When a virus enters your body, your immune system gets ready for battle.Īs the white blood cells fight the infection, you suffer the side effects: headaches, fever, runny nose, and sore throat. Though body aches are never enjoyable, they are evidence that your body’s immune system is working. To listen to the entire testimony on The Story, click below.Have you ever wondered why your joints and muscles ache when you have the flu? “I believe that God always makes the best of a bad situation and He certainly did so in this,” Jeff shares. Only God could have turned a messy marriage into a miraculous salvation. I knew I had a choice to make, and I had to make it then. So I got down on my knees, and asked for God’s forgiveness.” I’d been procrastinating for a long time, but that absolutely struck the core of my brain because I understood that there was an afterlife. “I started reading, and I heard God say clearly, if you don’t come to me now, you never will. It wasn’t long after that Jeff picked up Virginia’s Bible. I could just see the love of Christ in this man.” “Something that really touched me was one of the guys who led the extended session of Alpha.
“Before I could have a spiritual conversion, I needed to satisfy some of the intellectual things,” he says. “He saw the witness of the people in that group, and I really think that changed his mind.”Īlpha answered so many of Jeff’s questions.
Virginia says that he was then invited to the Alpha program. The book spoke of the God of the Bible who was the Creator of all things. But I certainly didn’t believe anything as far as the Christian faith was concerned.”ĭuring the process of counselling, Jeff was asked to read a book by Francis Schaffer that impacted him greatly. “But I was thinking to myself, when you see the extraordinary nature of the universe, there’s got to be something beyond that. “I guess you would classify me as an agnostic back then,” says Jeff. Until Virginia suggested Christian counselling as a last resort. He admits to being continually aggressive, and it just let to more conflict between them. “It was through him and that church that I came to the Lord.”Įven though Jeff appreciated the change in Virginia when she became a Christian, he wasn’t remotely interested himself. “Those words have stuck with me right up until this day,” says Virginia. She rang and spoke with the Pastor, and all she could remember him saying was that Jesus loved her. Then one Christmas season, Virginia received a brochure in the letter box about a Christmas service at the local church. They also both had serious drinking problems that led to one conflict after another. Jeff and Virginia were both very controlling and dominating. After a move to Sydney, he met Virginia at a ballroom dancing class.Īfter 13 years of a tough marriage, Virginia says she was very unhappy. At 16, he left school and joined the air force as an apprentice. Jeff was born and raised in Melbourne, in a non-Christian home. But the one thing that always stayed with her from her days at Sunday school was that Jesus was the Son of God. Virginia was born in Sydney to a Christian mother, but her father unfortunately wasn’t. Where is God in the midst of these things? Jeff and Virginia Ball share about their 20 years marriage that was in tatters.