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“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 10:13 (NLT)
I was in a dark depression.
I could not even go get groceries. I
just wanted to smoke my cigarettes and drink my coffee and be in my room. I put
dark towels around my windows so that no light could come in.
My family planned out a surprise
party for my birthday. In the middle of the party, I turned to my mom and I
said, “I’m just completely losing my hope.”
Later that night, I was watching TV
when Joel Osteen said, “If you want to receive Christ into your heart, just
repeat after me,” so I did. Then T.D. Jakes came on. He said if you want Christ
in your life, just repeat the words that he said, so I did that, too. I’d do
anything for God to come into my life and make a change. The last thing I
remember before I went to bed was T.D. Jakes saying, “When God comes, he knocks
once. You can’t miss it. It’s the loudest knock you will ever hear in your
life.”
At five o’clock the next morning, I
was awakened by a knock so loud and so strong that I thought somebody had run
into my house. At first, I got scared. Then I went to the kitchen, and looked
out the window. A star shone on the cross on top of the church next door. I’d never seen a star like that one. I
remembered T.D. Jakes said that when God comes knocking, you have to open that
door and invite him in because he won’t come in if you don’t. I opened the door
to invite Christ into my life, and a wave of fresh air blew over me. My
depression lifted and other things started to change as well.
My eighteen-year-old son had a really
bad addiction. He was lost. I prayed, “Whatever you got to do, Lord, do it!”
Later that day, I got a phone call from the Department of Juvenile Justice.
They’d arrested my son. I went to see him.
Although there’s generally a period
of isolation before detainees are allowed visitors, the lady in charge said, “I
just feel it in my heart that I need to let you come in and talk to your son.”
When I saw him, my son told me what
happened that got him arrested.
“I was at a hotel hanging out in the
parking with the guys when the alarm went off three cars down. It was none of
us. We weren’t even close. When the police officer got there, he sent everybody
home, but I stayed and said, ‘I need to confess something. I’m on probation.
I’m not supposed to be out here.’”
My son didn’t even know why he was
telling the officer that stuff. He could have gone back in that hotel room and
pretended that nothing happened, but something in his heart told him that he
needed to tell the truth. As a result, he was sent to juvenile detention for
five months.
While he was incarcerated, a minister
gave him a Bible. He didn’t read it; instead, he put it on the top bunk. Every
night before he went to bed that Bible fell from the top bed into the ground by
his feet. He picked it up and put it back and it would fall again. Finally, he
said, “Okay, God, I’ll read it.” He started reading it and began changing his
ways. He turned around.
And that was only the beginning of
how Jesus has been rewriting my story since I invited him into my life. Many
more chapters after the prologue. Marisol Lozano
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