I picked a magazine from off the pavement

[Evmur]

I left home and headed for London at 16, it was late 60s and I wanted the bright lights. After a few years I found myself working as a department manager in a tough retail operation working long hours and rooming with some 30 other lads in a North London hostel, all junior managers. We were looked after by a housekeeper and two Swedish au-pair girls [oh dear]

Often I would work a 15 hour day and travelling 6 miles home by tube or bus I would arrive home totally bushed.

One day I picked up a gospel magazine from off the pavement, it was very colourful with photos and the banner was "God loves YOU, He wants to bless YOU" that's what had caught my eye. I soon discovered it was American and charted the ministry of T. L. Osborn and his wife Daisy.

I loved it and I ticked the box for more free copies.

MORE TO COME

 

[Evmur]

I left home and headed for London at 16, it was late 60s and I wanted the bright lights. After a few years I found myself working as a department manager in a tough retail operation working long hours and rooming with some 30 other lads in a North London hostel, all junior managers. We were looked after by a housekeeper and two Swedish au-pair girls [oh dear]

Often I would work a 15 hour day and travelling 6 miles home by tube or bus I would arrive home totally bushed.

One day I picked up a gospel magazine from off the pavement, it was very colourful with photos and the banner was "God loves YOU, He wants to bless YOU" that's what had caught my eye. I soon discovered it was American and charted the ministry of T. L. Osborn and his wife Daisy.

I loved it and I ticked the box for more free copies.

[give me a break mods with this 5 minutes rule]

I was eventually wonderfully saved through the testimony of that magazine.

 

[tourist]

That was a a very interesting account. When I was 14 I found a bible tract on the street and learned about salvation from the shed blood of Jesus dying on the cross for my sins. That little pamphlet changed my life.

 

[Platosgal]

Wow! What great stories!!
Thank you Evmur!!

 

[GandalfTheWhite]

Nothing posted in your second post

 

[Evmur]

Nothing posted in your second post

Thank you Gandalf, I posted more but it went into cyberspace because of the 5 minute rule.

I ticked the box for more free copies

The magazine was every 2 months shipped over from the USA so it would arrive anything between 6 to 10 weeks but I always KNEW on the exact day travelling home that it had come. One time I knew it had come but when I checked my mail box it wasn't there, I was so disappointed but after supper my mate burst into my room "sorry mate but I've been so intrigued with that magazine you've been getting that I borrowed it to read, hope you don't mind".

Now I loved the sermons and articles but there were also reports of miracles which made me cross, why would they spoil such a good magazine with nonsense like that?

One day I read the testimony of Juan Santos, a poor beggar from Puerto Rico who had been hopelessly crippled for 16 years but he was miraculously healed at one of the meetings, what a story! and I believed it, then I believed ALL the stories and I understood for the first time that scripture I had read many times, "Jesus Christ the SAME, yesterday and today and forever." I came ALIVE inside. The next morning I knelt to receive Christ as my Lord. I made so much noise jumping and clapping and shouting "hooray Jesus" my neighbour came running, she thought something was happening.

I got saved.

 

[Platosgal]

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