To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.
I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.
I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.
One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”
It knocked me back.
I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”
I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.
That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.
I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.
I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.
People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.
I'll tell you why.
Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.
I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.
In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.
The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.
You just have to stop running.
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So mad they’re willing to outright LIE about the extensive probiotics in it saying the only bacteria in raw milk is from contamination with fecal matter
This is from a public university health center. Absolutely insane. These people want to call themselves higher education looooooooool
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🚨 PROTESTERS GATHER OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT
According to reports, crowds have gathered outside Parliament tonight amid growing public anger over the attempted beheading attack in Belfast and the murder of Henry Nowak.
Many demonstrators say they are demanding answers on immigration, public safety and policing as tensions continue to rise across the United Kingdom.
With protests now spreading from Belfast to cities across Britain, the pressure on the government is intensifying.
Developing.https://t.co/Q5Zg5x14pY
U.S. government aware of multiple different entities/biologicals related to the UAP phenomenon, TRILLONS of dollars missing from the Pentagon through black budget programs, whole categories of physics have been hidden from us, and a spiritual ritualistic aspect exists and is related to parts of the phenomenon that have been present for thousands of years that are being hidden from you, or repackaged as "new age" movements/practices, in which our own government has taken part in for decades.
Most of this technology has been moved away from government to avoid Congressional oversight to private corporations and to avoid FOIA requests, and there are also specific groups and factions who do NOT want ANY of this information out. Especially the ones in which their financial empires are threatened related to energy.
Nothing can stop the truth, whether they like it or not.
LOOK at what is coming to New York City 🚨👀
@POTUS is transforming Penn Station into the world-class masterpiece it was always meant to be
This isn't just a renovation, it's a complete, mind-blowing REBIRTH 🇺🇸
🚨 BREAKING: PROTESTS HAVE NOW STARTED IN AYR, SCOTLAND
Following the horrific attack in Belfast, Northern Ireland, members of the public have taken to the streets in Ayr in a show of solidarity.
Footage appears to show local residents raising Northern Irish flags as support continues to grow across the United Kingdom.
What began in Belfast is now being felt far beyond Northern Ireland.
May God watch over all of you tonight
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