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My mum always brought us up
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with discipline and good morals
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and she brought me up to know our
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Sikh background and we are to follow the
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ten gurus and the Sikh scriptures.
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My name is Balbinder, and this is my story.
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Even as a Sikh, you know, when I had my
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problems or anything, I would go to anybody.
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If they said: "Oh do this - like a lucky charm"
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I would do that but nothing provided peace.
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I started exploring Christianity, it was
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just by accident, it was just a phone call
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to a friend, who I spoke to time-to-time.
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And I was in despair with my older son and
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I was crying on the phone to her, just to
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have a heart-to-heart with her.
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So when I called her, she confessed that
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she had accepted Jesus, in the beginning
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So she said to me: "that if you really want
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help, only one person can help you,
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So she said: "when you put the phone down,
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with all your heart, with faith, pray to him,
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and he will help you."
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So I put the phone down before going to bed
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and I prayed to the Lord and three days later
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I received a Bible from my friend.
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The Holy Spirit, through the Bible, was just
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talking to me. Every little answer or question
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I had in my heart or mind
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That word, that scripture
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would come and speak to me.
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And I was just in awe and amazement that
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this is real, God is talking to me.
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Most of my life I was looking for God,
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as your a young child growing up, you know,
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you wonder why are we here?
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And every time I did pray in my Indian
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scriptures I used to imagine a God and
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just wanted that peace.
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And in my house I had Buddha's,
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just that desire to know God.
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Jesus' forgiveness means life to me.
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He died on the cross for me, a sinner.
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I was a sinner, but before that I did not
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think I was a sinner. God just showed me
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how much of a sinner I am,
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and it just shows me
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the love of God that has poured out
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Jesus on the cross, died for my sins, he
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took all my filth and all my sin upon himself.
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He did not deserve to die but he died for me.
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So it means the life to me.
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Because I had been a Sikh for 50 years plus,
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when I turned to Christianity, my daughter
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she actually sort of retaliated and she
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started going to the gurdwara,
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which she never did before.
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Just to annoy me. It used to upset me,
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then God spoke to me that I
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have to show her love. If I get angry or,
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you know, that's not showing her so I used
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to just say: "ok" but I continued to pray
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for her. And secretly she was reading,
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on her phone, the Bible.
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And the verse that came to
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her was about Nicodemus. Talking to Jesus
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when Jesus said that you have to be
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born again. And she said it would not go
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from the app and it just spoke to her,
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and she was ready to give her life to Jesus.
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I know the true living God now, whom
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I did not know before and its only through
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the Word of God and through the Holy Spirit
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that Jesus has truly touched me, touched
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my heart and I'm a new creation in Jesus Christ.
