A Seven-Year-Old Child Desires to be Saved (Part II)

This is the final half of the testimony by Sis.  Tiffany Green, who longed to be saved at age seven.  Let’s hear the conclusion of this powerful testimony.

It took me three weeks, but I finally told my mom that I was saved and that I didn’t want her to buy me any more pants. She looked at me kind of crazy, but she didn’t fight me on it. I took a stand -but I wasn’t allowed to go to my church. For three years, I lived saved.  I put down those things that I knew were displeasing to God. I did all I could to please God. I knew that living saved wasn’t just about not wearing pants or makeup; it was about having a renewed mind, having power to do what He instructs us to do and to let go of those things that are not like God.

Although I couldn’t go to church, I used my “lifeline” to get the word. My cousin Michael would call me up after service and give me a rundown and I would have “church” through him! We were like Celie and Nettie! Lol.

At age 16 I’d never been drunk or high, never fornicated, never gotten into things that other teens were getting into, and I didn’t have a desire to do those things. All I wanted to do was to live saved and go to church. I wasn’t anti-social; I was VERY active in my school activities. I was in the pep squad, the flag corps, the concert and show choirs, etc. I didn’t miss a game. But in every activity that I was in, I was always “the one in the skirt”.  But that was alright with me.

Toward the end of my sophomore year, the Lord let me know that it was time to take a stand. I had to make a choice to either please Him or man. I went to my mom and told her that I wanted to go to church. I will omit all the unpleasant parts that came with that conversation because it is now behind me, but I will say that it ended with the words, “pack your bags”.

My aunt and uncle allowed me to live with them. We went to church that Sunday night. It’s amazing to me that I can vividly remember the blue two-piece outfit, silver flats and belt that I wore that night. I can also vividly remember the amazing sense of relief that I felt as I crossed the street and walked into the doors of the church on Ewing Street. Finally, I was able to come to the house of God as much as I wanted.

Because I’d been through so much, just to be able to go to church, I cherished every single service. I didn’t sit with kids my age. Mostly because a lot of the kids in my age group had grown up in the church and they were fighting just as hard to get INTO what I had just left behind. All they KNEW was church; they were sick of it. All I WANTED was church and couldn’t get enough of it. It angered me to see these kids who had TWO saved parents and could freely come to the house of God, sit there and miss the jewel that was right there for them their whole lives. “My God”, I thought, “didn’t they know what they had?”  “Didn’t they know what some of us had to go through just to get here?”

One Sunday night, I heard Apostle Murray break down the crucifixion of Christ in a manner that I’d never heard before. I sat there in tears as he pulled out a crown of thorns and placed it on his head, put on a purple robe, as they did to mock our Savior, pulled out and cracked a whip, describing how Jesus’ flesh was pulled from His bloody body with each blow; walked across the pulpit, bearing a replica of the cross that Jesus carried, then pulled out a metal spike to illustrate the pain that Jesus bore for us as he hung on the cross.

I’d never seen or heard anything like it. It made an impression on me that sticks with me to this very day. I was annoyed that the kids in my age group heard the same message that I did, but it seemed to blow right past them. So, for my first few years at Full Gospel, I was a loner. I didn’t have a lot of peers who were living saved at that time, so I walked alone. I got closer to God. My aunt and uncle moved from Pleasant Grove after my sophomore year, and I ended up spending my last two years of high school at South Oak Cliff HS. Talk about a culture shock!

I remember thinking that those kids seemed like adults! Some of them were even parents! I lived saved in high school. I didn’t know it at the time, but one of my classmates who grew up at the church told me that she’d run the other way when she saw me coming because she knew that she wasn’t living right and she didn’t want me to see her! (I wasn’t even thinking about her!) One other classmate later told me that she refused to cuss or cut up if she was around me. I lived the life before my classmates and teachers.

Our choir took a road trip to Houston and some of the kids snuck out and got into things, but I didn’t. I didn’t realize it, but the girl that I was rooming with had been watching me. When we first met, she said that she told me that she was saved. By the end of the trip, she confessed that she knew that I was really and truly saved (not playing around). I wasn’t thumping a Bible or judging anyone there. I just lived the life the way I was taught to live it. I learned at my 10-year high school reunion, that I was known as “that saved girl”.   And you know what? That was fine by me.

As I got older, I became very active in the ministry: Youth Service, every choir (but Mothers’ Mission and Brotherhood), street ministry, nursing home ministry, juvenile ministry, Altar Workers, Benevolence work, passing out tracts, Soul Harvest. Anything I could do for the Lord’s service; I found myself getting busy and being about it. It got a bit easier because I found myself surrounded by like-minded young people who were now on fire for the Lord. I had saved peers! I formed what turned out to be lifelong friendships with some of these peers. One became my life mate. Allow me to clarify: I met and married my HUSBAND, Angelo, in the ministry (#holinessisstillright).

I thank God daily for Full Gospel Holy Temple. I thank God for Godly leaders. I thank God for the teaching that He’s put in me. Most of all, I thank God for His Holy Ghost power. Holiness changed my life. Holiness changed the course of my life. When I think about where I am and where I could have been, I can’t help but give God praise. I am a living witness that you can live a holy life as a young person; all you need is a made-up mind. This walk isn’t easy every day, oh, but it’s worth it. forty years later, I am still openly holy. 

This has been a powerful and compelling testimony of a young child who so hungered and thirsted after righteousness that God saved and filled her with the Holy Ghost.  Some of you may be convicted and desire to also live for God in the same way that she continues to live for Him today.  Just know that God loves you so much that he sent his only begotten Son to die for you so that your soul can be saved.

The method that God put in place is a very simple one.   You simply repent of your sins, invite Jesus to save you, and commit to living for Him.  He is well able to save your soul and keep you if you want to be kept.  Repeat these words or similar ones, and you are saved.  Remember, I can provide the words, but you must give the sincerity.  Say, “Father, forgive me of all my sins.  Save my soul.  If you save me, I will live for you forever.”

Once you have made your commitment to God, your soul will be immediately translated from the Kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Light.  Jesus will come into your heart and let you know that you are saved.  Asking Him for an infilling of the Holy Ghost is done after you’ve prayed the sinner’s prayer.  The Bible says in Luke 11:13 that He will give the Holy Spirit to anyone who asks for it.

¹³ If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?   

Next, ask for the Holy Ghost in this way:  “Father, fill me with the Holy Ghost.”   Once you have prayed the sinner’s prayer and are saved, you need to become a part of a body of believers who will be able to help you in your new walk with the Lord.  You must read from the Holy Bible every day and expect the Lord to speak to you from His Word.  I invite you who are in the US to look for one of the 30+ Full Gospel Holy Temple Churches near you.  They are listed on our website, http://www.FGHT.org.  I also invite you to join my church’s YouTube community.  We love you and are praying that God will bless you abundantly.  Pray every day, and He will lead you all the way.  May God bless you all.