I was at the end of my rope! My husband was an alchoholic. I was the toal support of my family. My time tied up with the struggle to provide for our needs. My teenage daughter threatening to leave home unless I divorced my husband. Not knowing what else to do, I did get a divorce and this only made me feel worse as then I was really on my own alone.
I knew a man and his wife who taught a Bible Class, and out of desperation I attended this one Wed. night. The Lady said: "I hope you all are Christians, because it is easier to teach Christians." Then she said: "I hope you all know what a Christian is." And she proceeded to tell us that a Christian was one who believed that as the Bible says: We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. That Jesus Christ was God's Son and that He had had come into this world and taken all our sins upon Himself. He suffered and died to pay the penalty for these sins, so that anyone who chose to could know God, could have a relationship with Him.
Well, I at this time was going to (had actually joined and was baptized into a Baptist Church). But somehow, (God's timing) I had never heard this message! I left that Bible Study in a daze, which lasted for most of a week. It kept going around and around in my head... If you can believe this about Jesus Christ and God you can be saved and go to heaven when you die... but how could you believe such a thing! And if you couldn't believe it then you could not know God! What could you do?
Well, after a few days of this going around in circles and not getting anywhere I was ready for bed, and suddenly I fell down at the side of my bed and prayed "Lord, I believe, help Thou my unbelief." At this point I did not know any thing of the Bible. I had tried to read it, starting at the beginning, but gave up because I could not understand it. I did not know it but what I said was in God's Word! I must have heard it sometime in church without realizing it. And did God honor His Word! Before I got up off of my knees, I felt like all the blinds had gone up and that a radiant light was pouring into the room! This was still with me in the following days and weeks, and I began to study the Bible. I was so hungry for it. I did not let it out of my sight, but studied at every opportunity. At first it did not make sense, but it gave me such joy that I couldn't stop.
That was 37 years ago, and God has been faithful to every Word He has said all of this time. He is my Savior, my Provider, my Councelor, my strength, my life, and I will never stop thanking Him for letting me get to the bottom of my rope, so that I would turn to Him.