Hi my name is Shakera Petillo A.K.A Kizzy and I want to let the world know how I got saved.  Before I got saved I was living for the world.  I used to go party, drink a little and smoke.  I thought that my life was the best.  I was happy, not knowing that I was living in sin, until one day my dad’s wife came knocking at my door telling me about Jesus, and that He is good and He did so much wonderful things for her.

She gave me an invitation for church and I went to church with her for about six months and during that six months, God got a hold of me and I did not want anyone to know, so I kept it a secret from everybody in the church. One Sunday morning I went to church and Pastor Matt preached on a topic that touched me and it was the best thing that happened and on that same day after church was baptism everybody went outside who were suppose to be baptized then he hit the same point “why wait if you die right now where would you go” so I stepped into the water before anyone could say anything.

The congregation was shocked since I had hid from everyone that God had touched me six months before. I was tired of holding it in.  When I stepped into the water God got a hold of me.  I felt from that moment something special.  I went home and I told everyone and they asked “are you crazy?” I said “no, I am crazy for the Lord”.

The only support for me in all this was my mom.  She was my strength and I loved her very much.  Whenever anything wrong would happen to me or if I had difficulty paying my bills before I prayed about it, I would run to her for assistance.  She was my everything but then she became sick and died and when she died it was like everything died for me.  My world began falling apart and I did not want to go to church anymore. I was upset with God and said to anyone who told me about Jesus that “if He is so real He would not do things like this to me, he would not have taken away my helper”. With all that I thought that I was missing out on the world so I went back into it but I was still not happy. I was mad and miserable.  I looked at my Bible everyday and did not want to open it.  Just looking at it made me cry till until one day I went and opened my Bible and read Matthew 10:37-38.  After reading that scripture it became clear to me that I was putting my mom over God and I forgot that the Lord is a jealous God.  He did not want me to put any one before Him.  So whenever your turn comes to be right with God and something bad like this happens pray about it because God is good. Do not let the devil fool you because the world is nothing without God.