I am very happy that you shared your story.
I got chills when I read what happened at the dining table.
I was in a Bible Study on a Wednesday night when I was born again. It had been a long struggle and many people were praying for my salvation. I didn’t know that at the time. Their prayers were finally answered. They had been diligent!
It is good - very good - to share our stories. That’s the most important part of a believer’s baptism: A public declaration of God’s power to change a life.
May God Richly Bless you, my beloved.
I remember a Pastor once saying...”When the student is ready God provides a teacher”.....In retrospect God knew I was seeking him...”in all the wrong places”...but ‘the desire of my heart’ was to know the truth as God wanted me to know it Because I wanted to know Him.....thus I spent hours and hours pouring over the scriptures before I met the retired Pastor....I say this because it is so important that people read and study the Scriptures on their own with God alone.
It was actually comical at times as I began expressing myself out loud to God when I came across something in his word that at that moment seemed to solidify the false former teachings I had gotten along the way...’ I’d say.. “Well there it is God, says it right there!”...only to read further on or into the next day and He showed me that teaching was wrong after all..... it was quite remarkable as in doing so I had begun “a relationship” and didn’t even know it.
I share this because I learned then , without an instructor, ...that Scripture does indeed interpret scripture IF you stay the course in reading further and in seeking the truth as God wants you to know it....He will never disappoint a heart seeking after Himself.
Your testimony too was touching....and I’m sure much more in depth then those few lines given, none the less hearing someone speak of their moment of salvation just reaches beyond words and touches the very Spirit of a persons Soul.
” God’s power to change a life.”..Indeed! and Amen