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GIVING. PRAYING. FASTING 27 Sunday but in her words had she died then she would have “busted Hell wide open.” One day in the late 1980’s, now in the U.S. she watched Christian television where televangelist Jimmy Swaggert explained her need for Christ. She cried for two weeks straight when she considered her lifestyle until at one service in Atlanta, Georgia; the pastor asked her if she died today would she go to heaven. When confronted with this question she began to think of all of things she uld have would not be able to do if she came to Christ so ed Hell she told him “I’m not ready yet.” Over the next e open! week, she could not get away from the words of that man and found herself wrestling with the age old question that determines where we will spend eternity. When the doors of the church flung opened that next Sunday, there was Kemi at the altar asking Jesus to be Lord, Savior and Master of her life and she never looked back. “ It seemed appropriate to ask such a woman, one who had not only given her heart to Christ but one who walks with Him daily, what she thought about our theme for JiJ 2015 “A Time for Signs and Wonders” and whether she believed that miracles still happened today. With a stout voice Kemi answered “The first miracle is my salvation. If miracles had ceased, I would not be talking to you today.” She went on to give the example of her own bondage to lust and telling falsehoods yet in that one moment of saying yes to Jesus she was delivered. At Fresh Anointing House of Worship, Pastor Searcy holds a monthly prayer meeting for healings where they witnessed cancers fall off in the service and those possessed with demons are freed; yet she impresses upon her people that the most important miracle is that God sent His only Son for you and me. The greatest tool of all is prayer. “ “