Hallelujah - What a Saviour

My name is Joe, and I live in Chatsworth, Ga. At 17, I asked Jesus to come into my heart, and I believe He did. But I never understood how to get Him into my LIFE until over 20 years later, at the age of 40. All those years I had been telling God what I wanted Him to do, and all that time, He'd been waitng for me to ask Him what He wanted ME to do.

Oh, all the waisted years; the broken dreams, hearts, and shattered lives. The family and children whom I loved SO much (and likewise)...GONE. How many times I had begged God to take the drug addiction. How many times I had begged for the return of my children. How many times I had flirted with the thought of suicide. But I never got what I wanted; I only got worse.

Then one day, in an act of total desperation, I fell down in the floor of my lonely home, and began to plead with God, with my whole being (all I had left),"Lord, what do You want from me? What do You want me to do? I don't really want to die, but I can't live like this anymore! PLEASE help me! PLEASE tell me what You would have me to do- I'll do ANYTHING"!!!

Well, it was just that simple. He wanted me; not just my problems. And so, now we have a personal and very loving relationship, instead of just an affair! Now I know that He is MUCH MORE than just some jennie in a bottle that you let out to grant a wish, and then put back on a shelf; no,HE'S GOD!!! And the more I seek to know His will for me, the more I learn to serve and please Him. And the more I serve and please Him, the more I learn to worship Him.

And the more I worship Him, the more and more He pleases me and blesses me, day after day, time and again, over and over; with much more than I would have ever dared to ask for !!!The terrible oppression of over 20 years of accute drug addiction and alchoholism... COMPLETELY GONE!!! Now I'm laughing and ENJOYING LIFE again; much more than ever before!

And I now have a purpose in life; "TELL OTHERS"!!!

One day, I was painting the outside of the church where I was employed, and I was thinking that a lot of people were going to be slow to except me, because of my terrible past; when I very distinctly heard a voice say to me: "You will be a POWERFUL WITNESS" !!! WOAH, I almost fell off the ladder! And so now, I go to the local jail...as a MINISTER; where I spent MUCH of my life (behind bars), and I encourage others to try giving themselves WHOLLY over to JESUS!!! Many of the inmates know me; many were once some of my closest friends, back when I was "Joey the Junkie" (or Joey "Jones", mockingly, as I would do just about anything for another dose), and they are AMAZED at the complete turn around - the difference that the presence of God has made in my life, and what God is doing in and through me! Many of them tell me over and over how proud they are of me!

But I am quick to tell them it was certainly nothing that I did; I could never do ANYTHING right! All I did was call on God, and submit my will to Him, and He did (and still does) the rest!!! I tell them that He will be just as sure to do the same for them - if only they will freely allow Him to do so! But they have to be willing to give it all up - a life of misery, total failure, and slow but sure death...for a life of JOY, COUNTLESS BLESSINGS, and ETERNAL LIFE WITH GOD as our FATHER !!! I have seen 3 guys saved -IN JAIL - in ONE MONTH...HALLELUJAH WHAT A SAVIOR: GOD IS SO AWESOME!!! And I am proof that there is REALLY hope; a SURE way to break that last needle, ONCE AND FOR ALL; and live a MUCH better life in Christ Jesus, and all the benefits that come with being a "SON OF GOD" !!!

Listen, maybe someone, somewhere, at sometime will read this, who is standing in the same shoes I use to walk in. My father died at the age of 32, with scirosis of the liver, from a life of accute alcholism. I was 10 years old.Then my mother, who had been a pharmaceutical drug addict most of her life (and in and o

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