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Born in Norfolk VA. Raise in a Mormon family. At the age of 12 I was using drugs. While I was a city wide wrestling champion, I was getting more and more involved with drugs, and the lifestyle that goes with it. After a couple of run in with the law and wrecking 5 cars, and traveling across the country selling drugs. I became strung out on speed, pot and quadules. In the summer of 1980 I beat and robbed a man. Regreatablitly the man died I got charged with capital murder and ended up with a 20 yr jail sentenced! After 4 yrs in prison, one morning Big Ed (an ex pagan biker who was serving life for murder who got saved while doing time.) woke me up early playing Christian rock music. Becoming angry with him I got up to cuss him out, litttle did I know that on that day I was to be translated out of the kingdom of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of God! I could not go back to bed so I turned on T.V. and on that Sunday nothing was on that I wanted to see. However Jimmy Swaggart was preaching hard I do not remember all he said but I do remember getting on my knees and praying th t proverbial prayer God if you are really real. I told him that I beleived in Jesus but I did not want to be someone that talked the talk that could not walk the walk. He distinctively told me that I was was not to live the Christian life, but rather that he was to live His Life through me! This was great news to me! I told Him I would give Him my all! He met me their supernaturally that day! and I knew that I knew that Jesus Christ was God! I felt his presence and for the first time since being a little kid I cried! I felt a warm tingle all through my being and I just Knew that Jesus came into my life. At the same time I while was felling remorse I also felt as of some great bondage that was in me began to melt away in the presence of the Lord! I saw Jesus and I was weeping at His feet and I told Him that I was not worthy to tie his shoe. He touch and I sense that faith went in the back of my head to point that again I knew that I knew that Jesus Christ is real. After crying fo some time, I got up to tell Big Ed as I went to tell him, he was in his cell with other Christians that where in the middle of strong prayer! After telling them my story I joined them in prayer and later that day I was gloriously Filled with the Holy Ghost while taking a shower! Words came out of my mouth that I could not understand! Everyone I saw, I saw with different eyes. With gangs and clicks in prison their was some that I just assumed that they where dead before that day, afterward I saw A person that I had major problems with but I could not hate him I just sensed a overwheming love for him! Well I could go on forever! Now I am married to a wonderful Christian lady we have 5 great children and I pastor Victory Life Center a Foursquare Church in Macon GA. As I look back on that day Jan.21,1984 I do not know for sure who won the Super Bowl, but I can say without a doubt that the real Super Bowl of LIfe was won that day for my life as I accepted Jesus in my life! 2 Scriptures that have always been where I hang my hat are: 2 Cor. 5:17 "If any man be In Christ He is a new creation, old things have passed away, and behold all things have become brand new." and Jer 29:11 " I know the thoughts I think towards you saye the Lord; thoughts of good not of evil, to give you a hope and a future." Click HERE to return to the edited story Click HERE to create a banner that links to this story! Your e-mail address will be kept private!
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