Before I became a disciple I never knew what it was to have love from a father. Not having this love growing up made me have the eagerness to find love through relationships with woman that weren’t disciples and so making the relationships impure through having sex before marriage, unfaithful, jealous, and difficult. One of my ex-girlfriends cheated on me with one of my own cousins. Another of my ex-girlfriends, after being with her for 7 months she just decided not to be with me for a reason until this day I don’t know. And just another of my ex-girlfriends who I really loved, after being and living with her for 3 years, there was unfaithfulness in my part by just talking to her (girl) friends behind her back. After she found out about this situation it caused her to be unfaithful with me to the point where she got pregnant with another guy. This really broke my heart.
Yet now, after this I’m still in the hunt of trying to find true love and happiness through marijuana, and abusing alcohol to the point of getting drunk many times. Marijuana destroyed my career in being a professional soccer player, took me out of high school, took me through many car accidents where I could have been dead, took me through a sickness called pericarditis disease where I was on my death bed because the doctors could not find cure to it.
I grew up in a Christian household. However, I did not believe God existed because I needed evidence that He was real. I decided to pray to God to heal me of this disease because I didn’t want to die, then if He was to heal me I would have changed my life and have a relationship with Him. After I said that prayer, gradually in a week the doctors after checking me did not know how I was healed and they dismissed me out of being in turned in the hospital! I did not change my life after this covenant I made with God. However, I went through many depressing times in my life where I didn’t have a job, no school, no money, no purpose for living; and I decided to commit suicide and take my life away from earth. But for some reason I did not, after calming myself down.
Now, I traveled to Santa Barbara, California and met some awesome friends of mines that are now part of my church, and we studied the Bible and I came to a knowledge of Gods love, joy, and peace; that is far greater than anything that I ever tried or had in this world. I came to find out that Satan is very deceitful through offering me sex before marriage, alcohol, and marijuana that really was Satan’s purpose to kill me and for me to suffer for eternity in hell because of those sins. I have now made Jesus my best friend who will never break my heart. I have purpose now in Gods Kingdom as a campus minister and as a house church leader, I’m now studying the Bible with others who needs Gods love, and having an awesome family in Gods Kingdom that really satisfies and brings me joy!
I also was a part of a Pentecostal church where I thought I was saved through praying the “sinners prayer” but in reality it is just a passed down tradition of how someone is saved from going to hell. One thing I love about my church is that we really take the Bible seriously, taking every scripture in context, and we don’t follow traditions made up in the interpretations of men. I was saved on July 27, 2014 through having faith in the Gospel message of Jesus Christ, repenting of my sins, and being baptized for the forgiveness of my sins! Now I can say that I am a disciple of Jesus, and it’s awesome!
To God be the glory!
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