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From: "Kevin &Rosario Raymond" <kevin&[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>

My name is Kevin Andrew Raymond and my testimony is kinda long. i was born the baby of five boys from my mother in upstate New York. My dad was a drill/staff seargent in the army. My mom worked in the state psychiatric hospital. They would fight a lot especially at night and it would get pretty bad, even when we would go on family vacations. Since the "homelife" was pretty bad seeing what was happening. i saw my dad beat one of my brothers on his back with a wiffle-ball bat because he backed into the hedge with the riding lawn mower. Another time i saw him throw a chainsaw at one of the others. My mom once told me he beat her with leg table. All through that, my oldest brother was getting into drugs heavily. So by the age of eight or nine i seen a lot. And i myself was following the same examples i saw in my own family.

At about that age i started sniffing gasoline in the garage or hide somewhere to do it. i would come in and my mom would smell it on me. That was just the beginning of my trip through the devil's kingdom and his slavery. i would sneak into peoples drawers and steal money for candy and for the carnivals that come in the summer time. While sneaking around like a kid does, i discovered a couple of things. Men and Women porno magazines. One of my brothers was gay when i looked at his magazines of naked men. And another i found out was gay ten years later. i was being pulled into a lifestyle of perversion. i was sexually molested in the bathroom in our house. One day i started having incest my cousin performing oral sex on him on several ocassions meanwhile having acts done with my other cousin who was a girl. A few years past by and it started all over again with a friend from school. Sneaking off to do the same thing.
 
At the age of twelve or thirteen i was introduced to a new world called Dungeons & Dragons by my brother. Little did i know it was part of the occult or form of devil worship. i loved being in that fantasy world being who i wanted we would play for hours inviting demons into us unknowingly. One could create whatever person he/she desired with a roll of a dice. And battle monsters and people of enormous proportions. i was becoming posessed by monsters and creatures in the game in reality. Playing by candelight being symbols of demonic entry and witchcraft.
 
During that same time, my parents got a divorce and my brothers were leaving the house to live their own lives. i was alone with my mom. We lost the house in the divorced and forced to move into a trailer park. Things started to get worse. i was devastated by the divorce and got into drugs and alcohol more heavily taking speed to stay awake. When my mom would go to work i would go and get wasted.  My grades dropped to a C + D average. My mom had enough and sent me to live with my dad, stepmom, and little brother. i stopped for about a year but went right back into it. Amazingly enough i kept a 3.0 average in school.

One day my dad found out what i was doing and was p.o d and for some reason while lecturing me i looked up and he punched me in the mouth and i fell back and cut my head on the oven door handle. At the age of 17 i had to go to school like that i when a teacher asked i told the truth and they called Child Proective Services on him and when i got home he threw me up against the wall and i literally when into my childhood nightmares of what he did to us when we were younger and wet my pants at 17 years of age.

Time went by and things went back and forth til finally i had enough and took my last paycheck and bought a bus ticket back to New York to live with my mom. She unconditionally took me back home. Again i started to hang around with the same people again. While in Texas i was dating a girl who was a christian and witnessed to me but i only had one thing on my mind.
 
Then at the age of 19 i tried going to college. In the month of May in 1998, God started to reach out but i didn't understand. My brother Rick died a week before his 29th birthday of AIDS. i started to get into drugs like i used to while trying to keep college credits finding new drug friends. Then on the morning of October 5,1998 i said goodbye to my mom and went off to class and got really stoned , a couple of hours later, i come home and find my mom dead on the couch from cancer. God broke me into pieces and i was a broken man by God at the age of 19. But i still refused. i had a house and a car at such a young age, and 50,000 dollars from my mothers will.

Within a two year period i blew it all away on my drug and alcohol addiction and found two new drugs, LSD and coccaine and one time during a two day period i had dropped seven hits of acid. During those two years i got myself caught up in a relationship with a girl and had two children. My past came back to haunt me. i had started to abuse her physically just as my father did. i would go on violent rages and break things and hit her.

When we split up i went to the courthouse and filed for custody for my daughters and my dad helped with the lawyer. Almost a year went by and the day came when the judged handed his decision all i remember is "God don't take my children away" and five minutes later the lawyer comes out saying i have full custody and can move at anytime.

So back to Texas again i go hoping my dad would've changed. But soon found out he didn't. He started doing the same things but to my children now. After nine months i packed up and left. Being a single father i tried to work and have them in daycare but i couldn't afford it. So i ended up on welfare and being a full-time dad with a one year old and a two and half year old girls. Time passed when i got caught up in drugs again. Selling foodstamps to pay for my habit.

Then the day came in summer of '93 & 94 i kept walking by this placed called a drop-in for the past couple of years thinking it was a place to drop off your kids not knowing what it was. Then a few days or a week passed. One night for some reason i felt something get me out of bed and pray. i didn't know what to pray so i said the what is called the Lord's prayer from when the priests in the catholic church sowed into me and i started to ask God to forgive me for all my sins even the ones when i was a kid and took the stash of marijuana on went to the bathroom on my knees and flushed it down the toilet.

The following day i finally went to the drop-in and found it was part of church ministry called nowadays Victory Fellowship of Texas. A couple there by the name of Matias and Rose Siller started to take me to chuch. At first i felt awkward like i was back at the catholic church. Then i saw people dancing, praising,and worshipping God and preachers talking about the bible.

Then July of '94 during a 3rd service i didn't know but God came and prophesied thru someone that he loved me and knew the pains of my heart and at the alter call hearing the song "Oh The Blood Of Jesus" i crawled on my hands and knees to the alter and accepted God himself into my heart and life crying out for his help to get out of my rut in life.

A couple of years passed and one day as i took my daughter to the daycare at the school i was volunteering as a teacher's aid. I heard a voice clear as a bell say to me " You don't have to look anymore" and immediately i turned and no one was there it was the Holy Spirit. On the other side of that door just happened to be my wife to whom i am happily married today.

During my first couple of years as a christian a had a struggle with forgiveness towards my dad. i figured he desereved to rot in hell for what he had done. Then an evengalist by the name of Leon Cliff had a word of knowledge that a young man suffered abuse from his father and and that God wants that person to forgive. That young man was myself i literally broke and cried outloud in front of the people. A few months had passed and i saw my oldest daughter's godfather and we talked and he convinced me to go see my dad because his health was bad at the time. We pulled up and i walked up that long,long driveway so it seemed and something inside me just reached out and hugged my dad and kissed him on the cheek and i told him " I love you". At that moment i knew i was truly saved because of God's grace towards me and his love.

During the past two to three years i have been a teacher in the children's church the ages of 3-12 boys. Over a year ago during a worship seminar with leader LaMar Boschman he prophesied that as with Jeremiah God knew me before i was in my mother's womb he has chosen me a man of God as he said no matter what do not be discouraged and he will raise me up to be a minister of the gospel. Right now i am home with my wife and kids dealing with the tragic death of our baby and letting it be God's timing to return to ministry.

I know and understand that God has everything in control even when it doesn't make a bit of difference i understand or not and i can glory in his grace and and it is not by might, not by power, but by his spirit and grace in Christ alone.

I hope that this has been and inspiration and encouragement to whoever reads this and keep your eyes on God and not on man.

 Kevin  Raymond <kevin&[email protected]>


 

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The people of the world can be divided into two groups. The first group are those who can clearly point to the intervention of Jesus Christ in their lives. The second are those who cannot. If you are in this latter group PLEASE don't let another hour go past before you get right with God. He loves you and has a great plan for your life! But there must be change. If you are religious but can't point to a definite work of God in your life YOU NEED to get born again in the Bible way. To find out how to get right with God, click here now.

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Would you like to do this? If so, start writing your testimony as soon as you can, and THEN, e-mail your testimony to me here so we can publish it for you online. Post it on the testimonies bulletin board here. In this way you are helping to fulfil the Great Commission. Some testimonies on this site are reaching 10 or even 20 people per day. Our team wishes to help people share their testimonies through the internet. Let us together bring hope to those who don't know the reality of our wonderful Savior Jesus Christ.

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