DAY TO DAY WITH JESUS
RECOVERY DEVOTIONAL
RELIANCE ON THE LORD
Brother James, OIC
2Ch 16:8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.
I’ve had a saying for years now of growing in Christ through the many spiritual journeys the Lord has brought and taught me through and that is this:
“I am Blessed by the Best through tests”
Think about this testimony after you are finished reading and remember this those of you who’ve gossiped and lied and chose to believe the lies about me:
Pro 18:17 He that is first in his own cause seemeth right ; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
I was raised in Christ through 12 accumulative years in prison. The reason for the word accumulative is that I was rapidly in and out of Prison through what was to become known as the revolving door days in Texas. Through the times inside God would heal and teach me through his Word first my own failures and then also began healing me from the abuses of Satan and his many False Ministers placed in today’s worldly Church. It was in 1989 when this journey began. Can you imagine at 38 to begin reading Gods Word for the first time in a County Jail on the way to Prison? Can you imagine after the self abuse of chasing the sin of emulations of the American Dream to think again “if I can only getit right this time I could be happy”: a new marriage, a 8 week old baby, two young step daughters, both the wife and I addicted with no recovery tools within for overcoming this lost and dying world THEN both of us going to Prison? Can you fathom the feelings of being lost, hurt, the loneliness, fear, separated from those you love heading to a place you’d never thought you would be? Having to leave our baby and step daughters with a Pastor and his wife of a Southern Baptist Church in Houston while we went away. Can you imagine being handed a Bible the first day in a 4000 person jail that was holding 12,000? Can you sense the only comfort I might have felt was knowing our children were safe, in fact I wanted to read that Bible so I could be just like those Church people? And now imagine hearing from God right at the start of my reading His Word to where I knew it was Infallibly True, that He was God and was very very real and alive? Then imagine getting a zeal to witness and witnessing daily to as many Inmates and Officers as God would place in front of me? Then imagine after all that and after looking forward to following the plan of the Church that had our babies to get out and discover the Pastors wife and he fell in love with our baby daughter and stole her? Can you imagine that? It’s not imaginary it was real. We cursed God went back out to the world only to end up a few months later back in and God speaking to me: “James remember the comfort of My scripture?” Well I did and it was on with me and God again. The whole testimony to date will be completed soon for you to read but for now fast forward with me to recent events.
Out of Prison May 2008, Gods Vision Birthed inside of me through years of PAYING THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP AND BEING MADE READY I was placed on hold by God and went to work at a Construction Job, 56 hours 6 days a week, never missed one day of work in a year. Kept my Parole Perfect. Then my sons Nick 11 and Josh 12 were killed in a car wreck with their step dad in Texas Feburary 2009. Pain like I never imagined overtook me inside, but I stood. After the funeral I quit my job then God used that tremendous tragedy to draw me very close to Him.
It was shortly after that time I ended up at the Ark working through a Government Program that hired seniors part time to work in a charity. There I met a man who was just like the Pastor of so long ago that stole my daughter, I knew there was something familiar but couldn’t place it (wish I had of but the whole true story will soon be on this blog along with many testimonies of those they have and are currently hurting. This man had a one page layout of an Administrative Plan (Administrations,I think, is his doctorate as he is a retired dean) for what the old hospital that an already dried up ministry was in. I showed him my years and years worth of Gods Vision of OverComers In Christ Outreach Ministries I had written as instructed in Gods Word, its 200 Recovery Tracts, a Book entitled Breaking The Cycle of Defeat, another book entitled God’s Promises To His Prisoners, A Detail of the Multifaceted Ministry Vision (a Labor of Christ’s Love) spelled out completely each facet named, their logos,Christ Centered Scripture Based Recovery Meeting format, Ministry Industry Names and logos and did this guy get excited as he held up his one page administrative outline and said “we have the same vision” lets do it, stupid, stupid me. Well I’m a slow learner and said okay and it was off to darkest of dark spiritual abuses I’ve ever encountered. This story will also be available soon in great detail on the blog.
But this writing is about Reliance On God, no I haven't forgotten! Fast Forward again months into this ministry the devils true colors began being revealed in this individual; he caused everyone to get kicked out of the Womens and Childrens Shelter. And after all his hatefulness to the women and children at the shelter and Church on Ross Clark Circle he had nerve to accept money from the the Homeless Coalition Grant Board of which he is also a member though he never lifted one finger to really help and from all indication he hates women and children. It was 5 PM when he caused the women and children and a lady in a wheelchair to be kicked out of our shelter and as usual he went home during the turmoil. I had to move everyone within two hours. Eleven people including children the lady in a wheelchair to someplace safe they they could stay during the cold winter.
Just before these things this snake brought in a devil and a witch onto the ministry team, and its evident; they as well him hated the residents at OIC and the women and children; BUT they are now asking the good people of this town for funds so they can open another women’s shelter, Please God protect the people in this town from these apostates and from giving to them and protect especially those in need from being hurtany longer by their loveless false doctrines.
Because of this I opened a women’s shelter in Daleville to house those they neglected and abused. Then after Church one Wednesday I was on a ministry run driving a donated unregistered ministry van and I was stopped by the police. Being an ex felon the police asked to search the van, I said okay and they found what they said to be a small amount of crack in a seat. A ministry van that shuttles many homeless and those in need in various stages of recovery daily here and there and there’s a piece of a drug in the seat, imagine that? Well I was arrested the van impounded, my 15 year parole revoked and a diligent move by the snake to STEAL the Ministry Vision God Birthed in and through me. He told everyone I wasn’t getting out. But God, who can always be relied on to deliver His True Servants, had Divine Appointments for me in the County Jail wherein I began holding daily Bible Studies and Recovery Meetings just like at (the jail in) the Ark and when He was done using me there He Miraculously brought me out on a bond. A bond the snake told everyone I wouldn’t get nor would anyone (at least in his dead religious worldy make) BUT RELIANCE ON GOD PLACED AN INMATE IN MY BIBLE STUDIES WHOM GOD TOLD TO PAY MY $7,500.00 BOND. HE DID AND I’M STILL ABOUT MY FATHER’S BUSINESS. Now this devil is stealing my personal computer, clothes, underwear, tools and many other personal possessions I had brought with me to the Ark saying I cannot have them until I sign a release. I would never sign another piece of paper that coveting defrauder has written. In tune with his lovelessness for three weeks since I've been freed again I've had only two pair of socks and a couple pairs of jeans and have had to walk to look for work and have been near homeless while he has withheld, for his personal use over $1500.00 of my things, (whiuch I've now billed him for per my attorney)...DO YOU REALLY WANT YOUR LOVED ONE AT THAT SNAKE PIT OF A SHELTER? BUT GOD has continued to meet all my needs though I've had only 3 hours worth of work these three weeks. So people I'm available to work CALL ME 334-718-2121.
It doesn’t matter where you are, what building you are in and certainly NOT about how many degrees you hold but about Absolute Total Reliance on God and Complete Trust in His Promises and above all LOVING OTHERS AS CHRIST LOVED US. And for those of you who have heard the call of God to Christ ,who’ve been brought through the spiritual trenches, those of you (unlike the snake) not accepted nor loved by the world nor its loveless religions REMEMBER the words of Christ:
Luk 7:47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are many; are forgiven for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
1Co 1:27-29 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.
