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.

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