Who Brought You To Jesus?

[trialedbyfire]

I was 16. On my way to being expelled from my High School, and considering dropping out. My mother was a backslidden single mother from baltimore, I basically spent my young life running the streets, fighting (which is how I was on my way to getting kicked out of high school), smoking, drinking. Started drinking at age 12 and smoking at age 14. I'd lost an older brother (my only role model and who was a drug dealer) the year before. Two Oneness Ministers that ran the youth group of a trinitarian Full Gospel church in my area had been witnessing to me and invited me to a revival at their trinitarian church. The revival was being run by another Apostolic minister from an Apostolic church that that trinitarian church had begun fellowshipping with (I know weird). Anyway long story short I got the Holy Ghost at that revival and ended up going and getting baptized soon after and joining an Apostolic church.

[Austin]

The word of God preached by a man who really believed it. It was the real story of how Jesus suffered the things he suffered, the just for the unjust, it broke my heart and it broke my will to know that someone as great as He would do something like that for someone as worthless as I was.
As a person who thought I was a tuff guy in those days and that I measured up to being man and earned peoples respect through fear. All of a sudden I felt shame in the presents of Almighty God in a way that I had never felt before.
He lifted the burden of sin and I felt the touch of his spirit in me, and for the first time in my entire life I had the greatest feeling of peace and joy that I could ever had in anything that I had ever done.
Then a fire began to kindle within my soul and mind one that has never gone out and one that has never left, through hard times, bad times, good times, times of victory, and times of defeat, times of faith and times of doubt.
Yes! I can confess, Through it all!!