Hi my name is Antonio. I am from North Carolina USA.
I want to start by saying that the Lord liveth and blessed be the rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
I am 30 yrs old. I accepted Jesus as my savior when I was 11.
I didn't know Him as Lord till much later, my testimony happened in between.
I grew up in a children's ministry inner city Durham NC.
At 11 I knelt by a bunk bed with a mentor there and said the sinners prayer.
At the age of 15 my estranged father died of a drug overdose. I remember looking straight up to the heavens and telling God that I don't follow someone who would let that happen to me.
I left the boarding home (Agape Corner) and went to an unstable home with the express purpose of full on rebellion against God.
To cut to the chase I found myself gravely addicted to heroine and cocaine.
I lost my first wife my two daughters and a military career to drugs and alcohol.
It got so bad that I was chronically homeless all through my twenties and I found myself in Texas serving a two year prison sentence for theft.
When I got out I went right back to drugs I believed there was no way out.
I wound up in a psych ward where I roomed with very disturbed people myself included.
That's when I looked back up at heaven and asked the same one I rebelled against, why am I in this position.
My answer wasn't an audible voice but a convincing inner feeling that if I had only listened to the cries of wisdom and followed Him from my youth none of this would have happened.
I responded " OK now what?".
Upon release the Lord led me to a Discipleship program where I learned a lot of scripture, and accepted Jesus not only a Savior but Lord of my life.
A few ups and downs later I now find myself as a staff member at a Christian drug rehab center I have learned about His Spirit and Love and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have given Him unto that day!
People Jesus is real He loves us and wants to direct us to safety and away from self sin and death!
Antonio
