I was born in Sri Lanka as the eldest child to my parents. We belonged to a staunch Hindu Velar family and was brought up in their religious rights and rituals. My father was an Accountant, who was very religious, used to chant slokas and mantras in Sanskrit every day in our house. Our house depicted a temple and shrines were placed in all places. I was brought up in such a religious family.
From my childhood, I had a great faith in God and an unquenchable thirst to talk to God. I always wanted God to talk to me. But I had never had an encounter with God during those times. When the Gods I worshipped did not talk, I wanted to find out where this religion came from. I did Hindu civilization and found out this is a man made religion so I came out into my garden and raised my hand to heaven and said, “Who is this true God I want to know you.” but had no answer.
I studied in a Christian School and the school premises had a church in it. My friends invited me to the church service and I went along with them. I saw them worshipping the Lord Jesus. While I was sitting I heard an audible voice, ‘’ Before you knew me, I knew you”. The voice was very clear and I told my friends about it. They smiled and said,” Jesus is with you”.
I went home and shut myself in my room and knelt down. I invited Lord Jesus into my heart as my Lord and my Saviour, then saw my life incidents being shown as a movie on the wall in black and white and the Lord God explained to me , in all what happened to me, His hand had been upon me. He saved me.
When I was a child, I was bitten by a cobra and my doctor said I shouldn’t sleep and made me not to sleep for two days. During that time God was with me and He had saved me from the dangerous poison bite. Again I was seriously affected with boils all over my head but after some years the effect of the snake poison. It was God Jesus who healed me.
Once when my sister and myself accompanied our father to one of his work clients factory and it is supposed to be a Ice Factory. When I was there, I went into an empty room to see why it was empty. My father was busy talking to his client. Suddenly my inner voice within me was telling me to get out of the room. I had never had such an experience before in my life. It was new to me. I was still standing at that room but the voice was continuosly telling me to leave the room. THe voice become stronger and stronger. I went out of the room immediately. As soon as I left the room, the slab of the ceiling opened and a gigantic ice fell into the room. Then only I under stood the room was kept for the process only. The hand of the God saved my life.
Every year we had festivals. We travelled from Colombo to Trincomalee to a temple called Thirukeerthiswarar temple. When we go to such festivals, we normally stay for a week in the quarters provided for outstation visitors. The festival is celebrated for a period of 3-4 days. The temple has a river called Pallavi (river and sea coming together). During the festival time, people used to take bath in the river before visiting the temple. I went with my family and friends to have bath at 5 am. I stood on the steps . The steps were slippery and I forgot that I was standing in the steps. I fell into the water and my head went into the water first and I couldnt comeout. Before I knew, I was taken deep into the sea current. From there, I could see people very tiny. I was drowning and I came up three times. Normally it is said that if a person come up for three times after getting submerged in water, they drown. Then I heard a voice inside the water, “Push your body up” but I couldnt move since I had swallowed water. Somehow I came up. I saw a young girl standing next to me and she asked me whether I needed any help. I said yes. The next thing I could remember was waking up in the sea shore. People were resusciating me. They all said it is a miracle. How did I come here and who brought me here, nobody knew. I believe the Lord made everyone to be in frozen mode and carried me to safety. Only after my acceptance of Lord Jesus Christ, I became aware that it was the Lord’s doing to protecting me in the time of danger.
Lord Jesus was there with me throughout my life. I was searching for a True God and I found Lord Jesus Christ as my True God. I longed for a God who would talk to me. And I found my talking God, Lord Jesus Christ. I gave my life to the Loving Lord Jesus. I accepted Him as my personal Saviour. If you want to know more about our testimony, you can watch it in our youtube channel.