By: Heather... I was born into what I would call a`God fearing` but not a Christian home. My parents faithfully sent my brother, sister and I to Sunday school each Sunday and then we all went to church. I was thankful to have been brought up in a church where the gospel was faithfully preached and from a young age I knew the gospel and that if I was ever to be in heaven I would have to except the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour. I lived with the idea in my head that one day I would get saved but time enough thinking like that when I was older... silly, dangerous thinking.

Then my parents and younger brother and sister went on holiday to Canada (I couldn't go as I couldn't get the time off work), we were getting a new kitchen in and the floor tiled etc. A man called George was carrying out the work. He would have been working most evenings. George and I got chatting. Turned out he was a Christian. He shared the gospel with me although I already knew it I knew I had to get saved. However, the devil put wee thoughts into my head like `what will your friends think if you get saved`,Christians are boring etc...

God continued to work and I began to realise that my friends were not going to stop me losing out on heaven. Then one day in August, I think it was round 20th, in my bedroom. I knelt in prayer to God and admitted that I was a guilty sinner and that the Lord Jesus had paid the debt for my sins at calvary and I wanted him to be my Saviour. I got up and didn't feel any different. . I wondered am I really saved, doubts came to my mind. I then leaned from the Bible that salvation is not about feelings but simply trusting in the finished work of calvary. I began to get stronger in my faith through fellowship with other Christians, reading the Bible etc.I am like the Lords `unfinished building project` but I know that God is molding and shaping me into the person he wants me to be. Many times I have let the Lord down but he hasn't or ever will let me down. I am sure you will agree that the Christan life truly is the best life...

By: Rachel Cotton ... I was privileged to have been raised in a loving Christian home.  Both my parents were saved and encouraged my siblings and I in the things of the Lord.  At a very young age I knew that if people died and didn't know the Lord, they would go to hell.  This really frightened me and I didn't want to die and go there.  My parents had a painting above the fireplace in the living room which was entitled The Broad and Narrow Way.  It was a vivid picture showing the path way to hell and the also the way to heaven.  My eye always wandered to the two destinations.  Heaven was a glorious, golden city while hell was represented as fire.  I was greatly troubled, which was clearly the working of the Holy Spirit and one day I was out in the garden helping my mum to pick strawberries when I asked her how to be saved.  That day my mum led me to the Lord. I was nearly 4 years of age at the time and I can honestly say I have never looked back.  God has been faithful to me and has helped me in times of need.  He has been leading me and guiding me and helping me to conform to His will and His plan.  I rely on Him for everything and want to serve Him more.  
 

By: Valeriya  ... If I didn't know God, my life wouldn't be as happy and joyful. I know that I can't live without faith in Him now. I serve Him, read the Bible every evening and pray. The Lord is my friend: I tell Him everything and He gives me advice and answers my questions.

By: Lidya ...God is my friend. He helps me to live and solves my problems. I know He is always near. He loves me the way I am! I thank Him for all this.

By: Suzi-j ... I'm a teen, who was once going down life's road and heading for trouble. I've done many regrettable things in my life. For me my life was becoming very miserable, but now I am having the best time of my life! How come? Once I was heading for trouble but now I am heading to Heaven.

A few years ago I asked Jesus Christ to come into my heart and save my soul from Hell. I knew that He had died on Calvary's cross to save my soul, He died and rose again, proving beyond all doubt that Salvation's price had been paid. He died for me. I'd be a fool to turn Him away! The moment I repented (turned away) from my sin and asked for the free gift of Salvation (Romans 6:23) I was saved. Set free from sin, shame and hell. Now I've no more guilt about anything! Nothing at all, because I know it's all been forgiven! God will never recall my sins again!! He has chosen to forget that I ever sinned. I'm totally justified (just-as-if-I'd never sinned). What a relief!!

By: Anna ... I'm a friend of God. I can tell Him all my joys and grieves. I know that He'll never betray me when even the best friend can betray. I value such qualities of God as Faithfulness, Reliability, Love, Care: the list will never end. The Lord answers my prayers and speaks to me through a preacher, the Bible and other people. Jesus is my friend and I can rely upon Him in everything.

By: Natalie ... Close relationship with God is very important for me now. He is more than a friend for me: He is understanding, faithful, reliable, caring, good listener.

By: Tatyana  ... I accepted God into my life and He became my friend. God taught me how to get along with people, freed me from many complexes. He gave me a lot of great new friends. I live with Him for nine years, and those years are the best in my life. I don't regret about a single day when God was my leader. I'm still not what I want to be, but God accepts me like this and helps me to change. I can assure you that God is real, He really is.

"And they overcame him (the devil) by the blood of the Lamb, and by their testimony..." Revelation 12:11