For Those of You Who Don T Know Me, I Am Lula Roberson Osborne. I Am a Native of Sandpoint, ID

Lula Osborne Testimony

October, 2013

For those of you who don’t know me, I am Lula Roberson Osborne. I am a native of Sandpoint, ID.

I was raised in a Christian home, and we had weekly Bible readings. (We did not attend church after I was around six years old.) My parents would always ask us if we had any questions or “Did you understand what we just read?” I usually understood it, or so I thought. I did not know or understand Jesus died for me. I knew there was God and Jesus, His Son, but what did His death and resurrection really mean to me personally?

I used to live in fear of God, I mean, if I stepped out of line or did something wrong, I thought I’d go to hell.

I received my first Bible when I was 12. It was such a beautiful, white Bible and so sacred. I put it in my drawer and hardly touched it.

It wasn’t until I was 15 that a girlfriend asked me to go to Bible camp with her. I did, so we went. The emphasis at the camp was on baptism. I was so excited when I got home. I asked my mother if we could start going to church, and I wanted to be baptized. She asked me which church I wanted to go to, and I said the Baptist Church. We started going to church regularly, and I joined the youth group. We had really good Sunday school teachers and leadership. I would read my Bible, but didn’t understand it in any depth. After about six months, I was baptized. It wasn’t until a month later in September, 1971, that I gave my heart to Jesus at a revival service. All of the sudden it was like a light came on. Even the trees were greener and the sky bluer. Everything seemed clearer. I realized Jesus died and rose again for me; and if I had been the only person on earth, He would have done all that for me.

From then on life has been different. I knew and know that Jesus walks with me. I had prayed the sinners prayer, “Dear Jesus, forgive me my sins. Come into my heart and help me live for you. In Jesus name Amen.

I am no longer afraid of God sending me to hell. I have Jesus living within. I have love, forgiveness, and hope. Would you like to pray that prayer with me? You, too, can have that hope.