God has had His hand on me since a young age (I know that actually has been since before I was even conceived) but I was 19 or so when I actually made a commitment to follow Christ. I was generally good, but picked up some bad habits along the way. I had the gospel preached to me and there were things in my life that were too important for me to give up, yet a couple of weeks later one thing had been rectified but I forgot the rest of the supposedly important things and surrendered my life to Jesus to be my Saviour.

I struggled with things in my life, used to get convicted by Keith Green music, and never surrendered all to Jesus. Met a girl at Christian youth group, ended up marrying her and we have 2 beautiful daughters. I got words from God ' there is a way that seems right to man, but its end is the way of death' but was unwilling to do anything to change the way I was going. We were attending the local Assembly of God church for a little over a year, then we stopped going. My mother died a couple of months later and I decided we were all going to church, my wife agreed.
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We went to church that morning and one of the ladies in the church asked if she could pray for us. We allowed it, and God started doing things in both of us. I started crying (that was virtually unheard of for me to cry) but then my wife didn't like what was happening so she wanted to leave. My spirit was crying out to stay but I went with my wife and daughter. I took my daughter to church the next week but then fell in a hole for the next 10 years virtually. I didn't want to lose my wife and children so I followed what the flesh wanted until God put me through the pain of marriage breakdown and separation to get me to realize that I needed to be strong in Him, not weak as I had been. After my wife and children left I was heading for the depths of despair and decided that it was time for me to serve the Lord wholeheartedly. So I started attending the local Assembly of God and committed myself wholly to the Lord. I remember the first time I went up for an altar call the person who was praying for me said something like total surrender Lord, and that was the first time I had ever given all of me to God. Have been powering on in God. Haven't got my wife and children back yet, but God is firmly in control of my life, and He can change them as I allow Him to change me to be more like Jesus. My girls are getting much closer to where God wants them to be, and it won't be long till they are back with me.

God bless abundantly
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