A Brief Biography

Posted December 25, 2007

I was born March 1, 1973 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. My parents were divorced sometime after my brother was born. He was around 2 years old and I was about 4. I’ve often said it seemed as though the only reason they were ever married was to have me and my brother. You may not think God would do that but consider what God did with Moses as a baby. He has a plan for all of our lives.

For most of my childhood it seemed we spent it moving. While I mainly grew up in Oklahoma, I was never at any one location or school for more than two years. On some occasions I would only be at a school for one year, one semester, a few months, or in one case one day. The only school I was at for more than two years was my high school and I was only there for three years. There were several factors to why we moved, but I now know this was God. He knows the bounds of our habitation (Acts 17:26).

You may be asking “how could that be God”. He has a plan for all of our lives. God was building me for his purposes. When you move around a lot it seems you’re always the “new kid”. I had no trouble making friends but at some point I just started keeping distant. I stayed at home didn’t get involved with other people even through high school. In addition to that we were a lower income family. Mom did what she knew to support us and I thank God for her. When I was younger we lived on food stamps and commodities. She worked, provided for us, and put her way through college. Then when I was fifteen years old God moved me out of my mom’s house and I went to go live with my dad. At first I did not want to do this but God had a plan. This was a beginning step in removing me out from under the law and setting me free from the Jezebel.

God has always been in my life (yours too). I received Jesus when I was a kid. One time in the first or second grade a neighbor’s dog was chasing me and I stopped turned around and said “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus Christ my savior”. That dog stopped (of course) and I got up the stairs and got inside. When I was in the third or fourth grade I had a temperature of 103, mom took me to church and sometime during the service my fever broke. God had healed me.

By most people’s standards I was a “good kid”. I never accepted that. They didn’t know me, they didn’t know my thoughts, and they didn’t know my heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says the heart is desperately wicked deceitful above all things who can know it, only God. By 1993 I had received Jesus (when I was a kid), was baptized in water and baptized in the Holy Ghost (speaking in tongues). At the time I couldn’t understand that if I done all the things they told me to do then why was their so much wickedness within me.

The answer is simple. No gospel. All I had been taught in every so-called church I had ever been in was the law. Touch not. Taste not. Handle not. The law did nothing but make me feel guilty. It shut up my faith. The law only deals with the outward appearance but never with the heart. And my heart is what bothered me.

Why did God move me around growing up? It was because of my whorish heart. It was the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. I had drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication (Revelation 18:2-3). Only the power of God can deliver you from out of her. Receiving Jesus only gave me the authority to become a son of God (John 1:12). But believing this gospel works unto the saving of the soul (Hebrews 10:39). This is what the law could not do.

It wasn’t until 1994 that I heard the gospel for the first time from Doyle Davidson an apostle/prophet that God sent to put His Spirit back into the church. I heard how that Jesus died for my sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried and rose again the third day according to the scriptures was the gospel and that if I would trust in that it was the power of God unto my salvation (deliverance from a wicked heart). This is what was missing in my life… the gospel.

To believe the gospel you’ll have to believe Jesus is a man. He walked this earth as a man. He died for your sins as a man. He was buried as a man. And He rose again as a man. II Corinthians 13:4 says, “For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God.” Jesus, a man, lives by the power of God whom God made both Lord and Christ. Verse 4 goes on to say, “For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.” Thank God.

Repent and believe this gospel! It is the power of God unto salvation.

Anthony

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