When I was 17 years old the goodness of God led me to repentance in such an awesome way. God pulled me right out from the midst of a very wicked generation. Many people do not even have a clue of what God delivered me from! God really saved me, and transformed me by the renewing of my mind. God changed me within, and without in such a way that people that knew me when I was in sin do not even recognize me at all. I am not the same person I used to be. I don’t think the way I used to think, and I don’t talk the way I used to talk. I don’t hang out with the people I used to hang out with. I don’t listen to same music that I used to listen to. I don’t even dress the way I used to dress. I don’t treat people the same way I used to treat people. You want to know the best thing about it? I LOVE THE CHANGE THAT GOD BROUGHT IN MY LIFE, AND I WANT MORE OF IT!

I sold EVERYTHING I had in the world so that I could obtain the truth of God. I lost all my so-called friends. The more God began to help me mortify the sinful deeds of the carnal mind, the more the people I used have fellowship began to disown me, but how they treated me never discouraged me to allow God to restore the conviction of sin back into my conscience. The more I read the Scriptures I found that just about everything I was doing was a sin in God’s eyes. I had to remove the jewelry from my hands and neck because I knew that it was all vanity! The more truth I found, the more truth I searched for. I actually searched for things to get rid of in my life that did not glorify God, and it felt good unto my soul. The people that I used to hang out with did not have that testimony, the more they hung around me they got uncomfortable unto the point that they had cut me off. They had to cut me off because I was not going to allow them to continue to tempt me to smoke weed, get drunk, chase after women, steal, cuss, or lie anymore. God pulled me off the streets, and I lost everything I thought I had. I literally did not have ANY FRIENDS. All I had was a God that I did not know much about but required me to give up ALL MY SINS.

I was so messed up! I used to be the worst out of all the people I hung out with on the streets, and many of them looked up to me, and followed the bad example I had set for them. I was addicted to smoking weed, getting drunk, cursing, lying, and all manner of lust of the flesh. So I searched hard in the Scriptures to find a way to reverse the curse I was in, but all I knew was that I had to repent of everything that God hates, and not to have any secret sins in my life because there is no such thing as a secret unto God (He knows everything). I was only 17 years old at the time. All I had was my Bible and God.

I tried searching for a Church to start attending so I could ask questions and be taught, but had no clue how to find the right Church. There was so many churches out there that I asked God, “Why did I have to be alive now? Why couldn’t I have been alive when you started the Church? If I lived back then it would be very easy to find the true Church.” Then I said unto God, “Trying to find a true Church is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.” I requested one thing of God, “If there is such thing as a true Church, let me find it.” I had no clue that God was going to answer my request to find a true Church. He did not answer immediately but He lead me to HIS CHURCH in His timing, and I had to go through a lot of hay (counterfeit churches) in order to find it (but I will save that for another time).

(To be continued…)

As a youth leader, I thank God for revealing to me a lot of the compromise that is aimed at the young people of God, so I could warn young people everywhere. In this blog I will deal with many subjects from biblical salvation, living a life free from sin, avoiding fornication, dressing modest, abstaining from worldly entertainment, activities, and sororities. Everything must be addressed today in order for the young people to fight against it tomorrow when they grow and become future youth leaders. It is God’s will for the young people to raise up a very high standard of Holiness, and not to be conformed to this world. So, please come back and view some very great blogs about Youth 4 Truth (Y4T). Amen, amen.