I CALL MY TESTIMONY A WALK FROM BLACKNESS TO NEVER ENDING BRIGHTENING LIGHT, BECAUSE BECOMING A CHRISTIAN IS LIKE RESTORING CARS. EVERY CAR HAS ITS OWN RESTORATION PROCESS TIME AND NEEDS.
SOME SEEM TO BE TOO FAR GONE TO EVER BE FIXED. SOME MAY JUST NEED A PAINT JOB. BUT WITH US AND GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. NO MATTER WHAT YOU HAVE DONE OR WHERE YOU ARE IN LIFE GOD CAN AND WILL ACCEPT YOU AND HE CAN RESTORE YOU. YOU CAN FIND A PEACE AND A JOY IN KNOWING WHO YOU REALLY ARE IN HIM. IN ALL OF US THERE IS A VOID THAT ONLY CAN BE FILLED THROUGH A REAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST. FOR ME THIS WAS LEARNED THE HARD AND RECKLESS WAY , AND ITS ONLY BECAUSE OF GODS LOVE , GRACE AND MERCY THAT IM ALIVE TODAY TO SHARE MY STORY WITH YOU.
MY PRAYER FOR YOU IS IF YOU DON'T KNOW CHRIST IN A REAL RELATIONSHIP THAT YOU WILL NOT BE CLOSE MINDED TO THE TRUTH. BECAUSE, YOU WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE OR KNOW THE JOY AND THE PEACE AND THE BLESSINGS THAT COULD COME FROM KNOWING HIM AND YOUR REAL DESTINY IN LIFE. ALL OF US COME TO A CROSSROAD IN LIFE WHEN WE HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE TO ACCEPT JESUS AND KNOW WHO WE REALLY ARE IN HIM. IM NOT TALKING ABOUT BEING RELIGIOUS, RELIGION ONLY ENSLAVES AND MAKES PEOPLE SELF RIGHTEOUS.
IM TALKING ABOUT KNOWING JESUS AND SEEING THINGS IN TRUE LIGHT. WE CAN REJECT HIM AND CHOOSE TO STAY IN THE DARK AND ROB OURSELVES AND OTHERS BY STAYING THERE. THE CHOICE IS OURS NOT GODS , HE RESPECTS OUR CHOICES. I HAD TO MAKE THAT CHOICE , FOR GOD REACHED OUT TO ME BEFORE I TOOK MYSELF OVER THE EDGE IN MY JOURNEY IN LIFE WHICH WAS AT THE AGE OF 17.

MY REBELLION STARTED AT A EARLY AGE , I WAS 8 YEARS OLD WHEN I EXPERIENCED THE REJECTION OF PEOPLE AND FOUND MY PLACE IN LIFE WITH PEOPLE WHO SMOKED POT AND GOT DRUNK. ONLY BEING 8 YEARS OLD ONLY SET ME ON MY PATH TO DESTRUCTION. I ENDED UP WITH A NEED FOR POT TO KEEP ME FROM THE STRESSES OF LIVING IN A TWISTED WORLD , WHICH HINDERED ME FROM BEING ABLE TO WANT TO LEARN IN SCHOOL. I LIVED TO GET HIGH AND WAS KICKED OUT FROM SCHOOL BY THE 9TH GRADE FOR DESTRUCTION OF A TEACHERS CAR . I THEN WENT TO A ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL FOR DROP OUTS , AND I DID NOT LAST LONG THERE ETHER. MOST OF THE PEOPLE THERE WERE BURNOUT'S , SO TO SUPPORT MY POT SMOKING HABIT I SOLD IT AT THAT SCHOOL. ONE DAY I WAS CONFRONTED BY THE PRINCIPAL TO EMPTY MY POCKETS AND THAT LEAD TO ME MAKING A RUN FOR IT BEING CHASED BY FOOT OUT OF THE SCHOOL. I WAS NOT WELCOME THERE AFTER THAT , SO I WAS DONE WITH SCHOOL.
MY PARENTS HAD NO CONTROL OVER ME ,THEY LET ME STAY WITH THEM AND ACCEPTED ME IN HOPE OF SOME DAY I WOULD CHANGE. WELL, MATTERS GREW WORSE BECAUSE I HAD MORE TIME TO KILL AND HAD TO FIND WAYS OF FEEDING MY HABIT. ONE DAY IN A BOOK STORE LOOKING AT GUN MAGAZINES I FOUND A AD HOW TO MAKE M-80S. SO, I SENT OUT FOR THE INFORMATION AND GOT BACK A NEW ADDRESS HOW TO BUY A KIT , SO I MADE M-80S. ALL MY FRIENDS WERE AMAZED. LATER, I FOUND A UNDERGROUND COMPANY CALLED FULLY AUTOMATIC , THEY HAD ALL KINDS OF KITS , EVEN REMOTE CONTROL BOMB DETONATORS.

WELL, THIS IS WERE THINGS GET UGLY. I WAS INTRODUCED TO FREE BASING COCAINE AND I GOT HOOKED , AND MY FRIENDS WERE ALL INTO IT TOO AT THE TIME. I WAS APPROACHED BY SOME OF THEM TO MAKE THEM SOMETHING BIGGER THAN M-80S. I WANTED DRUG MONEY SO I MET THERE NEEDS. ONE OF THEM PROVIDED THE MONEY I NEEDED TO PURCHASE THE CHEMICALS I NEEDED. I HAD MADE OVER 100 STICKS OF DYNAMITE. IN DOING THIS I HAD NO IDEA OF WHAT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS WOULD BE. LATER, I FOUND OUT WHAT THEY DID, AND I CAN NOT TELL YOU HERE BUT IT WAS NOT GOOD. IM GLAD TO SAY NO ONE GOT HURT EXCEPT ME. THREE OF THEM DID GET CAUGHT FOR THERE ACTIONS AND I WAS SET UP BY ONE OF THEM WHO GAVE ME THE MONEY FOR THE CHEMICALS, SO HE COULD GO FREE. SO, HE CAME OVER WITH HIS NEW FRIEND AND ME BEING ON A BINGE, WAS OBLIVIOUS , NOT ABLE TO SEEING THAT I WAS BEING SET UP. SO THEY MADE A PURCHASE. AS SOON AS I GOT THE MONEY I WAS OFF TO FIND COKE OR POT. NEEDLESS TO SAY I CAME UP DRY THAT NIGHT. THE NEXT MORNING I WAS AWAKENED BY A KNOCK AT THE DOOR. , WHEN I ANSWERED THE DOOR THE REALITY OF WHAT I HAD DONE HIT ME LIKE A TON OF BRICKS.

THE ATF AND POLICE HAD SURROUNDED MY PARENTS HOUSE AND I WAS UP THE CREEK WITH OUT A PADDLE. THEY HANDCUFFED ME AND MY DAD AND SAT US AT THE KITCHEN TABLE WHILE THEY TORE THE HOUSE APART. NOT KNOWING MY BOMB CONSTRUCTION WAS DONE AT A FRIENDS HOUSE. THAT WAS A HARD MOMENT TO FACE HIM (DAD) WITH ALL THE SHAME I WAS FEELING. LOOKING AT MY DAD IN HANDCUFFS BECAUSE OF MY ACTIONS. BUT THAT DIDN'T WAKE ME UP , I WAS FACING A MANDATORY SENTENCE OF 2 YEARS MINIMUM. I WAS 17 YEARS OLD AND SCARED BECAUSE I WAS BEING TRIALED AS A ADULT AND HAD NO CHANCE TO WIN. AS MY LAWYER PUT IT "THEY GOT YOU BY THE BALLS". SO HE ASKED FOR A PLEA BARGAIN, AND AFTER MANY DELAYS BY MY LAWYER IN OUR COURT DATES THEY GOT TIRED OF US AND GAVE ME 6 MONTHS IN JAIL AND 3 YEARS PROBATION. WELL, 6 MONTHS DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A LONG TIME BUT IF YOU ARE LOCKED UP 1 DAY ITS LIKE A WEEK.

MY TIME BEING LOCKED UP DID NOT GO WELL , I ALMOST DIED ON A FEW DIFFERENT OCCASIONS. I WOULD TRADE CIGARETTES FOR PEOPLES MEDICATION SO I COULD TRY TO ESCAPE REALITY AGAIN. ONE TIME I TOOK SOME THING THAT ALMOST KILLED ME I WENT INTO COLD CONVULSIONS AND WAS SWEATING HEAVILY. I REMEMBER JUST LYING IN MY CELL WONDERING IF I WOULD SEE TOMORROW. I COULD NOT CALL FOR HELP BECAUSE I WOULD ONLY HAVE MADE MORE TROUBLE FOR MYSELF AND THE PERSON WHO I GOT THE PILLS FROM. ANOTHER TIME I TRIED TO MAKE SOME WINE IN MY CELL AND ALMOST POISONED MYSELF. MY ABILITY TO MAINTAIN CAME TO FRUSTRATION AND I HAD A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN . IT WAS 3 MONTHS INTO MY JAIL TIME , I BECAME VERY SICK . I DID NOT EAT FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS , I WAS SO WEAK I COULD NOT STAND ON MY FEET FOR LONG. I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO DIE ANY DAY AND I WELCOMED THE THOUGHT OF MY MISERY BEING OVER.

THAT'S WHEN I BELIEVE GOD KNEW MY HEART WAS REACHABLE, BECAUSE 2 GUYS WHO WERE INMATES IN MY CELL BLOCK (14 PRISONERS TO ONE BLOCK) CAME AND TOLD ME THAT JESUS WANTED TO SAVE MY LIFE. SO I LISTENED TO WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY. THEY TOLD ME THE TRUTH ABOUT JESUS NOT RELIGION. THEY SAID HE CAME TO GIVE HIS LIFE TO SAVE SINNERS AND GIVE US A ABUNDANT LIFE.(JONN10:10)

THAT IF WE CONFESS WITH OUR MOUTH AND BELIEVE IN OUR HEART THAT JESUS CHRIST(SAVIOUR ANOINTED) IS THE SON OF GOD WE CAN BE SAVED (ROMANS 10:9), FOR WHO SOEVER CALLS UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED (ACTS2:21).
SO ALL THREE OF US PRAYED WHAT'S KNOW TODAY AS THE SINNERS PRAYER. WHEN I PRAYED THAT PRAYER SOMETHING HAPPENED TO ME ON THE INSIDE WHICH I STILL CANT EXPLAIN. ALL THE PAIN AND WEIGHT I WAS CARRYING WAS LIFTED AND I HAD PEACE IN THE MIDST OF THE STORM AND WAS FEELING WELL AGAIN. THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF MY RESTORATION PROCESS.A CAR ANALOGY WOULD BE" THE CAR WAS BROUGHT INTO THE SHOP AND SIGNED IN". MY NAME WAS WRITTEN IN THE LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE. BUT, THAT WAS JUST THE BEGINNING TO MY LEARNING EXPERIENCE. THE SPARKS WERE STILL GOING TO FLY. BECAUSE MAN IS BORN TO TROUBLE AS SPARKS FLY UPWARD(JOB5:7). AND, WE DO HAVE A ADVERSARY WHO COMES TO STEAL , KILL , AND DESTROY.

THE TIME I HAD LEFT IN JAIL WAS EASIER BECAUSE I HAD THE HOLY SPIRIT WITH ME HELPING ME , I READ THE BIBLE DAILY AND LEARNED SOME THINGS, BUT I WAS NOT LOCKED UP LONG ENOUGH TO LEARN WHAT I REALLY NEEDED TO LEARN, WHEN I WAS RELEASED I FELL AWAY FROM GOD AND WAS DRAWN BACK TO HANGING WITH OLD FRIENDS. BACK INTO SMOKING POT BECAUSE I HAD GOT A ULCER AND THE POT HELPED MY APPETITE. THIS TIME I WAS HOOKED TO THE POINT OF LEARNING HOW TO GROW POT HYDROPONICLY INDOORS WITH A WEEKLY PERPETUAL HARVEST AT A FRIENDS HOUSE. WELL GOD DIDN'T GIVE UP ON ME AND I REMEMBERED WHAT HE DID FOR ME. SO I CALLED UPON HIM TO HEAL ME AND I FOUND THAT HE REQUIRED ME TO HAVE FAITH IN HIM AND HIS WORD AND I FOUND BY DOING THAT I WAS HEALED AND HE DELIVERED ME FROM MY A 15 YEAR BONDAGE OF SMOKING POT.

I WAS 25 YEARS OLD WHEN I REDEDICATED MY LIFE TO HIM. AND I HAVE BEEN FREE FROM DRUGS AND BEEN IN PERFECT HEALTH SINCE THEN. IM 31 TODAY (WRITTEN ON12/31/99).

FROM THE TIME I REDEDICATED MY LIFE TO NOW THERE HAS BEEN SO MANY BLESSINGS THAT I COULD NOT FIT THEM ALL HERE.TODAY ALL MY OLD FRIENDS ARE ETHER DEAD OR IN JAIL OR STILL IN BONDAGE TO DRUGS AND YET THEY FAIL TO LISTEN AND SEE THE BLESSINGS GOD HAS BESTOWED ON ME. THIER HARD HEARTS KEEPS THEM IN CHAINS, AND THAT IS ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS TO HAVE A GIFT TO GIVE TO PEOPLE THAT UNLOCKS CHAINS YET PEOPLE REJECT IT BECAUSE OF THE SEEDS THAT SATAN HAS SOWN.
TODAY I WALK IN PEACE IN MY RESTORATION PROCESS. GOD HAS GIVEN ME VISION AND HAS BLESSED ME . I HAVE A HOME, A GOOD JOB ,GOOD FRIENDS, 2 RACE CARS , A CHALLENGER AND A GTX. BOTH ARE AND WILL BE USED FOR GODS GLORY , THE GTX HAS A 440 THAT HAS ELECTRONIC FUEL INJECTION AND IS SUPER CHARGED AND IS B-1 POWERED. THE FIRST FULL THROTTLE PASS WAS ON THE LAST DAY THE TRACK WAS OPEN IT WENT 9.87 ,137MPR.
ALSO WE WORK THROUGH THE LOCAL CHURCH HERE AT DETROIT WORLD OUTREACH TO SERVE OTHERS IN KNOWING THE TRUTH AND WHAT KNOWING GOD THROUGH JESUS IS REALLY ABOUT WE HAVE 5 CAR SHOWS SCHEDULED FOR 2000. I CHALLENGE YOU TODAY TO PUT THE PAST BEHIND YOU AND WHAT PEOPLE MIGHT THINK. IF YOU DON'T KNOW JESUS AND THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT CRUISING WITH HIM , ITS A ROAD YOU WONT REGRET TAKING AS LONG AS YOU DON'T MAKE A U TURN .
TRUST ME BEEN THERE DONE THAT , THE CHOICE IS YOURS
(DEUTERONOMY 30:19) (PROVERBS 14;12)(JOHN 3:16-21)

TAKE CARE AND MAY GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU IN HIS PERFECT PEACE,

YOUR BROTHER IN CHRIST,

JEFF