This story began on Friday, that some of you may have read/seen already. https://greatawakening.win/p/12jcqqa1dW/god-is-great-just-sitting-here-i/

I had posted a continuation of that day, in the comments below. And there it was. A moment I had asked for, from our loved Heavenly Father. I had been saved already, I knew this. I had accepted Jesus Christ into my heart and knew he died for my sins and was resurrected, with no doubts, but I had never been baptized. And that’s the celebration. An important part of one’s spiritual journey. To celebrate the Lord, and my connection with Him. In front of any and all who witness it. And many were.

I don’t belong to a church. Don’t even go to church. I’m wanting too. I would like to find a place a worship outside my home. So it’s time to venture out. The man who baptized me knew this, understood this, and once we had talked for a bit, he wanted to know my love for Jesus. What brought me this point in my life. My story. He wanted to know if I had been saved. He wanted to get to know me as a brother in Christ. I got emotional, couldn’t help it. Was hard to explain some of the battles in my life. The long journey to get to this point. To finally be broken before the Lord. And I wanted to celebrate this moment for me and the Lord in baptism. None of this would have happened if not for my wife and a friend of hers, whose a member of that particular church. She had mentioned the incoming baptisms for this Sunday. Of course my wife was like, my husband would love this!, I wonder if they would let him participate. Well our friend asked a fellow member of the church, and that woman said she didn’t think so. That this was for members, or new members only. So...guess that’s it. But. My wife had told her a story of our local jail, this past Easter, and how a few pastor’s went down to the jail preached a service and said who wants to accept the Lord today, and get baptized in the lake? It’s the same lake we fish in all the time. And many people around here watched online of 25-30+ inmates getting baptized that day. If I would have known about it, I would have went down with them. We had found out afterwards . So, hearing that story, and hearing what that woman said it’s only for members...God went to work on our friend. She said to herself, this ain’t right. Anyone should be able to be baptized if they want to. So she text her preacher and asked him. And his response was , “if he has never been baptized, and he is saved or wants to get saved, then I’m going to put it like Phillip said to the Ethiopian. The Ethiopian said , look there is water, what prevents me from being baptized? Phillip told him “nothing if you believe with all your heart”.

I had said many times this past 7-8 months that, I don’t want to be baptized in a warm bath behind a pulpit. I wanted a river or a lake. God’s water. I have no problem with anyone doing such, but this was my celebration, and had asked God, if I could do this, this is how I would love to do it. A river baptism! I knew, not belonging to a church, I didn’t know if this was possible. And so, God made it happen. And I mean everything was like a roller coaster. In basically 24 hours I went from one day, to, here we go! As I’ve said, sometimes, you just gotta hang on, Gods on the move!

It was amazing. My heart was pounding, and the water was freezing! And to top it off, one of my sons went down to the river with me. My other, the witness. Even the preacher said during my son baptism, “a father leading his sons to the river, how can it get more biblical than that?”

I just thank God for that moment. I thank the people who were all there. For the gentleman who initially wanted a river baptism, that lead to me being apart of it. To my wife, our friend our family, our new friends we’ve made. All of it. Even y’all here on this forums. I mean WWG1WGA right? I’m here for all them and for all y’all as well. My brothers and sisters.

NCSWIC, and that coming is God. He’s reaching out to you, grab ahold of him and hang on...He’s got us. 🙏

The title image is the real river the church posted, and the one we all were baptized in. With the son “going down to the river to pray” as the background music.

Just some pictures of the river. Looking one way. https://ibb.co/Bz2W9kV Lolling the other. https://ibb.co/8K7sZxs

One of my sons, The Witness. https://ibb.co/JQ71JPy. Love that picture.

God Bless y’all. 🙏