I would like to greet all my brother and sisters in Christ. I am so glad that I met this Message and it’s so good to know that God still speaks from eternity. I was such a wreck before this Message found me and it all began when I looked amongst my late grandfather’s books for something to read, that I came across a book by Gordon Lindsay titled, William Branham, A Man Sent From God.
I read it and I was taken by how God used brother Branham. I continued in my worldly ways, drinking and smoking, but I couldn’t fit in with my buddies and I constantly felt I didn’t belong with them there. This lasted for months until I began to ask God to deliver me.
After a lot of prayer, He delivered me from smoking. I then began to go to the Assembly of God church in the mission where I grew up. My grandparents were founders of the work here, and my late grandfather was a minister who ministered in South Africa under the Assemblies of God.
I was due to be baptized there and, even though I was still drinking on the sly, for which I felt terribly guilty, I couldn’t help but ask myself why and many things bothered me concerning my baptism. That is when God moved things into action!
I was introduced to a new neighbor in the mission, who was just employed as a teacher in the school, and it was through his computer mysteriously breaking down. I walked into his home and saw a picture of Brother W. M. Branham. I commented that I read his life story and that I wanted to know how he came to have that picture. The brother and his wife began to tell me about the Message, about the deity, the baptism, and gave me books to read. In a matter of a week, I went to their church and I received my confirmation that I was in the right place. It was just after I prayed for a sign from God that I was in the right place.
When I said “amen” to my prayer, the brother conducting the service told us to turn to hymn number 286 in our hymn books and there it was, the first song I learned to play on the piano, my favorite song: When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder. (We asked Brother Chad if he could somehow record himself playing this song. He was able to make a rough recording with a phone.)
That was enough for me, after all I had read, had heard, and how it all pieced together beautifully, I knew I was home. I was baptized with a friend the next weekend. I haven’t drank or smoked since, and I have since brought another friend to the Message. My dad thinks I’m lost and I’m in a cult. I still live in the mission and I face a mammoth task for which I am prepared, no matter what the cost.
Two weeks after the confirmation, I asked the brother about the song he chose that day and he said he didn’t even have it on the list he had made for that day. He said it just came up and he thought, “ah, well, that’s a nice song!” I’m happy God found me and I’ m going to serve Him all the way HOME! Praise God!
Brother Chad, Swaziland.