I WON!!

Have you ever heard that statement, “If I won a million dollars I would….”? Well guess what? I WON! Let me share with you how it all happened!

As a teenager I was that rebellious young man that did not care what you thought. It was all about what I wanted. What I thought was important. I could careless about your ideas or thoughts. Yes, It was all about me. I was so selfish. In everything that I done. If I helped someone, it was all about what could I get out of this friendship. Nothing about me giving to others. Nothing about me helping someone else to prosper. If it did not benefit me, I wanted nothing to do with it.

Matter of fact, I was seventeen years old, and I could NOT wait until I turned eighteen. I was going to leave home. And NEVER go back to church again. UNTIL . . . .

We lived in the country of Montecello Georgia. It was the deer capital of Georgia. If that tells you anything. So there I was hanging clothes on the clothes line for my mom. When I heard someone calling my name. “Daniel” It was so clear. I turned to look at our house. Expecting to see my sisters or parents. But no one was in sight. I walked into the house and asked who called me. Everyone said, “We did not call you.” So I went back to finish hanging the clothes. “Daniel,” That voice called me yet again. Thinking to myself.. “yeah, my sisters are playing a prank on me.” I walked into the house. Again everyone said, “We did not call you.” Going back to complete the job of hanging those clothes. I again heard this voice say, “Daniel”. Looking around me, no one was there. So I just brushed it off as though I was hearing things.

That Sunday morning after, I woke up with my dad saying, We are going to visit another church today. We stepped into this little African American Church in Montecello Georgia. And we were the only white people in the whole church. The pastor did not preach the message that day. They had a visiting minister. His name was Prophet Lesley. I will never forget it.

When he got up to preach, He said, “God wants to minister to someone today.” Walking off of the platform and walking over to me he said, “Young man, God spoke to you 3 times like he did Samuel in the Bible. If you will answer the call, God will use you in a mighty way.”

I did not realize it till years later after I had received the Holy Ghost and a calling to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ around the world. But it is I that was that lost coin. The one that the master was searching for. And he found me. And I WON!! No not a million dollars.. I won way more than that! For one day, I will get to walk on streets of GOLD.

Luke 15:8-10 Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

Has HE found you yet?