Sylvia Zamora

Hello, my name is Sylvia and I was saved on April 6, 1990. I've been saved for 10 years. I backslid the first 3 or 4 years and went back and forth in the love of God. When I first got saved I was going through a lot of pain because of my divorce. I didn't have any kids so I felt even lonelier and I even tried to commit suicide. But because God was watching and hearing he had mercy on me.

I was a drunk and had no interest in life at all and one day I tried to commit suicide. I was unsuccessful because God sent someone to stop me from crashing my truck into an electricity pole. I was speeding after midnight, drunk and crying, because I felt so miserable. Then I got brave and said I'm ready to die and just when I started to speed up on a lonely road an old raggedy man started to cross the street. At that point I had no choice but to push the brakes. I thought I had hit him so I got out of my truck and there was no one there or across the street.

The very next day I received a call from a close family friend I had not heard from in years. She said God showed her that I needed help because I had a lot of pain in my heart and that God was waiting for me and wanted to give me all the love and comfort I needed. She invited me to her church which was about an hour away from my house, but I went and to be honest I felt weird because coming from a catholic background I expected to see a cathedral and a fancy church with idols and crosses all over the inside of the building. But on the contrary the church was just a big building with benches and empty walls. There weren't any crosses or idols and when the service started the people were singing, clapping their hands, dancing almost. I said to myself what in the world is this? But to my surprise there was a man who started singing and I broke up in tears and couldn't stop. Then the preacher started talking about verses from the bible and at the end they had an altar call.

Obviously God was calling me because when I went to the altar the pastor and another man of God prayed for me and I fell on the floor and almost fainted. After that I felt totally different with peace in my heart and a joy that nobody in the world can give you.