I have to say Friday night was awesome.
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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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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.
>
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