Earl Garrison

I am glad today that I can say I am a Christian. It is only through the mercy of God that I am able to praise Him. He has done much for me.

I was brought up in a Christian home. My parents were praying people. They were brought to the Apostolic Faith Church through the miracle of my grandfather being healed of cancer in answer to prayer. My earliest remembrances are of this church, and I am glad that the Lord saved me when I was just a child of ten.

I left the Gospel for about thirty years. I thank the Lord that He again started to deal with me. He dealt with me for a long time. I am glad the time came when I wanted God, and wanted Him most earnestly. God did not deal with me the way I wanted Him to; it was the way He wanted. I did not want to go to the altar where many people were praying, and I did not want anybody to ask me to pray. If someone had asked me, I am sure I would have turned them down. I was very stubborn. Nobody asked me, though.

I am glad that one Sunday evening I did go forward. There was not the confusion with everyone praying together that I thought there would be. I talked to God that night, and the praying of the other people did not bother me a bit. I did not pray long before I knew I was saved.

During the past eight years, I have had a different life. I enjoy the service of the Lord. I am enthused with the progress of the Gospel.