Your number represents the age at which you accepted Jesus Christ.
Everyone’s number is different.
Everyone’s journey to Christ is different.
My number is 33—and this is my story:
My First Walk to the Altar
A Spiritual Hunger at Thirty-Three
During my spiritual journey I attended church when life got hard, on special occasions, and when visiting home from the military but at 33 something changed. I was attending church faithfully—both early Sunday morning service and the 11 o’clock service—and eventually began attending Sunday School as well. There was an unexplainable yearning in my heart—a deep desire to be saved.
The Drive That Changed Everything
At the time, I didn’t fully understand what it meant to be saved, nor do I remember anyone clearly explaining it to me. Yet for several weeks, during my 70-minute one-way commute to work in Gardner, KS, I found myself crying out to God, asking Him to be saved. During those drives, I regularly listened to BOTT Radio Network. One afternoon on my drive to work, an evangelist—I can’t recall his name—shared what is known as the Romans Road to Salvation. He walked through Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, Romans 5:8–9, and concluded with Romans 10:9–10.
The Scripture That Changed My Life
Romans 10:9–10 (NIV) says:
“If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.”
That was it.
In that moment, everything would change.
I felt peace.
I felt clarity.
WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER?
-Dyerek Harris-