Header Banner Made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!Here is my testimony... hope it blesses someone out there...This all started Oct. 2004, and I am still having to deal with things. But know this if I had to do it all over again... I would... Sometime we must suffer for what is right...Here it is in a nut shell. I spanked my daughter because she was stealing money for 8 months. Normally I do not do this, because I understand that there is power in words. But as I prayed God revealed to me what to do with her. I did it, and everything after was fine. BUT… the next day she went to school, and a teacher overheard her and her brother talking about the spanking. The teacher asked my daughter what I used to do it, and she replied, “A belt.†Not a big deal, right? YES, they called social services, and eventually I was removed from my home, because I was considered a “threat†to my family.I would NEVER do anything to hurt my family, but for some reason God saw fit to take me through the washing machine of life (with no water in it). All this happened in the beginning of October. Early November I found out that the D.A. was picking up the case and was pressing charges against me, felony corporal punishment. Two days after thanksgiving, I went to court for my arraignment, and it was there when my life changed. I felt an evil presence in the court room. The judge would not allow me to speak, and said he was “tired†and he was taking me into custody. There I was the preacher, soon to be pastor, father, and son, favored man of God, arrested for doing the right thing.In jail I was beaten, abused, my life was threatened, and I though I was going to die. For three days I did not eat, I slept 10-12 hours a day, I was depressed, oppressed, and I felt as if I was wasting away. It was there I received strength. As I have read in the Word of God, “I will receive strength in weak times, for He is strong.†It was then that I was resurrected, and from that point on He used me in jail to preach to the men. Each night at 10:00pm I was allowed to preach to 200 men for 15 minutes. Many men were saved, set free, and delivered. God showed me that although NO ONE visited me, not my pastor, friends, and all the folk I blessed or taught each week, NO ONE… God ordained it that way. Although I am an associate minister at a large ministry, and NO ONE bailed me out, NO ONE put money on my books, God showed himself to be sovereignI was in jail for 30 days. I am free today, only because I had to agree to plead guilty to the felony charge. I will be on probation for 4 years, but God is good. I lost my job, but God is good. I got another job, I was honest with them about my situation, I became their best employee yet they fired me after 80 days of employment, but God is good. My daughter is still having behavioral issues, but God is good. I am hurting, mad, frustrated, and sickened to the worst degree, but God is good. I will stand still and see the salvation of the LordIn June 2005 the Orange County Family Court may be dropping the charges. Soon after, the criminal court will be dropping the felony charge to a misdemeanor. This Job like experience has shown me that no person, no devil in hell, nothing can separate me from the love of God, and that the enemy of God and me cannot have me. He can irritate me, but he cannot have me.If the enemy knew how this would have strengthened me, I think he may have tried a different method! Changes may take up to 2 mins to show on your profileLOVEMYFLASH CODE
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