Personal Testimony
This website is not about me. Rather, it is about the Lord Jesus Christ and His doctrine (which is Bible doctrine). However, one ought to know who is presenting the information, so that they can be comforted that the information presented is without ulterior motive. To that end, the following is a brief biography.
My name is Paul W. Davis. At age 33, I was born again in Christ Jesus after having sat in a fundamental, independent, Baptist church for 5 years listening and digesting the messages preached. Before I was saved, I thought I was saved and had no need of anything further. However, the Lord is not slack concerning men’s souls and desires that all men come to repentance and the acknowledging of the truth. Thus, I was convicted and did not want to admit it. I fought the conviction for more than a year before that Lord made it expressly plain that I was not His, and I was bound for Hell. By the time He made that clear, I had come to know the Lord Jesus Christ for who He is, and what He is all about. I found that I desired to be with Him more than I wanted to run my own life. (One cannot have both!) Therefore, rather than continue in separation from Him, I surrendered in obedience to the Gospel.
However, since I had been deceived once, I had to know from the Lord what was different this time. After all, when I was 10 years old, I thought I had gotten saved in a Southern Baptist church. I refused to be baptised until I knew for certain what was different. The Lord waited 8 months to provide an answer. One Sunday evening service a missionary came through on deputation and preached a message from John, chapter 1. When he explained the following verses, the Lord made it crystal clear what I had done at age 10.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:12-13)
At age 10, I decided that I was saved, because I made myself “believe” to keep from going to Hell. After all, my brothers had gone forward and professed to believe – I should too! Besides, I didn’t want to go to Hell. I had, by the will of the flesh, “believed.”
Needless to say, I was delighted that the Lord revealed that to me. Now I knew what was different and why my salvation was valid now, when it wasn’t then. This time I knew who I was believing in and it wasn’t a matter of making myself believe, rather I knowingly and deliberately chose to trust the Lord Jesus Christ with my life. At age 10, I had no idea who the Lord Jesus Christ really was, or that He was even alive. In short, I knew nothing of what the Lord Jesus Christ told the woman at the well:
Faith Baptist Church in Spokane, Missouri in preparation for a work the Lord would have me to do.
In Christ,
Paul W. Davis