Hello! I have been wanting to do this for a while now. Tell my testimony. I really didn’t know how to start it or how to say it so I’ll give you some background information about me first.
I was born in Downey, California. that is a suburb of Los Angeles, California, on January 4, 1962. I got married in November of 1985 to a woman at the time I thought she was my soul mate. Twenty- two years later and five children we couldn’t stand each other. I came home from work to a restraining order with the clothes on my back and forty dollars in my pocket and ten days to payday. I borrowed money from every one I knew.
I would sleep in my car two nights and rent a room on the third night, shower and get some sleep. I did this for about three months, I was about two months into this and I was a heavy drinker/drunkard at the time.
I had been drinking whisky for two days and I woke up on a Saturday morning with a terrible hangover and not knowing even where I was. l got up and started looking around I was in a mall parking lot and I needed water and some Aspirin and I could look though the glass doors of the mall and a store on the inside I could see a stand-up cooler with bottles of water.
Now I was in bad shape I had a two day hangover and I was torn down for my head to the ground! But I headed in there anyways.
I wanted water!
I walked in and grabbed a bottle of water and there was a lady standing behind the counter and I looked at her and said,
“I need Tylenol. Where is it!”
She said with a stern voice,
“We don’t sell that here!”
And I said to her so just what do you sale lady!
And she said,
“BIBLE’S! WE SELL BIBLE’S!”
I looked around and I was standing in a Bible store. I couldn’t believe it. I must have had a stunned look on my face, because with a low voice she said I know what you need.
I said now just what is that lady? she said follow me she went down two isles and reached up and handed me a soul winner’s New Testament pocket Bible and said five dollars for the Bible and water I said okay lady.
I had just bought my first Bible. I left there went to a gas station bought me another bottle of water and some Aspirin, pulled out of the gas station made a right turn and about a half a block down seen a sign park turn right two blocks down so that’s where I went.
I started reading my Bible. Now I don’t know just how long I had been there but it was a while maybe a hour and a half or two hours. And I was reading and I started crying a little bit. And I was still reading and the more I read, the harder I cried until I couldn’t read any more. And I was crying like a five year old kid. I hadn’t cried like that in years.
After I had stopped crying, I felt like someone had lifted a boulder of burden off my shoulders and I felt like a million bucks! I was like I want more of this I can’t get enough! I was hooked on Jesus and started my walk of change! No, I didn’t change overnight. I’m still changing, and no, I don’t cry every time I read my Bible either but every so often it happens. And the only way I can explain it is it’s like the Holy Spirit comes into me and is mending my fences making me stronger where I’m weak.
Praise be the Lord. He is truly the present help in the time of trouble. May the name of the Lord be glorified forever.
Keep being under the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Shalom