Daciple
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Hello to all who happen upon this Thread, I hope it finds you whoever you are in the place where whatever is said can bring Glory to the Lord in your life. I have felt impressed upon by the Lord to share my testimony not only of my Salvation but the journey I have been through since I first believe unto today. I dont know how long this will be or how short but I hope that whatever is to come can be a blessing unto you in any part or all of what you may read.
To those that may know me from previous iterations of this board hello again, to those whom I have yet to meet hello to you and let me introduce myself, as you can see my username is Daciple, and I have been following this site since its inception back in I believe 2009 or there abouts. I was one of the first people to post on the message boards the day VC opened them to the public, I was heavily invested during the first few years the boards were active. Ive watched the drama unfold and seen the forums blown up and resurrected I believe 4 times at this point. Ive seen people come and go and come back again. Ive spoken and debated with dozens of people concerning just about every topic under the sun, from Religion and every sect denomination and belief within it, to every Conspiracy Theory, to the use or lack thereof of the Music Industry and Hollywood Elite, to Illuminati to Aliens. Pretty much anything that has been discussed on this site over the past close to decade Ive written about to some extent or another. Its been a great journey and I am thankful for the opportunity that has been offered to me thru this site to engage with others and their ideologies and understandings, and I can tell you that I have definitely grown in my understanding on all of these topics, as well as learning what topics truly matter and which are not so important. With that being said I know without a doubt the absolute number one thing that matters concerning all of these topics is above all else, sharing the Gospel. There is nothing above or what can compare to sharing the Gospel to the world, and I know that sharing the Gospel on this board can change lives, not only for those that have ears to hear but for those who share it. It is the duty of anyone who calls themselves a Christian to do, share the Gospel with a lost and dying world.
Mark 15:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
There are many ways we can share the Gospel,among others we can preach it outright, we can show it by our walk, and we can testify to that which God has done in our lives, where He has taken us from and brought us to and that is what I would like to share with you amazing people today. What God has done in my life, the journey Ive been on and where I find myself today only because the Grace of God that falls all around me every single day.
I can tell you to begin that I was saved in 1999, I do not know the date because of the circumstances which I will momentarily share, but I know the day, the exact moment God reached down from Heaven, when He passed by and when I repented and gave my life to the Lord. When everything in my life changed! When the old man died and a new man with new desires was born! However there were some divine circumstances that brought me to that point and that is where I would like to begin.
God was dealing with me well before I came to repentance, and before I came to repentance I was an utter Antichrist. I was into just about every faith and ideology I could try on in a hodge podge of my own made up Religion that encompassed everything from Gnosticism, to Shamanism, to New Age, to Satanism and pretty much ANYTHING apart from Biblical Christianity. My mother was a firm believer in Christ and I can remember growing up her having Christian music on singing and reading her Bible with books scattered all over the table as she dug into the Word. And although I am completely and utterly grateful for that now, then I absolutely despised her and hated it. I would come home high or after taking Acid and Shrooms on my own "Spiritual Journey" and just lay into how stupid she was to believe in the Bible and the Christ of the Bible. That if anything the Bible was nonsense, a control tool and the Jesus of the Bible was a liar and a hypocrite. I would spend so much time hating her and her God, with no real understanding why, but all I know is that I did, I hated her for her Jesus.
This never hindered her tho, the more I would curse and protest against her the more she would pray sing and study, she was sold out on Jesus of the Bible, nothing I could say or do could stop her from preaching the Gospel to me and my whole family. And as I said I would go out and try to find God in any other form, much of the time using drugs as a method of attaining spiritual enlightenment. I was consuming Acid Shrooms and Weed continually from the time I was 14 till I was Born Again trying to find God. This brings me to Jan 1st 1999, looking back now where I can pinpoint where God really started moving in my life to bring me to repentance. Assuredly He was always there because of my mothers prays protecting me and trying to guide me to Him, but this is the date that I know was the beginning of when He moved in such a way to cause me to finally Repent and cry out to Him for Salvation.
On Jan 1 1999, I was working at a restaurant called Dave and Busters and I was just getting out of work past midnight, the start of the New Year. I had plans to go with a buddy of mine named Shawn from work and we were going to drink and get high, but we had a girl from work who needed a ride so we all got into the car and headed to drop her off. As we were driving we began to get the party started so to say and we blazed up a joint, and cracked open some beers. While we were driving out of no where we see lights, as we are getting pulled over Shawn who is driving hands me the beer and says put it under my seat so I do so. The cop pulls him out of the car takes him to the police car and comes back to me, he says where are all the drugs. Im like what are you talking about, he says your friend said you have the drugs give it up now. At first I deny it whatever, but then this cop ( who I find out right quick is acting like a complete jerk because he is trying to impress this new lady cop he was training) starts threatening me. In my state at the time a weed charge was only a misdemeanor ticket a fine of $100 so Im like ok Ive got some on me ( which literally was less than a dime bag) and Im like its in my pocket so I go to get the weed and the next thing I know hes grabbing me up telling me if I make another move hes going to blow my brains out all over the dashboard. That is literally what he said to me. Now I tell you what I was a skinny little suburban kid, no thug no gansta nothing like that, so when he said that I was shook.
So Im like wow chill out I was trying to get the weed for you like you just freaking asked me, so he proceeds to pull me out of the car forcefully, and asks me where the weed is, I tell him in my pocket. He reaches in my pocket finds the tiny amount of weed, and I just kind of laugh because I can not believe how overboard this dude is being towards me. So he freaks out on me and say oh is this funny, I know you have more this isnt it, and he drags me to the back of the car, throws me up against the trunk and then begins to search me, of course finding nothing. And again out of nervousness and the fact I am just floored about this dudes actions I laugh again like man this is insanity, you know how you laugh to keep from acting out in aggression. So then he really goes nuts on me, he kicks my legs out so far that I can not really stand, and he begins to what can only be described as molest me, and that is when I get pissed and I try and turn around to get him off me and have about 6 cops rush me slam me down and sit by as he continues to molest me. After humiliating me he forces me to take off my shoes in the middle of the snow and of course never finds a thing and when he puts me in the back of the cop car he throws my shoes in my chest.
So I am sitting in the back of this cop car just shocked and confused as to what just happened to me, over a nickel bag of weed which should have only been a ticket and let me go on my way, I was just molested in front of a bunch of people, humiliated and then had to walk in the snow without shoes which were then thrown into my chest. As I am sitting there he gets in and the rookie girl cop is in there too. He gives her this look and she gets out. Now Im basically in tears at this point and my head is on the cage, and out of nowhere this dude take a bat and smashes it into my face against the cage. Im like what the heck is going on!!! Apparently there was bat a mini little bat somewhere in the car, I wouldnt know because I had never been in that car in my life. And he starts going crazy saying this is what you were looking for wasnt it and proceeds to cuss me out. I try to tell him the Truth and he tells me to shut the bleep up...
So what ends up happening with all of this, is that something that literally should have been a $100 fine now has turned into me being charged with possession, resisting arrest, possession of alcohol of a minor and another trumped up charge I forget what it was. Anyways I end up having to go to court for this and end up pulling the toughest judge in the city, a man to have been said to have sentenced his own kid to hard time over drugs. I get a lawyer make a plea agreement and get put on probation.
To those that may know me from previous iterations of this board hello again, to those whom I have yet to meet hello to you and let me introduce myself, as you can see my username is Daciple, and I have been following this site since its inception back in I believe 2009 or there abouts. I was one of the first people to post on the message boards the day VC opened them to the public, I was heavily invested during the first few years the boards were active. Ive watched the drama unfold and seen the forums blown up and resurrected I believe 4 times at this point. Ive seen people come and go and come back again. Ive spoken and debated with dozens of people concerning just about every topic under the sun, from Religion and every sect denomination and belief within it, to every Conspiracy Theory, to the use or lack thereof of the Music Industry and Hollywood Elite, to Illuminati to Aliens. Pretty much anything that has been discussed on this site over the past close to decade Ive written about to some extent or another. Its been a great journey and I am thankful for the opportunity that has been offered to me thru this site to engage with others and their ideologies and understandings, and I can tell you that I have definitely grown in my understanding on all of these topics, as well as learning what topics truly matter and which are not so important. With that being said I know without a doubt the absolute number one thing that matters concerning all of these topics is above all else, sharing the Gospel. There is nothing above or what can compare to sharing the Gospel to the world, and I know that sharing the Gospel on this board can change lives, not only for those that have ears to hear but for those who share it. It is the duty of anyone who calls themselves a Christian to do, share the Gospel with a lost and dying world.
Mark 15:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
There are many ways we can share the Gospel,among others we can preach it outright, we can show it by our walk, and we can testify to that which God has done in our lives, where He has taken us from and brought us to and that is what I would like to share with you amazing people today. What God has done in my life, the journey Ive been on and where I find myself today only because the Grace of God that falls all around me every single day.
I can tell you to begin that I was saved in 1999, I do not know the date because of the circumstances which I will momentarily share, but I know the day, the exact moment God reached down from Heaven, when He passed by and when I repented and gave my life to the Lord. When everything in my life changed! When the old man died and a new man with new desires was born! However there were some divine circumstances that brought me to that point and that is where I would like to begin.
God was dealing with me well before I came to repentance, and before I came to repentance I was an utter Antichrist. I was into just about every faith and ideology I could try on in a hodge podge of my own made up Religion that encompassed everything from Gnosticism, to Shamanism, to New Age, to Satanism and pretty much ANYTHING apart from Biblical Christianity. My mother was a firm believer in Christ and I can remember growing up her having Christian music on singing and reading her Bible with books scattered all over the table as she dug into the Word. And although I am completely and utterly grateful for that now, then I absolutely despised her and hated it. I would come home high or after taking Acid and Shrooms on my own "Spiritual Journey" and just lay into how stupid she was to believe in the Bible and the Christ of the Bible. That if anything the Bible was nonsense, a control tool and the Jesus of the Bible was a liar and a hypocrite. I would spend so much time hating her and her God, with no real understanding why, but all I know is that I did, I hated her for her Jesus.
This never hindered her tho, the more I would curse and protest against her the more she would pray sing and study, she was sold out on Jesus of the Bible, nothing I could say or do could stop her from preaching the Gospel to me and my whole family. And as I said I would go out and try to find God in any other form, much of the time using drugs as a method of attaining spiritual enlightenment. I was consuming Acid Shrooms and Weed continually from the time I was 14 till I was Born Again trying to find God. This brings me to Jan 1st 1999, looking back now where I can pinpoint where God really started moving in my life to bring me to repentance. Assuredly He was always there because of my mothers prays protecting me and trying to guide me to Him, but this is the date that I know was the beginning of when He moved in such a way to cause me to finally Repent and cry out to Him for Salvation.
On Jan 1 1999, I was working at a restaurant called Dave and Busters and I was just getting out of work past midnight, the start of the New Year. I had plans to go with a buddy of mine named Shawn from work and we were going to drink and get high, but we had a girl from work who needed a ride so we all got into the car and headed to drop her off. As we were driving we began to get the party started so to say and we blazed up a joint, and cracked open some beers. While we were driving out of no where we see lights, as we are getting pulled over Shawn who is driving hands me the beer and says put it under my seat so I do so. The cop pulls him out of the car takes him to the police car and comes back to me, he says where are all the drugs. Im like what are you talking about, he says your friend said you have the drugs give it up now. At first I deny it whatever, but then this cop ( who I find out right quick is acting like a complete jerk because he is trying to impress this new lady cop he was training) starts threatening me. In my state at the time a weed charge was only a misdemeanor ticket a fine of $100 so Im like ok Ive got some on me ( which literally was less than a dime bag) and Im like its in my pocket so I go to get the weed and the next thing I know hes grabbing me up telling me if I make another move hes going to blow my brains out all over the dashboard. That is literally what he said to me. Now I tell you what I was a skinny little suburban kid, no thug no gansta nothing like that, so when he said that I was shook.
So Im like wow chill out I was trying to get the weed for you like you just freaking asked me, so he proceeds to pull me out of the car forcefully, and asks me where the weed is, I tell him in my pocket. He reaches in my pocket finds the tiny amount of weed, and I just kind of laugh because I can not believe how overboard this dude is being towards me. So he freaks out on me and say oh is this funny, I know you have more this isnt it, and he drags me to the back of the car, throws me up against the trunk and then begins to search me, of course finding nothing. And again out of nervousness and the fact I am just floored about this dudes actions I laugh again like man this is insanity, you know how you laugh to keep from acting out in aggression. So then he really goes nuts on me, he kicks my legs out so far that I can not really stand, and he begins to what can only be described as molest me, and that is when I get pissed and I try and turn around to get him off me and have about 6 cops rush me slam me down and sit by as he continues to molest me. After humiliating me he forces me to take off my shoes in the middle of the snow and of course never finds a thing and when he puts me in the back of the cop car he throws my shoes in my chest.
So I am sitting in the back of this cop car just shocked and confused as to what just happened to me, over a nickel bag of weed which should have only been a ticket and let me go on my way, I was just molested in front of a bunch of people, humiliated and then had to walk in the snow without shoes which were then thrown into my chest. As I am sitting there he gets in and the rookie girl cop is in there too. He gives her this look and she gets out. Now Im basically in tears at this point and my head is on the cage, and out of nowhere this dude take a bat and smashes it into my face against the cage. Im like what the heck is going on!!! Apparently there was bat a mini little bat somewhere in the car, I wouldnt know because I had never been in that car in my life. And he starts going crazy saying this is what you were looking for wasnt it and proceeds to cuss me out. I try to tell him the Truth and he tells me to shut the bleep up...
So what ends up happening with all of this, is that something that literally should have been a $100 fine now has turned into me being charged with possession, resisting arrest, possession of alcohol of a minor and another trumped up charge I forget what it was. Anyways I end up having to go to court for this and end up pulling the toughest judge in the city, a man to have been said to have sentenced his own kid to hard time over drugs. I get a lawyer make a plea agreement and get put on probation.