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A Little glimpse from where I came from.....

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I am going to keep this simple and NOT go to to deep in any area.
You have heard sex, drugs and rock and roll quoted many times. Well for me it was my life. My god and desire first was always Drugs and then Music then sex. I played drums for many years as well especially after I got saved and delivered and fell back into some hard times. The drums became my escape and i would jam for 8 to 10 hours most days. I simply would get lost in them.

I was drawn into the satanic life in my late teens. I became obsessed with this stuff. I dealt drugs through HI School for it was only a place to meet and sell and create a party then out the door. I was a junkie for many years and would run just about anything I could and acid was my Candy.....Shoot I sat in the back of class cutting up big sheets of blotter and selling it in class. People came to me first before buying any acid that came to town just to find out how many I had to take or liked to take. See I could do more then I should have been able to. If I said 2 then they may do 1 if I said oh man 1 was awesome....they cut it and took half.....

Smoked weed like it was air you breathe. I could not even back my car out of the drive way with out firing up a bowel or joint and tuning in some good ol hard rock then I could simply move the car... I carried quarter pounds like most carried a nickel or dime bag or even an OZ. Coke, THC, Tab , crystal T, T and some H and other junk and you get the picture...........

I worshiped the other team and pulled knives on Christians which then were holly rollers just because they stuck their nose in my business. I manipulated people into what ever I needed. I kept going down, down, down and then got into witch craft as well and got my hands on a book older then my grand dad....I jumped into that book with all that I had. It became my life and again I went, down. down,down and all the time I was feeling UP and was climbing up into higher levels. They say there are voices in the winds..... It is true.......I lived in the dark and the streets were my playground if you will.

I am not going to keep going into this for you should have the picture and the things beyond this point do not need to be said here. I will say I have seen things that would shock most believers. I have wrestled and fought more spiritual beings since I was saved then you would want to believe...Those first 10 and 20 years of my walk with God were not all that simple, fun or joyful...I mean the devil is a very sore loser and did not simply stand back and allow me to pass by freely. There were times however that were so amazing that I still praise God for them......

When I got baptised it was in a swimming pool during a love feast get together. I came out speaking in tongues and then people started seeing this huge change in me and saw the light of God within me and they looked in the pool and NO ONE would go swimming after that until the brother changed his pool water. ..lol.......We all joked about that one.......

A hand full of Years back I was struggling in some area's and I met some Believers who shined. Their eyes were so Clear and full of life and they had Joy like nothing I had ever seen. Nothing that happened in their life shook them. Man I tell you what............That was for me.......I wanted this and was not going to take No for an answer.....Well God agreed for it has always been His will for all of us to be this way. I began to see Him in a new Light. I found out how much He really loves us and how much He truly loves us and How much He simply Loves and adores us.

Long story short.........He has changed my life. He is always changing my life.......He will always be changing my Life. YOU just got to allow Him too. He is given me some awesome Spiritual Parents if you will and He is teaching me day in and day out. I can not get enough of His word or His fellowship. He is my life and MY one desire.

So now you know a very little part of my past.......
Have a wonderful day
Jim
 
The greater the change in the person (when turning to Christ), the greater the witness. Glad that change came to you, never forget that God uses our previous (way of) lives knowledge in some way for good. He already knows how, He just waits for you to be ready. But dont rush into it until you are ready.
 
Thank you for sharing your testimony. I can relate to a lot of where you came from, because I was on that same path - minus the drums. :-) Praise God for rescuing us both!
 
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