testimony

How the Lord Saved me.

Mrs. Miroshnikova

24 May 2026 — 5 min read

Far left is what I wrote to remember when I got saved. Second to the right is when I got baptised (Which is optional and not needed for salvation). The other two have me and my husband in it.

My push toward God started in the 5th grade (I would have been ten at the time). I was on the couch watching a show called “Law In Order” and in that show there was an actress
playing as a police officer. She ended up killing herself in that show.

For some reason watching that woman killing herself must have triggered something in my mind, because when I went to get back on the couch I was brushing my feet off, but I
could not stop, my mind would not let me.

That was the start of my mental illness.

Now the name of the mental illness that I had is called OCD, which is Obsessive–compulsive disorder, meaning it “is a mental disorder in which an individual has intrusive thoughts (an obsession) and feels the need to perform certain behaviours (compulsions) repeatedly to relieve the distress caused by the obsession, to the extent where it impairs
general function. Obsessions are stress-inducing thoughts that recur and persist, despite efforts to ignore or confront them.[38] People with OCD frequently perform tasks, or compulsions, to seek relief from obsession-related anxiety.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive–compulsive_disorder

Over the months and years the OCD got worse. I couldn’t stop swallowing my spit, or turning on and off the light switch, or getting on and off the couch and/or bed; sometimes I would repeat a word like “what” over and over again, because of an unwanted thought that I had. I was so stressed that twice in my life I forgot how to breathe, and one time I had a panic attack.

I remember when I was at school and I was picking up my bottle of milk, putting it to my lips to drink, then putting it back down again, non-stop, even when it became empty! A substitute teacher sent me to the nurse’s office because she thought that I was having a seizure (which I was not).

Any-who, moving on.

One day I decided that I should go to a church building to get the answer that I needed (because they are know-it- alls you know). I did not learn anything useful except for
one very important thing.

I was fourteen years old sitting in the pew, listening to Mark (the man at the pulpit), and he actually preached on hell fire and judgment to come. I was terrified and crying out of fear, I said in my mind “I do not want to go to hell.”

So when Mark was done, and everybody had their head bowed, I went to his wife and she lead me through the sinner’s prayer.

Which is, in your own words, you praying to God, and:

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For
with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with
the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans
10:9-10 KJV).

When the Lord saved me, my tears of fear turned into tears of joy, and peace overflowed me like a river. I am saved, alleluia!

When I went to school the next day I was sitting at lunch with my friends. They were very inappropriate and liked to tell a lot of filthy jokes; and when I heard them speak I
was convicted by the Holy Ghost to leave them. So for a couple of days I warned them that I would leave if they did not quit, but they did not listen, so I left them. And thank God I did!

1 Corinthians 15:33 KJV Be not deceived: evil
communications corrupt good manners.

My sanctification was slow. I had no other saved person around, nor did I have the word of God, the King James Bible. So from fourteen to almost seventeen years old, I had no growth in the word of God. But one day my dad told me about a saved man on YouTube who preaches the word of God, so I listened to him.

By the time me and my family moved (when I was sixteen almost seventeen), I had a major change in my life. It kick-started when that brother in the Lord showed from the scriptures that a woman should not be wearing pants, but instead dresses and skirts
(Deuteronomy 22:5, Isaiah 47:2-3, KJV). I prayed to the Lord about it, and I felt the Holy Ghost agreeing with what that brother said, and I submitted myself unto the scriptures.

A few other things that the Lord God purged me from were: TV, video games, gluttony, and slothfulness. He got rid of my OCD, and I am now a new creature in the Lord!

2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV Therefore if any man be
in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things are become new.

How did my OCD go away?

How long did it take? And do I still have it?

I never pinpointed what day or year my OCD went away. But from the time that I was saved to the time me and my family moved, the OCD simply faded away. Glory be to
God on that! Because I had nothing to do with it, the Lord is the one who renewed my mind.

Romans 12:2 KJV And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Very rarely I do feel my anxiety lurking back up inside me, but that only happens when the spirit of fear comes upon me and tries to bring back my old man.

2 Timothy 1:7 KJV For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Ephesians 4:22-24 KJV That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; [23] And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; [24] And that ye put on the new man, which after
God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

How I fight it is with the help of Jesus Christ; he is the one who can help. I just breathe, pray, and TRUST in God. The best way (as a saved man or woman), to get rid of your anxiety is to TRUST in the Lord Jesus Christ, none other!

Isaiah 26:4 KJV Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:

Psalm 118:8 KJV It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

Proverbs 29:25 KJV The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.

Psalm 9:10 KJV And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

If there is anyone who read this and has not been saved by the Lord Jesus; than DO NOT push salvation to tomorrow, get saved today before it is too late!

2 Corinthians 6:2 KJV (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

You can have the same saving grace that the Lord showed me, for the scriptures do say:

Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: [9] Not of works, lest any man should boast.

As well as:

Romans 10:13 KJV For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

It is simple to be saved; believe the gospel, and call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved:

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 KJV For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; [4] And that he was
buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Romans 10:9 KJV That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.