I'm a born-again fulfilled Jewish Christian Lady. I was 25 years old when I found out who Jesus really was. I was raised in a broken home. My father was a heavy drinker and very free with his hands. Fighting and watching my parents slap each other around is all we really knew. I was eleven years old when my mother left and I never saw her again until I was 24. We were raised in a Jewish home until my father re-married. My step-mother, who was Italian, had one daughter. The fighting didn't stop. It carried on into this marriage as well. We lived in Massachusetts , in a town not far from there called Dorchester. I made up my mind that when I became of age I would be long gone from there. I was almost 17 years old and in the eleventh grade when I quit school to go to work. I saved all the money I could, except what I had to pay for room and board every week. I ended up in a little town called Denton, Texas. I saw an ad in the newspaper and took it to the job listed. I told the employer that I had come for the job listed in the paper and that I bought a new uniform just for this job. They hired me on the spot. Later, I moved to Carrollton, Texas and that is where I met the Love of my life, my husband, Gene. The best thing that could ever happen to me. We went together for a couple of months and then we were married. We have had a wonderful 40 years of marriage and I thank the good Lord for bringing us together.

Come to find out, Gene was raised Pentecostal. I had gone to the Synagogue on holidays all my life as I grew up. Gene had a brother named Herman who drank quite a bit, as I did at the time. Smoking and drinking was how I was raised. Everyone in my family did it. When we would go out drinking, Herman would always talk to us about Jesus, and something in my heart began to move. It wasn't long after that the Lord began to deal with my heart. We went on a fishing trip one weekend and then after we came back home, everything that happened from there I will never forget and will always be Grateful to our Jesus for showing himself to me.

I heard a voice call my name and it said, "If you don't come to me now, you never will." I looked all around the house thinking it was Gene calling me, but he was outside. I said, "God, if this is really you, show me." Gene had a bible and I had not ever read the New Testament in all my 25 years. He took me to Psalms about stammering lips and I flipped over to the book of Acts and read. I went into the kitchen and poured out every drop of liquor I found. We went to the United Pentecostal Church that Gene's mother was going to and tried to get the Holy Ghost for three months.We were both Baptized in Jesus Name. I was still holding on to my cigarettes and Gene was too. I received a small experience of speaking in other tongues, but was not satisfied. We went home one night after church and I started praying hard. I prayed so hard that I woke Gene up, so I went into our other bedroom and kept praying. It's like I KNEW I was in the presence of God.It was if i had left myself and was standing in front of Jesus, I couldnt see his face it was so bright around his head, I asked God, "Are you truly the one true God?" He told me, "I am the Great I am." I asked him again and he said, "When you have seen Me, you have seen the Father." Not knowing that any of this was in the Bible I said, "Jesus, please don't get mad at me, but one more time, are you truly the one true God?" I put my head down and Jesus answered, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Beside me, there is no other." He then wrapped his arms around me and I began speaking in tongues.I didnt know what i was saying but i knew it was from God, because i felt good all over and Clean, Gene and I went to church. We were in Revival and we laid our cigarettes down that Sunday. The next Monday night I went down to the altar and received more of the Holy Ghost and the Joy! I looked over and Gene was praying like I had never seen him pray. Three hours later at 12:00 a.m. he prayed through. (That was the old days, we prayed til we got an answer.) From that point on, we never smoked, drank or did anything that we used to do, Because God had taken all that desire to do so completely away, I started praying for my Mother and Family. I went to California to see her and persuaded her to go to church with me one time. She went, but she got scared and ran out. I gave her a bible with her name one it. She too had never read the New Testament. She didn't want the bible but I left it with her anyway. Two months later she called me shouting, "I've got it, I've got it!" and she started speaking in tongues. She had gone back to church and was baptized in Jesus' Name and received the Holy Ghost that very morning. My brother David and his whole family then received the Holy Ghost and were all baptized in Jesus' Name. My mother, brother and sister-in-law have all gone on to meet the Lord and one day, by the Grace of God, I well see them again.

Gene and I didn't have any children and not only was time getting away from me, but the doctors said I wouldn't be able to have a child. I fasted and prayed for five days and nights while our Pastor prayed for us.They also were without Children and I prayed that I'd be left barren if God would Bless them with Children, If one of us had to be barren then let it be me, He did bless them with a child and It wasn't a couple of months later that I found out I was with child. We had a beautiful baby girl, Angela Marie, she prayed and received the Holy Ghost when she was six years old and was Baptized in Jesus' Name. Our Pastors wife had more children after this,! God Does Hear and Answer Prayers.!! We have been living for the Lord now for 38 years and he is just as real today as he was then. Amen and Amen!!

I pray this will help someone find their way to our lord Jesus!
Your Sister in Christ, Marcie Levy Hill