Connie Awakened to the Sabbath

After a routine mammogram came back abnormal, Connie became frightened and longed for a more spiritual connection. To deal with her fear, she would sing Christian songs, look up at the sky, and talk to God. When further testing proved that she was fine, she rejoiced and felt that God had allowed this experience to wake her up.

During this time, while faithfully attending church every Sunday, Connie recorded a couple sermons each week from a Sabbath-keeping network. When she heard the pastors on these programs saying “Happy Sabbath,” she was puzzled because she thought Sabbath-keeping was a Jewish tradition.

When she watched an Amazing Facts program, an advertisement came up that encouraged viewers to visit sabbathtruth.com. Since she was curious about the Sabbath, she visited the site and her eyes were opened to what the Bible teaches about the seventh day.

Connie says, “It’s amazing that it was all there in the Bible, but I never saw it before. When I started honoring the Sabbath, I shared it with my mother, and she wanted to as well.” Both Connie and her mom had been keeping Sunday while learning about the Sabbath. She made a point of doing her shopping and other business on Saturday in order to keep Sunday holy. But when Connie learned about Sabbath being on the seventh day, she and her mother were convicted to keep Saturday as the Sabbath.

Connie continued watching Amazing Facts and began sharing what she learned with others. “I minister to inmates through the mail, using Amazing Facts study guides,” says Connie. “The inmates love it! One wrote and asked me where I was getting this stuff. I tell them all about Pastor Doug, Amazing Facts, and sabbathtruth.com.”

Connie’s life is far different today from the life she lived before discovering Jesus. “I was chasing after the things of this world but still felt empty. I would drink so much that I couldn’t even walk or talk,” she says. “Now I feel complete. I honestly believe that if I had not listened to God’s call to watch Pastor Doug, I would be dead today. I am so thankful that God used Pastor Doug to wake me up. I was asleep and didn’t even know it.”

Reflect: Have you ever fallen asleep (or nearly so) while driving? How much more dangerous is it to fall asleep to the sobering times in which we live.

Key Bible Texts

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. (Romans 13:11 KJV)