Denny606
Feb 19th 2009, 04:58 AM
Man this could take a while,so I'll just start,As a young boy of of three to five years old ,I had a drug problem not the kind you think my problem was every chance my Mother Got she drug me to church with her,and then came my younger brother and he had the same trials I did,But there came a time when I got old enough that I did not want to go and my mother said ok stay home with your dad and sisters ,They had this same thought a few years earlier.Before you condemn mom for not making us go remember she made sure we were there for the seed to be planted.Well I had made up my mind i wasn't going to be tied to that every weekend of my life,I made it through school without a lot of trouble and there it was the big world,I got a good paying job right out of school,had new cars ,Bikes and all the temporal stuff that sinners seem to think mean so much,I was married at 20 had a son after my twenty first birthday and to be honest I was just a big dumb kid myself,looking back I was selfish, foolish pridefuland any other thing you could think to be I was,I started drinking more,doing drugsand everything I could think of to wreck my lifean my marriage to what was a wonderful mother and wife(this is where hind sight comes in)I had a daughter in 86 who probably loves me more than any other human does now.Almost 15 years ago my marriage ended and I consider that one of the great failures in my life.But I struggled onward and managed to be as good a father tomy children as I knew how.My ex was not vindictive and thought I should have a say in how my children were raised,During this time I quit drinking and drugs worked har and tryed to be a good Dad,I also lost my father shortly after the divorce ,suddenly and i thought that just when we had gotten to the point that he had shown me what it was to be a man and he saw I had learned the lesson,he was goneI fumbled around her afew more years with God watching over me with his all seeing eye and carrying me through danger iboth saw and didn't see.Then IT Happened. One Sunday Morning I was awoken out of a sound sleep by a calm Voice telling me to get up and get ready ,it is time I did not call any body I just got up and took a showe rput on some decent clothes and took off down the road.By this time I was tore up like a train wreckand didn't know where to go ,I passed three churches on the road I lived on and drove another 4 miles to another church before iIcould get the courage to stop and go in.I lstened to the word being preached and they gave an altar call,but I just sat there and let satan cheat me,That day. I then started home very sad in my heart because I hadn't been saved that day.but I stopped at mom's house,you remember ,the woman who drug me to church as a child,and she asked me where in the world I had been, all cleaned up I think is how she put it.I told her I had been to church.Which was quite a surprise in it self,but she didn't ask why.After that evey week shee would tellme that Brother soan so will be over here this weekend and soo and so would be there you remember them don't you and I usually did and she never tried to tell me which way to go but gave me info so I could decide.Then about three mos. later (my fault not the Lords)a Preacher lokked me dead in the eyes as he was preaching and said I don't know what you need to hear,never caught a hard breath and went back to preaching the word.All week long that bothered mean then as plain as day I heard you have already heard it and irealized the gospel had been preached to me and it was up to me to believe.The following Sunday at one of the churches I had been drug to as a child I was forgiven and I raised my Hand and praised His Name and was born again and I haven't looked back.I love to tell of my experienceof coming to Christ and I love to hear others as well.An you can say what you want about the things I heard they were for me and I heard them in my heart.:saint:
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