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.
Jelly Roll: "I know they're gonna try to kick me off here, so just let me try to get this out... First of all, Jesus, I hear you and I'm listening, Lord I am listening. Jesus is for everybody... and anyone can have a relationship with him."
The media isn’t going to show you this.
Americans who have never lived anywhere else simply can’t understand what these Venezuelans are feeling right now.
For the first time in decades, they have hope.
To every liberal who is knocking this, from the bottom of my heart, shut the f*ck up!
Hey @elonmusk
What if we had a tax credit to motivate companies to participate in a program offering jobs or paid internships to individuals who currently depend on welfare assistance. Helping to equip these individuals with the tools to become independent. Everyone wins!
WOW 🚨 YouTuber David Wood went to Dearborn Michigan. He exposes Christians aren’t allowed to distribute any material to Muslims but Muslims can distribute and convert Americans to Islam
This is real and he has video proof
“They didn't want Christians, evangelizing Muslims or handing out tracts or anything. But they couldn't just make a rule saying Christians aren't allowed to distribute materials. So they just made a rule and they said no one's allowed to hand out materials, but then they only enforced it on Christians.”
“Two of my friends walked over to the Arab Festival outside of the Arab Festival and tried to distribute copies of the Gospel of John in English and Arabic and they were stopped immediately outside the festival. You didn't see what happened afterwards, but they took us to the security booth, they photographed us, they took our IDs, got the information, took our camera, cell phone for a little while. They let us go and just explain the rules to us. But what the rule is, it seems, is not that you can't distribute copies of the Gospel of John inside the Festival. It also applies outside the Festival.”
He tries it on public streets, again is blocked
“They're doing these workarounds which were, you know, all for basic. They're implementing Sharia in a way that they could pass it off as they're not implementing Sharia.”
“I'm here on the corner of Warren and Frida in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. And if I were to take this gospel of Jesus Christ by St. John and hand it out to anyone on the street, I will be put in jail, again.”
This has been going on for 15 years at least and David Wood has the video proof to prove it
Cory Asbury and Forrest Frank may do an alternative family friendly halftime show for the Super Bowl 🔥🙌🏼
“What if we threw together an alternate show at a different venue with just the biggest Christian artists and glorified the name of Jesus on a gigantic scale?!”
Would you watch??
Voddie knew what issues divided us, and he knew how to biblically and scientifically attack the problem:
“Race is actually a social construct. The concept of race is not a biblical concept, it’s not a biblical idea.”