My Life Story!

Good morning this will be one of the longest posts you have probably ever read! It’s the story of my life, the bad decisions and the great decisions! Well I grew up in Abbeville SC my childhood was awful suffered some abuse and went through the divorce of my parents. We never went to church and me and my sister really had no father figure there for us! He went to jail and to this day that’s where he is. So as I grew older I got involved in sex at a very young age as well as drugs and alcohol and I had a huge addiction to pornography. I abused drugs and alcohol for years! Then after graduation I continued to party and be what I always said I would never be a loser! Though I did maintain a job through all of my mistakes I wasted the money away. Then in November of 2000 I met my wife and as we started to date my influences rubbed off on her and we started partying together and of course everything that comes along with partying we did it! Then something great but scary happened she got pregnant with our first child! We were not married and did not even live together. So my lifestyle slowed down some and I started to save for us a place in Anderson. We moved to Anderson when Ethan was 1 and started living together and no we were not married! This continued for a while until my wife got invited to church by her mother! It was New Spring Church in Anderson then they were located at Anderson College Fine Arts Center. So she began to go and I noticed a change in her, she would constantly invite me and I told her I didn’t need church on Sunday that was my day to sleep in! But she was relentless she said Jason this church is different you come as you are. At that time I was still using drugs and alcohol on a daily basis. So finally one day I went to church with her and I must say I was floored at the love shown toward me and my family. I liked it and we started going every Sunday. After a while me and my wife started fussing and she looked at me one night I never will forget it she said I don’t know if I want to continue living like this. She went on to tell me that the message Pastor Perry preached that Sunday “Get right or get out” it was something like that really made her think about the direction we were headed and it was a road of destruction! So she said I want to get married! So 2 days later we went to the courthouse and tied the knot! Then God really started rocking my world! We were picking up my son from his class after the church service and Cherie Duffey whom I Love dearly was standing there and she pulled us to the side and said have you guys ever thought about volunteering with the kids! Wow I was like are you serious we are screwed up people! Then she went on to say we all are so are yaw in for next Sunday we said yes and our lives from that point on began to do a complete 180. I quit the drugs, the drinking, and the porn and really started applying the things I was being taught every Sunday. Then my world got rocked It was in February of 2004 Perry spoke a message of repentance and salvation! You see I thought I was saved because I went down to the alter at the age of 10 during an Easter Sunday and said a prayer! Here’s the thing I did not even know what I was praying or what Jesus did for me, I just went through the motions I even got baptized yep and you guessed it I was just a wet sinner! So after the message Perry preached that day it left me knowing that for the first time in my life I knew I needed Jesus because I haven’t had him in my life! And for once I understood what Jesus done for me and why I needed him to save me! So that night I got down on my knees in our bedroom and give my life to Christ. A week later my wife got baptized and then months went by and then I got baptized! So we continued to teach in the children’s ministry at New Spring and we still do and it’s such a blessing for us! God has told me to do outreach evangelism in our community and were doing it! God has totally transformed us individually and together we are an awesome team. Now we have another child a little girl and yes she is a Daddy’s girl! Here’s the reason I shared my story God has a plan for you and it doesn’t matter how screwed up you are he can fix you if you allow him to. I am still screwed up and I’m an imperfect human being but it’s amazing how Jesus uses the screwed up people to reach others for Christ. If you would like to give your life to Jesus today Pray this “Dear Lord Jesus I know I’m a sinner and I need your forgiveness I believe you died on the cross and rose from the grave come into my life take complete control Jesus I give my life to you AMEN!” If you prayed that prayer you made the best decision of your life! You need to tell someone it’s AWESOME. Contact me and I will mail you a bible and your next step needs to be finding a Church that will love you no matter what for who you are! God Bless and I Love all of you out there! Verse of the day JOHN 3:16-17 have an awesome day love Jason!