GO-SIN-NO-MORE

NO MORE "SHACKING"

I thank God for being saved! I thank God for saving me from a life of sin. God saved me from a life of alcohol, drugs, and just living a miserable life of sin. I thank God for showing mercy and not taking me away in my sins. When I finished high school, I went to college. While in college, I began to smoke marijuana, drink alcohol, and live a sinful life in general. I was doing those things that were displeasing to God, going from one thing to another trying to stay satisfied. I was trying to have a "good time," not really knowing that the pleasures of sin would only last for a season. After I finished college, I got a job teaching school. Also, I started shacking with my boyfriend. You see, when you're in sin you continue to go deeper and deeper in sin. One thing leads to another that you will be ashamed of later in life. I had said that I would never 'shack' with a man, and there I was doing that very thing. I didn't have the power to say no to the devil. Shacking didn't seem as bad at that time. The devil can have you so messed up in sin until the things that you once stood out against you'll find yourself doing those very things.

My boyfriend was very unfaithful to me, and I was a very unhappy person. One would think that I would have left the situation. I had my own car and a job. It wasn't like I had to depend on him to survive, but I was so bound by sin. I felt like I was trapped and there was no way out. Even through this ordeal, the Spirit of the Lord continued to talk to my guilty heart, telling me how to get out of the mess in which I gotten myself. It was if I didn't know all I had to do was repent of my sins and do what was right.

I had grown up going to church all of my childhood, and yet, I still didn't know about true salvation. I didn't know about living a holy and righteous life everyday. I didn't know about living free from willful sin. Therefore, it seemed like there was no way out for me.

My boyfriend and I finally got married. Things didn't change a whole lot. We got married in September and by December I was ready to get a divorce. I decided I was going to get saved. We had been visiting the Church of God. One Saturday night, I told my husband that I was going to get saved on Sunday. We went to church and after the preacher finished his message, the altar call was made. The devil began to talk to me, telling me to wait and not to get saved now. When I looked around my husband had gone to the altar. The devil really began to talk to me telling me that I could get revenge now. 'Your husband is saved, he can't go out anymore to the clubs, but if you don't get saved it will be your turn to go.' I began to pray to God to help me move out and go to the altar. Praise God, he blessed me to move out, and I gave my life to him in January 1982.

I love the life I live in the Lord. Nothing is better than living for God. If you aren't saved, get saved! Leave the devil NOW! He will destroy your life. The devil's goal is to steal, kill, and destroy. But you can have eternal life with Christ. I didn't start living until I got saved. If you're saved, stay saved. Don't let the devil trick you. The devil is a liar, and he is the father of lies.

I'm saved today and I thank and Praise God for Salvation!

by Sister Fannie
Church of God of Forrest City, Arkansas