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Becoming a Christian was the most natural thing in the world for me. I grew up in a Christian home, the daughter of a pastor. From earliest childhood I believed as unreservedly in Jesus as I believed in Santa. I was just four years old when I said to my mum that I wanted to become a Christian. She prayed a simple prayer asking Jesus to come into my heart, and I just “Amened� it!
There have been so many people since then who have helped me to grow in the knowledge and love of Jesus - like the lovely lady down the road who’d take us little primary kids into her home after school on Mondays and read us Bible stories. Then there were the Sunday School teachers and youth leaders - key people who were excited about their Christian faith and were such an inspiration to me.
When I was a very shy, self-conscious fifteen-year old, I was invited to sing at Focusfest, before an audience of over two thousand. I was petrified at first, but that started me on the path of singing in public, and writing songs. I have found God enabling me to do things I never imagined I’d have the nerve or the potential to do.
I suppose my story is more about the fact that I am still a Christian than about how I came into a personal faith in Jesus Christ. Through childhood and adolescence and through my current life at university, my faith in God has grown stronger. It has been my anchor. It’s what has kept me excited about life and the fresh possibilities of each day. Among the thousands of people at university, one could feel so insignificant - just a number. But I know that God knows exactly how I feel every day and where He’s taking me, and there’s a great security in that. I don’t always get things right, but God doesn’t turn me out when I get it wrong. He’s always there to help when I need Him.
He is the Lord of my life. For me, what He says goes. Knowing Him and His love for me is what gives me my sense of personal worth and significance. As someone once strikingly said to me, “He died for you because He felt you were worth it.� He is daily my Father and my friend. He is the only childhood story that turned out to be, in fact, true.
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