Phil,
Totally awesome.
Praise the Lord.
Virgie At 02:12 AM 5/15/2005, you wrote:
> Another testimony was shared last Friday night by a new comer
>to our group. His name is Mark Ortiz. Mark is Spanish, that is,
>he was born here and not in Mexico. Mark is 39 years old,
>married, and has two little girls. Sixteen years ago, he was not
>only a drug addict, but he had worked out a smuggling routine with
>the Mexican Mafia. this group is known as M13 now and they are
>very very dangerous people.
>
> Mark was on a seven day crack cocaine binge. At the end of
>the week, he decided his life was worthless and wasn't worth
>living. He loaded his hand gun with six hollow point bullets and
>pressed the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. The hammer
>fell but nothing happened. For some reason, he walked to the
>television set in his room and turned it on. A Christian show was
>just closing and he saw and heard the preachers last words before
>the program went off the air. "Jesus can meet your need wherever
>you are at any time." Mark turned off the TV and said, "Lord, if
>you are real and if you can rescue me like the man said, you can
>have my life." suddenly, a bright figure stood in the room. Mark
>was shaking but Jesus touched him physically and said how much He
>loved Mark and that He had heard his prayer. The figure
>disappeared and Mark said something indescribable suddenly changed
>inside of him.
>
> As Mark thought about all this, a dark figure walked into the
>room, sat down in a nearby chair, and struck up a cigarette.
>Satan said, "I told you, when you were a little boy, your life
>belonged to me. So you won't get out of this." Mark told him to
>get out of his room because he belong to Jesus now because Jesus
>said so. Mark was shaking and pleading for the blood of Jesus to
>protect him. The dark figure left through the door.
>
> Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. Mark opened it and
>it was a drug friend. "I came over to get high, man," he said.
>Mark told us that the Mexican mafia often just gave them extra
>drugs to sell for themselves, or to use for themselves, so he had
>an apartment full of dope. He invited the man in but before they
>could do anything, there came another knock at the door. Mark
>opened it and to his surprise, it was his mother. She was not a
>Christian at this time. She is now. Mark asked her what she was
>doing over at his house this late at night. She said, "I heard a
>voice a few minutes ago tell me that if I didn't get over to your
>apartment to see you right away, I would never see you again. So
>what is going on." Mark said, "Mom, I just tried to kill myself,"
>he was still holding the gun, "but it wouldn't fire." He told her
>he had just asked Jesus to be his Lord and Savior. The other man
>in the room said, "Hey, I came to get high." Mark said, "Get out,
>man. I don't do dope any more." The guy said, "I ain't leaving
>until I get high." Mark pointed the loaded gun at the man and
>said, "Get out now." He left. His mom about had a heart attack
>when her son pointed the gun at his friend. Mark said, "Mom, you
>don't understand. That's the only way you can deal with those
>types of people."
>
> No sooner had his mom left to go home, than Mark heard the
>squealing of tires. Worried his mom had just gotten into a wreck,
>he looked out the window and down on the street. His sister, who
>he guaranteed us, was the meanest Mexican woman in Denver, came
>screaming down the street in her sports car, slammed on the
>breaks, bumped over the curb into the grass in front of the
>apartment building, threw open her car door, and came pounding up
>the steps to his apartment. She literally, he said, kicked open
>his door and stomped into the room. "What is going on up here?"
>she demanded. Mark said, "What do you mean?" She said, "A few
>moments ago, I heard this voice in my head say, Get right over to
>see your brother or you will never see him again. So what is
>going on?" she demanded again. Mark told her the story. All of
>Mark's family is saved now.
>
> There is a lot more detail to this story he told us but next
>time I will record it because we are going to have Mark and Troy
>tell their stories again.
>
>Phil.
>
>
>
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