Well, I have had a great break since last, last semester in College.. I graduated with my associates degree in Philosophy and I wanted to take a semester off and really seek the LORD and do His Will. So, I sought God with tears and fasting and asking Him to use me. I said, I would go any where and do any thing, if HE would just use me. I said, Please! And I heard a voice it said, Go north - I said, Where? it said, South Dakota. Well, I heard it.. and immediately I began to wonder.. What will I eat? What will I drink? What will I wear!? Because, I had just been working part time as a delivery driver for Pita Pit in Norman and going full time to school, I had very little to no money... I had about 300$. So... I didnt go right away. I wasnt ready to go homeless and I wasnt sure God was the one who spoke to me as I began to doubt I remember saying.. it was just my stomache growling.. lol, I had disbelief and so I didnt go at that moment. As time went on, a few weeks past and some things went down in my Church where they accused me of being unwise, foolish, unlearned, and unloving.... and speaking without knowledge... they told me I was a horrible evangelist, and I was not a good person, I was a sinner.... and they told me I need to REPENT. Well, I was hurt... I was trying to see why they are saying these things, I went out to the lake and cried out to God asking Him to reveal to me if there be any wicked way in me... I cried and sought Him, and I really felt God opened my heart for me to look in and I saw, Heart PURITY. I saw no wicked motivation or intent in the way I do things... telling people they are going to Hell and they are not saved, because they are sinning... that is why the Church mostly said I was wrong because I was telling people in their association who confessed they sin everyday, that they were a sinner and need to repent and cant have assurance of their salvation except they repent. Well, because of this huge disagreement, mostly it being based on the fact.. they dont believe in Sinning No more, only in sinning less... They kicked me out of the Church, and by being kicked out of the Church I was also kicked out of the brothers house I was living with, because they attended there... so I was forced to leave with a few weeks notice. Then, Within those few weeks... I was preaching with Sebastian Bryan and we were preaching outside some bars and clubs and He was pushed and then violently assaulted by some guy who was a Bouncer in a strip club, who really didnt like us because he said we said He was going to Hell. Well, we might have.. I dont recall telling him that directly, but we did associate Him and His kind of people as being hell-bound.. So, Sebastian was rushed to the emergency room with his jaw broken and had to get facial reconstructive surgery to fix the broken jaw.. and then.. I thought.. well, Im about to be homeless... I dont got enough cash to buy my own apartment. Sebastian is going to stay at his grandmas for a month while he eats through a straw to recover, and I will be alone.. All my worries about, What will I eat? What will I drink? What will I wear? Well, they kind of came upon me in that time.... so I said, Well, Im exactly where I didnt want to be.... So I got over my fears of those things... and I took my car, at Sebastians advice to suggested I do it. I went... I Left for South Dakota. I was in Sioux Falls for awhile, but I wasnt being perfectly obedient to God. I was still letting fear and anxiety about preaching open in the streets cloud my mind and prevent me from doing it.. I never went out alone before, I always went with others. And, well... God was chastising me hard for those few weeks in Sioux Falls. Until, one day a guy who I believe had demon possession... and I dont say that often. Long story short, I believe He was delivered from the demon and afterwards he asked me for a ride to Rapid City. I asked God what I should do, and He said, I would as in, I would take him. So... I tried to talk the guy into letting me buy him a bus ticket, but I felt God telling me to take him... so I said, Ok.. I will ask Him if he would rather me take him or take the bus, and whatever He says, I will take that as Gods will. So I asked him and he said, Yea, I would like you to take me. So. I did. 5 hours later car drive later, I am in Rapid City and I dont even have enough money to drive back to Sioux Falls, so I lost my job I had there.. It was a nice job working on an assembly line, but oh well. As time went on here in Rapid City, God was still chasting me telling me to go out and times I didnt want to and I didnt go.. I did not feel good about myself.. I began believing that we are all sinners and cant stop sinning.. I mean.. it sounded good to me at that time, not being obedient to God. But, I knew that was a lie.... so I knew I had to either, REPENT or PERISH. Finally, I got over myself, died to myself, repented and went out to preach. PEACE! SWEET PEACE! And Joy in the HOLY GHOST! MAN, all that time rebelling against God like Jonah, not preaching... I felt bad! I didnt like myself, I didnt think God liked me, I didnt want to go back to my vomit of old life, but I didnt want to go forward with my cross neither... but once I did. PEACE THAT SURPASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING! Totally cleansed me and made me feel right with God. So, I have been preaching quite regularly now, and when I preach I feel so good about who I am and what I am doing, I feel like God is pleased with me and I am doing what He wants me to be doing. I didnt feel right with God until I began doing what I felt like He was telling me to do. Now, I have loved being in Rapid City, I have met two congregations of Churches who support me in my street preaching ministry, by prayer and encouragement. They dont see me as a sinner and bad evangelist. They see me as I believe God has made me a Son of God, Saint.I have even gone out with the Pastor from my congregation that took Him and a few of his members and they went with me as I preached hell fire and brimstone, repent or perish, turn or burn, God hates sin and He wants you to Repent, and if you wont repent you will die, but if you will turn and quit disobeying, Jesus will receive you and redeem you from all sin. The Pastor handed out tracts as I preached. I liked that.. so many people hate me, yet He didnt hate me and He did see my calling was one of God. Well, Time has been fast here ever since I got my life right and was obedient to the voice I heard of God. And now, I am feeling a call to move on. The winters are cold here, one blizzard already has come through and to keep preaching in the winter doesnt seem like I will get a lot of time, and definitely I wont get any one-on-ones in conversations, because no one wants to stop out in the cold. I will be preaching at cars driving by, but thats about the extent of it. God called me up here, but now I have been asked by my brother Dean Elijah Samuel, to come to Arizona and help preach the Word down there with him, for the season is ripe and plentiful. I feel God is with me in this action, I have been asking and seeking and I even made mention to my fellowship of friends and the Church, and my Pastor told me to heed the voice of God, and my friend told me he had a thought in bed last night of Pauls dream of the Macedonias crying for someone to come to them and he saw that for me is that the people are crying in Arizona for the Word of God. I like it here and I hope I will return, but I think Im going to be traveling to Arizona and see how I will make it there until March, maybe.. then I will see if I can come back to SD. Rapid City is a great place to preach in the summer, they have this Summer Nights activities in the downtown main square and there is packed with tons of people every Thursday night, and other days of the week they have other activities going around, but those Thursday Nights are a really great place to share the Gospel. So, I write this to say... I am carrying on and moving on, traveling to the next place I feel God is telling me to take His Word and to preach that men should REPENT and Believe in Jesus for forgiveness of sin and keep and do all things whatsoever Jesus Christ has commanded them. Making Disciples and baptizing them in His name, for all whosoever will be willing to heed the call and follow God in obedience. I hope to find some people there ready to heed the call of God for them to repent. I need prayers in this time. Once again, like last time.. I have little money and I will be trusting in Gods provision, as I have seen him do here in SD, I know God is able and so I have no worries, as well as Dean has offered me to come stay in his house until I find what I can do for work, ect. So then, Pray for me! That I see the working of the Holy Spirit bringing conviction in the hearts of men who do not know God. I pray they will be convicted of sin and seek the Lord for mercy and plead for forgiveness from the Only Begotten, Son of God. I just want to see people REPENT and Obey Jesus. Take care! Thanks for prayers.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:28:58 +0000
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