Who am I

Welcome to this new blog. I am glad you have decided to join. I would like to take this post and give a personal testimony of who I am, so in this way, you will have a better understanding of the types of subjects I will be sharing and my points of view on different topics. All I will be sharing is based on my own experiences, and I will never apologize for the things that I say, for I speak from my own opinions and understandings, as well as the revelations that I have been given from His Word by the Holy Spirit. I will always speak the truth from what I know and understand from my many experiences in life. If you disagree with what I have spoken, I give you every right to disagree, but in your disagreement, I will not change my own idea and opinion based on your opinion, but only if what you say has proof from the Word, because it is we as humans having these kinds of disagreements that allows us as a society of people to develop and grow together. I give you your opportunity to leave a comment, but please, always be respectful, for I always speak what I speak, never out of judgement or conflict, but only as a tool that I have in my words to help others that may be alluring to a greater walk in oneness with their Creator, their Savior, and their enteractions with others they encounter in their daily lives. I give an account to only One, and that is my Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ, who came into this world to take our sin upon Himself, that is, all the sins that you or I have ever committed. He took them upon Himself, leaving us without sin, and was obedient to the Father in all things, even unto death, death with the excruciating torture upon the cross, so that we who were disobedient to God in all things, being filled with sin, eternally separated from God because of our sin, could first be forgiven, and then, through faith in this death and resurrection He endured, could then be enabled to be born again of the Spirit of God, no longer bound to the sinful nature we were born unto in the flesh. So, with all this out of the way, let us now begin.

I was born into a very religious family. I was raised as a Catholic, and learned much about a god and a jesus, but never learned anything about God or Jesus. I was taught many different religious acts that had nothing to do with the God or Jesus of the Bible. The fact is, I was taught more on how to trust in a mary and many other so-called saints, praying more unto them than to my Father in Heaven through the name of Jesus. We had many times on our knees, praying the rosary, where Mary was the main theme of the prayer. In fact, it was to us as though she herself was the savior of the world, for on its chain of beads, it was set up in a fashion of ten hail Maries and one our father. Our greatest concentration of prayer was always to Mary first. We as children, were led by the spiritual leaders of the church to go and gather around statues that were made of Mary and the different saints, singing and praying prayers unto them. We were even taught that it was only the priest, a man who for the most part, was one of the many men that were not born again, nor were they filled with the Holy Spirit of God, who could forgive us of our sin, (I guess they knew not that it was because Jesus accomplished forgiveness for us on the cross). Oh, and I was never taught that I could only see the Kingdom of God through faith in the one the Father sent, Jesus. No, that was not what I was taught at all, but that I would be guaranteed heaven if I remained as a Catholic until I died, and more assuredly if I died wearing my scapular around my neck at the time of my death. So, due to these ungodly practices, I never knew anything as to Who God really was, or what Jesus actually came to do for us on the cross. I mean, He was the whole deal, and there is nothing any man can do to add to it, for as He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father accept through me.”

So, after years of believing I was going to heaven because I was a Catholic, and I was forgiven my sins by the priest-man, I lived out my sinful lusts all my days as a teenager; in drugs, sex, and alcohol. I did all things I desired, and most of those desires were in no way, righteous. But God had a different plan for my life, just as he has for all who. will but believe. I was working for a large commercial construction company, and with all the guys that were working on this project, God saw fit to place a man as my workmate that was a born again believer. Everyday, he spoke to me of the great love of God and how much God wanted us to live in union with Him. He would tell me all that Jesus had done for us on the cross. I can tell you this; I was not happy that he was working with me. I thought he was a religious freak, and I tried to always block him out. When Fridays would come, he would ask me what I was going to do over the weekend, and I always gave him the same response, “I’m gonna go get drunk!” He would never say anything against me, but would just shake his head. When Monday would come, he would ask me, “What did you do this weekend?” And I would answer, “I don’t know. I was too drunk to remember!”. These days were the beginnings of God’s Holy Spirit starting to convict my heart though I never realized it at the time. All I really knew was I did not know this “God” he was speaking of. No, it was much later when through the events of my sinful living, God finally brought me to me knees and I fell on my face before Him and sought His forgiveness. All things in my life were being destroyed, and death was at my door. That one God-ordained night as I prayed with my face to the floor, God moved upon me and showed me the depth of His love and the price Jesus had paid to take my sin-filled life away. When I raised up from the floor, I knew immediately that I was a new creation. I knew I had been born again, though I knew nothing of what to say of these things, for I had no knowledge of what actually was happening. And even in this time of all things new, God did something so miraculous that very night. I had never owned a Bible in my life, never! But when I turned to exit my room, I looked and right there laying on my bedhead, was a book. I picked it up and looked at it, and its title was, “Good News For Modern Man.” I looked at it with a puzzled look. “What is this?” I asked myself. But once I started reading its pages, I could not put it down. I read it continuously for months, as though I was a dry sponge placed in a pail of water. His Word became the water for my soul, and I was really dry in my life with the truth of the Word. And it didn’t take long for the Holy Spirit to reveal to me the truth about being born again. I knew beyond the shadow of the doubt that I had truly been born again. My desires for all the lusts that I had were very quickly fading away. My brother told me years later that all the friends that I had been running with were all saying of me, “We don’t know what happened him, but one day he was out partying with us, and the next, he was home reading his Bible, and we never saw him again.” That was true, and to this day, I have never regretted that day on the floor.

So, this will be it for now, as an introductory to who I am, or should say, was, and who I am now. Today I declare that I am a son of God, and He is my Father. I am more everyday being made into the image of Christ Jesus. I am not perfect in all things, but I allow not the errors I make stop me from accomplishing all God has for me in this Life. For I can attest to the words of Paul, “It is no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives within me.” More to come in the days ahead.