I was lost in life, divorced, two children just born and no skills or hope for the future. This is when I said my first prayer from the heart which was. “God you have to do something because I can’t do this.” I didn’t know who Jesus was at this point; I thought God was God didn’t matter much what religion you followed. I was wrong and Jesus heard that cry for help and he started to show up in my life in ways that are beyond amazing.

The first thing Jesus did after that prayer was have a dog tackle me while playing frizz-bee. I bet you are thinking “what!?” let me explain. I had ankle mobility issues in my left ankle that greatly impacted my basketball career. I could only do moves to one direction and made it hard to jump when my footing wasn’t perfect. When this dog tackled me I felt a pop! in my ankle. I thought it was broken and was scared to look down, thinking the bone was going to be sticking out. To my surprise it was fine started to swell right away but nothing to serious. Once the swelling was gone I noticed my ankle had at least 2x the mobility! You have to understand I went to doctors for this issue, physio and surgeons. Everyone I went to said there was nothing they could do. While God had other plans and sent a dog to fix my ankle!

I was working as a personal trainer at the time and a friend of mine came to visit to have me train him. He was a professional basketball player and for fun while he was down we were playing in a high level mens league. When he saw me play he was amazed at how much I improved; he asked me “what happened? How are you so much better?” I told him “My parents dog tackled me and fixed my ankle!” We both laughed because how unbelievable that was, but it’s the truth!

He had connections to the team he played on and contacted the owner to give me a chance to make the team. I took the opportunity and was back playing the game I love. This is where things started to get very interesting. I knew it was God who healed my ankle but I still didn’t accept Christ, in fact I didn’t even know I needed to, didn’t know I could have a personal relationship but I knew God was real and continued to pray in my own way. The first few weeks back playing I had a bad back spasm and was sent to the team trainer. He told me I had a hyper active nervous system, I brushed it off and went my way. A few weeks later I remembered being tested as a child for learning disabilities. I contacted my Mom and asked if she still has the paperwork, she did and she sent it. Reading it I was in shock; I was diagnosed with sensory processing disorder “SPD” for short at 9 years old. I asked my Mom why I never knew about this and she said she didn’t want me being labeled.

I started to research the effect of SPD and found it’s caused from a hyper active nervous system. The very thing the trainer told me I had. I started to research the effects of having it into adult hood if not treated and I had every issue listed. It was very humbling because I blamed a lot of people for my past failures and when I read the diagnoses I realized it was me all along. This was hard to read but also very freeing and help me forgive. I went to the trainer he told about my nervous system before I even knew and he looked surprised I was so surprised. This man charged a $100 an hour training and I knew it worked. He saw my potential and we made a deal. He will train me for free and I will give him %25 of my first NBA contract. Sounds pretty good doesn’t?

I started to get more involved with this training which was “New age” based I didn’t know it at the time. It involved hours of breathing exercises and sessions called “treatment” I would rather not get into. I started to focus on the therapy more than basketball and 3 days before my season of redemption I quit the team to move home and pursue this occult practice. Once being home I put everything I had into this “therapy” it involved energy healings which I now know are demonic and many other occult teachings.

At the peak of this I decided to go to Church with my wife. While at the Church a man pointed out my wife and myself and asked to pray over us. I thought “sure why not”. I was also thought this man didn’t realize how powerful I was with energies etc…I laugh now at how ignorant I was. He prayed for me and I felt a wave come out of his hand and hit my chest; next he prayed for my wife and she felt the same thing. After this experience I called my occult teacher and told him about what happened he asked me if the wave I felt, felt dirty. I answered yes then thought about for a second and said no. He replied by saying “It felt dirty you just aren’t at a high enough level to tell yet.”

After this I ended up getting very sick. I should have gone to the Doctor but didn’t. What was really happening, I know now was my first deliverance! During this time I was praying a lot still not understanding what I was doing was occult. The occult teacher I was learning from gave me a fake gospel. I was reading it and amazed by the stories…we will come back to this. During my recovery I was given a book called “The Believers Authority” by Kenneth Hagin. It was all about the authority we have in Christ and how we can demand out demons and pray with authority for healings.

Once I was recovered I was back to working on my clients for the occult practice doing energy healings etc…But this one day a young man came in with a swollen ankle and none of the stuff I was doing was working. I remembered what the book taught and I asked him if I could try praying. I commanded the ankle to be healed in Jesus name and immediately the swelling was gone and his ankle was healed! We were both shocked and I tried praying on all my clients who came in. Almost all of them were healed! Thank you Jesus. I called my occult teacher to tell him what was happening and that he was wrong about Jesus but he told me “No you are wrong. It’s not Jesus it’s you, you have unlocked your power” I told him no that was not true; I knew what the energy healings felt like and this was different this was Jesus! That was the last time I ever talked to him.

I went and got my own bible and to my shock all the stories I loved in the fake gospel were actually the real stories in the bible! My wife and I accepted Jesus, were filled with the Holy Ghost and repented of all the demonic activity we were involved in. Jesus has done so many amazing things in our lives since than.

If you want to experience the one true God, have your life changed and be used by Jesus. All you have to do is ask him! Ask Jesus to be your personal saviour, ask him to come live inside you, ask to be baptized in the Holy Ghost and reject all other gods besides him. Trust me this is a choice you will never regret, not in this life or the next.