The Turnaround
One day I was smoking marijuana with Adriano
and he asked me what are you doing?
"You were in church, doing so well but now
you are back here with us again, go back to the church, me and your brother we
tried but we could not stay in church but you were
doing so good, go back to church" .
I said you are smoking to much marijuana, it
is to late, I already messed up I can’t go back.
That night I went to the club, there would be a
big show from a well know DJs and Brazilian Funk, I always wanted to go
before I started in church, when I arrived there I felt strange not like the
first days I left the church, a girl come up to me and tried to kiss me but I
just pushed her away, I sat down next to the loud speaker and began to sleep.
From the moment on I told myself I am going
back to church and this time I will never leave I am not coming back to these
places ever again.
So I did, I went back to church and gave my life
100% to God but I had to face up to the mistakes I had
made.
One of the girls I went out with was now dating another guy and still
had gone out with me again during the Carnival, this guy was my friend and when
he found out she had gone out with me he said, he was going to take his
cousin’s gun and kill me.
I come back from the church and he was waiting
for me I did not know what was going to happen, suddenly he asked:
Did you go out with my girl?
I said yes.
He said: Never mind she is not worth
it, and walked away.
God had delivered me, now I had to face my
girlfriend, I told her that I had messed up and for my surprised she confessed
she had gone out with Adriano behind my back, as I was spending to much time in
church and she was alone. It come as a shock to me but I did not break up with
her, I was drinking from my own medicine.
As I got stronger in my relationship with God I
got puzzled by this message “Whoever finds his
life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.”
Matthew 10:39
I remember as if it was today I went home and I made one of the
most important decision in my life, to finish my relationship with M, I was
ready to lose my life, for God to give me a new one, I was not afraid of her
emotional blackmail as she used to say she might kill herself if I left her, I
had to move on and she was holding me back in my relationship with God.
I meet her outside her house and told her I was breaking up, she
kissed me but I did not kiss back, she said it is just a phase, we will get
back together but from that day on my life truly moved forward.
Well to cut it short as I am not writing a book, I could though,
I went to live in the church as my grandmother was not in the house anymore she
was now living with my untie and it was only me, my cousin, my brother was
never really there and an older uncle.
I got stronger and stronger in my relationship with God, become
an assistant in the church working with youths, M still came to church once but
I was no longer deceived by my feelings.
I was not interested in relationships anymore I just wanted to
serve God.
One assistant told me about a girl that was an assistant and was
working in my town but I said no, not interested, it happened that after a year
as assistant I was called to serve God on the Altar as an assistant pastor and
when I went to my first church in another city I saw the same assistant there and I thought this girl will end up liking me and
so it was.
I was send to England but I was already dating
her, after sometime she come to England also.
Adriano who was my best friend
back then had been involved with some bad things and was shoot from behind and
died and when I went to get married in Brazil after almost two years in England
I meet my brother, he had his first child I believe around 12 or 13 and now
another girl was pregnant, I spoke seriously with him about his behaviour and
other things.
The next day he disappeared, we were thinking
he will comeback but it had been over 24 hours and my mother was getting
worried, I was sorting out the weeding in another city and received a phone
call saying they found my brother floating in the nearby river, my mother said
it seems like there was a hole in his head but they could not make the autopsy
as the body was already decomposing.
Just like dad my brother left a girl excepting
a child, it is too much coincidence but I believe if it wasn’t for my
relationship with God I should
have been dead too.
The End.
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| My Brother Jeferson Pinheiro. |
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| Lucas My Brother's Son he never meet |
Conclusion: My Grandmother accepted Jesus and
was baptised before she passed away in 2011 and I never shed a tear for I was
sure she is with God.
It has been over 10 years that I have been married
with Cris and we have been very happy, I love her very much and I no longer need girls, parties,
drinking etc… to make me happy, I found happiness in my relationship with God.
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| Family Reunion in the church after 8 years. |
No matter how bad your life is you can be turn
it around too, why not start right now by asking God to come into your life and
make a decision to do what you need to your life will never be the same.
Thanks for you time
God Bless you.
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