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John 15:9

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Lloyd Redsky

I believe in the Word of God in Revelation where it says that the enemy, satan, has been overcome by the blood of the Lamb. What also thrills me is that my testimony has also overcome the enemy. That's why I want to share my testimony with you, to encourage you and to provoke YOU to testify too. No weapon formed against you and I shall prosper, and whenever I share my testimony, I speak it with confidence knowing that the enemy is powerless against me, thanks to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

There used to be a bible in my bedroom while I was attending junior high school. It was called the Good News Bible, filled with words and simple hand-drawn pictures. I used to pick it up once and awhile, but I felt that I never got anything out of it, simply because I did not yield myself to the Lord. Doing my own thing was my main attitude at that time. Throughout the next few years, I experimented with marijuana, and other similar drugs. After two years of dating Nellie, we became parents. There used to be a house down the road from our little apartment on our reserve, and we used to hear alot of shouting, laughter, and crying coming from that house where the local Christians met. I didn't care to be apart of their group, and it used to bother me that Nellie expressed an interest in checking it out. I remember going with her one evening, and what I saw bothered me more. I saw people crying, I saw people shouting and saying Thank You Jesus! I saw people laughing and dancing, and I even saw people fall to the floor while they were being prayed for. Whatever joy they felt, whatever presence they felt, I sure didn't feel anything. I still desired to live my own life they way I wanted to, and that was to continue smoking marijuana, and drinking with my friends. We later moved to Winnipeg while our daughter was a year old. Suddenly, the drugs and alcohol were easily available and more affordable then they were on the reserve. No more doing business with the bootlegger.

I acquired a good seasonal job, and everyone I worked with drank with the boss at the local pub during lunch. It got so bad that I abandoned my family just to enjoy my friends from work. One payday, Nellie and I made plans to meet at the local grocery store immediately after work. Little did she know that as the afternoon progressed, I was making other plans. When the workday was over, I jumped in a co-workers car, we went to cash our paycheques, and headed straight for the bar. I didn't get home until the next day, completely broke from a night of drinking, smoking, and gambling. I sure was sorry when Nellie told me what happened to her and our daughter the day before when I was supposed to meet them. They had to walk ten long blocks in cold frigid temperatures to get to the grocery store. They waited for nearly 3 hours for me, but I didn't come. Nellie had to push the baby stroller again for ten blocks in the blowing snow to get back home. While this was happening, I was whooping it up with the guys. They said "the ol' lady will be mad at you anyways so you might as well party now and let her get mad at you tomorrow". The alcohol and drugs numbed my conscience, and I made an easy decision to listen to the guys.

Years later, I was walking my daughter to day care on my way to my new job. When I came back from work that day, she was not at home. Nellie told me that our daughter was suddenly in a foster home, having been apprehended because of false accusations against me. It was the hardest, most painful event in my life. I cried so much that I was delirious during those next few days of not being with our daughter. My heart was torn wide open, and I felt ill because it felt like I was in a whirlwind of confusion. The event caused me to drop to my knees and I reached over and picked up the new bible that my dad got me. I closed my eyes, raised one finger in the air and said "Jesus. If you're real, please make yourself real to me right now. I need you. I can't do anything without you." With tears swelling in my closed eyes, I opened the bible with my left hand, and my right index finger landed on words on a randomly opened page. I opened my eyes, and saw that my finger had landed on words that were printed in red. The words said

"Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad for great is your reward in heaven....." {Matthew 5:11,12)

There was a preacher in town that same night and Nellie and I wanted to go. After the message, people lined up for prayer. I was in that lineup too, and when it was my turn to recieve prayer, the preacher put his hands on my shoulders, looked deep into my eyes and said to me, "The Lord is calling you into the ministry". Then he raised his hand and was about to touch my head to pray for me. Suddenly I felt an awesome surge of power go though the top of my head and leave my body through my feet. I cannot describe it, but it felt like a warm sense of liquid love filling me and suddenly purging my whole being. The sensation was so powerful, that it physically overpowered my ability to stand. The next thing I remember, I was struggling to get off the floor and I staggered to my seat. I felt like a brand new man! Everything that the child and family agency said about me was a lie, and they gave our daughter back to us. Even though those few weeks were the hardest times in our lives, I have learned to forgive, and it helped me realize that without Jesus, I could do nothing. Now I understood why those Christians in that house acted that way. I am like that too. The greatest friend I'll ever have is Jesus. He was there all along during our tough times, and He never left us. He says in Matthew 11:28

"Come unto me all ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest".

Today we are ministering the word of God, praying for the sick, and casting out demons. Jesus told his disciples

"And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover" (St Mark 16:17,18)

"And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following." (St Mark 16:20)

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