Follow Your Destiny
Why do I work toward getting people into Revelation? Why not deal with salvation or faith or prosperity? The simple answer is those are not my callings. My calling is strengthening of the body. But how did I get here? What is the story behind the story?
I used to go the various churches wanting to give my testimony because it was my obligation to do so. No, nobody told me to do that but I knew I had to. You see, I’ve been saved from death more than once by the blessings of God. However the results of my injuries are not strikingly visible, such as a serious burn to the face or a giant scar on the face. I don’t have it like that.
But when God blessed me to be whole and still have life I knew I wasn’t living right. I wasn’t a saint, and often times I wasn’t even in church when God blessed me. But nonetheless, through God’s mercy and through his grace, God still blessed me.
To The GLORY Of God Almighty
I discovered after searching and wondering, besides the fact that God loves us, why God would bless people in such a way. The answer of why God blesses people (especially those who are not in his will) is quite simple. Why God allows people to come back from the brink of death sometimes without any apparent present righteousness from the person seems unjust.
But the reason God blesses people, especially people who are not within his will is for one simple reason; it is for HIS glory. God does things to let people know he is still in control and that he is still a miracle working God.
As I looked back on my life, I knew that God blessed me mainly for his glory. But I also reasoned, “How could God get his due glory if I don’t stand among his congregation and tell of his goodness?” So it was, no; is, my obligation to tell of God’s blessings in my life, especially since you can’t easily see the result of the injuries.
The Biker And The Car
In 1980 I crashed my motorcycle when the driver of an oncoming car turned in front of me and just stopped. I was the driver of the motorcycle and had a rider on the back. I wasn’t driving fast but still hit the car with force, just as one would if riding a bicycle. But the fact that I had a rider on the back of the bike; their weight added greatly to the impact against the car’s steel frame. After we flew up into the air and back down, I was immediately unconscious and stayed that way for about 4-6 days.
I’d broken both ankles, cracked my chin, broke out a few teeth and chipped the enamel off of others. Dislocated my shoulder, ruptured my spleen so that it was removed. And finally damaged the artery in my heart (my passenger on the back of the bike broke his left ankle).
Obviously, my heart artery damage was the worse of my injuries. The blood that was supposed to be pumping through my body was sporadically being pumped into my chest cavity. I was drowning on dry land like a fish out of water.
I was taken to the nearest hospital where my blood pressure continued to be unstable dropping to very low levels. It was determined through testing that heart damage had occurred and I was flown to another hospital. The end result is that I am whole and there is a scar on my chest from the heart surgery and the spleen removal. But the striking thing is the dream I had while unconscious.
I dreamed that I was above myself, looking down on me. And I could see me shaking and crying. Also I could see God’s hand visible from the bottom of a cloud. In God’s hand was a cord. God was swinging the cord slightly. The cord was similar to the cord on any appliance such as an iron or toaster, where the prongs are there for plugging into an electrical socket. In the dream I was asking for another chance. I could hear God’s voice say, “I’ll give you another chance; because you will have to come back this way again anyway.” That’s all I remember about the dream.
I don’t remember getting up that morning, driving to work, the accident… nothing. But some of us are more hard-headed than others because, that was not the end. I was even closer to death the next time. Yes, there is a ‘next’ time.
A Hot Speeding Bullet On A Cold Winter Night…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Next, after the motorcycle I was shot in the head at close range under the left ear. Like I stated earlier, I wasn’t living correctly nor was I in church. Instead I was out in the world doing my thing. And in 1987, there I was lying on the ground bleeding with a gunshot in the head. I was lying on the ground in Norfolk Virginia in February (cold February) with a bullet in the head and looking down the barrel of the smoking gun that just shot me. This was all happening on my birthday!
Let me tell you if you don’t already know, God IS GOOD. The man held the gun in my face as he robbed me for the drugs I had been selling. I couldn’t even look him in his face so I just looked past him into the clear winter sky. That was a most beautiful sky, either because I was dying or because I’d never taken the time to see it before. But that was a beautiful sky as I lay on the cold ground shot, unable to move, bleeding and with a loaded gun in my face.
I couldn’t move. I was paralyzed. I was on my back in the fetal position. As the robber left me to die on that cold ground I could hear the blood pouring out of my head and into a puddle. I KNEW, right then, that I was going to die on that ground. I was alone, bleeding in the playground of a housing project after a drug deal gone bad. I didn’t want to die like that. I began praying. I was praying like never before. I was praying to move a mountain. I’ve never prayed like that before nor since. I prayed as I saw my life passing before me.
On that cold ground I thought of all the things I could do if I only had life, if I could have just a little while longer. I wanted to do right and live a good life if I only had a chance.
Long story short, God blessed me not only with life but allowed to let me remain whole. After that mountain mover of a prayer, the paralysis was gone and I was able to stumble to my feet. But today, I’m whole with only a small slightly visible scar under my left ear even though the bullet remains lodged in my neck as a testimony. A testimony to the power of the God we serve. I understand totally that only God and Jesus have the power of life and death in their hands. That night I received the best birthday present ever. That night I lost my fear but gained my life back with access to the kingdom of heaven.
I Couldn’t Sit. These Stories must Be Told
(mine and His)
How can I sit down, and not give God his due glory? Now perhaps you can see why I went to those churches and still do, so I can tell this testimony. This testimony is for the purpose of glorifying God and for encouraging others to keep faith in God even above our fear.
Not only is my life a living testimony but I am now a messenger. I’m alive to tell you about God’s prophecy in Revelation. God has a purpose for my life and I’m on a mission. I know God spared my life so I could tell you about the tribulation happening before the rapture. So you can tell someone else and they can tell someone else and his message of faith and eternal life would become strong among his global congregation.
Because of God’s mercy, his grace and the purpose of telling His message only am I alive today. Since I’m alive I must speak about God’s prophecy and the stand that must one day take place for the name of his son Jesus Christ. I’ve moved pass the place of ‘wondering if God would’ to ‘knowing that indeed he will.’ Sure I’m going to die one day just as all living things will die, but not until God is ready for me to come home. And at that time I hope that my work(s) will be effective in bringing GLORY to the God of heaven and to his only begotten son Jesus and to the kingdom of heaven where I hope to reside.
The Fear Of Ignorance Or The Faith Of Knowledge,
Where Are YOU AT?
Fear comes from not knowing. The less you study the more subject you are to be moved by deception as the winds of uncertainty increase as we all move closer to our destiny with the future. I hope you make the decision to increase your spiritual knowledge so you too can bring Glory to God and overcome your fear.
Since faith comes from knowing, I’m here to give you as much spiritual knowledge as I have been blessed to discover. I have no reason to hold any of it back from you because we are all in this together. We must be spiritually strong together.
