The Wrecked Ford Ranger
[May, 2010]
Psalms 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Mikey and my self were smoking Marijuana (Weed) and going to bars partying. We were doing this for a long time every weekend. Then we would also smoke while I was driving and we would go to the mall and go walk around the mall high of Kush or Chronic. We went to the Nike outlet and bought sandals and shoes and then would go out and get food. We would go pick up drugs high smoking weed on the way to the pick up destination. We went to bars, met women and got their numbers and just drank, smoked weed and kept that up for quite a while.
1Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Then one night Mikey calls me and says he needed a driver that night to deliver Cocaine and I said no. I told Mikey that I did not want to go. Somehow Mikey convinced me and we headed out to make deliveries. I wanted to stay home but I didn’t.
We went to delivering 20’s of Cocaine all over and finally went to Mikey’s friends to look at some weed he was going to purchase. The weed was no good and was basic garbage so we left and at that time I was at Van Buren. Van Buren is a one-way street going up west bound toward the mountain and the time was 2:00 am. We kept going up and on justice this guy runs the stop sign and smashes into me.
The guy T-boned me, I was going up westbound on Van Buren and he was going north bound on Justice and ran the stop sign and his bumper hit my front left wheel and when he hit we spun a 180 degrees and finally stopped in the middle of the road. The guy who hit me slammed head on into a rock wall and totaled his car. This Cholo guy came rolling out of the diver seat stumbling around dumping out his beer and grabbing the other Cholo out of the back seat and they hobbled of. The Cholo driver said, “This was my mom’s car man, she’s gonna be mad.”
Matthew 15:4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Mikey and myself got out of my wrecked Ford Ranger and Mikey was walking away saying he had warrants and that he had to leave. Mikey told me to stay because it was my truck and I had not been drinking. Right before the wreck happened Mikey was drinking a beer so that beer got smashed and got all over me. I smelt like beer because the beer exploded on me but I did not have a drop to drink that night. I called my dad on the phone to let him know what had happened and he said that he could not pick me up. I told my dad that I did not need a ride and that I was just letting him know that a drunk driver hit me. I got paranoid and left the scene. There was an unopened can of Budweiser and I took it and opened it and poured it out.
1Corinthians 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
I got my insurance papers thinking that the cops could not trace me even though they could check my license plate and find out. I left and went through this apartment complex but it ended up a dead end so I had to turn around and go back to the scene of the accident without being seen because the cops had arrived right after I left. So I crossed the street and hit dyer and just walked that route.
So I just started walking home until finally I got there and took a shower and went to bed. My neck and shoulder hurt and were injured so I had to find a comfortable way to sleep and I did. The next day I just thought about how I was going to get around and was kind of sad. Then Mikey would still come over and we would smoke weed.
Mikey said that I might be upset that my truck had been wrecked but God Almighty used this situation to get me where I am suppose to be. That is with Christ. Finally we started crying out to the Lord Jesus Christ. We started praying together and eventually we both gave our life to Jesus Christ.
Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Then I wanted to worship the Lord Jesus Christ more so I thought church was the way and I Started attending Sun City Christian Center on 4000 Hercules In El Paso, Texas. I first went to that church with Mikey because he knew the pastor. We would go to church together at first for about three weeks until finally Mikey said that he was going to go with his mom to the church she attends because Mikey felt he got fed better spiritually at the church his mom goes to.
John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
So that’s how it went and we would talk on the weekend and compare my pastor’s sermon with his pastor’s sermon. It was beautiful and we were both going to church and talking about our experiences God put us through. I got into church and was there as much as I could and helped out at the church. I got to know Pastor Hector and Martin. Martin is the one of the usher’s and all around help out. I had a new church family and was very happy. I eventually helped out Martin in the usher dept. and where ever else they needed help at. You can read all about it a"Sun City Christian Center Exposed."
Philippians 4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
From Christopher Fuller
YOU CAN HAVE SALVATION, BUT ONLY ON ONE CONDITION; That you are totally sold out to Christ, you don’t have any personal rights, you no longer have any right to do anything. You will be a servant. You are in essence signing your own death warrant because Satan will hate you and try to kill you. You are gaining eternal life and citizenship in heaven. You give up your life here on earth to gain life in heaven.
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