Restoration Faith Centre

I am come that they might have life, and that they might

have it more abundantly. John 10:10 KVJ

 

Michael

 

Jesus is real. The proof I have is in the life I now have which is an impossible walk without the reality of Jesus’ love, power, work and strength operating in me now.

 The last place I wanted to be was church and Jesus did not factor into my life plan. But I was there with a friend who had recently been born -again and she thought I would benefit. So, reluctantly and stoned, I went. I was 23 years old when I received salvation. The power of God flooded that little church and I burst out howling with tears, unable to run out of that building. It was strange because everybody else was happy, clapping and singing. I got saved that day by repenting of my sin and asking Jesus into my heart.

 Saved from what? Up until that day I’d been a hopeless young man with a short life expectancy, with the way I was living. My drug of choice was more and it didn’t matter what – pills, sniff, smoke, liquid, eatable – so long as I was altered. I lived for sex and went out of my way to satisfy my appetite for it. Violence was a force at work inside of me. I bounced at a club and given the ‘right’ circumstances I could have, though thank God I didn’t, seriously injure or kill.

 To me, this was normal. I lived for drugs, sex and thrill. There were good things about me, but they were choked by the bad things I was bound by. I hurt a lot of people, physically, mentally and emotionally, but mainly myself.

I have been to drug rehab centres, physiologists, psychiatrists, doctors, witch doctors and even had brushes with the law. None of which could change me nor offer a hint of the help I needed.

It is difficult to put on paper what I was and who I am now. It is simply a taste of the testament I have now. Jesus did save me. He healed me of the sickness I had. He erased the addictions – with no withdrawal symptoms. And the hate that drove me He turned to love with which I write this.

 Jesus loves you. And if He went out of His way to rescue me from myself, as filthy as I was, He will most certainly do the same for you. I never knew love or freedom until I met Jesus.