Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe sin had left a crimson stain he washed it white as snow.

My name is Jim and this is my testimony, this is what Jesus has done for me and I want to share it with the world.

The bible tells us that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, I first understood this way back in 1978 when my brother invited me to a Baptist tent revival in Michigan, I came forward and accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior on that day. I was very young at the time around the age of 10 years old and ZI was very excited to be saved, I started reading the bible and in sixth grade I remember taking the bible to school with me and sharing what it said with others they use to call me the preacher back in those days but something happened to me when I hit 9^th grade and I became ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I remember a girl coming up to me and calling me the preacher and I felt ashamed of that title so I cussed her out and forsook the word of God. After that day I started down a dark path sinking deeper and deeper into a sinful life style. I began to drink beer and smoke weed in 11th grade, I started to love hard rock I can remember at the beginning of my falling away from the Lord that the music would bother me, I felt guilty about listening to it about drinking I knew that it offended God . As I grew older and wandered farther away from Christ those feeling of guilt grew weaker and weaker till there were almost completely gone. I started to feel empty and lost without direction, I wondered what I would do with my life but not that hard the devil had a good hold on me now, I sunk deeper into drugs and alcohol. I started to blame my dad for my lack of direction for my lack of education but it wasn’t his fault. In my senior year of high school with just one semester to go I dropped out of high school and moved to Los Angeles CA, here I found a haven of drugs, porn and alcohol, I tried any drug that came my way knowing that any one of them could kill me at any time but I didn’t care I had to numb that pain deep down in my heart. I was lost and confused mostly sad and depressed not knowing why because I had become so numb to things of God that I just couldn’t feel him anymore. One day I met a beautiful women named Lisa we started dating and from the second date we were inseparable, in 1991 we got married. We told each other that we didn’t want any children and we stared our own business, we worked hard at our business I thought this was the answer to my pain and emptiness but I was wrong. We quit all the drugs when we got marred but kept on drinking in fact I drank more than ever. Drinking and working became our main things we would work 7 days a week sometime for days straight without sleep but still I was empty and cold inside. One day after thirteen years of marriage my wife told me she was expecting, I didn’t believe her but after five pregnancy tests we were convinced that she was and although we had told ourselves we didn’t want children we were so excited that we were going to have one. I thought this was it, this would complete me, I would no longer have this empty feeling in my heart. On March 25^th 2003 my son was born, he was perfect so handsome and I was so proud to be his dad, I did everything with him, I never left his side. We had our home-based business so I got to be there every second of every day of his life. When he was two years old my wife said she wanted to try for a girl, we did and on September 19^th 2005 Lady Ash was born, she was perfect so beautiful and we loved her so. The days went on and I found myself still not complete, still as empty as  ever still having to pour down gallons of beer late at night to try and fill this hole inside me, nothing could stop this pain inside me. I would lie awake at night wondering why I was so empty, so cold, so lost and confused. One day my wife asked me to find us a church so our kids could learn about God; I told her I would when the kids were old enough to sit through a service. My wife and I had many times talked about God and I had told her that I believed in him and that Jesus was the way to heaven but I never read the bible with her or took her to any church. She kept on asking me to find us a church and I kept on making excuse about why we couldn’t go, but then one day a man came walking down my street as I unloaded my truck from the day’s work he approached me. He invited me to Church and handed me a tract to his church. I told him that my wife wanted me to find a church and he came at the right time. When I got inside I read that tract from Faith Baptist church and immediately afterword’s I felt the spirit inside me jump, I felt something pulling me to my knees something from long ago started to stir inside me that I had long ago locked away. I knew at that moment in time that God was calling me back to him, that man who had handed me the invitation to church started to come to my home and compel me to come to church in a week or so I gave in to Gods will and attended my first service at Faith Baptist church. The Pastor was preaching on Palms, I think it was palms 51 but I am not sure the main thing I do remember is that God was speaking to me loud and clear that day he reminded me that I was bought with his holy precious blood that day back in 1978 and that my life was not my own. I repented that day from my back sliding, turned back to him and I haven’t looked back since. He immediately forgave me I dint feel him ridiculing me or anything like that I just felt that he loved me, he understood me and that he had been there all those years walking with me, waiting for me to come home to him. All of a sudden that empty feeling was gone, I was joy filled happy and content life became new that day, my life was forever changed. A couple of months later I quit drinking completely, I started to want different things in my life, I fell in love with God’s word and couldn’t get enough of it. In 2010 I read the bible from cover to cover three times and let me tell you it has forever changed my life! One of the first things God laid on my heart to do was to call my dad and ask him to forgive me for being an ungrateful son, you see I blamed my dad for a lot of things in my life that weren’t his fault. The bible tells us that we are to honor our father and mother which I was not doing so I called him and asked him to forgive me which he did and after that we spoke all the time. God had restored my relationship with my dad and I was so thankful. I began to serve the Lord in RU and soul winning ministry, I wanted others to know the joy I now had for Jesus truly is the answer to all life’s questions he is the only one that can fill that emptiness that we all have. One day I called my dad to see how he was doing; he was sick and stuck in bed. I asked my dad if he knew for sure he was on his way to heaven he replied yes he did but he said don’t worry about me son I have a lot of life left in me, I told him that I loved him and hung up the phone. I didn’t know that this was the last time I would ever speak to him here on earth, two days later he died. I thank Jesus Christ my Lord and savior for restoring that relationship with my dad, I thank him for his perfect timing. If it were not for Jesus I would never had called my dad and he would have died without knowing that I loved him and that I was to blame for the wall that I had placed between him and I. I have been walking with the Lord since 2010 now, my life is sweet I have meaning and purpose each day is a new chance to do something for my king and I am so grateful that he allows me to serve him . Has my life been a bed of roses since I returned to my God, NO I have had my share of struggles and heart aches but through it all God has been closer to me than he ever has. Our business struggles each day to stay afloat, rent is usually late and behind my wife and son struggle with health issues but through it all Gods been good and truly he has. We have a home to live in, food in the fridge, cloths on our back and shoes on our feet. We have an awesome church to be part of, loving and caring brothers and sisters who really care about us but most importantly we have a God in heaven that so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have ever lasting life. Because of Jesus Christ and his finished work on the cross we can know for sure we have a home in heaven, we can know for sure I mean 100% without a doubt for sure that we are on our way to heaven. That is what I now live for to let everyone I meet or anyone that sees these blogs that Jesus Paid it all, all to him I owe, sin had left a crimson stain he washed it white as snow.

Do you know him today?

Are you living for him?

What will you do for Jesus today?

Do you know for sure you are on your way to heaven?

I am not saying that as soon as you get saved all your problems will go away, but I am saying that the most critical need you have is forgiveness of sins. Jesus Christ is the one and only person that can forgive your sins and he wants to do so today. If you listen real close right now you will feel him knocking on your hearts door, will you open the door and let him in? If you don’t know for sure you are on your way to heaven settle it today, don’t wait for tomorrow. My dad thought he had a lot of life left in him and he died two days after he said that, when will be your last breath? Truth be told you don’t have any clue so why wait? If you die without repenting and believing on Jesus Christ it’s too late you must be born again in this life. We are all born with an emptiness that only Christ can fill the world will try to fill it with so many different things but only Jesus saves!