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Homeless but not Hopeless
I have been homeless living on the street between philly and new york for the past ten years, prior to that i had a life of abuse, fatherless child homelessness and a high school drop out, then i lived in another state in a crack house that my uncle took me to live only to succumb to the trials of the streets of baltimore, drug dealing and incarceration, that is when i gave my life to Jesus and he has bought me a long way in life yet my entire life was physically and emotionally abused. I have burns on my body but with the cross of
Christ, i know we all have a story to tell. My last homeless situation was with me and my wife on the beach at Coney Island in a tent that we bought from Target, the money came from using our art-skills of hand drawn portraits and pan-handling. I have a need to express music in a positive yet very explicit and real expression of reality from the deep areas of my soul. I have been abused from a young age but Jesus always communicated with me and he was my friend in an emotional fearful world from the inside out, even though i did not understand that it was Jesus that saves the world, all i knew is that he has aways been my friend as i know him today. He comforted me in my pain and i did not become bitter because God has given me an understanding about the truth in love of all things at hand in this new period that we as a people and every human being on this planet will pass through, a pivotal point in our history. With this testimony i have the mind of love and faith in Jesus, as you know he has not failed and he never will. What we have today in the music industry in some areas is total darkness and that is why i am here. Truth is a revolution on the rise, we are that remote generation of the sons of God. Some will hear and some will not but Glory be to God my Lord and savior Jesus Christ will be glorified! But yet I still rise. I have managed to make it to the community college of Philadelphia and later transfered to Temple university. I made it to my senior year but my homelessness has taken a toll on my educational career. I still have faith to follow my dreams and goals. I plan to finish with my masters in social work bachelors in education
-LeRoy Mace
I am Free!
My church had an encounter night, that takes place about once every other month. It’s a night of praise and worship, drawing near to God, feeling his presence and experience the Holy Spirit while he leads our worship team into an amazing harmony, and singing praises to our Almighty God. A night I will never forget.
A week prior to the encounter night, I prayed that God will meet me and touch my heart like he never did before. I wanted that feeling so bad, to
be closer to God. I even told God, “I’m after your heart!” I was getting prepared, because I knew God had something planned for me that night.
Within that week before the big night, I got attacked BIG TIME. Satan convinced me to think God was not hearing my prayers and he really doesn’t care... Immediately bad thoughts came to me and I got upset with God.
I drove to Wasilla by myself, crying and pleading God to answer me. These are the exact words I spoke (well I was yelling) to God, “Meet me right now! I’m all by myself, do you not hear me? I’ve been asking for a raise at my job, my husband is not where I want him to be, the doctors said, my husband and I are fine... why aren’t we pregnant yet? That’s it.... I’m sinning today, I’m going to upset my husband for no reason at all, and I’m going to drink lots of alcohol and there is nothing you can do about it!!....” Immediately, my tears dried up and peace overflowed my heart. Again, I yelled to God, “I don’t want peace!, I want my prayers answered stop giving me peace!” I drove back home still angry.
Walked in the doors and I kept my word. I looked at my husband, argued with him for a good 30 minutes, he didn’t argue back but softly said, “you look really ugly.” I drank about 4-5 glasses of wine with every intentions of getting drunk (I usually get drunk by 2 glasses btw)... I didn’t get drunk! Again, peace overflowed my heart but this time I responded to God and said, “You’re never going to be mad at me aren’t you, I’m sorry Lord, forgive me.” I repented right away and because of his mercy I understood Satan was threaten by me! By the way, that very next day, my husband ask me to marry him again in unity with God and I got a raise that following Monday. Praise the Lord!!!
The night before encounter night, I discovered my husband accepted a girls number for work purposes. I was immediately jealous, and threw a fit. I knew it was Satan attacking me again so I prayed. I ask God to help me understand. I also asked our pastor for advice. I had to go to my husband without anger and explain to him why it hurt me. Of course because my husband is an amazing person, he understood, respected me by deleting her number and contacting her during work hours only. Satan was trying to break my marriage apart by bringing a gorgeous lady who probably didn’t have any intentions to break my marriage apart. Satan was busy but who GOD IS BIGGER!
May 17th, 2015 the big night. During the day, ABSOLUTELY nothing went right. While running errands everything went wrong. I was an hour late, but I was still determined to go. I sat down, I said to myself, “this is it Lord, I’m ready, I’m here.” About 30 mins singing praise and worship and in between, little by little my heart opened up.... I whispered to myself.... “he’s here, I can feel him... Lord, help me focus, set me free from everything I’m struggling with, help me stay focus, stay focus leilani, stay focus....” and then, a member of our church said something that I knew it was exactly for me.... I forgot what the exact words but it was something like, “someone here wants a break-through from God and we want to pray over you because he’s here, please raise your hand for we can pray over you.” BOOM! I raised my hands, and my church members prayed over me.
Then it was quiet, although everyone was singing, the whole room was quiet and a soft voice came to me, “Stand up, and raise your hands.” As I looked up, I seen Jesus unlocking the chains one by one. As he was unlocking it he said with a big smile, “this sin is done, that sin is done” then Jesus said, “get on your knees” then he began to unlock the shackles on my ankles and said, “this sin is done, that sin is done.” “Now get up leilani, and with his soft voice, he said to me “you are free”.... I responded, “I’m free?” “Yes, it is done, you are free, no more you will struggle with the sins you’ve been struggling with, no more jealousy, no more hate, no more worrying, trust me and believe”
Then, I heard the music our praise and worship team was singing, “This is amazing grace.” All of a sudden I was shouting “I’ve been set free, he removed it. Everything. All of it. The sins are not there anymore!!! Jumping and rejoicing all for the Lord!!!! After service I couldn’t wait to tell my husband the great news!!!!
The very next morning, again, something incredible happened to me. I began to feel my body and it felt like God has put new hair, new fingers, new eyes, new nose, new heart.... everything from head to toe was brand new! I explained it to my husband who by the way thought I was weird feeling my body LOL.... and he said, “You’re born again, God made you a new person and I see it!”
Thank you Jesus. I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE AND I AM FREEEEE!!!!!!
-Leilani Burke
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Found Acceptance in Christ
Well here it goes..
Here in NZ I grew up surrounded by the NZ Gang life, was with a gang member, I was adopted at 3 months old, Never knew my Biological Mother until I was 12 , Never known my biological father only up until the last few months, step brother molested me, Sex without my consent (Raped), Neighbors son molested me often, Slept with Presidents of a gang just to keep my family safe at the age of 12, Went missing for months since the
age of 12, Felt rejection like it was normal, Been Homeless, Been a Prostitute, I was a severe Meth addict, Thief, Alcoholic, Did drugs, Stole Cars off Wealthy Men, Teen parent 16 , Violent Relationships with men, Drug dealer, Slept with whoever I wanted, Hated men, Couldn't trust Woman, Parents disowned me, Lost my two children at the time for there safety, Witness to murder, 25 Criminal Convictions, Sentenced to Jail of 3 yrs for Assaults and Intent to Kill charges,
You name it I been there Done that , Not at all was I ever Proud of what I did but reality was I couldnt stop because I had anger consuming me everyday since i was a child. Everybody knew Kandis Taylor that chick with a badazz name, I done alot of wrong things to people and didnt care. I was angry , full of anger and Meth became my best friend and I rocked it hard. I was keen to Fight even kill.
but no one knew my broken heart buried underneath it all.
until 2009 I was in my sitting room every material thing a woman could want, but i had never had Love.
I finally thought to myself how deeply unhappy I really was, I looked back into my life to that current situation as I was going to Jail for criminal activities and I was overwhelmed like a flood of pain hurt you name it.
My Life was dead and all I could see was Darkness in and out of my life , No one cared No real mates , Only friends who were keen to get up to mischief , I had enough of that, Anger was growing as I kept looking back into my life .... i was so angry, Until this level of anger literally Broke me in half and all I could do was Cry ,
This cry was deep , like as if someone close to me had died , I couldnt stop , It was like a Flood of YEARS of tears , also thinking where is this coming from , Hours went by and I was still crying .... Then it was that day as I watched my life play out before me and I had nothing left like a empty River Dam .....
Then I finally said it out
God are you real?
(Breath Sigh)
(Minutes later crying)
If you are there?
If you give me my parents back
If you give me my children back
and you give me a real man of God
(Minutes later Sighs & Tears flooding )
Then..
I will follow you
Immediately! Jesus came to me and he said to me
You are here.. ( As he pointed at a blue strip in the clouds )
on the left side of the blue strip was a very dark grey cloud and on the right side of the blue strip was a Bright pure white cloud.
He then said to me clearly...
You need to choose NOW!
The fear of the Lord consumed me , Flooded with my tears I watched my life roll through like a movie in fast forward , 3 hours went by that seemed like 5minutes , I looked at Jesus as he waited there, knowing it was my creator in front of me I had to be truthful in what i say next , cos he knows the truth....
and then I finally looked up to Jesus , lifted my hand up never felt so empty or truthful in my life and said to him
I choose you !
I could then see the Holy Spirit surrounding me like a pure love silky blanket. I felt like I was floating and he returned to the sky , and as he went back into the heavens , a Angel appeared who was sitting on a cloud his head was the head of a knight helmet and I heard him say to me
Its good to have you Back! FINALLY!
I cried like I was at the death of my own body, I was alone it was just me and my Pitbull dog who I still have today.
after that happend I sat there thinking What just happend...I just saw Jesus the Son of God come down out of the sky and wipe my tears away for real!,
Immediately I had no urge Nothing to smoke any drugs, drink any alcohol NOTHING! It was Gone!
The next day I spoke to a friend and shared I had an Aunty who I met when I was 11yrs old and she really loved God and had a vision from Jesus for me I never forgot it . as a kid I knew she was a special woman , when I met her that was the last time I saw her.
and I couldnt stop thinking about her , had no idea where she was.
That following week , I was being sentenced to 3 Years Imprisonment for 25 convictions. and I said to myself if i was given one wish before i went to jail it would be to see my aunty who i hadnt seen since i was 11yrs old just to say hi and give her a big hug.
The week before my sentencing , I had to go to court and appear before the judge to have my last added criminal conviction declared, so i went and while im sitting in this courthouse which was packed up and loud,
I heard a Sqeek that caught my attention.
I stood up and decided to look down the hallway where it came from
and there was my Aunty just right there!
in her wheelchair , and she she looked up and saw me standing there in amazement, She cried and so did I
She asked me what am I doing here I told her just the norm ,
She was in the middle of going to a meeting so she said to me to call her and dont forget .
big kiss and Hug and then she left.
I didnt try take her number or anything , because in my eyes she was to precious to me to have her be burdened with Me and my troubles.
I was so happy I went into the Dock with a smile on my face looking all cheeky ha! cos my wish came true. #ReallyItWasGod
I went home and the next night my uncle turns up and he says that I move to Australia when I get out of jail i said yip cool !
then before he left , He gave me this piece of paper and said it was from my dad.
Went back inside , and Opened it and it was
My Aunties!! Phone number saying urgent to call her ... So I did!
funny thing was my uncle didnt know what the paper was.
I rang her and we talked , and she declared to me that
God had been pushing for those last 3 weeks for her to go find my Candy . #MyFamilyName
I broke down crying.
anyway told her i was going to jail etc that Monday and she insisted she would come but i really didnt want her to come to such a negotive place. But she came.
I stood in the dock to be sentenced to Jail and before the judge did so , he was handed a paper from my lawyer and immediately without any explanation , the judge said , Accepted......I was confused to what was going on..
I went down into the cells , waited a hour , got bail and as im signing my bail papers the lady says Oh must be nice to move to Tauranga , I looked at her confused thinking HUH what are you talking about, and she said , your moving to Tauranga ,
I walked outside , and there was my aunty in her beautiful wheelchair waiting for me to walk out of those jail cells.
and she said
You coming home with me
for this is the will of God
So i left everything just packed up my clothes and of corse my pitbull and we left
5th June 2009 God lifted me out of the darkness and moved me into light.
Jesus did not not delay with anything with me , I was baptized in water and the holy spirit 7th June 2009 and He was moving on me Intensely
I was then taken to Faith Bible College which i had no idea of its existence and Jesus Moved on the Deputy Principals there that I needed to be in that college. and So be it.
Well Ill leave it here because I know its alot to read but This is How my relationship with Jesus Began , This is how and why he is very real to me in my life.
Hope thats not too long for you .
This was only but the beginning
Bless You all
Angel Taylor
Glory is Gods alone He saved my life!
-Angel Taylor
I am Redeemed!
I was a victim of sexual abuse since 3. I knew Christ ever since I was young. On medication from 5 years old for “mental issues”. At around 9 I started having severe behavioral issues and sadly my mother reacted by becoming emotionally, physically and verbally abusive. I then had inappropriate contact with my siblings at 10. I started smoking at 11 after I was taken
advantage by a 15 yr old, began sleeping around at 13 as school problems ensued and getting beat up was a norm. Commited lewd acts with animals, used the internet to look at porn and have sex chats with men and was drawing pornography.
Started cutting and suicide attempts. Smoking pot and drinking at 14. Running away, group homes and psych wards were all I knew. I slept with men to have a place to stay. Was molested by a group home leader. Was sexually abused by random men my fathers age. Got chocked and stabbed by boyfriend. Diagnosed with PTSD, OCD, Tourettes, Bipolar, manic depressive, depression and borderline personality disorder. Taking meds off and on. 17 went to lock down for 9 months and started having homosexual relationships. At 18 began stripping, selling drugs and doing Ecstasy and cocaine. Got raped. Had gun pointed in my face. 19 went to rehab after over doses. 20 got pregnant. In abusive relationship. Started doing drugs again at 22. Left boyfriend, found another. Daughter taken by CPS at 23. I started prostituting and my Ecstasy and cocaine addiction spun out of control. I blacked out every night from alcohol. I said, if the devil wants me, he can have me. I will just be really good at being bad. My boyfriend at the time, now husband begged me to stop (we hadn't talked in 6 months during a breakup). I got pregnant. Lost it. Had to have emergency surgery due to internal bleeding. God used it to bring me and my boyfriend back together. He took care of me for 5 days. We moved in together again. Tried cleaning up our lives, it was very hard with all the bad influences. I was still very angry and we had lots of physical fights. Cheated on him. I got pregnant. We had our last physical fight. Begged God to fix it, didn’t want to raise our child in this environment. Started going to church. Got married. Cheated again shortly after, telling him to leave me and I hated him. He refused. In absolute depravity and anguish, I held a gun to my head but husband held me and wouldn’t let me go till I dropped it. Got pregnant again shortly after. In 2011 We realized this cycle had to be broken…
Finally submitted my life to Christ for reals, both me and my hubby. We went to marriage counseling, church, read relationship books together, prayed together and read the bible every night. God honored our submission of our will to Him and did a 180 in our lives. It is amazing what sadness and evil He has taken and turned it in to beauty!
Life since then has drastically improved. We have both been clean and sober for 4 years (I am 30 now). No more smoking. No more fighting. No more insomnia, meds, mental disorders or anxiety. 3 wonderful children! Strong walk with God. I now know my husband and God loves me and I deserve to have love. I am able to forgive and finally I am starting to have healing from my past. God is able and he is a mighty healer!
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Matthew 11:28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Luke 7:36-50 A Sinful Woman Forgiven
36 Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to eat. 37 And behold, A WOMAN IN THE CITY WHO WAS A SINNER, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, 38 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, “This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.”
40 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.”
So he said, “Teacher, say it.”
41 “There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42 And when they had nothing with which to repay, HE FREELY FORGAVE THEM BOTH. Tell Me, therefore, WHICH OF THEM WILL LOVE HIM MORE?”
43 Simon answered and said, “I SUPPOSE THE ONE WHOM HE FORGAVE MORE.”
And He said to him, “You have rightly judged.” 44 Then He turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head. 45 You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in. 46 You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with fragrant oil. 47 Therefore I say to you, HER SINS, WHICH ARE MANY, ARE FORGIVEN, FOR SHE LOVED MUCH. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”
48 Then He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
49 And those who sat at the table with Him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
50 Then He said to the woman, “YOUR FAITH HAS SAVED YOU. GO IN PEACE.”
-Alicia Swift
God's Not Done With Me Yet...
All of this hasn't been an easy road let me tell you. I will try to make it short and hit the key points (i could make it a book but my writing skills are lacking LOL) Ok I will start here. From most of what I remember about my youth I (which isn't much) we went to a small church on the hill (can't remember the name) I was 11, I was in the youth class to make it short I spent several months being "inappropriately handled" by the youth
teacher. back in the 80's when the movie "the day after tomorrow" first aired, he had the youth group come over for the movie, i ended up staying the night there. I molested me that night and afterwards told me not to tell anyone because what we did was wrong and a sin, and that we needed to pray for forgiveness finally we left that church (it was a dry same sermon every week type) and started going to a Charismatic non denominational church we went there for several years. during this same period of time My uncle as well from the time i can remember (11ish I don't remember much of my l childhood before 11) my uncle as well molested me until I was 16 As you could imagine I was slightly a mess.
Into my teens i became very rebellious, started getting high and drinking, fighting, I was always in trouble I was angry at everyone, especially any person of authority. I spent 5 years in a 3 year school, out of that 5 years i was there the last 3 I attended approx. 8 weeks because I was always kicked out. When I was 15 I had planned to kill my parents, my mom overheard me (and that was divine in the way she heard me) telling a friend "tonight is the night" her and dad spent 2 days taking turns sleeping until I fell asleep. The walls had paneling on them and I had separated that from the wall and busted out a hole in the wall where I put a say, a couple of knives, a hammer, when I fell asleep they searched the room and found them, When I woke up, I reached in and they were gone. I was startled as you could imagine, I knew they knew but we never talked about it until after I was 18 or so. Being the horrible child that I was my mom had went to the pastor of the church we were going to, to get guidance, the only words he had for her was "he is a lost cause, you should just put him in a home and get as far from him as you can" needless to say we let that church. (i had a mom that burnt the midnight oil instead. One of these days I will have the opportunity to tell about her) ) When I was 16 I went into rehab, it was at that period of time that I told my mom that I was molested my 2 people and who they were. As well mom told me that dad wasn't my real dad and he adopted me when i was 10 mo old ( another story) after rehab I did build a good relationship with my parents Going into adulthood life was well very not fun I struggled with many things, I was very free when it came to sex, I had to prove to myself I wasn't gay, I struggled with what was it about me that men would be attracted to me did i lead them on etc.
I would go through spats where I believed in god, then I didn't want anything to do with him. In my 20s I discovered the word of faith, (kenneth copeland, hal lindsay, benny hinn etc yes i used lowercase LOL ) i was taught that yes god has a standard but you'll never live up to it, and before you met Jesus you were a adulterer, liar etc, but now that you are a believer you are a new creature in Christ, although you may do those things you are no longer labeled them. Man I ran with that as far as I could, even to the point of saying "yeah I sleep around but i witness to them" That went on for many years, the first time i heard anything about Hebrew roots was around 2005, a guy I worked with brought it up to me. It was new and peeked my interests I gave the idea to my mom (she ran with it) Me? well yeah not so much, I agreed with the concept of not fully understanding the bible after all it was Jewish, however the laws, prayer shawls etc, oh not that is legalism, but I was willing to learn some. I remember one time my mom and I got into an argument because she wanted to get a prayer shawl, and I told her I didn't think it was a good idea because it could turn into idolatry and she coould put that above the lord (all of this mind you as i was still in my heathen ways what I call "the fonrichristian"
In the mean time I bought the book our father Abraham, read a little bit of it but disagreed with most of it "i knew it all" (yeah right) anyways I was still pretty much messed up for a long time, angry, bitter, hated people, was a recluse, didn't have to many friends, "brutally honest" (nice way of saying rude, right?) as I studied more i did start to change and chip away even though i was not letting go of my debauchery yet. This went on for a few years In 07 my mom passed away, that began a search for answers for me. I looked into J.W S.D.A everything, one day in sept. I came across a messianic teacher, he answered alot of questions I had, and didn't avoid the hard things, but even still with that I held onto "it is ok to sin because you can't do anything but sin" I had never heard anything different. so I had alot of head knowledge but little application not even a way to know how to apply after all "all of that is old"
About 2 years ago, I cannot tell you the day or the date just that it was fall around Oct. I was surfing you-tube and cam across a message that would change my life. A Baptist missionary named Paul Washer and a sermon entitled "Examine yourself A Sermon That Has Angered Many" The first time I heard it I was mad angry, thought who is this guy to say such things, but i listened to it again, and again, looked up the passages, I heard things I never heard before. (alot of first John) and one thing that stood out was "if any man says he loves god and keeps not his commandments he is a liar and the truth is not in him" any way that was the beginning of a great change and quest. It has only been the last couple of years i heard terms like Gods attributes, systematic theology, etc let alone obey God Today I do alot of study I listen to sermons all day I try to find ways to apply things but there are things I struggle with immensely. especially thought My mind has been so denigrated with sex, and porn for so many years now that the simplest phrase will take me to a sexual thought, or image. it is very frustrating to want to change and even be able to change the outside, but i have no idea how to fix the inside. worldly Counseling? don't work, christian counseling the only answer "turn it over to Jesus" I pray all the time things like God you promised to make my heart of stone into a heart of flesh, please i am waiting" to cleanse my thought pattern, and so on. but it is an everyday struggle for me. I cannot even begin to tell you the struggle and the torment it is. It always causes me to question my belief "your not a real believer because if you were you wouldn't have thoughts like that" and so on. then sometimes I get angry because God doesn't just take it away, and so on. But He is not done with me yet.... He has a perfect plan in His perfect timing....
-Lance Hixson Sr.