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Personal Testimony This is my (Daniel) personal testimony, this is a brief testimony. If I would give you a full one, it would take about ten (10) pages or more to get it all in, but this covers pretty much of it.
Before I knew who Christ was, my life was a complete mess. My life growing up wasn’t good. My parents were divorced, I would spend most of my time at my grandmothers because my mother was always out drinking, I didn't get to see my father as much as I would liked to have, he was into his family (my sisters and step mom) so I rarely got to see him, so the only one I really had was my grandparents, they basically raised me. As I grew up, I got into doing drugs, first it was drinking, which I started when I was around 5 or so without anyone knowing. When I was in the eighth grade, I got into smoking the wacky tobacco. Then other things as I got older into my teens, which actually I shouldn’t even be alive right now because of all that I did. As I got older, I was an alcoholic, I was into pornography, using women, and angry at the world; let me add that the drinking didn’t help the anger.
My life would revolve around my drinking and women; I would look forward to getting out of work and having a drink, possibly going to the bar, a strip club, or out with my friends just to get drunk. At that time I thought I was happy with what I was doing and at times when I felt unhappy I would start to drink just so it would take away the pain of my childhood, so I thought. The drinking didn’t help at all it actually made things worse. I would get even unhappier and even angrier from thinking back on my life. There were a couple of times in my life that I didn’t care whether I lived or died, that’s how bad it got. Once was in my teens where I tried to stick a knife in my chest and once during my first marriage where I was so disgusted with my life that I started to walk home from a club that we were at, which was not to far from the house, as I was walking home I had to cross two major intersection and feeling the way I did I just started to walk into the on coming cars hoping that one would just hit me and take my life. The first major intersection didn’t do it so I tried again at the next one and that didn’t happen either, I guess they were all bad drivers or good ones depending on how you look at it.
At one point, in my first marriage back in 1992, we started looking for a church to go to. We tried a few places before we found one that we liked. As we went there for about three weeks or so I just sat there listening and thinking that this preacher was crazy, but then I started to feel the huge wall that I had built up around myself start to be taken down. I finally realized that this man, who was talking to me about God and what Jesus had done for me 2000 years ago, was telling me how I could be happy and full of life. Then finally I broke down and received Jesus into my life.
But then after about a year or so I fell and walked away from God. I went back to my old ways of drinking; this is when I started to get in into trouble because of it. My first wife and I finally split up and went our separate ways. At this time I went active duty into the Army, after doing three years in NY I transferred to El Paso Texas so I could be closer to my family. I remarried, to my beautiful wife now of 7 years, in 2000 and in 2002 I rededicated my life to God and received Jesus as my Lord and Savior. When I did this, my life changed completely. I stopped drinking and stopped the pornography. I once again have the joy of God in my life. Now I serve God with all my heart, soul, and mind.
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