How I Got Started?

I was born in “the church” as people would say, meaning that I had a parent or parents who were a member/s of “the church” before birth, such as my mother (believer and follower of Jesus Christ as the son of God). Therefore, from birth I should say, that is the life I knew, “the church.” But seriously, I was actually 10 years old when I first understood or started my Kingdom journey. Just sitting in the pews as I normally did on a Sunday evening, listening to the pastor [Who is also my godfather], preaching about how Jesus Christ came into the world to save humankind from their sins, and that we should accept Jesus Christ as Lord and savior. In the message, I heard of various kinds of sins that would be forgiven, also that if we suffered hurt by other people, how Jesus can take away the hurt and place his joy in our heart to comfort us. Now, this was not the first time that I was hearing this type of message, but at 10 years of age I had already experienced a lot of hurt, anger, disappointments, and pain in my life, so I was already reading my Bible through the years, and now started asking many unanswered questions. Little by little I understood some of the things that I had read and was taught, so on this particular evening, I felt a deep urge to surrender my life to God and ask Jesus to come into my heart. I wanted a renewed spirit and thinking (KJV-Psalm 51 vs 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Vs 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit). I wanted to experience having a renewed mind and living to please God (KJV-Romans 12 vs 2 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). I not only wanted to have a changed mindset from how I understood the world around me, but I wanted a parent to be identified with. As I decided to accept God as my heavenly father, I wanted to be like Him, God. To truly be like him and needed to have the same ways as he has, just like a child has characteristics that are the same as their parents. I needed to have the same kind of character as God to be worthy of his son Jesus Christ living in my heart (KJV- Galatians 5: 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Vs 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law) This is his character. I accepted the news of salvation (John 3:16, Romans 10: 13), and was baptized in the name of Jesus, but not for 3 more years. My journey had already started before baptism.......