MY TESTIMONY
What you are about to read is a testimony of my life. I know everyone has a testimony to give, but I was lead by the Spirit of God to give my testimony as many others have. As you read, you will find a lot of it hard to believe. So please keep an open mind to the true power of God, knowing that He is able to do all things. Realize that the Spirit of Life comes from God.
I was brought up in church as a boy believing in God with my family. My mother would always tell me about Jesus and how He would be my best friend and save my soul. But as a child I didn’t understand that. She told me about Moses and how he knew God personally. I thought that sound good for people back in those days but He doesn’t do that anymore. My mother was quick to answer that! She told me about the time the Lord used my grandmother to pray for a man that was so sick the doctor gave him up for dead and when she prayed he got up that same hour. I guess I believed her when she told me that, but I kept in my mind it was my grandmother and not me.
As I grew older I went on in life as a normal teenager in and out of church doing what I wanted to do. But the fear of God was always in the back of my mind. I got married and strayed farther away from God. I moved away from everyone thinking that I could run from the voice within. But little did I know it stayed with me. My mother would call me and say, ‘Give your life to Jesus, son.’ But it would make me angrier.
So one day as I was at work, I was in a field and I heard a voice call my name. I turned around to see who was calling me. I saw no one. I thought maybe I was hearing things. After a while had past I heard my name again. I knew it couldn’t be anyone because I was alone in the middle of a field. So I called out ‘Yes Lord, I am here.” The voice said, ‘Go home!’ I answered, ‘Go home?’ And the voice repeated, ‘Go Home.’ I asked why should I go home? I live here now.’ Then He said, ‘I am your Lord and Savior. I am going to use you to preach and testify of me.’ I answered, ‘NO!’ I don’t want to go home, there are preachers at the church.’ And He answered, ‘The pastor is going to leave.’ I asked Him, ‘What do you mean?’ He answered, ‘He is going to pass away.’ So I stopped working and asked, ‘Why are you telling me this?’ He answered, ‘because I am going to use you. Go home.’ I answered, ‘No, I don’t want to go.’ And I kept on working. After that experience I thought the Lord would strike me down, but all He would say was Go Home.
I heard those words for three days and nights. I couldn’t sleep or think of anything else. Then on the third day after my experience I heard His voice again. He called my name and I answered, ‘Yes, Lord.’ He told me to go home and He would send me a witness. I asked what witness. He said, ‘Go to church and I will have the witness to tell you all the things I am about to tell you.’ Then He said that He is going to bless me and give me a gift beyond my knowledge. He told me many other things and the name of the person who would witness of the same words He told me. So the fourth day I want home and my mother was so happy. I felt like the prodigal son. When Sunday arrived I went to church. I remember having a very bad attitude and I told myself if this woman doesn’t come to me and tell me what the Lord said, I’m going back to Florida. When I sat down in church, I didn’t sing or praise the Lord. I waited and looked at the clock hoping for the time to go. When the preacher finished, I looked around and saw that the woman was still praying. So I got up and said to myself well it wasn’t God. And as I went to the door, I reached for it and I heard the woman say, ‘ Wait don’t leave.’ I turned and looked at her and she said brother the Lord told me not to let you leave before I tell you this. ‘I sent you home because I am going to use you to preach and give you a gift that you can’t believe. The power will come on you in a way you have never seen.’ Then she prayed for me and she told me all the other things that only God and I knew.
That next morning as I was painting my mother’s house, I heard a voice say go in the house. I want to talk you. So I went in my room and He said to me, ‘ I want you to fast for three days.’ So I fasted as He said and on the second day as I was reading the bible, the Lord called me. I jumped up and went through the house to see if it was someone else. Then I heard Him again. I got up to look through the house and before I could get out the room He called me a third time. The voice was in the room. I answered, ‘Yes Lord, I am here.’ He said, ‘Sing to me.’ I said, I can’t sing. He repeated, ‘Sing to me!’ So I began to sing about His love and before I could finish His spirit came on me and my voice changed and I was speaking another language. The power of God controlled my body. I couldn’t do anything but watch what my body was doing. I heard Him more plainly and I saw my body on the floor dead. He said, ‘Leave your fleshly ways and sins in the grave and forget all you have been taught and I will teach you everything you need to know about me.’
That day was the greatest day of my life. I was born again. That same day my aunt came over to visit. She asked me where was my mother. I couldn’t speak English. I was trying to talk to her but I couldn’t. So I walked over and touched her to get her to understand and when I touched her, the Holy Spirit got on her and she started speaking in tongues. So I waited till my mother got home and I walked over to her and touched her and she started speaking in tongues. I walked over to my other aunt and touched her and she spoke as the others. I walked around and noticed that I couldn’t feel my feet at all. I walked across the street to tell my other aunt about my receiving the Holy Ghost and she met me across the yard. She said, ‘I knew God had called you,’ and began to praise the Lord. By the end of the week the whole neighborhood knew of my experience. I spoke in tongues for three days.
After the third day the Lord came to me at night and called my name. I woke up and He told me to go to the front room. I heard Him say, ‘I am your Lord and God. I am the One who told you to go home.’ I answered, ‘You might be the devil and if you are God, prove it!’ He answered, ‘Open your bible and when you do, it will read concerning a young man who must suffer for me.’ I opened the Bible and it opened to the scripture I Timothy 4:12 concerning a young man suffering for Jesus. After I read this, I still didn’t believe that it was Jesus talking to me. Then He said, ‘Open the Bible again and you will read a scripture that says, I am the way, the truth and the Life. No man come unto the Father except by me.’ And when I opened the bible, it was on that scripture. When I read this, I dropped to my knees. I realized that it was the Spirit of the Lord. I began to praise Him and as I was praising Him I looked up and saw the heavens open up. I bowed down on my face because of His power. Then I heard His voice say to me, I am your Father and this will I do with you. I will bless you to see heavenly things and you shall tell others what you have seen and heard. This was one of many things He said to me. After that experience He woke me many nights at the same time. That was the beginning of my relationship with the Lord. As time past, the Lord would wake me and tell me many things concerning the church. I would tell them about the visions. Some would believe and some wouldn’t. But when it came to past more would believe. People would come to me and tell me that I was a false prophet and call me a devil and other names. But I didn’t let it get to me because the Lord had already told me that some people weren’t going to believe me. So I would just give the Lord the praise. The name-calling and open rebuke got more intense, but I continued to tell what God told me to say. The more I spoke the more I was rebuked. As time past on, the rebuking was starting to get to me. I wouldn’t tell the people what the Lord had told me and I stop going to church there and started going to church elsewhere. I tried to enjoy myself but I couldn’t because I knew that the Lord wanted me to finish what He had started with me. So I just stopped going period and I felt the Spirit in me groan. I started having problems at home and work. I began to get angry about everything. I tried to rebuke the devil, but I knew I was out of the will of the Lord. I later got a divorce and went back into the world of sin.
A year had past, I remarried and I got back in church. One night I got out of bed and I heard the voice of the Lord call my name. The room was full of His spirit. So I got down on my knees in fear. I heard Him say go back and finish what I told you to do. I was on the floor for a long time. I thought that the Lord was going to strike me down, but He had nothing but love and compassion for me. I repented on the spot and the Spirit of the Lord came on me and I began to speak in tongues. I knew He had forgiven me. When I was able to speak English, I told my wife what had happened and we went back to my home church. During church service I was praising the Lord and the Spirit came on me and I was speaking in tongue. The pastor came over and touched me and the spirit got on him and he began to speak. The pastor told the church that he hadn’t spoken in tongues in a long time.
I have written this to let you know a little of my past that you may believe the rest of my testimony.
Now since you have read the introductory of my testimony, I pray with all my heart that you believe the testimonies I have written. Some are very outstanding in man’s eyes. But in God’s eyes it is His power unto salvation. Many times I thought that the Lord would take me away in my experiences but I remain to be a witness of his power. The Holy Ghost is a witness of the Lord Jesus sent to man to testify of the power of God that we may believe in the Lord and make him a part of our life. I pray that everyone that read this will give his or her life to the Lord before it’s too late. As you will read many waited too long and lost the race against time. Remember you only have one life to live, so please live it in the Lord. Time is very short and eternity is forever.
I remember talking to an old man and he was complaining about life and how it’s worth nothing. I tried to talk to him about the true life, which is Jesus. He answered with very ugly language and told me that he didn’t believe in Jesus and all that. He said it with a very nasty attitude. I think he was just unhappy with the way his life was. He did not live to see the end of that month. Even with that man God had mercy and gave him a chance to repent. In my presence he didn’t do anything but curse God. I prayed that he would repent and I tried to tell him of the goodness of God but the Spirit told me to hold my peace. I couldn’t help but to think of him when I heard of his death.
It has been often times people said that they believe, but they are not ready for God. But when they get ready, then they will live right. I have never met a ready made Christian and I never will. The Bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, meaning you can’t clean yourself but you must come as you are to Jesus and He will clean you and wash your sins away. There are so many people who think that the Lord is going to stop time for them and those same people will be disappointed in the day of judgment. Please don’t be one of those people. Make your choice today because tomorrow is not promised. I can tell you that if you live for Jesus, He will make your life brand new. I speak from experience. The Lord is my best friend. He is the best friend I will ever have and I wouldn’t want it any other way. There is none like the Lord. I have learned to love Him more than this world because He means the world to me. I have depended on Him and trusted Him and He has never let me down. He is my all and all. Bless His name.
I can write more about how I feel about Jesus, but I was led to write to you about the Spirit of the things He has done for me. As you read, you will find some of them sound like the book of Revelations. That’s because the Spirit spoke to me about revelations of the future concerning God’s people. He has given many of His people the understanding of Revelations and shown them how to walk in the Spirit. We are now in the days of Revelations in the body of Christ, which must walk by faith and not by sight. Most of our problems come from not knowing how to walk in faith. I feel by the Spirit of God that we are now entering the presence of faith that the Lord has called us to be from the beginning. We must tell our brothers and sisters on the earth about the experience of walking in faith so the body may grow in faith and love according to the purpose of God. I encourage you to walk in the love of God as much as possible, because it is the only way you can enter into His presence. Without love no man will see God. Love will never fail. Love is the High Calling of the Lord. Love is the answer to all things. Never let any other gift go before love because God is love. Many people try to put the other gifts of God as the center of their Christian life. But the word says let love be the most high gift. (I Cor. 13: 13.) So I say to you, bless the Lord with the love He put in you and you will never fail to meet the mark that He set for you.
Keep the faith in our Lord Jesus and remain faithful in L-O-V-E!!!!
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