My name is Lorraine and I would just like to share with you what the Lord has done for me and what He means to me.

First of all He is my everything He is my all He is my life.

Well now, I gave my life to Jesus way back in 1980 when I was just seventeen. I went to Sunday school when I was very young, but when I hit my teens I rebelled against God.

I suppose I was a typical teenager I loved going to discos, and enjoyed drinking, and at this time I definitely had no time for God. But I praise Him for not giving up on me.

A friend asked me to come along to church one night it was a Pentecostal church, and it was here that God spoke to me. Above the Pastor was a picture of the Lord's Supper, and when he gave out the call for salvation I saw myself sitting there and God said to me "Lorraine this is your last chance."

I couldn't control my body my hand shot up in to the air in response, I could do nothing else and I'm glad I did what I did.

I was really worried how I was going to keep the faith, but I shouldn't have been because I now realize that God keeps me. Praise Him! Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.

God has been so faithful to me. When I got married and had children God was still my everything. Mt daughter was only four when her appendix burst and she was given a fifty fifty chance of survival. I prayed, my friends and family prayed and praise God He brought her through and she is now fourteen years old. God really does care.

Things were not always easy my marriage broke up and it was really hard going with three kids to raise on your own. But God again saw me through, 10 years later I find myself happily married to a wonderful Christian man and God is still first in our lives.

God is the same yesterday and today and forever. God Bless!

Lorraine Madden

Note from Angeline:

This testimony reminds me of a time when I was in Miami, Florida visiting relatives. However the outcome was a little different. I have changed the name of the gentleman I was speaking to, but the event did happen. I will call him James.

I was in the Winn-Dixie Grocery Store on 27^th Avenue in Opa-Locka and ran into a man that I went to school with. I had not seen James him in years and when he came over to me to say hello at first glance did not recognize him.

We were standing there catching up with each other when suddenly I heard to voice of the Lord say “tell him this is his last chance.”

Well I was so caught off guard I did not know what to say. I asked what do I say to him and I heard it again. “Tell him this is his last chance.”

I looked at James, and said, “James I am a Christian now and have been for years. I told him how the Lord had changed my life and what a difference He had made. How about you? Do you believe in God?

He kept trying to brush me off. So finally I said “I feel like the Lord wants me to pray with you James.

Then I began to minister to him about Jesus and how he died to redeem man back to God.

He said something like “yeah I heard that before”.

I said, “I will pray with you if you like. All you have to do is believe and confess with your mouth and you will be saved.

He refused and said, “No, I don’t want to do that”.

I said we can go outside to my car if you are uncomfortable inside the store, we don’t have to do it right here. He refused again.

I began to feel helpless and said to God, “he doesn’t want to I don’t know what to do”

And I heard it again. “Tell him this is his last chance.”

I said James I hear the Lord saying “this is your last chance.”

He refused again said, “I don’t want to do that. It was good seeing you”.

I remember feeling as if I had somehow failed God when he walked away. I prayed that God would send someone else across his path and that he would listen to them.

Whenever I am in Miami I always pick up the weekly newspaper called The Miami Times. Thursday came and I got one. I was looking through it and there in the death notices was a picture of James. He had gotten shot that very night that we talked. My heart almost jumped out of me and such grief came over me. I remembered the conversation we had in Winn-Dixie just 3 days prior and I burst into tears. I don’t know if someone else came along and talked to him or not. I hope that even though James rejected what I said, he thought on it and prayed on his own. I know once he took his last breath it was too late. Whatever decision he made up till that point determined his fate. I pray when I get to heaven I will see him there.

Here is what I do know. I do know that God Really Does Love You. I do know that Jesus died so that men do not have to end up in hell. I do know that we have a choice to choose to accept Jesus or not. We have a choice of heaven or hell. It is our choice. God wills that no one should perish? (2 Peter 3:9). I do know that you are reading this for a reason. I do know that while you still have breath it is not too late. If you believe the sacrifice Christ made for you and would like to confess Jesus it is simple, just say the following prayer out loud to God:

Heavenly Father, I come to you now in the name of your son, Jesus Christ. You said in your word that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13)

Father, I am calling on Jesus right now. I believe that He died for my sins, that He was raised from the dead on the third day and He is alive right now. Lord Jesus, I ask you now to come into my heart, live in me and through me. I repent from all my sins and surrender myself totally and completely to you. Heavenly Father I confess that Jesus is Lord of my life from this day forward and I dedicate my life to loving and serving Him.