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I grew up in a Christian home with God-fearing parents and grandparents. With my grandfather being a Southern Baptist minister and my father being an active deaconof the church. I always understood the basis need of a relationship with Jesus Christ. But did not come to fully know what He wanted a personal relationship with me at the age of seventeen years of age. Then at the age of nineteen, I surrendered my life to full-time Christian service and served as a bi-vovational youth pastor for six years at Nitrate City Baptist Church in Tuscumbia, Alabama. .. At the age of twelve, I began to listen to secular rock music. And by the age of fourteen, I found myself practicing Satanism and being a part of a active coven in Franklin County, Alabama. Also by this time, I was deep into heavy metal music and sacrificing animals and drinking their blood for strength. As my lust for power in Satan rose, the music I was listening to was developing in me as a heavy drug addiction. I was listening to groups such as: KISS, Iron Maiden, Magadeath, Twisted Sister, Judas Priest, Anthrax, Corse, and array of many others. I even began to dive into role playing games; such as "Dungeons & Dragons." I come to find out from promoters of the game, that I was the youngest person to ever achieve the status of the game to "Grand Dungeon Master" at the age of eleven years of age. Soon, within four months turning seventeen, my best friend was killed in a hunting trip. So, I did what most teenagers would do in this position. I tried to commit suiside twenty-six times within the next thirty days. It was during this time, that God placed a guy in my life that would become my new best friend, Bill Smith. He came to where I was, where teenagers hang-out in Franklin County, "the Strip" downtown Russellville. Bill kept asking me to attend this crusade his church was hosting on October 31. He was wanting me to attend with him. But I kept pushing him away. Til one week before the crusade, I told him, that if I go, he is not to bother me ever again with this "Jesus stuff." He agreed... Meadowlark Lemon was the guest speaker that night, and he talked to me about forty minutes before the crusade started. As he told me about the things I was going thru and doing in the name of Satan. I was on my way to spend my eternal life with someone who saw me as a mere cheap prize. Then he, Meadowlark, asked me, "do you believe God could forgive a murderer? Or forgive an adulterer, and someone who was shaking his fist at God saying, 'STAY AWAY FROM ME!'?" I told him, I believe He could, if He wanted to. Then Meadowlark told me, "you are shaking your fist at God right now, aren't you?" In fact, he was referring to me. "So, you believe God could forgive you, huh?" Then I caught he was referring to me in his last comment. At this point, God banging on my heart's door with conviction. Meadowlark told, just pray this: "God, I know Your Son died for me, and You rose Him from the dead. I believe can save me and deliver me from the evil one's torment, I am asking You to thru Your Son's blood. Give me a fresh start and grant me an innocent child-like heart full of love. Amen.".. And ever since that night of His salvation of grace granted to me thru His mercy; I have never been the same. For it was me being found humbled to receive His grace. What you may ask yourself, "what is God's grace?" God's grace is simply put as "being found worthy to receive His unfavored mercy because of His love." Now, after serving Him as a Youth Pastor, He has placed an even deeper burden within my spirit to go into all the world to share what He has done for me and thru me. My view of life has completely changed from where I was in my walk with Him as a Student Pastor to the point of where I am today. Each day in my quiet-time, I say, "Lord, today make my walk the proof of my talk and allow my talk to become the evidence of my walk." The burden today is to carry His gospel to everyone who He places in my path and in my heart. I want everyone to experience His love for them, that I grieve for people in great sorrow a lot of times. So I have taken everything to the next level, I asked God to mold me into His bold witness at any cost to myself. And since I was twenty-five, I have served Him as His servant as an evangelist of the gospel.,space> It is with a very heavy heart that I proseed to go wherever He leads me to carry His word to the world, and I fear that one day it may mean my life in this world. But to live in this world is nothing to in comparason to the life to come in being with Him eternal. In every place I go to share the dangers of secular rock music, I receive multiple death threats to not show up or my life will be taken. I always get word back to the person who sends it, saying, "If you think you are man enough to take my Lord out, then show up and prove it to me, and only then will I remain silent." To this date, no one has come forward to try... A Christian guy who loves God with all his heart, with a call from God to share His gospel to the lost as He places in my day-to-day walk with Him. For my grandfather always told me in a simple prayer, "Lord, allow my walk to become the proof of my talk and my talk become the evidence of my walk." For I have received and answered His call to be His bold witness before His people, to correct them, and guide them back to their Lord. I WILL GO TO ANY CORNER OF THE WORLD AT ANY TIME TO TELL SOMEONE OF THE SALVATION OF MY SAVIOR AND LORD, JESUS CHRIST!!!.
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