Salvation’s Song~ Nekoda’s Story

John 5:39,40

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

 

 

I am going to attempt with Nekoda’s help to write out the details of what happened in the Gott home yesterday.

 

 

Tony and I have known for a while something that I had just suspected for A VERY LONG TIME that Nekoda was struggling with his salvation. He had made a profession of faith as a 5 year old and then again as an 8 year old but he lacked a true life change which would be evidence of the Holy Spirit’s indwelling of his life. He has had some struggles that were difficult to overcome and seemed to become withdrawn when it would come to really speaking about the deeper issues of life.

 

We are going to a church that the truth is preached every time we are there. The gospel is made clear and an invitation to accept is given. Nekoda is now home schooled again which also provides an atmosphere of confrontational truth to be in his life at almost all times. We have also been blessed with a leader of our home who digs in the Word for himself and then HAS to share it with his family. He is not scared to go to the hard areas of Nekoda’s life as he himself always wanted someone who would do that with him.

 

For the last few weeks Nekoda has struggled at church. He has questioned inside and out. Tony and I sensed it and as of Sunday had really started praying for him with fervency! Yesterday morning I woke up with a heavy burden and told Tony that we needed to pray more! As I was getting ready for the day, the urgency for Nekoda was so strong that I almost made him stop doing school work right then and talk to me! However I felt the need for more prayer.

 

As I was checking his school work yesterday I made him come outside and begin to address the lack of effort which he has been putting into his education. I told him that I believed it was a spiritual issue and then asked him to tell me the last time he had really examined his salvation to see if he was saved. He told me it had been a couple of weeks ago at church in which he had left without a peace from God that he truly was saved. He told me then that he doubted that the Word was true and even at times if God was real… He argued with himself, I didn’t have to do it. J If you could have seen the torment on his face! He truly was at war.. He then asked me if I could pray for him. I told him that I could pray for him but  that I could not believe for him… he answered that he knew and began to pray himself.. As he began to pray he prayed the “sinner’s prayer” just as he had heard over and over.. yet I knew there was no saving faith. He knew that it didn’t work and it seemed to scare him. He told me he wanted to be saved but he couldn’t believe.  I told him to go start reading John out loud! I told him that faith came by HEARING the Word of God, so he needed to read and hear! He started reading and read the first two verses of John and started to argue with it. How can we know that God is real? How does Forever work? Explain the Trinity! He truly was so much warring with God! When I told him that his mind was never going to understand it, that these were matters of faith he started reading again… He got to chapter four and started holding his chest in anguish… “Mom, I feel it! I feel something pulling!” I asked him what he thought it was and he said “I guess, God”. I told him to keep reading. I told him I was going to go start cooking and if he had any questions to ask me. … I was in the middle of responding to a text when I heard “MOM!” I replied as he walked into the kitchen. “Mom, I just got saved.  I got to chapter 5 and the verse that says that you read the scriptures expecting to gain eternal life but you refuse to come to me, and that is me! I started praying and told God that I wanted to be saved and thought of the verse that talks about Jesus being lifted up as Moses lifted up the serpent so that all those who looked at Him would be saved ( John 3:14 ) I heard God whisper, “Look.”  And I did and He saved me!”… He then looked at Abbie and apologized for the way he had been treating her… Which for me was the first “ fruit of repentance”…

 

Anyway, Nekoda is sure that he is now reconciled with God through Christ and our home is rejoicing!

 

Thank you to all who prayed for us during that time yesterday and I would ask that you continue to pray for our family and Nekoda as he starts his journey with Christ!

 

Luke 24: 45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

 

Hallelujah to the Lamb!