Over against the backdrop and over behind my life’s story in connecting with the past, the present and the future pertaining to my long lifetime journey, I feel compelled to say that from the very beginning I was uncertain as to the way I should go as well as to how to get there. All I know for sure was at that time upon looking at my lifestyle I realized that the direction in which I was headed, the truth that hit me to such a point that I knew that I had to find another way in which to live life. The way I was going only could haveend at a dead in street, leading to nowhereexcept pushing the button of self destruction.
At this point I had to make a choice/ decision to do something I had never done before. What brought me to the cross road of making the right decision as I was looking both ways for another way, was for the first time in my life I stood still long enough to know that there was an is God who sits high and looks low. One who knew that I needed to know that in spite of all that confronted me that He was the God of all flesh and there was not anything too hard for Hm. In a way that only I could understand the spirit of God got control of me and assured me that I was not a helpless, hopeless case not what I beyond being helped. This was true in spite of the fact that “I was sinking in sin, sinking to arise no more. It was than when nothing else would help God sent His search light of grace out into the dark sea of my life. The hand of Jesus reach out and caught hold of me, lifted up my bowed down head and when nothing else would help God’s love lifted me.
As the Holy Spirit began to work on me, in me, directing and helping me, the love of God rose up in my soul whereby I was assured that if I would surrender my all and all to God, bring all of my dreams and hope to God that He would guide me througha collaborative process whereby I could draw on His strength and that at His command the entire angelic host of heaven would be at His beck and call to assist and help me to make it through the nights of my life while living and pressing forward achieving the goal set before me.
Since that wonderful day I have sometimes been up and sometimes down but I keep on going,expecting one day that God will plant my feet on higher ground. The road has not been easy;there has been some ruff place, some hills to go up, some valleys to go through, and some mountains to climb. Nevertheless, for some fifty-one years or more, “So far in many ways God has seen to it that I have been able thus far to weather the storms. The wind and the wave don’t bother me because I leaning on His everlasting arms.”
During the course of my journey since my first sermon at age 15,at Soldiers Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, in Salisbury, NC there has been many of whom I am grateful that they prayed for me, lifted me up, encouraged and me motivated me along the way who spoke words into my life that would help me to not give up and to keep on keeping on. As a result the road has been paved for me as God through the aid of the Holy Spirit assistance me as I have made it up through the ranks: Layman, Sunday School Teacher, Usher, Deacon, license and ordained Preacher, Doctor of Divinity, Elect Bishop and last October 2011 I was elevated officially to the office of Bishop. All along the way as God’s Ambassador I have resepsented Him far and near across this country and around the world. I have pastored three churches, run revivals, workshops, seminars, and taught school from pre-school, to teaching adults at three or more Christian Instructions.