Here are some Praise Reports from just some of our Many Partners:
Pastor, I do not know how to thank you enough and your ministry for constantly lifting me and my family up in prayer. Your true to life experiences have helped us get through difficult times with your no nonsense approach to the Word of God and it has taught us how to use the Word of God in our daily lives!
- Jeremiah and Delta Keys
San Antonio TX
Thank you for sending me your broadcast on Picking which battles to fight. I have been trying to control everything in my life myself and I did not realize that I was never really in control and that there was something else calling the shots. Now I let God fight the battles that He said He would fight for me and you know what, I have come out on top each and every time, your rock ! Thanks.
-Pat M.
Middletown, IA
I love your broadcast the Midnight Hour, especially when you and your wife are on there together, I hope to hear more of you two together. It encourages me to keep the lines of communication open with my wife and your true to life experiences have helped us to strengthen our own relationships. Many Thanks.
-Norm L.
Springfield
The one thing I hate is when people preach at me like I am stupid. Your ministry treated me like I am worthy and have value, now I am pursuing my destiny with God and my life has done a 180!! Even my broken relationships are being healed!!! I do not know how to thank you for everything that you have done for me. I owe so much to your ministry for teaching me the Word of God and for never giving up on me through your prayers, emails and broadcasts. Thanks for letting God use you to let us know that He is real.
-Pete D.
Charlotte, NC
As a child, Victor went from troubled, to bad, to worse. By the time he was 17, he had dropped out of school to become a gangster. He was addicted to alcohol, smoking, vulgarities and pornography while pursuing a life of crime. One day Victor met a girl who invited him to church. There he met Jesus Christ and surrendered his life. Victor has never been the same again, as his life continues to undergo an amazing transformation.
Victor King’s Life Transformation
Victor King was a born in Singapore in 1980 and grew up in a Christian family. Despite hating to go to church, he was forced to attend by his parents. They sent him to a Christian school but that didn’t help. When he reached high school, that’s when he was influenced by his friends and got involved in a gang, smoking and skipping school. Things were turning from bad to worse as this became a lifestyle of bondage for him.
Victor started stealing, vandalizing, drinking and getting into fights. His folks found out about it and tried to talk him out of it, but it didn’t work. He was very rude, hot-tempered and vulgar. His teachers, the school staff, relatives, good friends and even counselors tried talking to Victor, but none of them could get through.
The Street Life . . .
Victor was expelled from school because of his bad attitude and poor attendance. He became a dropout at age 17. It didn’t really matter to him that he was a dropout. Rather, it gave him more reasons to become a full-time gangster.
Victor frequented pubs with his gang members daily. He became a very heavy smoker and he got hooked on alcohol. He was full of obscenities and got addicted to pornography. He started womanizing and stayed away from home most of the time. There were times he got involved in armed robberies. Most of his friends were drug addicts and ex-convicts. This troubled life took control over him. Victor was so lost in his sin, he became the worst guy in his family. No one could change him, not even the army.
After he was drafted into the Singapore Armed Forces, many people thought Victor would change for the better, but unfortunately, he did not. He got himself into the army prison (detention barracks) for going A.W.O.L (unauthorized absence) and for his bad attitude. Victor was also brought back to the police station a couple of times. His lifestyle kept pointing him to the prison, but he would always escape without getting caught.
Preserved By God for a Purpose . . .
Victor’s slavery to the devil came to an end just a few years ago. He had had quite a number of girlfriends in the past, and most of them were unbelievers. Five years ago, he got to know a girl who was a Christian. She brought him to her church. The Lord Jesus touched him and he started to break down. Victor suddenly felt so in love and loved, but he didn’t know how or by whom. All he knew was that this love was something beyond human experience. That day he received Jesus as his Lord and Savior.
Life Transformation . . .
Victor’s life was not the same after that day. As time went on, Jesus delivered him from so many things. Nine years of heavy smoking ended, six years of alcohol addiction was gone, and as time went by, God supernaturally took him out of the gang, delivered him from vulgarities, anger, womanizing, pornography, filthy lust and many more bad habits. The Lord made Victor see women in a different way.
He became a new creation. And Victor was also healed of a 10-year urinary bladder problem. Amazing grace! What man could not do, Jesus did. The people who knew Victor were shocked at the changes in him. The Bible says, with man it may seem impossible, but with God, all things are possible. It also says that sin shall have no dominion over us for we are not under law but under God’s grace.
The Lord is still working in Victor King’s life. He has felt the power and the manifest glory of Jesus in his transformed life.
There is hope in Jesus Christ.
After my four years in the Marines I joined the Beaufort County Sheriff's Department. I patrolled the county for seven years and worked my way up to Sargeant (Shift Commander). I worked nights for the whole time I was with the Sheriff's Department.
I saw so much death and mayhem that I became very hardened to it. I saw a man shot by his own brother for eating a pork chop after coming home late at night. The brother shot him because the pork chops were for supper the next night. I saw a young girl shot by her father because she sassed him. I saw two small boys (ages about 2 and 4) shot because the mother felt that if she could not keep the boys no one should have them. I saw many people killed in traffic accidents. I saw people of all ages who committed suicide because for them life was not worth living anymore. I risked my life trying to save people who hated me just because I was a cop. I tried to keep people from committing suicide, knowing that in their state of mind they would kill me and then themselves if I made a mistake. I experienced knocking on a mother's door at 3:00 a.m. to tell her that her son had been killed.
I was not alone, all the Deputies I worked with went through the same things. A person cannot see this kind of violence day in and day out and not be affected by it. Some people did not last as officers they left the force soon after starting. Others turned to alcohol to deaden the pain, others tried to live life in the fast lane, sex, alcohol, fast cars, anything that made them feel alive. I like many others lived for my job. I would work my days off (without pay, since we were salaried), I would work extra hours. During the years I was a Police Officer the suicide rate for Police Officers was the highest of any profession and alcoholism was second only to that of doctors.
I never blamed God, in fact I don't remember really thinking about Him that much. I saw that people made choices. They killed each other because they wanted to. I thought you had to be stronger than anyone else, never give an inch, never show any fear, never hesitate or you would become a victim.
The only victims I started feeling sorry for were the children, because I felt they had not done anything to cause their own problems. I had no friends other than other Police Officers. No one else understood me or what I went through.
My marriage was on its last legs, I felt like an eighty year old man. The last straw came one night while I was attempting to discipline a Deputy. He got mad at me and threatened to kill me. I suspended him and told him to give me his weapon, he refused and stormed out of the office. I could have tried to restrain him but I had visions of a shooting in our office between fellow Police Officers. I let him go and had a Detective who knew him go and talk to him. After about four hours the Detective was able to talk him into giving up his weapon and going home. The next day the Sheriff fired him. This incident was all I could take. I could handle everyone hating me, and trying to kill me on the streets, but not another officer.
I spent about another six months on the Sheriff's Department but decided that I had to leave. I went back into the service, this time into the Navy. Because I had been out of the military for seven years they made me go back to boot camp. I left the Sheriff's Department on Friday as a Shift Commander and reported to boot camp on Monday a low life recruit. I went from giving orders to being told when to go to the bathroom. My world came crashing down on me. I felt as alone as I have ever been in my life.
On Sunday I went to chapel. Before the service I was reading the Bible and opened it to Isaiah. I looked at the page and the only verse that for some reason caught my eye was 41:10. "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."
I spent the next ten years in the Navy. I was then discharged and given a 10% disability for a bad back. God blessed me with a second marriage, that is strong and based on a love of Christ. I have always had a "knack" for computers. I enjoy them and pick up new things quickly. I never thought much more than that about it. Until my Pastor did a series of sermons on spiritual gifts. He explained that whatever gift God has given you should be used for His glory. It made me realize that God did give me the ability to work with computers and that I wanted to use it for Him.
I now work as a Windows NT Network Engineer for Gordon Food Service. I maintain my website by myself on my own time. I first placed my testimony on the web about 7 years ago not expecting anyone to ever see it. I felt God was leading me to post it so in obedience I did. That was over 2 million hits ago. I have grown in my faith because I have had to defend my faith. God has been good to me and has stood beside me all the way.
Ralph
http://behindthebadge.net
Williams Testimony
Shortly after I left, my wife went crazy and started sleeping around with random people and even got pregnant by some truck driver she met. Afterwards, she and her new boyfriend got in touch with the father and got the money for an abortion or she ended up just losing it.
I had to come home from Iraq on emergency leave in order to sign over guardianship of my kids to their great aunt and uncle. Then I got a storage building and tried to save all the belongings of ours that I could for when my tour in Iraq was over because my wife had defaulted on our mortgage and my doublewide was being repossessed.
After I returned to Iraq, my in-laws wanted to have the kids live with them so they got guardianship of the kids. While my kids were living with my in-laws, they were letting my wife (their daughter) come back into the kids' lives. My wife would come back in for a while and then leave again after a couple of weeks. She had met another truck driver and was going out on the road with him. She came back again during Christmas '05 and left again after another couple of weeks. Both visits that she was there, from what I heard, were disasterous.
I returned from Iraq in Jan '06 and stayed with my in-laws and kids. One of my children was displaying a lot of sexual behavior and to my shock, my in-laws were accusing me of abusing them! Especially since my mother-in-law herself had told me that the behavior was going on while I was deployed. I went to social services and tried getting advice on what to do. DFACS was notified and the children were all three taken and put into foster care just three months after my year long deployment. By the grace of God they were all put together in one home with a wonderful family.
I had already started divorce procedings and started trying to get custody of the kids. My wife and I both had a case plan which we had to accomplish in order to get custody. I finished my case plan completely before Thanksgiving and in addition had a polygraph and an examination used to identify sex offenders and passed both with flying colors. My wife refused to cooperate the entire time and never even started her case plan. I was given unsupervised weekend visits and was supposed to get full custody just before Christmas.
Then my in-laws decided they were going to try to get custody and ended up postponing court until Mar '07. I was awarded full custody and my wife got visits supervised by DFACS. Since I was now a single parent and my unit was getting ready to deploy back to Iraq again, I didn't have any family to be able to help with the kids. So, I got discharged in July '07.
The instructor position I was selected for was not awarded the contract so I ended up being without a job. I worked construction for a while and then got into installation for Knology TV and Internet. I eventually got a job at a nursing home as a maintenance technician. That's where I met my fiance who was working there as a CNA. We fell in love and everything went great between us and the kids. She quit her job and stayed home with the kids full time.
DFACS stepped out of the case and put the visitations under my supervision with their mom. The visits weren't being productive and all she would ever do is gossip to me and make empty promises to the kids. She was pregnant again and living with her boyfriend. We are actually still going through our divorce now because she keeps refusing to cooperate and get this settled. She was even three weeks late getting our son his birthday gift because she kept forgetting to bring it with her to the visits. She didn't even call our youngest child on her birthday because that was around the time she was giving birth to her new baby girl. When I finally did hear from her after a month of no contact I told her that I was ending the visits with her until we could get it settled in court. That was June '08 and she has had several opportunities to settle this and has ignored each one. She has also broken up with her boyfriend and is moved back in with her parents and is now raising her new daughter in the same situation which destroyed our marriage and caused behavioral problems for the children.
Since I got custody of the kids, I have gotten them treated for their behavior and my fiance has nourished them and taken their education to new heights. The daughter that had the behavior has not displayed it for a very long time and has recently been accepted to a gifted students program at a school in town. My son has been recommended for it and my youngest daughter is scheduled for an entrance exam for them.
I have been struggling through temporary assignments and have recently been laid off again. I've been out of work for a week now but thank God my fiance had given me the courage and opportunity to go back to school and expand my education. I am now finished with my third quarter for Industrial Maintenance at the local technical college.
Some men my have given up or given in instead of taking on three children knowing that it would end a long, secure military career just six years from retirement. I have gone from one job to the next trying to find where I fit in. I have suffered and celebrated time after time for the last two years during a never-ending rollercoaster ride of emotions. I have kept going when others would have given up because every path I have taken, in one way or another, has led me towards a greater purpose and a better life for my kids. God has put suffering in our life in order to make us stronger so that we can appreciate what we do have instead of complain about what we don't. I believe that he will lead me to a new career when he thinks I'm ready for it and I know that my divorce will end soon so that I can marry my childrens' "real" mother who has stood by us during the turmoil and stayed true and faithful to us.
If you have a testimony you would like to share with us and would like us to consider placing it on our site please email us:
jim@jimwilsonministries.com
