Hi, my name is Paula Hicks, and today I live in Hawkins, TX. I grew up in a low-income neighborhood with a dysfunctional mom who was a hippy. I am the oldest of four children all from different dads. One day, in this neighborhood, someone came running up to me and asked me if I wanted to ride the JOY bus, I had to ask my mom first. It was a church bus for the Sonoma Ave Church of Christ.

My mom gave me permission to go but I had to bring my siblings with me, as she saw this as her chance for some alone time. I was 8 years old, and I wanted to go so bad that I would pack the diaper bag and lay out outfits the night before. It was in the Sunday School lessons that I learned of Jesus.

At this time, I had yet to meet my biological Dad. This was a void that I, as a little girl, desperately needed filling.  I truly fell in love with Jesus as I was told that He was the Father of the fatherless. I really wanted a father, and by connecting with the Joy Bus which brought me to church, I met the true eternal Father through Jesus! I literally wanted to climb into His arms and never ever get down. I was so excited and loved the songs and stories so much that I would go home on a manna high, and my mom would ask me to sing to her the songs I had learned. Unbeknownst to me, at that time, the gospel message is sown into so many of these songs so this meant that my mom was also being introduced to the eternal Father God through Jesus!

I still struggled like Paul did before his conversion with why I continued to do the things I knew were wrong. I looked to the older women to help me learn how to live a better life. I made some very wrong choices on my own and suffered the consequences.

After doing a study by Henry Blackaby about Experiencing God I realized that I needed to clean the “inside of my cup”. This led me to renewing my walk with Jesus back in September of 1996. At that time, I surrendered all to Jesus. I asked for forgiveness for the many things that I had done wrong, I wanted to be truly new. I give all glory to God’s hand being on my life as a small child, and helping me through all my trials and temptations growing up. Even now I still feel like a small child still sitting in the arms of my Saviour, trusting Him with all my heart, even when I do not understand everything. I now acknowledge Him in all my ways, and He does indeed direct my paths.

God wants to get your attention as well and in the same spirit that He diligently pursued me during my life. No matter where you are in life, God loves you and wants to have a personal relationship with you. God sent Jesus to earth to show us the way to be reconciled to the Father, our Creator, for eternity. Jesus wants to be your friend and to be recognized as well, by you, as your Lord and Saviour from your sins which will ultimately lead to death unless you turn from them and walk forward with Him in righteousness. The Holy Spirit is here now to provide comfort and teaching as we go through all the trials and tribulations that life brings to all of us. If we are walking with Jesus we have this blessed assurance and it truly is lifesaving!

10 out of 10 people die, this is an unavoidable fact that we all are faced with. Don’t you want to know where you will spend eternity once you are ushered into it?

Jesus is knocking on the door of your soul. Won’t you consider opening it, to be reconciled with Him?

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