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Christine Prankard: I have grown up in a Christian home, and it’s sort of been–it’s hard to explain sort of because my parents are divorced, and so I come from a divorced family. They divorced when I was three years old. And after my dad got remarried again he got a divorce, and that’s when I really strayed away from God. I was sort of just angry and I didn’t understand and I didn’t feel loved. It was like I was just living and I wasn’t really living. You know, I wasn’t living the life that God has made me to live.

So I remember I was lying in my bed and all I kept hearing in my spirit was “Romans 12, Romans 12,” and I was like “What, what?” I had never really experienced God really speaking to me very strongly, because I didn’t really think that that could happen for me. So I was like “Okay God, I’ll open my Bible”, and so I opened up my Bible to Romans 12 and I read it. “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to Him—this is your spiritual act of worship.” When I read that, I was just like blown away. God just totally touched my heart like crazy. I’m sorry, I’m getting emotional, I’m sorry… and that scripture has been like my theme song, my life song, to offer my body as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to Him. And that is what he’s called me to do, and that is what–I’m going to strive every day to just go for it and just to give all that I have and all that I am and all that I ever will be, and just to give Him the glory in everything in my life.

So that is when I changed and I re-gave my life to Him and I said, “Jesus, it is all for you,” and that was in the middle of a high school. So ever since then, I have just–it’s a struggle. But that verse just keeps me going, it just makes me really think “What would God really want me to do? How can I live, how can I go for it and just give Him everything?” So that’s my story.