Totally agree!

Vicki

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From: "lelia" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [ECHURCH-USA] Yet Another Testimony


> I have to say Friday night was awesome.
>
>
> Lelia Struve email [log in to unmask] msn [log in to unmask]
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 12:12 AM
> Subject: Yet Another Testimony
>
>
> >     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.
> >
>