Repent and Receive: Repent, Receive, and See the Incredible Things God Can Do

By Lawrence Roy Neumann

In summary; I would like to tell you that I am so very thankful for many things, starting with my dad and mom praying for fourteen years for me, and all the things that God has brought me thru. You too will experience God's love, mercy, and grace as you see the incredible things God will do in your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781098012434

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Repent and Receive

Repent, Receive, and See the Incredible Things God Can Do

Lawrence Roy Neumann

Copyright © 2019 by Lawrence Roy Neumann

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Table of Contents

The Wild Ride

A Step toward Change

Crisis Brings Repentance

Facing the Consequences

A Miss and a Major Hit

I’ll Follow Where He Leads Me

Blessings and Trials

Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death

He Goes before Us to Clear Our Path

A Union Blessed

He Makes Our Paths Straight

Two Steps Backward

Our Darkest Days

Through It All I’ve Learned to Trust in Jesus

Author’s Note

Hello readers, my name is Larry, and I’d like to share the story of my conversion to Christ with you, which took place on December 20, 1970. I want to tell you about the incredible events that have taken place in the past forty-nine years since I chose to follow Christ in an effort to show people what God can do in their lives if they would just let him.

The Wild Ride

Iwas raised in a Lutheran home by my father and mother and was baptized, as babies are in that church. I attended Catechism and completed the classes. When I was around thirteen, I told my dad that I did not want to go to church anymore; he asked why and I told him I did not believe all the stuff that he believed. He sat me down and said earnestly, Starting today, I will pray for you that someday you will know my God, and then when you do, they will not be able to keep you out of church!

I went about my life outside of church, hanging out at the pool hall and getting into trouble with the law. One day, while in high school, the police came and pulled me out of school, arrested me, and took me to jail for stealing beer, along with four other guys.

When an officer asked me about the theft, I told him I hadn’t had anything to do with it, to which he asked, But you did know about it, right?

Yes, I