I was a wild, alcoholic bar musician. While I was not persecuting Christians, I certainly was not listening to them telling me I needed Jesus. This went on for a few years. The drinking got worse and worse. My life was a shambles.
Then a man (who became my husband) told me I needed to repent of my sins. I heard the voice of God. He said that he was Jesus, and he was the Saviour of the world. Then he told me he was MY Saviour, and I would serve him. It was profound and life changing.
I completely stopped drinking the next day which was 35 years ago, never wanted another drink. I started going to church that Sunday, and the Bible, which I had been vainly trying to read, suddenly made sense. It was because I had met the author of the book.
God has never left me in 35 years, and he has changed and transformed me radically. I meet with old high school friends, and they were stunned at the difference God made in my life. I am not the same person I was before God called me to be his child!