How We Got Our Start
This is my story....
I grew up in a rough family. Drinking, fighting, womanizing & partying were not only common, but encouraged. This is what was expected & we lived it out daily. If this is what you see everyday, it's what becomes normal & anything other than this lifestyle becomes weird to you. I never went to church as a child so obviously I didn't have a relationship with Christ. Now, I will say that I knew that there was a "Creator", because if there was a creation then there must be a creator. I just didn't know who He was. I didn't know if He was buddah, allah, superman or Jesus Christ. Anyway, I was in & out of jail for drinking and fighting all throughout my 20's. I began using meth & cocaine as well. At 24 i got a young lady pregnant & my daughter was born. Although I wasn't the father I should have been, somehow I won the custody battle & I began to raise her as a single father. But even that didn't change me.
Two years later I met my wife & we got married. Now, I had a wife & 2 kids (she had a son) to take care of but I continued to be a severe alcoholic. Eventually my wife & I also had a son together. A few years later, at the age of 33, I was a construction foreman... I met a man that was different because no matter how much I cussed him, or God, he always just smiled at me & said "I'm praying for you". And that just made me even more angry. After several months of him "praying for me" and me cussing at him for it, one Sunday morning I got up out of bed hungover & tired and I told my wife and kids to get dressed so that we could go to church. After they got over the shock of me saying these words, we went & I kinda liked it.
Three weeks later I was at church again, I don't know what happened but I was singing, I was crying, I was praying and I messed around & met Jesus! I didn't exactly know how or why this was happening but I KNEW that God was real. I now knew that Jesus was the way to heaven & I knew that His Holy Spirit had filled me!I knew that He had a plan & a purpose for my life. I just couldn't understand how God could look at a man that had been so full of anger, bitterness, rage. A man that had drank like a fish, was addicted to pornography & drugs. A man that had zero knowledge of the Bible. A man that barely had enough sense to get out of the rain.
But God didn't care who I was because He knew He wasn't gonna leave me that way.
He knows exactly what He is gonna do with ALL of us, IF we will simply surrender to Him. I am happy to say that HE has set me free from all them addictions. I have now been serving Christ for 15 years. I still feel unqualified & still stand in awe of Christ.
I am still blown away by God's grace & mercy daily. He has blessed me with a wonderful life.
My best days are NOT behind me, they’re still to come. I can't wait to see what God will do next!
I am living proof that God can change anybody and He is willing to use all of us that are willing to be used. I still wonder why I've been blessed so much sometimes, but i realize it's simply because of how loving, forgiving & merciful that HE is.
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves,
IT IS A GIFT OF GOD, not by works, so that no one can boast." (Ephesians 2:8)
Listen, if He saved me , He will save anyone.
I'm not special....I'm a no body trying to tell everybody about somebody who can save anybody.
I grew up in a rough family. Drinking, fighting, womanizing & partying were not only common, but encouraged. This is what was expected & we lived it out daily. If this is what you see everyday, it's what becomes normal & anything other than this lifestyle becomes weird to you. I never went to church as a child so obviously I didn't have a relationship with Christ. Now, I will say that I knew that there was a "Creator", because if there was a creation then there must be a creator. I just didn't know who He was. I didn't know if He was buddah, allah, superman or Jesus Christ. Anyway, I was in & out of jail for drinking and fighting all throughout my 20's. I began using meth & cocaine as well. At 24 i got a young lady pregnant & my daughter was born. Although I wasn't the father I should have been, somehow I won the custody battle & I began to raise her as a single father. But even that didn't change me.
Two years later I met my wife & we got married. Now, I had a wife & 2 kids (she had a son) to take care of but I continued to be a severe alcoholic. Eventually my wife & I also had a son together. A few years later, at the age of 33, I was a construction foreman... I met a man that was different because no matter how much I cussed him, or God, he always just smiled at me & said "I'm praying for you". And that just made me even more angry. After several months of him "praying for me" and me cussing at him for it, one Sunday morning I got up out of bed hungover & tired and I told my wife and kids to get dressed so that we could go to church. After they got over the shock of me saying these words, we went & I kinda liked it.
Three weeks later I was at church again, I don't know what happened but I was singing, I was crying, I was praying and I messed around & met Jesus! I didn't exactly know how or why this was happening but I KNEW that God was real. I now knew that Jesus was the way to heaven & I knew that His Holy Spirit had filled me!I knew that He had a plan & a purpose for my life. I just couldn't understand how God could look at a man that had been so full of anger, bitterness, rage. A man that had drank like a fish, was addicted to pornography & drugs. A man that had zero knowledge of the Bible. A man that barely had enough sense to get out of the rain.
But God didn't care who I was because He knew He wasn't gonna leave me that way.
He knows exactly what He is gonna do with ALL of us, IF we will simply surrender to Him. I am happy to say that HE has set me free from all them addictions. I have now been serving Christ for 15 years. I still feel unqualified & still stand in awe of Christ.
I am still blown away by God's grace & mercy daily. He has blessed me with a wonderful life.
My best days are NOT behind me, they’re still to come. I can't wait to see what God will do next!
I am living proof that God can change anybody and He is willing to use all of us that are willing to be used. I still wonder why I've been blessed so much sometimes, but i realize it's simply because of how loving, forgiving & merciful that HE is.
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves,
IT IS A GIFT OF GOD, not by works, so that no one can boast." (Ephesians 2:8)
Listen, if He saved me , He will save anyone.
I'm not special....I'm a no body trying to tell everybody about somebody who can save anybody.
