There are some confessions that words cannot carry, some pæins that teærs struggle to explain. This is not just my story, this is the story of a man who should have been lost forever but was found by mercy.
Please, listen to me with your heart because I am not speaking as a saint. I am speaking as a man who once belonged to darkness.
Back in 1980's in Jos, Plateau State. My life had no direction, no fear of God, no conscience left. I was part of a gang, not boys, not friends but men whose hearts had been hardened by sin, men who laughed in the face of dænger, men who had forgotten what it meant to feel. That night we r0bbed a bank. Yes I did it, my hands were there, my feet walked into that place, my heart agreed to it. We took money that was not ours and even though no life was taken but something inside me d1ed quietly that night because every time you sin you don’t just hü-rt others, you bury a part of your own soul.
My best friend led the operation, the one I trusted, the one I followed but I did not know I was not even in control of my own life. I did not know that I was carrying darkness inside me. Fourteen demons, Fourteen voices, Fourteen chains, Fourteen forces controlling my thoughts, my actions, my desires. I looked like a man but inside me, there was wær and then one night everything changed.
I was not praying, I was not fasting, I was not seeking God. If anything I was far from Him but mercy. Mercy came looking for me suddenly the atmosphere changed. It felt like the air itself was shaking and then I saw Him, Jesus. Not a story, not something I heard in church but real powerful and undeniable. He came with seven angels and what happened next, I don’t even have the words to fully explain it.
There was a b@ttle not with gü-ns, not with kn1ves but a spiritual w@r. A w@r for my soul. The demons inside me, the forces that had controlled me for so long, they began to fall one after the other. Struck down instantly at His command, no struggle, no resistance, Just power. Pure power. I stood there watching but inside me I was breaking. Fe@r gripped me like never before I fell to the ground. I covered myself pretending to be dead because I knew If He looked at me i would not surv1ve.
But then I heard His voice. A voice full of authority. A voice that sees everything. “There is still one that is not dead, Go and bring him out.” At that moment, My heart stopped. Because I knew He was talking about me. I could not hide anymore for my body began to tremble. My strength failed me and I stood up not as a strong man, not as a g@ngster, not as a r0bber but as a broken sinner standing before a Holy God and I began to cry not in small te@rs but the kind of te@rs that come from deep within your soul.
“Forgive me. Please forgive me, i will never do it again” I didn’t care about anything else. Not my past, not my gang, not my pride for all I wanted was mercy.
And do you know the most shocking thing? He did not d3stroy me. He did not condemn me. He saved me. That night chains broke. Things that controlled me for years lost their power in a moment.
I picked up a cigarette something I could not live without before but I couldn’t smoke it anymore. It was as if something inside me had d1ed and something new had come alive. That was the night I encountered Jesus, that was the night I became free.
Do you think your sins are too much? Do you think God cannot forgive you? Look at Paul the Apostle, he was on his way to d3stroy lives, to pers3cute and to k/ll but on the road to Damascus, God arr3sted him and the man who once spread de@th became a carrier of life.
If God can change Paul, If God can rescue someone like me, then please there is still hope for you. I don’t care how deep you are in sin, I don’t care how dark your past is, what I know is this. MERCY IS STILL SPEAKING. Mercy is still calling your name for the Bible says;
“Confess your sins and you shall be forgiven.”
Not you might, not you could but you SHALL BE FORGIVEN. So today don’t harden your heart, don’t pretend you are okay because I was once like that. Smiling outside but dying inside. If Jesus could find me in that darkness, He can find you too.
Just cry, even if your voice shakes, even if your te@rs fall, say it from your heart "LORD FORGIVE ME, I WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN”
And I promise you the same mercy that saved me will reach you, hold you and give you a new life in Jesus Christ name amen.
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Ezekiel Dachomo
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