It has been an interesting journey.
'Abrothasministry' was birthed out of pain, rejection and ultimate confirmation of the Most High God's prophetic call on this 'brothas' life. I personally remember meeting Jesus when I was about 8 years old. I talked to him, more than I talked to most people growing up.
I just always knew He was there...somewhere...
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Growing up very isolated and seemingly rejected by family and peers alike, I went to college and that was the first time I came to understand HIS divine favor and, even moreso, later in life, as that favor increased, so did my achievements.
As my 'worldly gain' increased, so did my utter lack of devotion and loyalty to my best friend, the true keeper and lover of my soul...Jesus Christ.
As my 'worldly gain' increased, so did my utter lack of devotion and loyalty to my best friend, the true keeper and lover of my soul...Jesus Christ.
That was until the Holy Spirit, by HIS divine intervention, led me into my own designated wilderness experience 'too'... [Mark 1:9-15]
While traveling on a major east coast highway to close out financial matters out of state[even after an audible voice earlier that day told me not to go and my GPS all by its lonesome recalculated itself to take me home], my car flipped 4 times at 70 miles an hour, landing upside down. My shoes were literally thrown a quarter mile down the road AND I walked away with NOTHING, but a little rope burn on my right elbow(literally not even a sign or mark of trauma on my body from where the seat belt was positioned)...
My day of reckoning on July 21, 2011 when the truth of the darkness around me, it's Kingdom's plan for my life, it's New World Order, was presented to me in such horrific reality, Hollywood wouldn't dare touch the script played out before my very eyes and soul.
ON that day, I had to make a choice.
For clarification and to clear up any misinterpretation...I am talking in literal terms...
This choice was about both physical and spiritual life or death; Do I gain the whole world and lose my soul? Or do I run back to my Father's house and leave the 'whole world' behind.
ON THAT DAY. The very Spirit of Life, rose in me and strengthened me to declare, like the three Hebrew boys in front of the fiery furnace...For God(YAHWEH) I LIVE AND FOR THE TRUE AND ONLY LIVING GOD...I DIE!
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Our Savior is FAITHFUL, The Lord, hid me, literally and spiritually in HIS secret pavilion of love and mercy...
But, MOST IMPORTANTLY, HE restored the eternal relationship between this prodigal son (too) and his eternal Father...a continued journey AND revelation exemplifying just how the Creator of the Universe, will literally move heaven and hell to bring even one of HIS lost sheep home...
THE last few years have literally changed my life...or better yet caused me to lose this life, it's vanity and gain HIS.
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EVEN as I write this, tears are flowing...as I see the relationships crucified, the sense of wordly security deemed necessary for success broken and broke....but the tears are not of sorrow anymore...no lie...they used to be...these days, these tears now... are an offering to my Lord ...a worship of sorts...
As these [often] silent tears...are my heart's cry of thanksgiving for supernaturally saving my whole being from a compromise that could have gained me everything while costing me my very soul...
The darkness is very real...as much as many, EVEN those in the VERY CORPORATE BODY of JESUS CHRIST act as IF it "ain't"...it is.
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But GOD ... YAHWEH ...
The OMNIPOTENT Creator of All, His Only Begotten Son, JESUS CHRIST, who IS come in the flesh, and His PRECIOUS HOLY SPIRIT
...declared in Romans 8:37...
...declared in Romans 8:37...
37.Nay, in ALL these things we are more than CONQUERORS through HIM that loved us. 38.For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39.Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of GOD, which is in CHRIST JESUS our LORD.
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WE all have a testimony and I look forward to sharing mine in a bit more detail with you...I am a black man who loves God...a brotha who now, after a true and sho' nuff encounter with the King of all Kings, is not afraid to lose this life, as MY HEART IS SET 'ON' AND 'IN' A DIFFERENT REALM and REALITY; where I am truly and trustfully established as an eternal resident in heavenly places...on a divine and final assignment to overcome down here...gladly letting this life go and boldy telling a dying, crying world with KINGDOM authority and POWER...
the very reason(s) why...
Stay tuned.
With God's pure heart and love...until the next time, GET TO KNOW HIM! TODAY!
Your humble brotha in Christ
Michael
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