My Testament

This is my testimony, my gospel, of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This may even sound strange to some of you. But this is my story, my account of my life when I meet with Christ Jesus.         

Let me give you a little background about myself. I was born a Roman Catholic…an alter boy…always believed in God as a child and a teen. I started using drugs & alcohol at the age of 13. I needed to fill a void that was in my life, it was “the thing to do” in the 70’s and 80’s when you didn’t fit in. I did not “fit in” with the “in” crowd. 

During my high school years, I tried every drug to feel this void in my life and in my heart. I would even talk to Jesus like He was a brother and God like He was my dad. I had a real dad but at that time my dad was to busy dealing with his own problems and his own life to be bothered by me. So I talked to them on the way to school and on the way home from school. In reality I was praying to God everyday and I didn’t realize that till much later in my walk.

I started learning about other religions at the age of 16. I ran away from home when I was 17 yrs old. I stayed with a friend and started to learn about Scientology, Astroplaining, Buda, Mohammad, Confuses and The Natural Law.  I believed that I could travel to the begging of time, (E=MC squared), simple math and Physics right? I thought so at the time, I was 19 yrs old at the time.

One night I started to meditate, as I often did at this time in my life, I wanted to go to the beginning of time, the “Big Bang”, if you would. I saw myself leaving my body, then the house, the city, the States, the world and the moon. As I passed by the dark side of the Moon, my speed intensified much faster then the speed of light. I turned to look, to see where I was going, and I saw this “Ring of Fire”. I passed through the ring and entered what felt like heaven. It was peaceful, calm, quiet, and it felt as if the weight of the world was taken off of me.

As I was wandering around up there, feeling that I never wanted to go back to Earth, coming towards me were 2 spiritual entities. Later I came to believe that it was Jesus and an Angel. One of them began to tell me that it wasn’t my time to be there, and that I had to leave. I was arguing with Them, telling Them that I didn’t want to leave, I didn’t want to go back to Earth, but they told me that there was still things for me to do.

I finally gave in, and the moment I agreed, my spirit rushed back to my body, and when I got back to Earth, I felt that I was in a living Hell. Not that Earth was Hell, but after being in a place as perfect as “Heaven”, any place would have seemed like Hell.            

At the age of 20 yrs, I studied Parapsychology, in the field of Auras, the study of the human energy fields around the body. I came to believe that this was the Aura of God, our Spirit, And His Spirit. After all we are created in His Image. I came to believe that everything was made of God and God made everything. In Genesis 1:1 “God created the heavens and the earth.” He created everything in and out of this world. By this, I mean that everything around us was created by God.         

I was dating a Christian girl who introduced me to some of her Christian friends who continuously invited me to go to church with them and I would usually decline. Eventually I accepted to go to a Christian rock concert at Rain Cross Squares in Riverside, California that they invited me to.

I listened to the band play. When they played their last song, I had to go to the restroom, when I came out of the restroom, the usher guided me to the stands where I was to sit and have the most wonderful experience of my life. As I began to sit down in the bleachers I felt no different than I had most of the day. As soon as I sat down in the chair everything went dark, I couldn’t see, I couldn’t hear and I couldn’t move!                 

For an instant I was terrified, but no sooner than my terror came, it went away with the feeling of great peace. It was at that moment that Jesus came to me, and asks me if I would follow Him. There was something that He wanted me to do and I came up with every excuse not to. He was persistent in what He had in store for my life but I continued to argue with him which only seemed like a few minutes. But in reality it was much longer then I thought. When I finally said yes all of my senses came back, I could see, talk, hear and move.

What I heard was Pastor Greg from Harvest saying this: “There is one more out there and we are waiting for you!” You see Greg had an alter call this Sunday evening and there were people up there already that had been called for the alter call already. I had missed the whole sermon and the alter call, talking to Jesus.          This is how I know that God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit are real!!!… Amen.