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My Personal Testimony
(1/1/2005)
To all of you, saved and searchers, who are reading my testimony, I want only for you to know that God Loves you and wants you to Love him above all things.
For my brothers and sisters in Christ, I love you and I pray that this page encourages you. I hope that it will also serve as reassurance that God is in all things. Finally, I pray that this page will spur you to continue with your mission of spreading the Good News, reaching out to the lost and making disciples of all nations.
For you who have not yet accepted Jesus Christ as Lord I am sure that this is not the first time the Holy Spirit has reached out to you. I pray that this time you will welcome it and call on Jesus with all of your heart. If you make that choice, I want to be the first to say welcome to God's awesome kingdom. Let me tell you this, your life is definitely going to change and I promise you, you wont regret one minute of it. Jesus loves you and so do I.
My Humble Apologies
My past is saturated with so much that has hurt God and many people. I've lied, I've cheated, and I've been overwhelmingly selfish, prideful, arrogant and unloving. The people that are closest to me, my wife & my children have been the ones to suffer most for my sin. My business partner's and past employees, former customer's & co-workers, friends, other family members have also been affected.
To my beautiful wife you never deserved any of the hurt. I love you. I am so sorry for being a disappointment as a husband. I am sorry for all the wasted years and all the hurt I've caused you. I humbly ask your forgiveness. To my wonderful children, so innocent, loving, incorrigible & eager to grow…I am sorry for exasperating you and setting such a poor example of a father. I love you and I pray that you'll be blessed with God's love and protection from my shameful past. I humbly ask your forgiveness.
To my former partners, family, friends, past customers, previous co-workers, past employees & acquaintances; to some of you I have spoken and apologized and some not. If you are reading this and I have not spoken to you personally, I apologize for anything ungodly or unloving that I have done and any hurt that I have caused you. I humbly ask your forgiveness.
A New Man
My life has changed dramatically since receiving the good news, repenting and accepting Christ as Lord. Although I recognize I will never be perfect and like you, remain a work in progress, I am truly a new man and am Grateful to God for the changes he's made in me.
Col. 3:5-15 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.
You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander and filthy language from your lips.
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another.
Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
It's only by the grace of God that His Word is now in me and His Holy Spirit now guides me. Only now am I able to see many truths about life that I never saw, even after many years of schooling, professional training and mentoring.
I recognize that I don't deserve any of God's blessings and it's only because of The Good News I receive them. Since accepting Jesus as my Lord & Savior, repenting of my sin and being baptized into the name of the Father…The Son… and The Holy Spirit I have been forgiven and showered with more blessings than I could have ever imagined. - "God Is Good"
God has since blessed me with the knowledge of how to love my wife & my children, which I failed miserably at prior to accepting Jesus.
Ep. 5:25-30 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church — for we are members of his body.
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
Ep. 6:4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
God has since blessed me with, true loving friendships and what is now a thriving business where all people are loved and many needs are met through the resources that God has blessed me with.
Mk. 12:30-31 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.
My Calling
God has asked me to share with you the "Good News" since I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right. So, through this faith page and even a personal bible study if you would like, I will share with you the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.
You should know what has happened throughout time, after God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
I will introduce you to true witnesses of everything Jesus did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. You will see how they killed him by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. All the people did not see him, but there were true witnesses whom God had already chosen, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
Jesus commanded them to preach to the people and to testify that He is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead.
All Christians testify about Him "that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”
I pray that while reading these words and receiving the message that God has put on my heart to share with you, you'll believe, receive the Holy Spirit and accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of your life… Just as I have in early May 2002.
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