Before I was saved, I was always searching for an answer. Life felt empty. It felt like there was this empty void in my heart. Like I was constantly missing something. And, no matter what I did, I couldn’t fill it.
I’d look at the world around me. Not consciously knowing it but feeling it in my heart that is just wasn’t right. The world was evil and it was so flawed that I was searching for something real. There were so many lies that I was searching for the truth.
I was seemingly thirsty and no matter what I drank I still was thirsty. Until something quenched my thirst and a seed was planted in my heart…
First hearing the word of God
In 2020, it was during the COVID pandemic and we were all locked in our homes. I was browsing YouTube when I heard the word of God through a street preacher, Dorre Love. (He nows posts videos on this channel.)
I first clicked on his videos because I saw a thumbnail and title about how this street preacher was being attacked while he was preaching. I was curious to see what it was about.
I clicked into the video and it plays. I see his stuff being destroyed. Speaker unplugged and these people were attacking him and trying to silence his voice. And I heard what he was preaching and it was something I hadn’t heard before.
Over multiple days, maybe even weeks, I would listen to his videos as I worked on different projects on my computer. Hearing the words he spoke and the righteous and the good things in what he was saying, created a desire in me to hear and learn more.
So I thought to read the Bible. And it’s almost like instantly in the moment, I was immediately shown where a Bible was and the exact place it was at.
The miraculously well placed and perfectly timed Bible
In one of the cubicles of my shelf, buried under other notebooks and items and hidden, was a small pocket book Bible.
This book was given to me about 5 years earlier when I was in middle school.
One day I was walking to the street light to cross the street and get to the side of the street where my dad would park to pick me up. An older man stood on the first corner of the street light where the school was. He had a box and he was handing these small pocket book Bibles to every student. I didn’t know at the time what he was handing out.
The vast majority of the students I saw would say no and turn it down. A few I would see take it and go. I was one of those few.
He handed it to me. I took it and said, “Thank you!” Not knowing what I was just given but I knew it was a book of some sort and it was free. So I accepted it.
I kept it with me all those years having never really opened it up and never truly read it. But for some reason, I always kept it. I never had any intention or desire to open it and read it either. Nor did I ever think I would read it.
But God had kept this book with me throughout the years and had it perfectly placed to grab when it was time.
So I grabbed it and had placed it on my desk and commanded in my heart, “I am going to read this book tomorrow.” It was late at night at the time so I was determined to read it the next day and went to sleep.
Being awoken from sleep in darkness
Then I was suddenly awoke from my sleep which was extremely strange. I’d never wake up in the middle of the night. It was a very rare occurrence that I ever did. I’d always sleep throughout the whole night.
Tucked under my blanket, I open my eyes to a room full of absolute darkness. I hear nothing. There are no sounds.
But my eyes are fixed on one spot in the room. My desk and the exact place where I had placed the New Testament Bible on my desk.
I could feel this extremely heavy presence in the room. As if my room was filled to the brim with hundreds of evil, dark spirits. I was completely surrounded by them.
And I had felt and was spoken to that all of these evil spirits weren’t looking at me. They were all locked in on and staring at the Bible I had placed on my desk. They were seething with hatred, anger and malice. They wanted to destroy it.
I was scared, in fear, and felt like I was in danger. When a voice had told me to call out to Jesus Christ as I had seen and heard in the videos of the street preacher…
So I did. I called out in the name of Jesus Christ and commanded that angels would be sent down into my room and all the evil spirits would be destroyed and banished. That they’d all be eliminated and taken away. That they’d leave me at once in the name of Jesus Christ.
And in that same moment, it all happened. I witnessed and felt as an army of angels swept down in an instant and slew all of the evil spirits and destroyed them with their swords.
But I didn’t see anything
I could see it and I couldn’t. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s like I saw it in a realm or world that wasn’t physical but I didn’t see it with my physical eyes. I saw it with eyes that weren’t physical but spiritual eyes.
I could feel it all happening seemingly in real time. And I could feel it as well. As soon as it was happening and finished, I had felt the heavy presence leave the room. It became very light. In two ways it felt light: the heavy presence departed from the room but also it felt like I was surrounded by light. And surrounded by that which was good, holy and righteous.
It was something I had never felt before.
I felt relaxed, at complete peace, and I felt extremely safe and protected. And it was all of a sudden and in a moments notice.
I then passed out immediately and fell asleep.
P.S. I had shivers as I finished typing that out.
And I became extremely determined to read the Bible
When I woke up, having experienced what happened last night. I became absolutely dead set on reading the Bible. It was set in stone and nothing would stop me from reading the Bible after what happened.
So that’s what I did.
Then I read it and my whole life changed
Here was finally the answer I was looking for. All my questions answered.
In the Bible, I found the truth. I found knowledge. I found wisdom. I found answers to all my questions. I found Life. I found the Way to live. I found fulfillment and contentment. I found joy. In the Bible, I found the ultimate good thing and way of living. The way God had intended us to live.
Reading the Bible made me find joy and gratitude. It gave me an appreciation for life. It gave me a new perspective. A new Way of living. It brought me closer to God. It taught and showed me His ways.
It very much so pulled me out of the pits of hell and darkness, and gave me Life and light. It set me on a brand new path. One that led to righteousness, goodness and the Kingdom of God.
I was saved by Jesus Christ. I developed a relationship with God and was taught and brought up in His ways. God had mercy on me. I was an evil and very wicked person before.
God took me out of darkness and, by His Son, Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit, made me a light for Jesus Christ.
Following the reading, during the reading, and after the reading, was a chain of miraculous events.
The Miraculous Events
- I woke up one day and was completely different.
- I could not hear foul language, curse or swear words. When previously, I listened to that 24/7.
- I could not look at women dressing promiscuously or being near naked. When previously, I’d stare and loved seeing it. Now I felt sorry for them and felt disgust, almost throwing up seeing it.
- I had a defining moment where God drew me out and saved me from a panic attack. He completely eliminated the panic attack and destroyed the evil spirit causing it. Ridding me from the severe anxiety I had tried to end before through psychiatrists, meditation and other means
- Perfectly timed opportunities to do God’s will began surfacing and Bibles were given to others
- And many more, that I’ll be detailing and writing about over time in various articles