WHere do I start here? I have a bunch of testimonies, the Lord has been very good to me. Besides, I’m new here and so probably should share my testimony that brought me back to the Lord. It happened in 2009. I grew up in churches and reading the Bible, but as soon as I got old enough for girls, I uh, backslid. That lasted for the entire time I was married 26 years plus a few. I have been Epileptic most of my life, and a user of MJ. I smoked it recreationally for a long time and I heard all those quips about MJ is good for epileptics, so I held that up and kept smoking it.
I suppose the Lord got tired of waiting on me to return. I was rising kids and we went in business for ourselves and my wife was my secretary. We were prosperous. I had a Mechanical Contracting business (HVAC & related), and a nice Family and a house and life was good. But the Lord was waiting and I wasn’t cooperating so in a matter of about 5 or 6 months, my life was chopped down to the ground, leaving only the Lord to depend on.
When I was about 35 or so, I felt like I outgrew the pot, that is a young man thing, I like a clear head. So I quit smoking pot. 3 days later I had an epileptic seizure. I had an eeg and went back on medication. (I had been off of medication for the seizures for 12 years or so, and I was of the mind that I outgrew the seizures. So I started smoking pot again and I went another 11 years without a seizure. And in that 11 years I thought, boy I would like to quit smoking pot. Maybe it was a fluke that I had a seizure after quitting smoking pot? I like a clear head, so I quit smoking pot again, besides I was on seizure meds again so what could go wrong? So I quit smoking pot again…
4 days later I had a seizure while driving on the highway doing 70 mph. I have had lots of grand mal seizures in my life, and I never felt any of them coming on…until that day at 70 mph. It was rush hour. I was starting to feel weird, somehow I realized that I was about to go into another seizure. First time I felt it. I glanced at the speedometer, 70mph. I glanced both ways, rush hour traffic everywhere. I was in the center lane. I realized I would be unconscious within seconds. I spoke, Lord be with me…
Witness accounts say I jerked to the right and shot thru traffic without touching another car. I left the road at a high rate of speed, hit a downed log which launched my truck into the air and while I was in the air, I struck a tree head on, passenger side. That spun the truck around and I rolled it 3 times. I broke my back in 2 places and got a life flight to the hospital. I had surgery the next morning. They say it was a success but you can’t prove it by me! But recovery lasted 4 months flat on my back, so I had plenty of time to think about what happened out on that highway? For one thing, the last thing I said was Lord be with me. He obviously was. ANother thing was, It must be a fluke that I had the first seizure at all. 3 days, 4 days then a seizure? Yep, no fluke there!
So I figured out that the I owe the Lord my life. For real. Breaking my back in 2 places and I still walk. No wheelchair, no crutches. I just can’t walk as far. So I rededicated my life to Him in the most serious way in my life. I started swimming in God’s word. I started praying like the kid who wont shut up! And He began teaching me. So here I am, 17 years later. I had to start smoking pot again, I have to drive for errands. I have to keep it in my system.
The Lord gave a Brother in Christ that I knew from a forum called me up on the phone one day. He said, Ed I don’t know what this means but the Lord told me to tell you something. That you are to give your business to your son and move from Colorado to Ohio, where I am from and still have some family.
I was in Colorado for about 30 years. Me & my wife didn’t want to raise our kids in Columbus ohio. It was not in my plans to move back to Ohio. I already decided. lol! But my friend keeps on talking and he started talking about things I had never told him. I only knew him from a Christian forum and had not even ever met the guy. But we were friends from the board and used to do some bible study over the phone, that’s it. But he was right about everything he said about my life, so God gave him words of knowledge about me…to confirm to me that the message is legitimate and from my God. A confirmation!
I was an idiot and prayed about it, and I told the Lord No I wont do it! And then, no kidding, every video I turned on to watch from Churches and stuff started talking about Jonah. This went on the better part of a week and I got scared! So here I am in Ohio, and He has totally blessed my obedience since I’ve been here.
That’s about it for that one though I could prolly talk all night about it. The Lord is so good! Praise the Lord!