My testimony of how I received Jesus’ and His amazing grace.
I was born and raised in a Christian home with both of my parents. When I was around 5 years old my parents went through a divorce. This affected me as I was spending time separately with each of my parents. When I spent time with one of my parents that was still a Christian, we would read the Bible and recite verses we memorized. I also learned to play guitar, sing praise and worship songs, and was disciplined biblically. I was quiet, shy and didn't talk much in those early days of my life.

I ended up spending more time with one of my parents who left the faith and went back into the world and its ways. I was rejected in school, picked on and made fun of because I didn't dress or act like them. I also had bad acne at the time to make matters worse. My parents were not around much as they were working to provide. I was able to live worldly and I was drawn into the world and its ways. I went a few times to some churches but was never caught up in religion neither was I a worldly church goer growing up. I sought to be accepted and fit in with friends or who I thought were my friends.

I was caught up in hanging out with the wrong crowds, going to parties with them, acting worldly, and having a girlfriend at times. Being pressured by friends I tried some drinking and some drugs. I didn't like their effect on me and they didn't do anything for me that I liked.

At one of my jobs working on the third shift late at night I was unloading a semi truck too fast. Something bad happened to my lower back and it made things difficult for me at times. I moved out from living with one of my parents to live with my girlfriend. We had a child together and were married. I thought I was happy but there was still a void in me that wasn’t filled.

At another job my lower back was injured again. Later at another job my lower back started to bother me and my boss at my work, if I remember correctly, said maybe a chiropractor can help. He mentioned who his chiropractor was. I went to his chiropractor and received adjustments and it was slowly helping. The chiropractor would adjust your back, align your hips, legs, and adjust your neck. The chiropractor found one of my vertebrae in my neck was out of alignment, one of my hips was higher than the other (sacroiliac joint was out of alignment), and had scoliosis (my back had a slight curve in it). I was given a lift to put in my shoe to help with one of my hips being higher than the other and it seemed to help some for a while but then caused pain so I removed it.

After many visits my neck started to hurt. I had inflamed discs in my neck that caused severe nerve pain and muscle spasms. It felt like a major pinch and a burning sensation. I had difficulty breathing and taking deep breaths. My elbow and fingers seem numb at times, one or both of my shoulders hurt and I was losing the ability to use my arms. I felt under attack by the devil because of my habitual sinful lifestyle but didn't realize it at the time. I also believe the severe nerve pain on my neck and shoulders could have been caused by the adjustments on my neck that irritated the vertebrae in my neck and now made things worse.

I had x-rays done. Also I went to a Redi-care walk-in clinic. As I remember, I was offered pain medication and muscle relaxers. I lost use of one of my arms and barely could use the other arm. I was told to use just one arm and return to work. I couldn’t really even stand up and it was best I lay down. The pain was extreme and I was not able to perform well at work. The chiropractor tried to help me but couldn’t anymore. The chiropractor told me I needed to get insurance and get an MRI done and find out more about what's going on. My work offered to get me insurance but had to wait for it to process.

My condition worsened so I could not work anymore and asked for time off. I didn't feel like eating much so I was drinking sports drinks and water. This with taking the medication for pain, I laid in bed in severe pain, and I was experiencing fever symptoms at times. Sometimes with my eyes open I was seeing dark skeleton faces and having strange thoughts. I was hearing noises and voices, even gospel-like music, and had bad dreams during what little sleep I could get dozing off for a few seconds or minutes each day. It got to the point where I hadn't slept a full night in like 7 weeks. The pain was so terrible I could not sleep. This dragged out for about a couple months before it got really bad as explained.

I emailed my dad who was a Christian. I mentioned what I was going through. I was facing expensive medical bills and possibly surgery and could even end up even worse from that.
My dad emailed me back saying to do what he does when under attack. First ask God to reveal if you have given access to the devil to attack me. Sins such as occult involvement on television, movies, games, books or rock music playing in videos. Ask God to reveal any unconfessed sin in any area of your life so you can resist an attack effectively by asking forgiveness first. Then use Jesus' name to rebuke pain and tell it to leave your body. Then hold fast no matter how long it takes as sometimes the devil fights hard.

Months back, my dad said, he saw in a dream I was pulling someone on water skis like we did at lake Lansing and he fell in the water. I drove back to pick him up and I heard him crying for help and saw sharks were attacking him in the water. It's clear now it was you. The falling in the water pictures your fall into some type of sin in your life which leads next to Satan attacking with excruciating pain. We need to shut this sin out of your life and pain has to leave! First ask God for forgiveness for not putting Him absolutely first in your life ahead of family and career. He can't rescue you until He has your whole life! All your time and life now is His first, everyone else last.

Next, ask God for wisdom and recall if you have unconfessed sin. If so, confess them as OCCULT SIN and then COMMAND SATAN to release you from all OCCULT oppression as a result of these specific sins. Lastly, say boldly and loudly, I command in the name of Jesus every demon of paralysis, nerve pain, neck and shoulder pain to leave me now as the result of these sins. Keep telling him you belong to Jesus and get his pain off your body. My faith and bold command is joined with you according to Mathew 18:19 where two are agreed it shall be done.

I replied and said I read your email over and over. I said your prayer. I woke up this morning with a lot of the pain gone. I still have some but now it's almost 7pm and most is gone except for some in my arm and elbow. I told my wife, my boss and my wife’s step dad. I texted my boss and he thought it was a joke that I was healed by saying a prayer. He also said, "You really don’t believe that, do you?”. He still wanted me to get looked at.

After I said the prayer to God that my dad gave me to pray, by God’s grace I made a choice to repent and turn from my habitual sinful lifestyle and become a born again Christian. I cried in desperation and wanting change and be set free from this severe nerve pain. I then went to bed and slept the whole night. I woke up in the morning from a full night's sleep and I haven't been able to sleep all night for about seven weeks prior.

When I woke up I was about 99 percent nerve pain free and things became better and better. I felt God’s very strong presence when I woke up and it stayed with me. It felt like waves of liquid love and peace from God flowing through my body. I felt an amazing joy like nothing I ever felt before. I still can not express fully in words what it felt like. (I found out later that what I was feeling was that I had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit from God.) It was a strong anointing of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I praise and thank God so much for it as I really needed it.

I didn’t know anything about this before and God just sovereignly chose to give it to me. You can not find anything like this in this world or anywhere. It's only found in Jesus Christ. I also felt the weight of sin lifted off of me. I wanted to smile a lot and it seemed to not go away for a few weeks. I think my face muscles hurt from smiling too much and I just had the joy of the Lord. I was water baptized in a lake about a couple months after God rescued me. It was the same lake God gave my dad the dream about me falling into the water. Now it was an act of obedience going under the water to identify with Jesus' death and burial to a new life coming up from the water.

I now had a love for God's Word and found His mercy, grace, and forgiveness. I found myself wanting to learn more about Him. As I read the New Testament in the Bible I didn’t understand it much at first as it was new to me. As I kept reading it the Holy Spirit was opening up the word of God and was now making sense to me. I also was spending time with God alone in prayer in awe of Him as creator of all things. I believed He paid the penalty for my sin, shed His blood and died and rose from the dead three days later.

I know by God’s grace I now have a real deep intimate personal relationship with Jesus. The deep void and emptiness in my life was gone!
I desire to help guide people to Jesus to receive salvation, healing, deliverance, and freedom just like God has given me. By God’s grace I want people to experience what I have: His love, forgiveness, mercy and grace, deep intimate relationship with Jesus where you can ask Him questions and He responds. He guides you in dreams, visions, and speaks to you by the faint still small inner voice of the Holy Spirit and through His word. I have the love of God and peace in my heart from the Prince of Peace Jesus Christ. You can not find this in anyone or anything else.

Everything is vanity compared to Jesus Christ. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
All glory to Jesus alone for His mercy, grace and work in my life. He can do the same for you and more. Amen!.