How a Suicidal Jewish Man Found the Messiah on Christmas Eve

Michael Ashcraft : Dec 23, 2016
God Reports

It was a lonely Christmas when his wife showed him the door, until he met Jesus...

[God Reports] On the night before Christmas, Elliott Osowitt was kicked out of his house. (Photo via God Reports)

After years of "loose living and immorality," he was driven out by a wife who had run out of patience. Downcast and despondent, he decided to go to a nearby motel and kill himself with a gun.

Osowitt worked as a tour guide for "Heathen Tours," a touring company that catered to tourists from England seeking sinful pleasures in America. It seems Osowitt indulged in too many of those allurements himself.

After Osowitt checked into his room, he found a Gideon's Bible opened to John 14:27: "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (Photo: Gideons)

The power of God's Word and the Spirit of the living God moved on his heart. Tearfully, he repented of his sins and asked Jesus to be his Lord and Savior.

And that is how the Prince of Peace, whose birth the reformed Jew had never celebrated, came to Osowitt to give him peace at Christmas in...

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