For many years I lived my life doing things my way. In other words, "No one is going to tell me what to do". I believe we've all said this at one point in our lives. The problem is that this is an attitude of "Rebellion". Even though I received the Lord Jesus Christ as my savior when I was 9-1/2 years old, I continued to make my own decisions outside of God's will for my life. This brought me and my family much pain and hardship.
Living in this rebellion eventually led me to addiction to drugs and alcohol, destroying my health and my life. I almost died several times and am only now able to share this with you because of God's love and mercy. Finally I reached the point where I realized that the only way out was to cry out to God and ask him to help me because I couldn't stop. That day, locked away in a hotel room after a 2 week binge, God sent my father and my brother to rescue me. They took me to rehabilitation program where I finally surrendered to God's will for the first time in my life.
From that day forward, God put the right people in my life that led me to a new way of life where I learned that my victory and my strength comes only from my relationship with God through Jesus whom also learned obedience through what he suffered. If you are ready to surrender today, only then can you turn away from your old life and begin a new one.
It has been 28 years since I left that place and I can't even begin to tell you of all the things that God has changed in my heart and in my life. He has healed and continues to heal all my hurts which led me to bury the pain in drugs and alcohol. Today I would like to give by grace what by grace I have received. This may sound like a contradiction but it's not.
Captivity ends when you surrender!
Revelation 12:11
11 And they have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb
and by their testimony.
And they did not love their lives so much
that they were afraid to die.
Living in this rebellion eventually led me to addiction to drugs and alcohol, destroying my health and my life. I almost died several times and am only now able to share this with you because of God's love and mercy. Finally I reached the point where I realized that the only way out was to cry out to God and ask him to help me because I couldn't stop. That day, locked away in a hotel room after a 2 week binge, God sent my father and my brother to rescue me. They took me to rehabilitation program where I finally surrendered to God's will for the first time in my life.
From that day forward, God put the right people in my life that led me to a new way of life where I learned that my victory and my strength comes only from my relationship with God through Jesus whom also learned obedience through what he suffered. If you are ready to surrender today, only then can you turn away from your old life and begin a new one.
It has been 28 years since I left that place and I can't even begin to tell you of all the things that God has changed in my heart and in my life. He has healed and continues to heal all my hurts which led me to bury the pain in drugs and alcohol. Today I would like to give by grace what by grace I have received. This may sound like a contradiction but it's not.
Captivity ends when you surrender!
Revelation 12:11
11 And they have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb
and by their testimony.
And they did not love their lives so much
that they were afraid to die.