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The Testimony Of Jennifer Gale
I had grown up knowing the church.
I went to Vacation Bible Schools and Youth Retreats. I had walked down the
aisle many times. There was a time in my high school years that I read my
Bible and sought the Lord. But it didn't last...it never became reality to
me.
As I grew older I walked my own path. I left everything about church
behind me. I thought, "I know God and He knows me and that's enough."
I didn't know anything.
In the winter of 1999, I became very ill. I'm not a sickly person and
thought I just had a nasty flu. In fact, I had double pneumonia and didn't
know it. By the time I realized I was really sick and needed to go to the
doctor it was the weekend. I figured I could hold on until Monday and go
in then. On Sunday I had gone through almost two full days of not being
able to eat anything or to sleep. If I nodded off sitting straight up on
the couch I would wake up a few minutes later chocking. All I could do was
sit in front of the TV and wait.
In the early hours of the morning I was flipping through the channels when I
found that I had stopped on TBN. "Ugh!", I thought, "That's the Bible
channel. What am I doing on that?" After flipping through the
channels again I found myself back at TBN. This cycle happened a couple of
more times before I just left it on the channel. I can't tell you who was
preaching or what they said but at the end of it a revelation came to me, "I
need God...I mean I NEED God."
It was at that moment that I realized my real need for Him in my life, not just
for the sickness, but for everything. I realized that I had been playing
church in the past and had never really known Him. When the pastor on TV
asked for the invitation I got on my knees on my living room floor and got real
with God.
