Jesus christ changed my life!

bywadejackson

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Updated 10 years ago

I was never one of those kids who went to church growing up but I had younger cousins who went.Their mom took me three or four times but I never paid attention to what was going on a matter of fact I never knew I needed a GOD or a SAVIOR.I knew there was a GOD I just never knew,How loving and full of GRACE and MERCY HE Is.I heard people say GOD is good all the time and say JOHN 3:16"For GOD sent His only SON that whosoever BELIEVES In HIM shall not parish but have EVERLASTING LIFE,But what did all this mean?I stayed in and out of trouble since the age of 12 for stealing and being a class clown always looking for acceptance.when I was 17 after getting out of boy school.I caught a gun case got out a year later then caught a case for violation of probation for being around somebody with weed(really we was selling it they weren't that dumb to believe my lie but I thought is would work.) I got out from that case and caught my last case that would change my life forever.Three weeks after being out and already missing the first nine months of my child's birth.I had given up on trying to do the right things,I had a week left to stay at my moms house(she had given me 4 weeks to find a job or I had to move out.)and my wife(who was just the mother of my kid at the time) was listening to her sisters and mother telling her at that time.

"Don't let him come take his kid he doesn't deserve to,he hasn't been here to support his son.So do to lack of money and circumstances.I did what anybody would do which was went back to the ONLY WAY I knew how to survive.So that was getting a front on some crack/cocaine.(I realize now I actually went into panic mode.) We are so afraid of the unknown,we like to be comfortable and HAVE CONTROL OF EVERYTHING AT ALL TIMES.

But it doesn't work like that if it did it wouldn't be life and we wouldn't need GOD or EACH OTHER.(hope you got that!) To make a long story short skipping a bunch of details.I ended up getting stopped and RANDOMLY getting searched for looking like a suspect who stole a bike from the vp but I was WALKING! I was facing a Class B Felony possession of cocaine plus my probation violation so altogether I was facing 22 years.(talk about a sick duck.)well anyway GOD was one of the last things I wanted to hear about,I was facing time as old as I was.

Another inmate knocked on my cell door and told me he did bible studies in his room and that I was welcomed to come if I liked.then he left he could tell I wasn't in a pretty good mood(I would see in the past young guys would get big time and go into depression,then a few weeks later get angry.I thought sure enough that was going to happen to me.but as they locked down the cells for count time,out of know where I dropped to my knees and said"I'm done this is to much for me I give LORD I give you everything,I've done tried everything else.Whether I go to prison or get released I will serve you,I just keep screwing up.(that talking to GOD showed me call on JESUS in that time oh help and he will answer you.)Because after that the next day I started getting into the BIBLE(I couldn't understand a lot of it but I tried)I accepted JESUS CHRIST in my heart as LORD and SAVIOR and ADMITTED I was a SINNER and NEED HIM to CHANGE MY LIFE(we think we can do it on our own but CHRIST does a way better job at it.Then I started feeling better a few more days and started going to that bible study and getting help from them and understanding the Bible more then I started feeling the HOLY SPIRIT when we prayed MAN! I never thought this stuff was real I believed it so I thought But I had never tried it myself.(James 4:7&8 say"Resist the devil and he will flee from you," v.8"Draw near to GOD and HE will draw near to you")

I had finally went for my sentencing and they found me guilty,I WAS CRUSHED! but then something strange happen the prosecutor was writing on a piece of paper and slide it over to me.IT was a miracle he wanted to drop my B down to a D and give me 2 years do one 1 year locked up and give me 3 years probation.I thought that was SWEET!but my public defender(we call them public pretenders because there not paid so they don't fight to hard lol) Said"Hold on let me look at this" So I returned to my cell thanking GOD and giving HIM HIS praise that HE always DESERVES,But as I was doing that something really strange happen I heard a whisper tell me DON'T SIGN THE PLEA" and I said what naw I must be hearing things or going crazy.then I heard "don't sign the plea,don't sign the plea,psalms56:11" so I opened to it.I'm gonna challenge YOU TO GO LOOK AND SEE WHAT IT SAYS THEN LIKE AND LEAVE A COMMENT AND I WILL LET YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPEN YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT.take care and BE BLESSED