaking in tongues and it just felt so good to get everything out of my soul! Which for those of you that don't know, the Holy Ghost is the spirit of God. It's not an evil ghost or anything. Just the presence of God. Which BY THE WAY is AMAZING.

So at 15 years old I was baptized, SAVED and filled with the Holy Ghost. Ever since then I stopped cussing and I stopped all the bad things I had going on. It wasn't for my life anymore. I felt as if my tongue was so sacred that nothing bad should come off of it. So after returning to my "everyday life" of course I had to tell people and friends what Ive witnessed. And they DIDNT believe me. But I didn't care. I just kept telling the story until it affected someone or until someone asked about Jesus. Nothing was the same at school. People questioned why I was so different and some may have thought I was all "Jesus Freak" but that was okay to me. No one was getting in between me and my God.

Another experience I had was attended a church in Lorain. It was another revival and I remember singing in a church choir with my cousin Ced. We sang "Hold Out" by Hezikiah Walker! When I tell you that selection was powerful it was POWERFUL. The spirit was heavy in the church and that was one of the first times I had fun in the Lord! It was another great feeling. I had so much joy praising God!

When entering college I got into a gospel choir, New Season! (Shout out to my crew!) We got to witness to other college students and other believers. I learned how to give my total praise and praise him confidently. I had so much fun with my choir! WE did so much positive things In the name of Jesus and we were able to bring others to Chirst. I remember the first day of practice Juanita made me sing by myself (I still hope God forgives her for that) But the choir sure did teach me a lot. I met some great young people who had GREAT testimonies and they became good friends! But like the title of the choir (New Season) it became MY new season. God brought me to a wonderful job helping geriatric residents. I officially got a fuller heart. I remember sitting in one of my residents rooms on a Monday night (that was the night of choir practice) and I just started ministering to her. She was such a God fearing woman with a terrible disease, early onset Alzheimers. She began to have delusions that people were after her and I just began to speak Gods word into her and I just said "be anxious for nothing" and it was like a lightbulb went off in her head and she immediately said the rest of the scripture. It was like she didn't even have the disease anymore. We would pray together, watch TV together and even (horribly) sing together. She would tell me how much she loved the Lord and I would also. For me taking on such a big role in their lives there at Brookdale, It almost was like I was still in the choir ministering to people. I felt so good to be apart of their lives and I still hold a big place in my heart for all of them.

Nowadays I find myself praying more and more than ever. I pray probably 1000 times a day. I know that God gets tired of me somedays but He indeed is a big ear to me. Sometimes Ill ask questions all day and He won't even say anything. But his silence allows me to answer my dumb questions because I know He's thinking "Lexi why ask me that when you already know the answer." Ive experienced a lot in my 20 years of life and I wish I could remember them all. Of course there are good days in the Lord but yes I am one of those christians that lay on the floor and scream and cry until my head hurts just to sit up and say "Thank you Jesus." I truly do not know what I would be if I was without CHRIST. My life would not be the same at all and I don't want to imagine that. God works FOR and with you and He will always be the head of MY life.

I truly do hope that if you read this all the way through that God can save you too! It is never too late to give your life to the Lord and declare Christ as the head of your life! Young, Old, big small, God will always always be there waiting for you. If you live near akron, ohio, PLEASE come out to my church and witness greatness. I attend Community Holiness Church in Barberton! On the corner of Frank Ave and SNYDER! Come out and see what God and our fellowship is all about! Hope to see you there!