By The Grace of GOD, I was Born in a Christian Family, Presbyterian to be precise
The level of discipline in my home isn't one that could permit you express youthful exuberance and juvenile delinquencies. MY PARENT'S WILL BEAT STUBBORNNESS out of you...😂
So technically I was "Always a Christian" Christian beyond my choice 🤔 Christian by family religion and denomination not by any real encounter....(And Many are in this category) THEY WERE JUST BORN AND GIVEN A RELIGION, THEY HAD NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO KNOW THE JESUS THEY SERVE.....
So we will go to Church on Sundays, some Sundays we will not go because of work at home.......but MY Father (Mr Oben Simon) NEVER misses services no matter what.
I had desires as a child but was too shy (by nature) and too afraid of my parents to even dare them so I was a Christian by Church not by heart
I will pray 2 to 3 mins once in a while......I had never fasted in My Life.
Never evangelized infact I hated those "frustrated looking people who walked around with Bibles preaching"
Yet I didn't fit in the WORLD no matter how I tried
(I've never had a worldly life, never been to Club, never fornicated and much more) yet I truly wanted to do bad things to feel like I belong
So I joined a gang in school so as to belong to the "rought boys club." Well, I was sent away 30 mins after joining because I was not "fit" for such life....they drove me 😂
I was excluded from many activities in school because I was a "loser" boys didn't like my company, ladies found me to be weird and didn't like me at all
I grew up a very depressed child, very lonely, my parents loved me, my family did yet I was truly depressed ....
I hated my look
I hated my face and vowed to do a plastic surgery when I grow up, I received all sort of insults from people growing up about my physical look (i be really worwor)
One day I smoked 🚬 😪 so as to belong to the bad crew, I almost coughed to death 😂
I started stealing for fun
Like I once stole a camera 📷 in school and sold it for 150 frs and bought corn and groundnut and ate while trekking home😂
I became a wicked person
Looking calm and nice yet wicked at heart.....My mind too was rotten though by body was moral, I would undress people in my mind and begin laughing 😃 (I didn't know that was a Prophetic Grace)
I will steal people's books and throw outside school for fun
People didn't like me, I was ugly i wasn't fun to be with, I was the "loser" in the class
I remember i and my "loser" friends will bring garri to school and drink.....we went about doing foolish things
I was introduced to pornography by a friend we will watch it yet do nothing 😂😂😂 we just loved watching it......watching and screaming "Yishiiiiii"
I used to Pray for 3 mins some days 😂😂 when I really have issues I pray 5 mins 😂😂
I didn't know what it meant to fast.....
With all these I WAS EMPTY WITHIN I FELT A VACUUM NO ONE COULD FILL....
One day I SAT AND SAID TO MYSELF "DEVIL HAS REJECTED ME" LET ME TRY TO KNOW GOD FOR MYSELF.......and see if I will be accepted
I didn't fit in the WORLD because if I did I may not have found JESUS...
FUNNY STORY about my music career....
I used to sing like a woman, my family doesn't know about this because I was so shy to sing, one day I sang in class and when they heard, people from several classes gathered and some gave money for me to sing again........yes I had a very good voice
I had written over 6 songs (love songs) 🎵 knowing one day I may join music to my career......
The day I sang, a lady whose name is "brenda" picked interest in me and said her uncle will like to "sign" me to sing in a label or so, well what did I know? I wasn't interested and then a singing interschool competition came up and we had to sing a popular song "We are the World" and I was recommended by Brenda and I was given a part in the competition yet whenever it was time for me to sing, my voice got lost, I tried several times to no avail, I lost my singing voice till date (Probably GOD saw the path that would have taken me)
Brenda was so angry and other too, so I begged to sing rap (though i wasn't good in it), and they accepted
When we got to the competition everyone sang and when it was time for Rap, they stopped the competition 😂😂
That's how my music career died 😂
1 year later I decided to follow JESUS for real.....and the things I saw in the bible I didn't see happen in my church not because it's bad but their system didn't make provisions for the full expression of the Gospel
So I have an aunt and I remembered she was into the "Pentecostal" system (winners chapel precisely) so i proposed to my parents that I want to go there for holidays but they didn't know that what I truly wanted was an opportunity to experience a Pentecostal church
I traveled to Kumba for holidays (1 month) and there I had opportunity to go to winners chapel, I received JESUS in my life and started my journey with him...
2nd day in Christ, I took a 21 days fast immediately
I used to trekk to church several kilometers some days I will walk to church under rain with my Bible, I will take off my shirt and wrap my Bible so it doesn't get wet then I will be soaked with water on arriving church or home......
My aunt said, Cedric, I showed you JESUS, but this passion you have is far more than mine. YOU'RE NOW SHOWING ME MORE OF THE JESUS I SHOWED YOU
I went through foundation class and crash course Bible school and took first position and was given my first Christian book titled "BORN TO WIN" I was so excited 😊 it was a Prophecy to me.
Daily I will pray for hours after doing house chores. OH, I WAS IN LOVE
I didn't need follow-up
I didn't need reminder about church, I will leave home early and go arrange chairs in church (and I wasn't an usher)
Service becomes natural when salvation is genuine
I remember one day I was in church and I discovered my Pastor, Pastor ChukwuEmeka's car was dirty and I took my shirt off 👕 and used it to wash his Car clean saying "My Pastor's car shouldn't be dirty and I'm clean" I didn't know about loyalty and transfer of mantles I was just genuinely born again
There was no added motive to these things. It was a NEW ME.....
I didn't know I was paving a way for myself to be a pastor
(More than 1 decade later, many years ago, I looked for his number and called my pastor and told him who I've become he began to cry because no one could imagine)
So I remember I was really zealous, yet some aspects of my life were not fully surrendered to JESUS like "worldly musics" so I used to use R Kellys songs to pray 😂😂😂😂 (weh)
I will hear my aunt Pray all Night and from my room I will join the prayers
I wasn't trying to be a Pastor I was just truly saved
Weeks later I heard there is something called HolyGhost baptism and I gladly went for it, and on that day I can't forget JULY 17th I RECEIVED THE HOLYGHOST I HAD MY FIRST PHYSICAL ENCOUNTER, WHERE I APPEARED IN A GARDEN AND I SAW THE HOLYGHOST BODILY AND HE HUGGED ME and gave me himself....IT'S ALMOST 20 Years ago yet I remember it so Clear.......that was the Day "CEDRIC DIED" and GOD'S SERVANT WAS BORN.
Holidays were over, and I returned to BUEA, but I WASN'T THE BOY THAT LEFT......Something had changed in me. the mission was accomplished
I got to school after my O'Level success and started Preaching immediately (No one told me to Preach, My Bible told me)
In a certain month at age 16/17 I Won 1000 souls in 1 month with passion only.
All these were done in the hidden, I actually Pastored a Church for 2 years from home and no one knew (if they found out I'll be in trouble 😂)
Everything I read in my bible, I went to apply in school kaiiiiiiii
I will watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome and Prophet TB Joshua demonstrate power and I will go to school gather student and do the same again and again till it works...
I didn't have a Spiritual Father by then so it was an adventure with JESUS.
I walked from class to Class preaching but I had one challenge I WAS VERY SHY, so rather than give an excuse I faced my biggest fear by going in for School Politics I applied to be The Religious Prefect of Lycee Molyko as a Strategy to have boldness to face crowds and to have legal access to classes as Part of the school government official.......I went for votes and I won my opponent by landslide victory ✌️ because it was beyond the politics it was about SOUL WINNING
I was excited 😊, I started my mission, the first day I entered a class, and I will look at the ceiling and preach because I was shy to look at people's eyes 👀
Rather than give excuses I looked for solutions because I trust love JESUS.....no one gives excuse to what they love....
Later, I will gather boldness and look at one face in the whole class all through my preaching
Oh I didn't preach from knowledge, I knew nothing about the bible yet I preached from a place of deep love for GOD and Souls and souls were being Won everyday
I preached from Class to class, place to place, house to house
I read my Bible in the toilet 🚻, I was trekking to school and reading Bible 📚, I was in Class during break reading Bible I was looking for something in the BIBLE and I found it, I WAS LOOKING FOR THE WORD.....you see why I preach well? I've a deep foundation
I went through the bible every 2 weeks to 1 month....sometimes I'll read 100 plus chapters a day......OH I LOVED THE WORD as a Man loves his wife.....
I will trekk just so as to pray 🙏 because my family wasn't used to the "Tongues type of Prayer" I learn the art of meditation because I couldn't pray aloud in our house, they didn't know I'm born again for years.....
My Journey with JESUS just started.....
Tomorrow I will share my journey in Ministry
I didn't come from a pastoral family but a Pastoral Family will come from me
I AM THE FIRST PASTOR IN MY MATENAL AND PATENAL FAMILY but not the last
No one tilled the ground for me, I'm starting a new lineage all from scratch
YOU WILL LOVE MY STORY
To be continued........
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Apostle King Dunamis Cedric
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