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Date Posted: 08:26:23 01/28/02 Mon
TESTIMONY
The following is the story of Gods grace and mercy. It is a true story of a man that should have come to a violent end. The God of all creation had other plans. Enjoy. My name is Guy. I have been in the family of God for 21 years now. When I was 3 years old is the first time that I can remember hearing the voice of God. I remember it very distinctly, like it happened just a few moments ago. My grandmother lived in a small town in Colorado. In her neighborhood there were no paved streets, only dirt roads. As I stood by the side of the road one-day watching another little boy play something very strange began to happen. My stomach started to vibrate like a speaker attached to a large stereo. I remember looking down at my stomach and watching it for a brief second and then putting my hands on it to see if I could feel the vibration. Strangely enough this wasn’t something that scared me at all. I felt no fear whatsoever. In the next few seconds I could hear this voice speaking, and it was coming from inside of my stomach. As this voice spoke, somehow I recognized the voice as being God. I don’t know how I knew this, I just knew it. About this time you’re probably wondering what it was that He spoke to me. I can’t tell you that, but I can tell you this, because of what He spoke to me that day you can rest assured that we are going to see the return of Jesus Christ. That was my first encounter with the One who created me.
Now we can jump ahead to one year before my born-again experience. My younger sister was a Christian who was involved in the church. She came to me one day and said," Guy, I’m praying for you." I thought to myself "yeah, so what." At the same time when she told me this it actually brought me some comfort. I wasn’t exactly one of the nicest guys around and at the time I was living a very violent lifestyle. I learned how to fight at a young age. I took my boxing skills to the streets and bars and learned how to fight even better. There were times that I was nearly beat to death and there were times that I almost beat others to death. It wasn’t a fun life but it was the only one that I knew how to live. It seems strange to me now but I can tell you that God spoke to me twice that year before I came to believe on Jesus. The first time He spoke to me I was channel surfing the t.v. and I came across a Christian station. I remember seeing this nerd looking guy in a suit and as I listened for a few seconds I heard this voice say, "You are going to preach just like him someday." There was that voice again. The same voice I recognized as God when I was only three years old. All I could think was, "yeah, right!" As the year went on I grew meaner to the point that I would daydream and have dreams about killing people as well as dismembering them. I got to the point that I felt very little emotion. I would just as soon kill most people than look at them. One night as a biker friend of mine and myself were drinking tequila together he suggested that he give me a tattoo. I said sure, why not. So we agreed that I would come over on a Friday which was only a few days away. Friday finally came and I went to the store, picked up a big bottle of tequila and headed for my friend’s house. As I drove to his house all of a sudden I hear this voice and it says," That tattoo will not be pleasing to me." Again I recognize the voice as being the same voice that spoke to me when I was 3 years old. The only thing that came to my mind was, " What do I have to do with God?" Needless to say, that night I went home drunk with a tattoo. But I didn’t forget about these two times that God spoke to me. There were other things that happened as well, but I will leave those for another time. Now, lets get to the day I accepted Christ into my life. As I sat in my home one day recovering from a night of partying I thought about the way my life was going. The more I thought about these things the more depressed I got. I had planned to kill a couple of people so that I could go to prison. I had no desire to live in society any longer. Besides that I wanted the respect that came from being in prison. Yeah, I know. DUMB-DUMB! It’s all I knew. As I sat on my couch I remember putting a gun to my head and thought to myself, "IF I PULL THE TRIGGER I WON’T HAVE TO WORRY ANY MORE ABOUT ANYTHING!" Somehow I knew that wasn’t an option. So I sat there and started channel surfing and wouldn’t you know it, another Christian program. I thought to myself, " I’m not going to sit here and listen to this." At that moment a presence that I had never felt before entered into my living room. There was someone there and I couldn’t see them. As I sat there I heard a voice speak to me and it said ,"SIT THERE AND LISTEN TO WHAT THIS MAN HAS TO SAY." I thought to myself that this could not be happening. I turned the channel trying to ignore what was going on and again this voice spoke to me in a very commanding tone and said, " I SAID SIT THERE AND LISTEN TO WHAT THIS MAN HAS TO SAY!!!" The man who was preaching was a man named Dwight Thompson. He had been preaching about the end times but the only part I really caught was the end of the service when he had invited people to accept Christ. While all of this was happening I curled up on the couch like a scared little boy watching a horror movie. I also threw the t. v. remote across the room so I couldn’t get to it again. As I sat there watching, the t. v. camera went in for a close-up of this preacher. He pointed into the camera and said, " JESUS LOVES YOU!!!" The only thing I remember after that was falling on the floor and lifting my hands up and saying, " Jesus, please take away my desire to drink and fight and live the way I’m living." At that moment I felt a two ton weight lift off of my shoulders. I felt so light and free that I felt like I could fly. I was finally free! "l’ll end this story with this. A few weeks after this the Lord spoke to me and said," If you would not have accepted Me when you did, within one year you would have ended up in prison and dead!!" May this bless you. If you do not believe in Jesus or you have doubts as to His existence then say this as though He were standing right there with you—JESUS, SHOW ME AND HELP ME TO RECOGNIZE THAT YOU EXIST. GIVE ME EYES AND SIGHT TO SEE YOU. THANK YOU—SO BE IT!! For those who desire to accept Him say this now----JESUS—PLEASE WRITE MY NAME IN YOUR BOOK OF LIFE AND MAKE ME YOUR OWN---FILL ME WITH YOUR LOVE-POWER AND WISDOM AND SET ME FREE FROM ALL THE GARBAGE IN MY LIFE---SET ME IN THE CHURCH WHERE YOU DESIRE .ME TO BE—THANK YOU MY LORD---SO BE IT!! May God bless you all and fill you with love for all----G. M.
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