About me

My name is Dave, and I live in the North West of the UK, I became a Christian in 1992 just after my first Son was Baptized, but before this I was anything but a Christian, I can assure you of that!, but even though I was far away from God, I just knew he was calling me because for some strange reason I had an overwhelming desire to get involved in the Church, I had no idea how to go about this, and in what capacity I could become involved, but all I knew was that I had to get in there somehow, but how could someone like me do something like that???

Well, God provided the way because my first Son was just about a year old at the time and we decided that we should have him Baptized, so I went along to the Church to enquire and a booking was made. In the time leading up to the service I was contacted by one of the Church wardens, it was guy named Steve and he invited us to attend a pre-Baptism seminar in which he would explain to us (and other parents) what Baptism really means and what it is all about, which seemed like a good idea, as for too many people (including myself at the time) it was just something that you "did" as a matter of tradition. So, off we went one evening to this big house to be educated in the ways & reasonings of Baptism, which I might add was very good and informative.

After the meeting I had the opportunity to talk to Steve and found to my surprise that we had a lot of things in common, particularly in relation to computers & electronics as he was at the time the IT Director of a large company. In the days that followed we maintained contact and became good friends, and as you would expect Steve was a practicing Christian so naturally we had a lot of chance to talk about God, Jesus and the Church in General, this helped to feed the hunger I had inside me to become involved in the Church, but at the same time it helped my Faith to grow and as a direct result of that I started to attend Church on a weekly basis long after the Baptism of my Son.

I cant even begin to tell you the wonderful Blessings that God has given to me since, but I can tell you that Christianity is indeed a Journey that lasts a lifetime, I am a completely different person now than I used to be, but that dosen't happen all at once, it is something that you grow into, a bit like when you are a child, you grow and learn things everyday, and so it is with Christianity, you learn new things all the time by spending time in prayer and talking to God, reading the Bible, and having fellowship with your fellow Christians at Church on Sundays and at various meetings during the week. You are basically learning to live and become like God originally intended us to be, and the more you become like Jesus through the Spirit of God helping and guiding you, the more robust and resilient you become to the things of this world that seek to drag you down.
Let me give you a "for instance" - I was a Married man, with 3 children, me & my wife had been together for about 12 years, and for some of that time my wife started to come to Church with me, and at the time she gave her life to the Lord and was Baptized, it wasn't unusual to see her up at the front of the Congregation on Sundays with me giving some testimony about what Jesus had been doing for her, but after a while she began to what we in the Church call "backslide", she stopped coming to Church and got to the point where she almost hated the idea, of course I didn't know but at the time a lot of this (but not all) was being fuelled by her listening to someone else that she had regular contact with - a man.
This Man who she had a part time job working for knew what her weaknesses were when she was "in the world", which basically means outside the Church, and that was as many people, the love of money and material possesions. Anyway to cut a long story short, she left the Church and then me and the children and decided to divorce me in the deal.
I think you can work out what happens next - anyhow, I bent over backwards to save our Marriage, I tried everything, I even offered to forgive her Adultery, but she didn't want to know, and so then I was left alone, devastated. This whole ordeal which lasted for approx 2 years took it's toll on me and could have left me with some pretty deep emotional scars. Ok, did you notice that I said it "could have" left me with some emotional scars?, because that part is very important - you see the fact is that the scars started to appear but were very quickly healed by the Lord, because the amount of support I recived from my Christian Brothers & Sisters in the Church overcame that falsified Love of the world and replaced it with the Love of Jesus, and believe me, "there is NO greater Love than that!", and so here I am 4 Years further on and feeling none the worsel in fact it was only when I stepped back and looked at what had happend to me in all of this that things started to become clear, you see when my ex-wife started to backslide, so did I and that was a BIG mistake, one thing that dosent go down well with God is for him to Bless you with all kinds of things and then you go off and forget about him and do your own thing, and that was what I had slipped in to.
I feel ashamed that I did, and I dont blame God for my Marital breakdown, even though I was tempted to at first, but now that I have seen the bigger picture, I can see that the Marriage only lasted as long as it did owing to God's Grace.

As for me now, I am a single Parent of 3 boys, I am a skilled computer, Microsoft and Cisco engineer but I dont care about any of that, I am just answering God's call of Evangelistic Ministry on my life and all I desire is to serve him in any way that I can. I Love the Lord and He is everything to me, I am nothing without him but an oily rag, I wish I had come to the realisation of his perfection many years earlier, but all things happen in His perfect time.
I hope that you do join the Lord's family, Jesus has prepared a place for you, the question is, will you accept it?

Just a note for any of my Christian Brother's or Sisters out there reading this page, I am looking for prayer intercessors to pray for people who I come into contact with particularly through this site, so if you can offer that time, and the Lord puts it onto your Heart to do that, then please send me an email with your details to Dave@ForJesus.co.uk

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