Summary

I’m sharing my personal testimony of how Jesus called me out. Growing up immersed in church—with my parents always taking me from one worship program to another—I thought I had the truth when I became a pastor at a Baptist church. Over seven years of ministry, I earned a degree in Biblical Studies and served passionately. Yet, about 1½ to 2 years ago, I began to question if I was in the wrong religion. I prayed earnestly, even writing “Jesus tell me what the power of prayer is?” on my wall. Soon, the Holy Spirit revealed to me through vivid dreams—including one where the word “WORMWOOD” appeared—that false idols were infiltrating the church. This revelation convoked me to renounce all worldly idols, resign from my pastoral position, and follow Jesus full time—even when those around me thought it was the stupidest thing I could do. Now, my life is defined not by human wisdom but by the undeniable call of Jesus and the transforming work of the Holy Spirit in me.

Time Chapters
  • 01:50 Started Questioning
  • 02:30 Dream of Wormwood
  • 03:55 Answered the Call
  • 04:12 Gave Life to Jesus

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I’m making this video in response to a few people who have asked me to make my personal testimony of where Jesus brought me from, to where I am today seeking Jesus full time, and so this video is going to be simply on directly how Jesus got my attention. When I was very young my entire life was saturated in church, my parents brought me up in church, I was never raised in a church that was denominational, we moved from church to church, but I was saturated in church. My parents did “Worship music”, and all my life I was in church and in church programs. When I was graduating from high school some people in my family encouraged me to become a pastor and I decided I wanted to work with youth. So at that time I prayed and I said; “Lord I want to serve you” and I became a pastor at a Baptist church, and for over 7 years I was a pastor at a Baptist church. During this time I attended a 4 year university and I got a degree in Biblical Studies and Literature, and I minored in Christian Ministries as well. And throughout all this time I was preaching sermons, I was serving in the church, I was working with youth and with families and I was a licensed minister. I thought I knew everything there was to know. And it was about maybe a year and a half ago now, maybe 2 years ago that I started asking myself; “What if I was in the wrong religion?” And I thought at first; “Well this is a stupid thing to think because I know the Bible is true, and I know the Jesus that I follow is true.” But I thought to myself; “Doesn’t every pastor or doesn’t every teacher of their religion believe that their religion is truth?” and I thought to myself; “No person teaches what they think is a lie, people teach what they think because they believe it IS the truth.” And so what I believe to be the truth, a Buddhist monk is going to think he is in the truth, the same as a Mormon, a Jehovah’s Witness, or an Atheist. So how do I know what the truth is? And you know someone who is raised in a certain denominational background; they believe that their specific denomination is absolutely true. There are all these different denominations and they all use, you know, this same Bible. And so I though; “How do I know that I have the truth?” I really started seeking this out and I prayed at one point and I remember I asked Jesus; “What is the power of prayer? I really want to know what it is because I feel like my prayers are useless.” You know, I would pray and I would hear nothing. So one day I wrote down, and I wrote: “Jesus tell me what the power of prayer is?” And I put that up on my wall on a sheet of paper and I tacked it to my wall, and almost every day I prayed and ask Him to reveal that to me, and I started asking Him to reveal to me His truth, and if I was in deception to show me. It wasn’t very much longer after that the Lord started leading me into truth. And it was a long time before I completely accepted that. There were many times the Lord would give me a dream, and He would show me something, and I would write it off and I’d say; “That can’t be Lord, that can’t be.” And at some time point the Lord spoke to me and He said; “The people in church are not glorifying Me.” And I struggled with that, I kept that in my mind for about a year, and I didn’t really do much with it and I just kept on doing what I was doing and I started to feel more and more convicted. But I kept on praying. And at this point, I had myself surround by my fellowship, my Christian friends and mentors who encouraged me. And I also started praying about that, I sad; “Lord if my mentors and all these people I have in my life, if they’re wrong let me know.” And I’ll tell you something; every single one of the people that I considered a mentor in my life, every single one of them, the Lord Jesus gave me a specific dream about them, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! And a specific dream, and I know it wasn’t just a dream either because then it happened before my eyes. It was a prophecy about them and I watched it happen and I KNEW the Holy Spirit was speaking to me. And I said; “Jesus I want to follow you because all my wise counsel, all my friends were leading me astray.” One night the Lord spoke to me in, I don’t know if it was a dream or a vision, but in the night, I’m not sure even at this point if I was asleep or awake, but I heard in my ears or in my spirit the word, “WORMWOOD”. And I didn’t know what that meant, and I woke up, I went to my computer and I googled that and I researched it in my Bible and what I came across was a passage in the Old Testament where the Jewish people had let false gods and idols infiltrate their belief/faith in God…