I love jesus ,WHY?

[crazy4jc]

My dad never believed in god,my mum a bit ,so we never went to any church.
I hated christians and if anyone near me had anything about jesus ,then i would be very angry!!!!!
This went on since i was born until i i was 34 years old ...
Man i had lived a life with a lot of travel and stuff ,many would think cool! i did to ,but i was on the run!!!Punk,hippy ,hippypunk Lsd mushrooms ...at the end drunk!!
drinking started with 13 years ,drugs with 14-17 ..and that all went on until the lord picked me up shoke me hard and opend my eyes!!Now as is in the bible ,i am born again ...did want it ? well I know i do now but before it happend i didn´t even want to live at all ....
My wife got saved a few years before ,she had been a girlfriend 10 years before but had broken up and lost sight of each other all that time ..
I had a very unhappy relationship with one child and lots of debt ..and a big drink problem on top....
I lost it and apart from the hold my son had on me i wanted out ......
i WAS CRYING INSIDE TO GOD.
He first got my 10year former girlfriend back into my life ,she only had eyes for her jesus ,i thought she was mad !!!
He got a whole church behind my my back and without knowing me ,they prayed for my life!!
He spoke to me through that friend .
He got me to ask (against all my fighting and kicking )to ask for prayer ..that girl put a hand on my head ,and i got hit by God,a power i had not felt before....and i had as said taken alot of drug and this was nothing like that!!!
SO he got me to ask him ,the first time i had ever asked god anything ,in that way!!
I was driving alone in my car ,,,,Hay god if you are real,then you can do anything ,,,i thought for a bit and then i spoke out loud ....If you are real then ,i want a sheep to stop my path ,,,not much realy to ask for ,and if i does not happen then leave me alone!!!
must say here in germany sheep do not run around free so not an everyday thing ....deer okay wild boar okay but sheep no!!just to clear that up..
NOTHING happend.

As you know i am a farrier and one day i was shoeing two horses at a vets place ,i had finished both and was ready to move on ,as a truck backed up the path blocked my wayout ..a farmer gets out opens the back of the truck and lying dirty and dieing was a big old mother sheep ....the farmer was fast spoke something i did not understand and went in to look for a vet ,,,,,,
Me i was on the phone and waiting ....
The farmer came out a minute later alone looked at me looked at the sheep ,she was dead!!!
So he let me out and i drove off ,,,as i got a mile down the road .it came over me ....like a power ,shoke or something .......THAT WAS MY ******************SHEEP

Now i had a problem ...he is real ....
The fight had just started now ,the devil does not give up what he has had for years ,,,,,,,I got very scared ,and the drink took so a hold on me that i was close to killing myself ....after about 4 days nonstop drinking and losing it altogether ,i woke up on the street in a town ,i had been robed and felt so strange ..
found my drinking partner and went home ....i could not stand still ran up and down ,did not know where to run ..my mate was asking me what is going on ; i was shaking ....stiil drunk ,i do not know really .....anyway i
had to get to my girlfriend ......

Okay turn up after 4 days drink and knock at the window of a good christian girl .....she let me in ....
I said i want to do that prayer thing .....so i prayed ..lord jesus come into my life i can not go on like this anymore ,and so on.......well i know nothing but i spent 1 hour repenting my sins ,i had killed children ,i had hate and lots more !!!

A wonder happend midday i was having a meal I was not hungover .ant the spirits at the end of the meal i did not want ,,,,from that day on i am free from drink (nothing)drugs ,and later with his power i no not smoke....
He made me free and my life hade now started ...

the demons have gone ,i am happy married ,i see and care for my first son ,and have two other boys ...
my depts are gone from my old life and i have my own firm ...and the credit only is to GOD !!!now one else ....

Dear reader ,this is a quick note of how i became a christian .....what really happend in full ,would fill a book!!

Ray knightley..farrier.

[redeemed1]

Hi Ray -

I just wanted to thank you, sincerely, for posting your testimony. I'm sure that it took courage, commitment, and time for you to do so.

Yours is a powerful story -- no, I should say it is a powerful reality. It is the reality of God's power, but also of your "strength" to admit your weakness and how desperately you need His power. You daily make the choice to lean on Him or go it on your own.

Your post has blessed me, and there's no telling how many others it will bless. I pray that you will be blessed by sharing it.

[crazy4jc]

thanks ,i was not sure about posting then as my brother made the first post i felt a little kick to do it ...

whet you said about everyday choise was very good .....I used to have problems praying in the morning .tierd and all that ,but some days i get a kick to do so ,,,,,some clients are very strange for what ever reason and when i pray they seem to have no time to hang around and make the horses mad ....thats agreat help ...

my prayer goes out now to the four guys that work for me ,two part time and one of those is so prisioned by demons that he really needs help has two children 6 months apart and drug, drink and one has family ,but plays with dark powers to solve his problems ,the other is young but also lost his brother at a very young age and i would be great if he could find the lord where he is .teh other needs help to know what he should do he has no real plan..I try not to preach to much with those that work for me because they have to lisern and that my not be fare....that policy was the same in my wife old firm advertising because all the bosses got touched by the lord and they also where careful not to miss use their position....only showing by doing.

Prayer is the most powerful weapon and i want to see more workings of god in my time here ,as he says ;on earth as in heaven!!!

ray knightley.farrier ...

[Gilreath-Horseshoeing]

Great testimony Ray. I also will pray for your workers that they may find the Lord.

[reign16]

i love jesus cause he give me life and everything of me!!