The History
History of My Faith & the Ministry
1989 - 2024
“Many are the plans in a man’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”
- Proverbs 19:21
“It takes God twenty years to make a man.”
- Leonard Ravenhill
From my profession of faith in Christ (March of 1989), to my absolute surrender to Him as Lord and Master of my life (October 2009) was 20 years, and 7 Months.
Major events timeline…
This timeline is currently under construction. It will contain approximately 150 significant ministry events. There will be two other timelines built to showcase the parental alienation story and the New Zealand and Lisa stories. Also, be sure to see the miraculous timing page which shows God’s astonishing design behind all of these events.
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march 1989I Became a Believer in Jesus Christ
Though my father and mother forsake me,
the Lord will receive me. - Psa 27:10
At the age of 15, I was kicked out of my earthly father’s house because of my drug addicted step-mother. A new friend told me about Jesus Christ and I started towards my Heavenly Father’s house.
1994-1995“Come Closer. There is So Much More.”
You will seek me and find me when you seek
me with all your heart. - Jer 29:13
Ironically, Keri was motivated for us to start going to church, which is what she had grown up doing. I was reluctant to go, but soon after attending Calvary Chapel Merritt Island, God was going to call me closer.
june 2000A Root of Infidelity in our Christian Marriage
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. - Heb 13:4
A 2000 family video captured our seeking God’s will for our life, but also evidence of Keri’s adultery, which I had once suspected. 17 years later I finally received physical evidence of their romantic relationship through Tyler. 19 years later she cried out against me to a judge saying, “Our lives are ruined.”
august 22, 2001Lord’s Gym Opens
Unless the Lord builds the house,
its builders labor in vain. - Psa 127:1
It took a financial miracle for this gym to open and I was so excited to have this unique ministry, but God was going to use this to teach me the painful difference between serving Him out of my own initiative and desires (dead works), vs. doing ONLY what He leads us to do, by His Spirit.
march 2002 (estimated)The Bizarre Angel Encounter
Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. - Heb 1:14, 13:2
“God will be magnified and glorified through your obedience.” Those were the remarkable words spoken to me on that Sunday morning, at Northland Community Church in Longwood, FL.
may 22, 2002Lord’s Gym Closes in Disaster
The fire will test the quality of each man’s work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames. - 1 Cor 3:13-15
1st Timed Event in My Story (9 mo.) Perhaps no other suffering has scared me more. Nine months to the day after we opened, it collapsed after our contractor took advantage of us. I was made out to be a con-man on the news, and soon became a prisoner in my own home.
december 14, 2004Bahama’s Sanctuary with God
“Be still and know that I am God;” - Psa 46:10
On Dec 6, 2004, I journaled about the crisis I was in, still struggling to recover after the gym, and not knowing what my purpose was. Eight days later I flew to the Bahamas to be alone with God, desperate to find His direction for my life.
january 1, 2005Writing Out My Major Life Purpose
“Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen.” - Acts 1:24
I don’t remember what business event it was that required I write this out, but twenty years later, it is absolutely wonderful to look back on my own hand writing about my love and purpose in the Lord, knowing what the Lord eventually brought about in my life.
january 26, 2007Climax of Business Success and Praise from Men
They are men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
- 1 Tim 6:5
I had finally overcome my very ugly childhood and the gym failure, proving I could "make something of myself". By 2007, my small biz income was nearly $700k and growing at 300% annually. My clients were comparing me to Zig Ziglar.
december 17, 2007“God pushed me off my dirt bike”
Come let us return to the Lord. He has torn
us to pieces but he will heal us… - Hos 6:1
I broke three ribs and my left collarbone was broken into three pieces. At the height of my success this was a turning point, when God struck a blow, bringing me into a long period of forced time-out. I went into deep reflection while God was breaking my natural strength and self-reliance.
december 3,2008The C.J. McGehee Story Video
God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. - 1 Cor 1:27-29
At the height of my “success”, now humbled by the accident and the 2008 credit crisis, God introduced me to Sandra, and her beloved son C.J. McGehee, breaking me out of my prosperity delusion and reminding me of the poor and weak true believers whom He loves so much. It was also because of this video that I got invited to the Rainforest in Feb 2009.
February 19-23, 2009Prophetic Ministry Seed Planted
“I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight,” - 1 Tim 1:18
A Christian business man who saw the C.J. Story contacted me and invited me on a business trip to Panama, Central America. While eating dinner on the Panama Canal, three ladies prophesied about God’s plans to impact millions of people through me in a future ministry.
February 22, 2009Prophetic Warning of 14 years of Spiritual Warfare
I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you. - John 16:4
The night before leaving the rainforest I had the most remarkable three part prophetic dream, not yet understanding it told of 14 years of intense spiritual battles which were ahead for me. When you remove the three man added “leap days”, it is exactly 14 years to the day between Keri’s betrayal on Dec 31, 2009, and Jan 3, 2024, when the court finally dismissed her 14 years of legal threats and accusations against me, even closing her case.
march 11, 2009The Biggest Temptation of My Life
When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time. - Lk 4:13
I am invited to replace my former employer Tom Hopkins on the Get Motivated Seminar Series. not yet understanding it told of 14 years of intense spiritual battles which were ahead for me.
july 2009Disgusted: No Longer Willing to Do Public Speaking
“If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.” - Mat 5:29
I was so sick of the pride in my heart from the praises of people after I spoke, that I decided I was no longer going to do public speaking. One day I stopped on the sidewalk and said, “God I’m not taking another step until you help me with this!” Then He gave me a vision that exposed the issue…
august 26, 2009A Burning Desire to Tell God Stories
Make known among the nations what He has done….tell of all his wonderful acts. - Psa 105:1-2
After the CJ experience, I had a burning desire to tell other’s testimonies and I no longer wanted to be the one in front of the camera or audience. I offered to do Brad Minn’s testimonial video for him for free. I had been his biggest fan since he worked for us at the Lord’s Gym.
october 27 & 29, 2009Keri’s Antagonism Increases Against Me Following God’s Call on My Life
Then the Birds of prey came down on the carcasses [sacrifice], but Abram drove them away. - Gen 15:11
Three days before I gave a total abandonment of my life to the Lord, I poured out my exhaustion from the suffering in my marriage, to the Lord, and then I journaled my heart to the Lord the day before I gave it all up to Him.
October 30, 2009My “White Funeral” Day
In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple. - Luke 14:33
After 20 years of professing to be a Christian, I had what Oswald Chambers calls my “white funeral day”, where I gave a total surrender of my life, my will, my family, and my business, to God.
december 2, 2009God Asks Me to Sacrifice My Career
Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and … sacrifice him there as a burn offering…” - Gen 22:2
After 20 years, my career was like my “Isaac”. I had waited so long for it to grow up and become successful and now it had, at a higher level than I had ever imagined. I had truly become great at sales training, and now God was asking me to kill it all.
december 26, 2009“She is Draining Me of Life!”
They think is strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you. - 1 Pet 4:4
Five days before I tell Keri I am done with our marriage and she betrays me, I captured the intense anger I was feeling as her antagonism of me reached a boiling point.
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december 31, 2009Spouse Betrays Me and Calls the Police
And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her…she called her servants. “Look,…he came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed.” - Gen 39:10,13-14
After a night out on New Year’s Eve, attempting to save our marriage, my spouses disrespect showed me our marriage was dead and I told her I was going to leave the marriage, no longer allowing her to treat me like this. Hours later she called the police to begin casting evil suspicions against me.
january 21, 2010I Go To Christian Counseling
If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. - Rom 12:8
Not only did it put me on a soulish and emotional high, but Keri immediately responded to this very happily and became peaceful towards me again. By taking the blame for everything, I was effectively absolving her of all her responsibility in the problems we were having in our marriage and that made her quite happy.
march 2010Start My Story Telling Business
If a man will not work, he shall not eat. - 2 Thes 3:10
Determined to keep myself off the stage and out from in front of the camera, I started a new business to tell stories of entrepreneurs and ministries. I called the company Sticky Story Productions. My customers were very impressed and I started earning income, for the first time in years, that had nothing to do with my speaking or training.
may 20, 2010The Abortion Story from Hell
God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the citizens..who acted treacherously against Abimelelch. - Judges 9:23
Using my new skills, I offered to produce our abortion story in hope of bringing Keri a sense of redemption and fulfillment in God. Instead, knowing she stubbornly held on to her lies and hypocrisy, the Lord was pleased to allow Satan to use this as the final death blow to our marriage.
july 10, 20101st Public Profession of Christ to Business Clients
Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. - Mat 10:32
Keri had always tried to prevent me from speaking publicly about Christ to my clients. On July 10, 2010, while packing up and facing an imminent divorce, I suddenly made this confession of Christ to the two thousand sales training clients I had. This could be considered the first ministry video of what ultimately became Relentless Heart.
july 30, 2010Spouse Files for Divorce
It was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy… - Jos 11:20
My 1st spouse files for divorce, exactly 21 days after I made my first public confession of Christ and exactly 72 days after we shot the abortion testimony. This is the starting point of what becomes the miraculous 777 day divorce. Every ounce of spiritual fruit that has come into my heart and into my ministry, is all rooted in the strange blessing of this excruciating divorce.
august 31, 2010666 Starts Showing Up All Over the Place
I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. - Acts 20:23
This was His amazing way to train me and teach me to associate every new move from Keri, or her attorney, with an attack of Satan. Had the Lord not done this, I would have simply attributed everything happening, to Keri’s bitter and unforgiving heart, and the natural reasons that people do things like this to each other. I would have seen Keri as my enemy, not Satan.
november 12, 2010A Prophetic Sign of Remarriage
“If I have now found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me.” - Judges 6:17
On my morning walk, in tears over the loss of my wife and children, I asked God, "Will I ever be married again?" I then had a moment like Gideon where I “threw out the fleece” and God answered exactly as I asked.
February 11, 2011“Fire Your Attorney”: A Huge Leap of Faith.
Many seek an audience with a ruler, but it is from the Lord that man gets justice. - Pro 29:26
Right in the middle of the high-conflict divorce, the Lord asked me to fire my attorney and trust Him alone for my defense. He used a complete stranger, Antonio Phillips, to plant the seed of what would become the biggest and most dangerous leap of faith I had ever taken. This act separates my two “Christian” lives, where I was now doing my Father’s will.
april 3, 2011Burying My Public Talent In Fear
So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you. - Mat 25:25 '
“How do we walk this out Lord? Should I just pull down the blog and only connect with people locally? What should I do? I do NOT want to run from what you have called me to do…I don’t want to “Bury my talents” Lord but I do not want pride to destroy me or ever again have a hold on me. Help me walk this out please Lord”…
may 28, 2011Move to Huntsville, AL
I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “no one who had left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or CHILDREN or fields for me and the gospel will faith to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. - Mark 10:29-30
Having now lost everything, I moved to Huntsville, AL on May 28, 2011, after my parents could see I was not making it. They insisted on coming to get me and after I prayed, I knew the Lord wanted me to go, even leaving behind my children.
june 2011Intense Bible Study Time
“If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.”
- Jn 8:31-32
Now that God had me stripped and isolated, I entered into a very intense three and a half year period of Bible study, four to five hours every morning. I had so much to unlearn, and I saw that my faith in Christ the last 20 years had been a worthless counterfeit. Only now did I start to become a true follower of Christ, learning and applying His teachings.
june 28, 2011222: God Starts Speaking to me Through Numbers
For God does speak—now one way, now another—though man may not perceive it. - Job 33:14
Having now lost everything, I moved to Huntsville, AL on May 28, 2011, after my parents could see I was not making it. They insisted on coming to get me and after I prayed, I knew the Lord wanted me to go, even leaving behind my children.
june 2011The School of Prayer
After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray. - Mark 6:46
I averaged going to the prayer trail five days a week for nearly 10 years. Sometimes I spent 90 minutes in prayer with the Lord. I poured out my heart to Him and enjoyed the sweetest of fellowship with God. I could have never survived all the suffering God allowed into my life without all this prayer!
july 10, 2011So Discouraged About Condition of the “Church”
I have no praise for you, for your meetings do more harm than good…1 Cor 11:17
I feel like I’m going to have to look the other way on things that I don’t want to...that’s bad. I told my step-dad that I feel going to church is going to take me backwards, not forwards. I went to the Rock Church for my second visit, this morning.
july 11, 14 2011Part-Time Work, or Full-Time Ministry Lord?
And because he [Paul] was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them. - Act 18:3
“So, I sense that the Lord has opened my eyes to this today, and that he is preventing me from running towards ministry as the ONLY option for my time and life, right now. The Lord still wants me to work. The bible says that if a man does not work, he should not eat. A man that does not provide for his family, is worse than a non-believer. So, now the question I have is what should my work be?”
august 31, 2011Mother Pressures Me to Disobey God
“Go home and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” So the man went away and began to tel in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed. - Mar 5:19-20
This journal entry amazes me, because if I had obeyed my mother in this moment, there would have NEVER been Trusting God in the Storm and RelentlessHeart.com would have never gotten off the ground. Satan was tempting me through my own mother to disobey God!
september 15, 2011First Ministry Videos
“Go home and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” So the man went away and began to tel in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed. - Mar 5:19-20
While the divorce battle raged, I felt in my spirit, “Tell the story of all that I have done in your life.” So, I began sharing my story and what I was learning as I began walking with Jesus Christ in the true path of obedience that comes by faith.
september 25, 2011First Public Sharing of My Testimony
“One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!” - John 9:25
After seeing a short 1st draft version of my story “Trusting God in the Storm”, my parent's Methodist pastor asked me to share my testimony before their church service.
february 16, 2012The Divorce Trial that Only God Could Do
Many seek an audience with a ruler, but it is from the Lord that man gets justice. - Pro 29:26
This nine and half hour divorce trial, looked all day long, like my faith has been in vain and that I would be defeated. Then in the last 20 minutes, God turned the whole thing around in the most remarkable way, allowing me to walk across on “dry land”. Exactly seven months later, I received the miraculous final divorce decree which became the first 777 day deliverance event in my story.
March 24, 2012My Anguish Over Modern Day Idolatry
Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. - 1 Cor 10:14
In an audio journal I captured the anguish I was increasingly feeling about unrighteousness and idolatry, particularly in professing Christians, after the Lord had opened my eyes to see what I hadn’t been able to see for over two decades of calling myself a Christian.
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june 17, 2012“You’re making me mad at you God!”
You have made see troubles, many and bitter - Psa 71:20
I've driven to Florida to see my children on father's Day and at the last minute, Keri pulls another one of her evil tricks to create as much pain for me as possible. I end up pulled off on the side of the road in Cape Canaveral, FL and while making a journal recording, I begin telling God how mad at him.
july 9, 2012God Calls for Radical Obedience
Do not resist an evil person - Mat 5:39
In the face of terrible injustice in yet another court hearing, my parents put tremendous pressure on me to fight back, while the Spirit is challenging me to such a radical obedience, that my life will never be the same after. If it were not for what I captured in this journal, there would be no RH.
july 10, 2012Doing Good to My Enemy
Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
- Lk 6:28
I had prayed for ways to be able to do good to Keri, and then God opened the door in a way I didn’t expect. Keri’s attorney, Abigail Johnston, had successfully manipulated the proposed final divorce decree at this point, to include allowing Keri three visits with the children, during my Summer-time visitation. Here was my opportunity.
august 21, 2012God Calls Me into Full-Time Ministry
Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching and testifying. - Acts 18:5
I was touring Christ for All Nations (Reinhard Bonnke Ministry) headquarters in Orlando, FL. I had been invited to meet their production team about possibly doing video work for them. While standing next to a large camera in the television studio, I heard in my spirit, “I did not call you to be behind the camera, but in front.” Before leaving, I prayed in my car and heard Him speak, “Go!”.
september 11, 2012Final Keri Divorce Decree Signed by Judge
Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife. - Proverbs 21:19
This date represented my first great experience of God’s freedom and redemption. He set me free from the awful bondage of being yoked to Keri any longer. Nevertheless, by God’s good will and purposes, it would be many years before I was totally free from her influence and power in my life.
september 15, 2012777 Day Divorce Miracle and Wonder
He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. - Job 5:9
What a wonder to behold when the Spirit told me to “count the days” and I then discovered God placed exactly 777 in between the dates of Keri filing the divorce and the date we received the final divorce decree in the mail. This miracle became an anchor for my faith, during the many years of Satanic opposition I would face in the years to come.
October 3, 2012Filmed Rest of Story for Trusting God in the Storm
Proclaim among the nations what he has done. - Psalm 9:11
Many months earlier, I had begun the process of telling the story of all that God had done in my life. I outlined and organized the story, by faith, even before the 777 day divorce victory. That made the sweetness of finishing the video all the better.
october 19, 2012Friends and Family Testify to God’s Call on My Life
Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. - 2 Cor 13:1
In early 2012, I received a ministry call from the Lord, when He said to my spirit, “Tell the story of all that I have done in your life.” At the same time, my closest friends and family began sharing the dramatic impact my story and suffering was having on their own life and faith in God.
december 3, 2012Prayer for My Enemy, Abigail Johnston, Keri’s Attorney
Love your enemies and pray for those who mistreat you. - Mat 5:44
In this audio journal recording I reflected on the remarkable compassion and forgiveness I felt towards Abigail M. Johnson, Keri’s attorney, despite how much evil she had done towards me, already up to this point. I also prayed that she would repent, which shows this was a prayer of mine the Lord did not answer. 49 months (7 x 7 months) after this recording, Abigail discovered she had breast cancer.
December 12, 2012Two Weeks of Incredible Spiritual Attack
Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching and testifying. - Acts 18:5
I captured on video, the almost unbelievable amounts of spiritual attack, specifically against my efforts to finalize and render the final documentary story, Trusting God in the Wilderness. Satan, obviously knew what was going to happen from this story, which became the foundation for this entire ministry.
december 15, 2012RELENTLESSHEART.COM is Launched
He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord. - Psa 40:3
On this day, I launched the very first version of RelentlessHeart.com and also put up the first draft version of the story video, hosting the story on Vimeo only, at this point.
december 15, 2012Prophetic Insight About 1,000,000 Views
In perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago. - Isa 25:1
Five days before the final story video goes live, I was walking in the woods and had this strong sense that my story would be watched over one million times. This may not seem too incredible after the fact, but considering how unknown I was and how I never allowed ads on my YouTube videos, it was indeed a remarkable providence of God.
december 20, 2012TGITS Story Prevents Suicide the Day it Goes Live
After two weeks of non-stop trouble against my trying to render a final story video, it finally completed on Dec 20, 2012. The Lord so precisely planned it to coincide with Jeremiah Turner’s second suicide attempt.
Most Impactful Moment in Ministry History So Far
The story was finished on December 20, 2012. It was originally called, “Losing Everything to Find it All”, but later I renamed it to Trusting God in the Storm. It did not permanently make it onto YouTube until November 27, 2015, mostly because of the false copyright strikes filed against me in 2014, on Youtube and Vimeo. By 2018, it had been watched over one million times and tens of thousands of people emailed me from around the world to share the impact it had on their life and faith in God. This would become the foundation of Relentlessheart.com ministry.
january 19, 2013A Risky Financial Leap of Faith
The Lord ordered that those who preach the Good News should be supported by those who benefit from it. - 1 Cor 9:14
In 2010 I had started a small video story telling business for entrepreneurs and ministries. On Jan 19, 2013, the Lord directed me to set it down and trust Him entirely through prayer and faith to provide for my finances as I now worked full-time in the ministry. I was allowed to put up a donate button, but to never make my needs known to anyone but Him alone. Twelve years later, this is the longest running miracle in my ministry.
january 31, 2013God Stops Keri and Abigail’s Court Motion to Remove My Story from the Internet
I know that you can do all things: no plan of yours can be thwarted - Job 42:2
I snapped that picture just before heading into the courtroom to face more accusations from Keri and Abigail. The Lord had already told me not to prepare anything to defend myself and now I saw this picture on my way to the courthouse. They tried to get the story taken off the internet, but they were denied their Motion. Another great victory for the Lord!
february 16, 2013Clinging to Faith
I know that you can do all things: no plan of yours can be thwarted - Job 42:2
Keri, obviously feeling the shame for her part in the story, drags me. back into court in FL, where her attorney Abigail Johnston used her legal tactics to try to get Trusting God in the Storm removed from the internet, but God did not allow them to be victorious.
April 4, 2013The Lord Refreshes My Spirit with a Free Used Car in Answer to My Prayers
I know that you can do all things: no plan of yours can be thwarted - Job 42:2
On March 21, 2013, I captured in my audio journal, what I believed was the Lord speaking to me, in direct answer to my prayer for financial support, to let me know a blessing was on the way. Seven days later on the March 27th, 2013, I received a phone call from someone offering a free used car.
april 13, 201381 Subscribers: The Day of Small Beginnings
Do not resist an evil person - Mat 5:39
In 2013, after finishing TGITS, I started creating short teaching videos between three and seven minutes long, as a way of encouraging the Christians who were reaching out to me in their troubles. TGITS had not yet made it on to Youtube so my videos were only being watched by about 40 to 50 people for the first three years. Several times I was discouraged, but I knew that I had to keep obeying God, regardless of the results I saw with my eyes.
may 7, 2013God Leads Me to Memorize Christ’s Teachings and Satan Strongly Opposes
My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
- Proverbs 7:1
This was simultaneously one of the most frustrating and most fruitful tasks the Lord ever gave me. I do not have the brain of a Chuck Missler and Satan made it more difficult with his opposition. Years later, I cannot put into words how wise God was to insist on doing this. I have often made messages for people where I will quote fifty to seventy-five Scriptures in a single recording.
may 15, 2013Set Ministry Down for Four Months after Fall Into Sin
“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” - Lk 22:31-32
I had prayed for ways to be able to do good to Keri, and then God opened the door in a way I didn’t expect. Keri’s attorney, Abigail Johnston, had successfully manipulated the proposed final divorce decree at this point, to include allowing Keri three visits with the children, during my Summer-time visitation. Here was my opportunity.
may 16, 2013First Prophetic Rattlesnake Encounter
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. - Gen 3:1
This was the first of four rattlesnake encounters I would have while walking on the trail, and the first of many other instances where God would use animal encounters like this as prophetic warnings of Satan’s strikes against me, or of signs pointing to a message from the Lord.
august 3, 2013Last Time I Saw My Children
Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife. - Proverbs 21:19
This date represented my first great experience of God’s freedom and redemption. He set me free from the awful bondage of being yoked to Keri any longer. Nevertheless, by God’s good will and purposes, it would be many years before I was totally free from her influence and power in my life.
august 25, 2013Deleted Damning Recordings of Keri
Love…it keeps no record of wrongs. - 1 Cor 13:5
Since just before the divorce, I had audio recordings of Keri screaming at me, which proved she had lied and perjured herself in court, to make me out to be the evil one. I decided not to use them in court but Keri’s attorney, Abigail, asked the court to make me produce them because she thought I had illegally recorded Keri, which I hadn’t. Ironically, a copy of them showed back up in recent years on a court CD I found.
september 27, 2013Begin Teaching Christ’s Commands to Local Men
So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God. - Acts 18:11
I started a small men’s Bible Study group and had the valuable experience of spending close to a year discipling these men, each week. I learned so much from watching men’s lives smash up against the word of God and the teachings of Christ, that I incorporated those lessons into the introduction pages of what eventually became the John 7:17 Challenge.
november 1, 2013Begin Teaching Christ’s Commands Online
Therefore go and make disciples…teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. - Mat 28:19-20
What joy it brings me to look back on these early days of my teaching the commands of Christ. I had so little resources, but I used what I had to begin honoring my Lord and pleading with others to start intentionally obeying Him. Unknown to me at the time, all this work would become the foundation of the John 7:17 Challenge, which thousands around the world have partaken of and been blessed by. Praises to God!
december 12, 2013Lady Prophesies I am Going to Jail for Child Support
In perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago. - Isa 25:1
A woman from my old charismatic church showed up saying God wanted her to tell me that I was going to jail, kind of like Paul, but because of the child support (she was already aware of my situation). But then she said, God told her I could affect the outcome and not have to go. In other words, I could start taking the jobs and save myself (turn the stone into bread).
february 14, 2014 Abigail Johnston Manipulated Final Divorce Decree
After two weeks of non-stop trouble against my trying to render a final story video, it finally completed on Dec 20, 2012. The Lord so precisely planned it to coincide with Jeremiah Turner’s second suicide attempt.
may 19, 2014So Much Work, So Little Fruit.
Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord because you know that you labor in the Lord is not in vain. - 1 Cor 15:58
It had been two and half years since I made my first ministry videos and I still only had 115 subscribers. I had only received $600 in donations in my first year, since putting up the donate button. Also, YouTube and Vimeo take down my videos after my 1st attempt of putting it on YouTube on 5/17, because of inappropriate copyright strikes from one artist against me.
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january 19, 2013A Risky Financial Leap of Faith
The Lord ordered that those who preach the Good News should be supported by those who benefit from it. - 1 Cor 9:14
In 2010 I had started a small video story telling business for entrepreneurs and ministries. On Jan 19, 2013, the Lord directed me to set it down and trust Him entirely through prayer and faith to provide for my finances as I now worked full-time in the ministry. I was allowed to put up a donate button, but to never make my needs known to anyone but Him alone. Twelve years later, this is the longest running miracle in my ministry.
january 31, 2013God Stops Keri and Abigail’s Court Motion to Remove My Story from the Internet
I know that you can do all things: no plan of yours can be thwarted - Job 42:2
I snapped that picture just before heading into the courtroom to face more accusations from Keri and Abigail. The Lord had already told me not to prepare anything to defend myself and now I saw this picture on my way to the courthouse. They tried to get the story taken off the internet, but they were denied their Motion. Another great victory for the Lord!
february 16, 2013Clinging to Faith
I know that you can do all things: no plan of yours can be thwarted - Job 42:2
Keri, obviously feeling the shame for her part in the story, drags me. back into court in FL, where her attorney Abigail Johnston used her legal tactics to try to get Trusting God in the Storm removed from the internet, but God did not allow them to be victorious.
may 7, 2013God Leads Me to Memorize Christ’s Teachings and Satan Strongly Opposes
My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
- Proverbs 7:1
This was simultaneously one of the most frustrating and most fruitful tasks the Lord ever gave me. I do not have the brain of a Chuck Missler and Satan made it more difficult with his opposition. Years later, I cannot put into words how wise God was to insist on doing this. I have often made messages for people where I will quote fifty to seventy-five Scriptures in a single recording.
may 15, 2013Set Ministry Down for Four Months after Fall Into Sin
“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” - Lk 22:31-32
I had prayed for ways to be able to do good to Keri, and then God opened the door in a way I didn’t expect. Keri’s attorney, Abigail Johnston, had successfully manipulated the proposed final divorce decree at this point, to include allowing Keri three visits with the children, during my Summer-time visitation. Here was my opportunity.
may 16, 2013First Prophetic Rattlesnake Encounter
Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching and testifying. - Acts 18:5
I was touring Christ for All Nations (Reinhard Bonnke Ministry) headquarters in Orlando, FL. I had been invited to meet their production team about possibly doing video work for them. While standing next to a large camera in the television studio, I heard in my spirit, “I did not call you to be behind the camera, but in front.” Before leaving, I prayed in my car and heard Him speak, “Go!”.
august 3, 2013Last Time I Saw My Children
Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife. - Proverbs 21:19
This date represented my first great experience of God’s freedom and redemption. He set me free from the awful bondage of being yoked to Keri any longer. Nevertheless, by God’s good will and purposes, it would be many years before I was totally free from her influence and power in my life.
august 25, 2013Deleted Damning Recordings of Keri
Love…it keeps no record of wrongs. - 1 Cor 13:5
Since the time of the divorce, I had some outrageous audio recordings of Keri which proved she had perjured herself in court, and that she intended evil and harm to me. I never wanted to use them in court but Abigail asked the court to have me produce them because she thought I had illegally recorded Keri, which I hadn’t. then a copy of them showed back up in recent years on a court CD, because Abigail Johnston, Keri’s attorney, thought I had illegally recorded her without her permission, which the recordings proved was not true.
september 27, 2013Begin Teaching Christ’s Commands to Local Men
So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God. - Acts 18:11
I started a small men’s Bible Study group and had the valuable experience of spending close to a year discipling these men, each week. I learned so much from watching men’s lives smash up against the word of God and the teachings of Christ, that I incorporated those lessons into the introduction pages of what eventually became the John 7:17 Challenge.
november 1, 2013Begin Teaching Christ’s Commands Online
Therefore go and make disciples…teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. - Mat 28:19-20
What joy it brings me to look back on these early days of my teaching the commands of Christ. I had so little resources, but I used what I had to begin honoring my Lord and pleading with others to start intentionally obeying Him. Unknown to me at the time, all this work would become the foundation of the John 7:17 Challenge, which thousands around the world have partaken of and been blessed by. Praises to God!
december 12, 2013Lady Prophesies I am Going to Jail for Child Support
In perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago. - Isa 25:1
A woman from my old charismatic church showed up saying God wanted her to tell me that I was going to jail, kind of like Paul, but because of the child support (she was already aware of my situation). But then she said, God told her I could affect the outcome and not have to go. In other words, I could start taking the jobs and save myself (turn the stone into bread).
february 14, 2014 Abigail Johnston Manipulated Final Divorce Decree
After two weeks of non-stop trouble against my trying to render a final story video, it finally completed on Dec 20, 2012. The Lord so precisely planned it to coincide with Jeremiah Turner’s second suicide attempt.
April 4, 2013The Lord Refreshes My Spirit with a Free Used Car in Answer to My Prayers
I know that you can do all things: no plan of yours can be thwarted - Job 42:2
On March 21, 2013, I captured in my audio journal, what I believed was the Lord speaking to me, in direct answer to my prayer for financial support, to let me know a blessing was on the way. Seven days later on the March 27th, 2013, I received a phone call from someone offering a free used car.
may 19, 2014So Much Work, So Little Fruit.
Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord because you know that you labor in the Lord is not in vain. - 1 Cor 15:58
It had been two and half years since I made my first ministry videos and I still only had 115 subscribers. I had only received $600 in donations in my first year, since putting up the donate button. Also, YouTube and Vimeo take down my videos after my 1st attempt of putting it on YouTube on 5/17, because of inappropriate copyright strikes from one artist against me.
april 13, 201381 Subscribers: The Day of Small Beginnings
Do not resist an evil person - Mat 5:39
In 2013, after finishing TGITS, I started creating short teaching videos between three and seven minutes long, as a way of encouraging the Christians who were reaching out to me in their troubles. TGITS had not yet made it on to Youtube so my videos were only being watched by about 40 to 50 people for the first three years. Several times I was discouraged, but I knew that I had to keep obeying God, regardless of the results I saw with my eyes.
january 19, 2013A Risky Financial Leap of Faith
The Lord ordered that those who preach the Good News should be supported by those who benefit from it. - 1 Cor 9:14
In 2010 I had started a small video story telling business for entrepreneurs and ministries. On Jan 19, 2013, the Lord directed me to set it down and trust Him entirely through prayer and faith to provide for my finances as I now worked full-time in the ministry. I was allowed to put up a donate button, but to never make my needs known to anyone but Him alone. Twelve years later, this is the longest running miracle in my ministry.
january 31, 2013God Stops Keri and Abigail’s Court Motion to Remove My Story from the Internet
I know that you can do all things: no plan of yours can be thwarted - Job 42:2
I snapped that picture just before heading into the courtroom to face more accusations from Keri and Abigail. The Lord had already told me not to prepare anything to defend myself and now I saw this picture on my way to the courthouse. They tried to get the story taken off the internet, but they were denied their Motion. Another great victory for the Lord!
february 16, 2013Clinging to Faith
I know that you can do all things: no plan of yours can be thwarted - Job 42:2
Keri, obviously feeling the shame for her part in the story, drags me. back into court in FL, where her attorney Abigail Johnston used her legal tactics to try to get Trusting God in the Storm removed from the internet, but God did not allow them to be victorious.
may 7, 2013God Leads Me to Memorize Christ’s Teachings and Satan Strongly Opposes
My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
- Proverbs 7:1
This was simultaneously one of the most frustrating and most fruitful tasks the Lord ever gave me. I do not have the brain of a Chuck Missler and Satan made it more difficult with his opposition. Years later, I cannot put into words how wise God was to insist on doing this. I have often made messages for people where I will quote fifty to seventy-five Scriptures in a single recording.
may 15, 2013Set Ministry Down for Four Months after Fall Into Sin
“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” - Lk 22:31-32
I had prayed for ways to be able to do good to Keri, and then God opened the door in a way I didn’t expect. Keri’s attorney, Abigail Johnston, had successfully manipulated the proposed final divorce decree at this point, to include allowing Keri three visits with the children, during my Summer-time visitation. Here was my opportunity.
may 16, 2013First Prophetic Rattlesnake Encounter
Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching and testifying. - Acts 18:5
I was touring Christ for All Nations (Reinhard Bonnke Ministry) headquarters in Orlando, FL. I had been invited to meet their production team about possibly doing video work for them. While standing next to a large camera in the television studio, I heard in my spirit, “I did not call you to be behind the camera, but in front.” Before leaving, I prayed in my car and heard Him speak, “Go!”.
august 3, 2013Last Time I Saw My Children
Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife. - Proverbs 21:19
This date represented my first great experience of God’s freedom and redemption. He set me free from the awful bondage of being yoked to Keri any longer. Nevertheless, by God’s good will and purposes, it would be many years before I was totally free from her influence and power in my life.
august 25, 2013Deleted Damning Recordings of Keri
Love…it keeps no record of wrongs. - 1 Cor 13:5
Since the time of the divorce, I had some outrageous audio recordings of Keri which proved she had perjured herself in court, and that she intended evil and harm to me. I never wanted to use them in court but Abigail asked the court to have me produce them because she thought I had illegally recorded Keri, which I hadn’t. then a copy of them showed back up in recent years on a court CD, because Abigail Johnston, Keri’s attorney, thought I had illegally recorded her without her permission, which the recordings proved was not true.
september 27, 2013Begin Teaching Christ’s Commands to Local Men
So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God. - Acts 18:11
I started a small men’s Bible Study group and had the valuable experience of spending close to a year discipling these men, each week. I learned so much from watching men’s lives smash up against the word of God and the teachings of Christ, that I incorporated those lessons into the introduction pages of what eventually became the John 7:17 Challenge.
november 1, 2013Begin Teaching Christ’s Commands Online
Therefore go and make disciples…teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. - Mat 28:19-20
What joy it brings me to look back on these early days of my teaching the commands of Christ. I had so little resources, but I used what I had to begin honoring my Lord and pleading with others to start intentionally obeying Him. Unknown to me at the time, all this work would become the foundation of the John 7:17 Challenge, which thousands around the world have partaken of and been blessed by. Praises to God!
december 12, 2013Lady Prophesies I am Going to Jail for Child Support
In perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago. - Isa 25:1
A woman from my old charismatic church showed up saying God wanted her to tell me that I was going to jail, kind of like Paul, but because of the child support (she was already aware of my situation). But then she said, God told her I could affect the outcome and not have to go. In other words, I could start taking the jobs and save myself (turn the stone into bread).
february 14, 2014 Abigail Johnston Manipulated Final Divorce Decree
After two weeks of non-stop trouble against my trying to render a final story video, it finally completed on Dec 20, 2012. The Lord so precisely planned it to coincide with Jeremiah Turner’s second suicide attempt.
April 4, 2013The Lord Refreshes My Spirit with a Free Used Car in Answer to My Prayers
I know that you can do all things: no plan of yours can be thwarted - Job 42:2
On March 21, 2013, I captured in my audio journal, what I believed was the Lord speaking to me, in direct answer to my prayer for financial support, to let me know a blessing was on the way. Seven days later on the March 27th, 2013, I received a phone call from someone offering a free used car.
may 19, 2014So Much Work, So Little Fruit.
Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord because you know that you labor in the Lord is not in vain. - 1 Cor 15:58
It had been two and half years since I made my first ministry videos and I still only had 115 subscribers. I had only received $600 in donations in my first year, since putting up the donate button. Also, YouTube and Vimeo take down my videos after my 1st attempt of putting it on YouTube on 5/17, because of inappropriate copyright strikes from one artist against me.
april 13, 201381 Subscribers: The Day of Small Beginnings
Do not resist an evil person - Mat 5:39
In 2013, after finishing TGITS, I started creating short teaching videos between three and seven minutes long, as a way of encouraging the Christians who were reaching out to me in their troubles. TGITS had not yet made it on to Youtube so my videos were only being watched by about 40 to 50 people for the first three years. Several times I was discouraged, but I knew that I had to keep obeying God, regardless of the results I saw with my eyes.
Local Ministry and Fruit
For the first three years of my ministry, most of it was done locally in Huntsville, AL where I was living at the time. I would share my testimony with almost anyone who came in my path, for more than a few minutes. I also became very aware of people who were hurting when I was out. Often the Lord would have me approach them and give them a card with a link to the TGITS story on it. The Holy Spirit set up some incredible divine encounters, a few of which can be seen in this video.
2014 - 2015
First Stage of Wilderness
The way I see it now, there are types of “wilderness”, and types of “promised lands” in our walks with the Lord, but truly the majority of the Christian life, here on earth is all one long Wilderness Journey. Our true “Promised Land” is in heaven. Nevertheless, regarding the “types”, I have had what appears to be three stages to my wilderness journey, with the first being from 2012 to 2014. These were very difficult days, filled with all sorts of attacks and troubles from Satan, all Sovereignly designed to crucify more of my my sinful nature (flesh), and to make more room for the reign of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ in my heart.
God Tests Me with Homelessness
On July 8, 2014, I became homeless for four months to the day, even though my parents had offered for me to move into a second home they purchased. I obeyed the Lord’s lead to not move in to that house, or any of my friends’ houses. I knew the Lord was commanding me to stay put and trust Him, even though it meant I was now homeless. I spent the first night in my car and the rest of the time I slept on the floor of a hundred year old office building. Every day I worked on writing the John 7:17 Challenge.
“Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” - Mat 8:20
The John 7:17 Challenge
Remarkably, when I was finished with the first version of the Challenge, the Lord graciously allowed me to move into my parent’s second home. He had not only tested me with the homelessness, and not only allowed me to identify personally with Christ’s homelessness, but He clearly isolated me and gave me a tremendous amount of time and focus, in which to complete this incredible project. I remember knowing the moment it arrived in my hand, that the blessed Lord and Holy Spirit took this much, much further than I could have ever done. Looking back on this project, I can see so clearly what it means only to be the instrument, which He uses.
October 22, 2014
The first 100 copies of the John 7:17 Challenge arrived and suddenly it seemed that my sufferings, while homeless, were no longer worth comparing with the future glory that was now going to be revealed through this completed discipleship work. It was an extraordinary blessing to hold my first copy in my hands, and to now see that thousands around the world have held a copy in their hands, it is just such a beautiful reminder that God wastes NONE of our pain, and never misses and opportunity to turn death into resurrection life. (Romans 8:18).
First Precisely Time Disaster Prediction (COVID-19)
On February 26, 2015, I posted this video called “Finding God’s Peace in the Storm” on YT. In the video, I say “America’s days are numbered.” Five years to the day later, on February 25, 2020 at 4:30pm, COVID-19 was announced, by the CDC, as a Pandemic in the US. Most news outlets announced it to the US the next day on the 26th. This becomes the first of four prophetic messages or warnings in my recordings, which are then connected to COVID-19 or another disaster, with the precise timing that only God can do.
2016
My 2nd Marriage
Israel’s unfaithfulness did not nullify all the miraculous works of God, which He did in getting them out of Egypt, through the Wilderness, and into the Promised Land. And neither does my second wife’s apostasy nullify the amazing power and faithfulness of God we saw when He did the impossible to put us together. This was a story of genuine faith, empowered by God's grace, to overcome 36 significant obstacles which resulted in the "impossible" becoming POSSIBLE! We married in Hyderabad India on March 24, 2016 and we left to come live in the US, nine months later to the day, on Dec 24, 2016.
Prophetic Warning from India
While living in Hyderabad, India, I was moved to warn people that things were going to soon get much worse in the world and time was running out to take their relationship with God seriously. I mention an increase in mass shootings and storms and disasters. The largest mass shooting on US soil occurred one year to the day after I made this message, and the largest recorded storm season happened the following year in 2017.
Astonishing Suicide Preventions
Since TGITS came out back in 2012, God had been pleased to use the ministry to prevent a few suicides in remarkable ways. None were more astonishing than the story of Kim John Curtis, on December 31, 2016.
Kim sent me the picture of the .357 magnum which he had put to his head and then pulled the trigger. What happened when the gun went off is just astonishing.