All of us has been through something in life that was bad. Some people have been through horrible situations, but now I know that God has always been there to help us. Some of us just didn’t know it.

Growing up from child age to my teenage years was hard for me. I felt like I didn’t belong here on this world. But if I had just trusted Jesus and put my faith in Him, He would have made it better for me to bear those years. In my twenties, I just went astray and I got lost in the world. I ran to sex to comfort me from my anger and pain, but it just made my anger and the pain I had inside worse and I became bitter. That’s what Satan wanted – for me to just give up on myself. I knew Jesus, but I didn’t have a personal relationship with Him then. I didn’t run to Him for help and forgiveness, but I ran to the world in a pit of destruction. I am a sinner, but I know God loves me and He chose me and called me to do a great work for Him.

I am a walking miracle of God’s mercy. I was diagnosed with HIV in 2001 with Pneumocystis Pneumonia and I almost died in the hospital. But God, He sent a angel to me. I believe she was an angel and she told me everything was going to be okay. But yet I was still living for myself and living in sin on my way to death. I believe God was tired of me playing around and He wanted me to come back to Him. I had a vision that woke me up and this is the vision I had: I saw the coming of the clouds and the way we will all be going up in the clouds and it was so breathtaking and beautiful. The Lord is coming SOON to take the saints and His church home with Him to His glorious kingdom in heaven, and that is the vision that got me together to be at peace with God (JOB 33:28,30). God’s mercy and His love for all of us is that He wants us to come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ His Son and be saved. God saved me and pulled me out of the pit (ISAIAH 38:17) and He healed me from HIV in 2010 (PSALM 107:20), after I came back home to Him and obeyed God (2 CHRONICLES 7:14), Amen.

My Father has given me a strong faith and my faith is in the Son of God, Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, and through my obedience to Jesus, God has made me well. He wants to make us all well. The Lord is a Healer and He loves us all. God is good! I want to bring God’s word to all and to strengthen and encourage them by building up their faith, hope and their trust in God. We can do nothing without Jesus. We all can trust God because His word is true and everything He does it right.

I hope in God, I belong to God. He chose me and formed me and He predestined me for His glory to do a great work. I live my life fully for Jesus being led by the Holy Spirit. I left myself and I have took up my cross. I’m a child of the Most High God, the living Father. I am married to Christ, and Jesus is my Lord and Savior. “I pray this word encourages many people.” God Loves You and May He Bless You, Amen.

Even though I am not worthy of God’s mercy and His grace, He has forgiven me and washed me clean by abundantly giving me His Glorious Spirit to live in me and guide me. He loves me and I love Him. Jesus is my Lord and Savior, and I thank God that He lives inside of me and that He gave Himself for me. He shed His blood for me for the remission of sins.

God has given me many spiritual gifts. I have a very strong passion for giving and helping the hungry and the homeless. I want to help all people who have no place to go, and help them find their way as Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Being a blessing to the homeless, the hurting, and the suffering is a passion and a gift of mine that God has given me. I thank God that He finds me worthy of my walk with Him. Even though I still do wrong, God is faithful. He has called me and has chosen me for a great work and He is bringing it to pass by blessing me along with my mom to fulfill our ministry, “St. Barnabas Faith & Hope Recovery Center”.

God is good, He is a faithful and trustworthy Father, and He is worthy to be praised. May all be blessed who reads this, God bless everyone.

-Joey W. from Tennessee