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Praise the Lord:
This is my testimony about how one day I was out there on
crack and drinking. I thought I was never going to stop. I
was tired of drinking and smoking crack so I decided to go
to the church. The church name was True Redemption Center
where Bishop Alton Davis Jr. is the pastor. I remember him
giving me scriptures to read and he prayed for me and he said
that God was going to take those things out my life and give
me the desires of my heart and I believed that.
The next Sunday I went back to the same church. There was
another preacher there. He called us up for prayer and he
prayed for me. He asked me what was my desire and I told him
my desire was to be delivered from drugs and alcohol. He turned
around and told Bishop Davis to take me and get me some power.
That same day they were baptizing at the home church and Bishop
Davis came up to me and said ‘We are taking you to the
water’ and I got baptized but I did not receive the
Holy Ghost on that day. After that day I went home and later
on that night I found myself drinking a beer. After awhile
I fell asleep on the couch with the beer by my side. The next
morning I awoke and jumped up looking at the beer can on the
floor by my side and said ‘Oh God, I thought you were
going to deliver me from these things and give me the desires
of my heart’. Then I spoke unto the Lord and said I
am going back to church and ask for your deliverance again
and if I do not get delivered this time I am going into a
drug rehab. So the following week I went to church and I took
a seat all the way in the back. How could I have known that
God would have come into my life and change my life around.
Bishop Davis was preaching that day and he looked directly
in my eyes and he said ‘Brother LeFlore today is your
day’ and he called me up to the front. He started to
pray for me and when he laid hands on me the power of the
Lord through him put me on the floor. As I was going back
I started to speak in tongues and he said that it wasn’t
enough and to pick me back up and he laid hands on me again
and the power of the Lord put me back on the floor again a
second time. Bishop Davis said the second time was not enough
and the power of the Lord put me back on the floor once again.
Each time I went back speaking in tongues. As I was getting
up from the floor for the third time I felt like I was drunk
but I wasn’t drunk off alcohol, I was high off the Holy
Ghost. How should I have known that this was the day that
God would come into my life and deliver me? God kept his promise
by giving me the desires of my heart and I have been delivered
from drugs and alcohol. It has now been 5 years and I’ve
been delivered every since and has never looked back. The
Lord Jesus Christ has been a blessing to me. In my life he
has given me a wife, a business, a job, and a brand new home
built from the ground. These are things that God gives to
you when you are FAT (faithful, available, and teachable).
Thank you for reading my testimony. May God Bless and have
a Bless day.
Thank You,
Preston LeFlore
Praise the Lord:
My marriage was falling apart. After being married for over
20 years I was emotionally "fed up" My husband and
I were pulling in two seperate ways I wanted a family he wanted
the outside world. We had everything but each other. My oldest
son attended True Redemption Center, the rest of us did'nt
attend church. God led my son to lead his family into the
right path. Since then we all have joined True Redemption
Center and God saved my marriage. We are now on one accord
and things could'nt be better! I thank God for not only saving
my marriage but also my family and my life. Thank you Jesus!
and God Bless.
-Sis. Angela Crawford-
Praise the Lord:
I give God all the honor and praise for saving me and changing
my life. God has delivered me from a life of destruction.
I am a 30 year old mother raising a little girl and I do not
want her to go through the things I went through. I was a
women who had no self respect and didn't know my value. I
used to sleep around with different men and felt that I had
to be in a relationship no matter how bad things were. I was
involved with guys who used drugs, drank alcohol, sold drugs
and even guys who were in gangs. I even found myself using
drugs, drinking alcohol, keeping drugs for them, and driving
people around who were moving drugs. There was even a time
when people from one gang thought I was involved with someone
getting killed and they were talking about killing me. And
when things didn't work out with these guys I would always
wonder what is wrong with me. No matter what kind of guys
they were or what they were into, I followed them. I thank
God that he delivered me fro! m a lack of self respect and
self worth, and now I follow Jesus. God revealed to me were
the root of this self destructive behavior came from and how
it has affected every relationship I had ever been in. I thank
God that my daughter lives in a house that displays holiness
and God's way of doing things. I thank God for showing me
that I'm the (Deuteronamy 28:13) head and not the tail. Above
and not beneath. A pecular people (Deuteronamy 14:2). (Matthew
5:14) That I am the light of the world. A city that is set
on an hill cannot be hid, that I am more than a conqueror.
Glory to God. I thank God that he has put a man into my life,
who loves him, and we are in a godly relationship. I give
God all the glory, honor, and praise for saving me and changing
my life. Continue to pray for me as I pray for you.
-Cherie Woodson-
Praise the Lord:
Testimony:
Lamentation 3:40 says,"Let us search and try our ways
and turn again to the Lord."(KJV)
This scripture is the heart of my testiomony, however I really
enjoy the (NIV) study bible intrepretation which says, "Let
us examine our ways and test them and return to the Lord."
My name is Sylvester Hines III. I am a minister of the Gospel
of Christ. I'm not proud of some of the issues I will share
in this testimony, but by no means am I ashamed becaus God
has truly brought me out in total victory.
I began preaching about 5 years ago. I was one that had been
brought up in the church and strayed away. I got involved
in alcohol, drugs, and dangerous living which led to alcoholism,
jail and being shot. After traveling down this downward spiral
long enough I began to hear God's call to repentance. I accepted
this call and began to move forward. After about 2 years I
accepted the call into ministry. I got married and we have
three wonderful kids. I wish I could insert and we lived happily
ever after at this point, but I can't.
I didn't realize marriage was so much work. Problems began
to come and a lot of it was my fault. I became angry, frustrated,
tired, disappointed and before long so far from God that I
didn't hear him any longer.
I thought I'd blow off some steam with a beer. That steam
led to alcoholism all over again. Then it turned to depression
which was accompanied by more drinking. This brought about
deeper depression. This brought on the loss of the job that
supported my family. I was so blinded and bound by the enemy
that I actually got comfortable in my sins. Then the devil
began to grind me. I got a job, but was kicked out of my home.
I could no longer see my kids when I wanted. I was back staying
at my mother's house. I had a beautiful home a few miles away,
but I had opened the door to Satan and allowed him to come
in and wreck havoc on my home, family, and marriage. My physical,
mental, and spritual life was decreasing as well. Another
word for this was ROCK BOTTOM!
It was defintely time for help. I began to talk to my wife
and we decided to try counseling before we just called it
quits. In the beginning of our search we could not agree on
where to go, and then I remember she told me a friend of hers
and her husband went to their Bishop for counseling awhile
ago. It was only God that brought that to my attention and
we agreed to see him. Bishop Davis said he would counsel us
for free, but wanted us to come out to bible study because
they were havind a class on marriage that week. Once again
a mighty move of God. We went and I remember him walking in
and thinking to myself, "What can this young cat teach
me that I don't already know." Then he opened his mouth
and immediately started to teach and I heard the very power
of God. He had my attention! The class was great! The saints
were so loving and not that fake love, but I actually felt
true love. I seen something in these folks that I didn't have
and I wanted it.
On our first counseling session I was surprise to see his
wife right there. He informed us that he never counsels marriageas
with out her. That was awesome. We talked about marriage,
our problems and God's solution to it all. He rebuked me corrected
me and instructed me with sound doctrine. Instead of getting
offended, I felt the love that was behind his chastening.
You see in the midst of my sin I had begun to see how "understanding"
the world really was. I know many may disagree with that statement
so let me make it clear. The world, family, and friends heard
my complaints, problems, and struggles and understood why
I drank. They understood why I wanted to smoke. They understood
why I talked to a lady outside of marriage. They understood
why I didn't want to go back home. They understood why I had
put my ministry on hold. Yet, in the midst of all that junk
I was now hearing the voice of one crying in the wilderness
and that cry was for truth. Bishop Davis didn't under! stand
why I drank and corrected me with truth. He couldn't understand
how I can smoke and say I love God. He can't understand a
man of God stepping out on his wife. He did not understand
me divorcing my wife because she got on my nerves. Matter
of fact the only thing that he did understand is the hold
on my ministry. You see I was still preaching and teaching
in all of this mess. I was corrupt preacher confessing the
word of God, but not living it. Bishop told me if you come
into this ministry you would be sat down. He was rebuking
me like no one else would do and instead of getting mad I
began to love them more. He gave me the word of God which
squashed other and mine own understanding. In him I saw the
scripture come to life, "Be not conformed to this world
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind."
And then my life mad a step out of hell. I've been in the
True Redemption ministry for nine months now and I am overwhelmed
to report to you. That I have been set fr! ee from alcohol.
No longer am I livin an adulterous lifefstyle. I have my family
back and my children are praising God like never before. I
have joy in spite of what I go through. I have a peace that
surpassed all understanding. No drugs in this temple! I have
learned how to live Holy. I have learned how to live right.
I was a Baptist preacher that taught speaking in tongues is
not for everybody. Now I am spirit filled and speaking in
tongues and telling other I was wrong and this gift is for
every believer. In this ministry I have discovered true love,
true redemption, true deliverance, true examples, true people
of God, true holiness, and last but not least true victory.
To God be the Glory for sending me to the True Rededmption
Center.
-Sylvester Hines III-
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