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Sister's Desperation
00:03:43
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| In your book, Destined for Hell, boy, what a title. | |
| This is his life story. | |
| You talk about a preacher. | |
| When and where did you meet the preacher that helped you get off drugs and get on the right track? | |
| My sister, out of desperation, when she realized that I was really messed up, and one day she looked at me and she was a professional nurse. | |
| All the veins on my right arm collapse from shooting up. | |
| All the veins on my left arm collapse from shooting up. | |
| I was shooting up in the veins of my legs. | |
| And so my sister realized something's wrong. | |
| So she was going to a Spanish Pentecostal church and Nikki Cruz was there on 5th Street in North Philadelphia. | |
| And she heard what happened to Nikki Cruz. | |
| And so she calls the preacher at Philadelphia, has a prison chaplain. | |
| And this guy walks into the prison of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia House of Correction, and looks at me. | |
| And he says, my name is J. Cole, and I came to give you a message that Jesus Christ loves you. | |
| And I looked at him. | |
| I said, how can you stand here and tell me that Jesus loves me? | |
| You know, my own parents don't come to visit me. | |
| But he didn't tell me. | |
| My sister sent him there. | |
| And to make a long story short, as a result of that minister talking to me, he left and he started telling me how God cared for me. | |
| And I said, he don't care for me. | |
| And I just have to tell you, the words that I said to him were not nice words. | |
| I just looked at him and you know how when you're not saved and people are ugly to you, you send them to places, don't you? | |
| Yeah. | |
| But well, thank God when you get saved, you don't have to send them to that place. | |
| You can look at them and say, hey, you, go to heaven. | |
| Anyway, but anyway, make a long story short. | |
| The man, I said, take your Bible, take your teen challenge program and get out of here. | |
| I don't want to hear it. | |
| And he looked at me and he said, Lewis, I know you don't want to hear this, and I'll go. | |
| But before I go, can you please let me pray for you? | |
| I made my first mistake, Mondo. | |
| I did not know he was Pentecostal. | |
| He said, bow your head and close your eyes. | |
| Well, first of all, you don't come to Philadelphia. | |
| Tell nobody to close their eyes. | |
| And he laid his hand on me. | |
| And all of a sudden, he said, Lord, save him. | |
| He nearly scared the devil out of me. | |
| And then, well, the story goes on that by a miracle of God, I was released from the torture chamber of Satan's rack. | |
| Can I just do this right now? | |
| You are a grandmother right now. | |
| You are a grandfather. | |
| You are a parent. | |
| And you have a child with a life-controlling problem hooked on psychotropic medication, took on barbituates, injecting heroin into their veins, totally, completely lost, facing life terms in prison, like some of the young men that we'll talk about later that we've helped. | |
| I want you to know that in a little while, this ministry is going to offer you a chance to get some material in your hand that you can get from them to bring and give them to your kids. | |
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The Storms of Life
00:00:28
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| But God brought you to this program right now to let you know someone is bigger than you. | |
| You say, Brother Torres, the devil has stole my peace. | |
| And can I say something to you, my friend? | |
| The storms of life are real, but the joy of God is more real than that. | |
| Amen. | |