God Stories - He Came to Bring Life

David

He Came to Bring Life

Introduction and Early Life

I felt my body being ragged about a bit, and then I felt one arm go around one waist and one arm around the other. And there, the Holy Spirit just held me, just holding me for a few seconds. And then there was a tug, that tug I will never forget. It was the tug that said, I’ve got you, David, everything’s gonna be okay. So my name is David, and I’m from the UK.

As a child, I was brought up with three younger sisters. My dad was never there; he was in the RAF, and he was always at war. It’s just me, my sisters, and my mum. As in my teenage life, I got myself in so much trouble mixing with the wrong people who kept me in darkness. I ended up in prison, got discharged from prison, and went back in.

Feeling God’s Presence

When I got out of prison, I was thinking, this has to change. What am I doing? My life was just turning into darkness. I then was down a canal path, on my own, angry with the world, and shouted up at the sky, God, if you’re real, I could do with some help about now. And as soon as the word now left my lips, I was filled with peace and love from heaven, and I’ve never felt that before. And I knew he heard me, I knew he heard me, and I gave him a promise that I would go to church every week, and I did.

I studied who Jesus was, the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, over and over and over again, getting to know Jesus. And that’s when I decided to get baptised at church with my walk with God. It was getting serious now.

Meeting Jenny

Now I met Jenny, we had been together for a year before she died, but one night she had to call the ambulance. She said she couldn’t take the pains anymore, the stabbing pains through her chest and through her back and by her ribs.

They did a scan on her chest, and the scan results came through, and they spotted a shadow just tucked under her lung. And I was sitting next to her the next morning when the doctors came in and said to her, Your scan results came back, and that shadow, I’m sorry to say, it does look like cancer. I sat there and watched as her eyes filled with tears. Oh, this is so hard for me. I’ve never been so deep in prayer with God for the next two weeks.

Prayers for Healing

I was deeply in prayer. I begged him so much, take the cancer out of her, Lord, put it in me, and set Jenny free. God said, No, I’m God, you’re needed. So fast forward to my last visit, she looked as if she was at peace. Her eyes were closed, she couldn’t talk, but I was stroking her forehead, and I felt her eyebrows moving by my voice, and I reassured her that there wouldn’t be anyone else in my life, it’s just going to be me and God. If you’ve got God, that’s all you need.

I've got you, David. Everything's going to be okay. And since that day, I've had no suicidal thoughts at all. It's like God has gotten rid of them from my head.

And I said to her, Remember, I’ll meet you in heaven. And then in the silence, in the silence, I planned my suicide. I planned it all in my head. No one knew this except for God. He read my thoughts. Aaron, who took me down to the hospital, brought me back, and instead of dropping me further down the road like he normally does, he said, I’ve got a feeling. And I knew what he meant, because he called me David, he normally calls me Dave.

Jesus calls me David, Jesus calls me by my name. Anyway, he reversed into the car park and turned his car off. I said, We need to pray, David. So my head’s down in a prayer position, and Aaron started praying. More or less straight away, I heard from what was a still warm afternoon into a windy, breezy, stormy coming closer and closer my way.

Divine Intervention

I can remember hearing the wind so loud, and I’m thinking, that wasn’t like that five minutes ago. And then there was like a growling noise, a small growling noise from the wind. And then it felt as if there was an earth wind on top of the car, because the car rocked four times. I was still head down in a prayer position. I believe God put me in a trance, so I don’t look up, because no one has seen God’s face.

And that makes sense now. And then it happened. Something, I say something, because I didn’t know at the time what it was. It was like ripping the windscreen out of his car and climbing through it without breaking anything. I felt there was a struggle.

I had my seatbelt on. I felt my body being wracked about a bit. And then I felt one arm go around one waist and one arm around the other. And there the Holy Spirit just held me, just holding me for a few seconds. And then there was a tug, that tug I will never forget.

It was the tug that said, I’ve got you, David. Everything’s going to be okay. And since that day, I’ve had no suicidal thoughts at all. It’s like God has gotten rid of them from my head. I don’t even think about it, you know.

Final Thoughts

I only thought about it once at the hospital, because I did say to Jenny, If you go, I go. I think God will know. God’s not going to send me to hell because my girlfriend died. We’ve got a loving God. We’ve got a healing God.

We’ve got a good God. And I didn’t even know if I said thank you or thanks for the lift, Aaron. I was confused. I was mixed up. I went back to my flat, and there I sat for three hours, solid, thinking what had just happened to me.

And then I realised that was the Holy Spirit, because I planned my life to be taken at nine o’clock. When Aaron said, Amen, I could open my eyes then, and I saw Aaron’s digital clock on his car, and it said 8.32. So God’s timing is perfect. The week before, this girl next to me was pestering me, David, I want to hear your testimony. I didn’t say yes or no.

I was just thinking about it. That means I have to go through the grieving part again. And then I said no. Then God spoke to me, two words. He said, Why not?

So I obeyed him, and I told him my testimony. It’s all right to tell the testimony, but at the beginning, where the testimony starts, that’s where the grief is. And at the end is when I have my encounter with the Holy Spirit, who then took that grief completely away from me, took it away from me, took the thoughts of suicide away from me. It moved my faith from a couple of mustard seeds to so much faith in God now, after that. There’s absolutely no one, no one can tell me that God’s not real.