About 4 months ago me and a friend of mine along with 2 other people were attacked outside of a night club. The attacker was in possession of a knife and stabbed a total of 5 people that night. I had gotten stabbed a total of 3 times, one in the liver, one in the lung, and the worst one of all that was a millimeter away from my heart, and had actually cut the sack surrounding the heart. The doctor actually said when he walked into my hospital room to see me after the surgery, that it was like seeing a ghost because I had been so close to dying.
I had always believed in God but had kind of turned my back on him and his word, and was living a dangerous life of partying and drugs. I was in the hospital for about a week and was dealing with the attack very negatively and had a lot of built up anger. Then one morning for no explainable reason I broke and started to cry profusely, the nurse had seen me crying and came over to me. Nurses are generally not suppose to preach to patients but this time the nurse closed my curtains and she told me that Jesus loved me and that he is calling me.
She handed me a bible and layed out scriptures that really struck me because of how closely related they were to what I was feeling and was dealing with. She began to sing to me and I closed my eyes. At that moment I felt something that I had never felt before, and she knew it. She told me that Jesus was there and that him and the Lord are running towards me and reaching out there love to me. This made me cry uncontrollably, and to this day I believe that she was either an angel or a messenger of the Lord.
After our encounter I felt as if my shoulders had released a million pounds off of them and I felt fantastic. Me and my mother had a chat right after that and I had told her about what happened and began crying again. I had some past secrets that I was keeping from her about the drugs and partying and I ended up confessing all of these things to her and I felt a love that I had never felt before, both from God and my family.
I still to this day have some problems and temptations but I now have no question whether God spared my life that night and the feeling that I had while she sang to me leaves no question to his presence in my room. I thank God for saving me, and I know he truly loves all his children.
He never leaves us…..
Its his grace…
That’s an Awesome testimony Praise God..
God bless you forever…
God is good all the time.Jesus loves you.God bless you
God spared my life while on vacation in Aruba. I went on a trip to Aruba. I told a friend that I was going into the ocean just to dip in the water. As I inched back only to let the water go only to my neck all of a sudden I could not feel my feet on land anymore at that time I knew I was in trouble.
As I tried to float back to shore(I made myself float because I wasn’t a good swimmer but knew how to float and tread water) the under current took me further out, so far out that I couldn’t see the shore line or the huts ) that were there for people to drink and order food. So the under current continued to take me further out more. At that time I was laying on my back trying to turn myself around to aim back to the shore and kept saying to myself Jesus bring me in. I went under a few times,but not all down far but I began to panic but told myself to calm down to keep from drowning.
All of a sudden I thought I felt land but I was realized i walking on a piece of corral weath, I knew then I was really far out. I continued to keep trying to turn myself around but to no avail the current keep pulling me out further. I told myself over and over while asking Jesus to bring me into the shore when all of a sudden I saw a hand reach out and told me to take it. In shock, at first I refused to take it because it was my pride that kept telling the person that I’m ok, i wanted to prove to the other girls that I was ok but the person firmly told me again to take his hand so i took it and as he swam me back to shore next thing I know I was back in the sand. The girls I was with told me they were looking for me for 2 hours,.so I was out there for two hours!!
I came to find out the person my friends met coinsidently happened to be a swimmer..They told him they were looking for me and were afraid I was out in the ocean. They told me he swam out there 3x and came back and told them he couldn’t find me, he went out again which ended up being the 4th time and my Angel pulled me in. If it wasn’t for my will to live and God sending an angel to save me I wouldn’t be here. I talked to the guy, my Angel and thanked him over.and over again for saving my life. I sent him a plant once he returned back to the states as a token of appreciation.
While I was out in the middle of the ocean fighting for my life I kept saying to myself, I’m not going to die today. It was just me, no life jacket but the will to want to live, made me pray and reflect on that Jesus saved my life.
In the end, the image of what happened to me keeps trying to come back in the forefront of my mind but at times I keep thanking God for saving myself and with my testimony I hope it helped people to realize that God is always there and he sends his angels to save you from harms way.
I hope my testimony helped others and I welcome your comments.
Regina Butler