How God can take me a sinner and make it work for the Glory of God!!
Written by Jesusfreak5775
Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 08:29 AM.
Hey my name is Mark Martin I come from a christian faimly and went to church all my life! When I was saved when I was 7 yrs old at olsen park baptist church. By the time i was 10yrs old Had got cought shoplifting at the grocery store. By the age of 15 I got arrest for stealing a car, Been kicked out of every public school in town, and trying new things such as Drugs and Drinking. by the age of 18 i have disobeyed my Dad to the point of being kick out of his house. Shortly after that in the same yr I got married to a non-christian she had interduced me to harder drugs such as cocaine, meth, acid, angel dust, mushrooms. By the age of 20 i was divorced, arrested for forgery of a finnacial insterment, and lost everything dear to me. by the age of 24 i had violated my probation and was on the run from the law, doing alll kiinds of illigal stuff. And this whole time I was a christian, and the way I know i was is becuase i was convicted of everything I was doing, by the time I was 26 I was locked up in a Texas prison still not turned to God but knowing I need to change my lifestyle. While I was locked up in prison my ex wife had my little girl Ashley. And that is one of the hardest things I had to deal with was my lil girl being born while I was locked up! after 7 mo of Jail i got released and put back on probation for 4 yrs. I did not turn to God but tryed to change on my own and and it failed in the beiging I left my baby's mom and my lil girl and moved in with a striper and her 3 kids. Ended up violating my probation again and had to move to amarillo so i went to Amarillo with a new attitude of trying to change. But not turning to God so i was clean from drugs for about 6 mo when i got the call that my lil girl had a broken nose and that cps had taken my child! At this point in time i was gonna kill sum people, So i went to court for custody of my child first of all they would not give me my lil girl becuase of my criminal background. So i did what the cps courtsd wanted for a yr and fianallly i won the case. and the Judge gave me split custody with me being the primary. so now i am a single father trying to take care of a 1 yr old. I lived with my aunt and granny for 2 yr becuase they helped me with my lil girl so much. and to this day my lil girl stays at that house becuase about 1 1/2 ago I got back into drugs and drinking and sex and stripclubs a drug dealing and I did not put my child in the middle of that i left her there so she would be safe no matter how stupid I was! 8 mo. ago i violated my probation for not reporting, the reason i did not report was becuase I was too high. i was so addicted to the neddle that i lost 90 lbs in 2 mo. i have done more meth in 2 days than most have done there whole life. I am not prowd of this fact but I want you to know how far I was and the LORD STILL WAS WAITING FOR ME TO CONFESS AND TURN AND COME BACK TO HIM (REPENT)!! Jan 3 2008 I decided that i was tired of this life! and I decided I can't do it! I gave everything up to God! EVERYTHING I am not talking I gave a lil bit I gave it all up and he took my burdons lightened my load adn delivered my from drug addiction, drinking, cussing, smoking, sexual impurity, and many more! And now me and my girlfriend do not sleep in the same bed we do not have sex. I read my bible everyday pray everyday i went back to my probation to try to settle up with them becuase i did not report for the last 9 mo. And before I went i was praying that God's will be done and reading scripture. and when i went to probation they arrested me. and all the way to the county jail I was saying"Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus " all the way there and when i got to jail i was prasing his name I did in jail what I was doing out in the world. whitch was prasiing God and loving him. I seen a guy reading his bible in jail I asked him if he was a christian and he said yes I said that is cool I am also, and in about 10 min he came over to me and handed me a bible and said "I don't want you to get hungry" wow the Lord opened ways for me to worship him and I did i learned a great deal in those 6 days I was in there we ( a friend and I )had bible studies and prayer. I told God if I go to jail I would worship him still and he tested me and I did good. thank you Jesus for the things that you show me daily. I am looking at 18 mo. state jail right now! I know that the lord is in control and no matter what happens no one or thing can take Gods love from me! So for anyone out there that thinks that they have been to bad and God don't love them you r mistaken, God is always waiting for you to come back but you got to go back!
Rom 8:37-39
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NASB
May God bless you in everything that you do!
your friend
Mark Martin Jr.
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