10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
(NIV)
Welcome to my blog on faith. It is a blog I hope will inspire you to share your message from the gift of Christ: His Holy Spirit. He has enabled me to share mine, and I am keen to listen and to speak as He has spoken to my spirit.
As His Word says:
Matthew 10:27:
27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs.
(NIV)
And in walking on that path of faith, I have decided to share my story of freedom in Christ and how He brought me out of death into eternal life because He has not come as the devil came. He has not come to steal our dreams, kill our visions and destroy our passions, rather He has come to give us life and to increase life in us abundantly so all we are changes into all He is in His light and brings us into the fullness of Him in our message from His Name.
My message started with the calling.
I was called after the death of my only sibling Toba or as he fondly called himself Tyler Fray. My brother was a musician, an inspiration, a voice, a melody-he was life to my spirit and a voice that spoke love to my soul. And when he died, I lost that song in my spirit and I could no longer hear the melody of his footsteps on my soul.
His death left me feeling so honestly and depressingly alone.
When this happened, I began to feel the call of Christ on my spirit and curious, I answered His voice. I expand more on my story in my book Gift of Grace which is soon to be released (I will be sharing details closer to its release in this blog)
But safe to say I did not understand what it meant to have life and to have it abundantly till death strolled into my door and changed my story.
And as the LORD speaks into my spirit I hope He uses me to minister into yours.
I hope you hear His message to your soul in your words-words that the Holy Spirit moves through as one and yet speaks to us all differently.
For those that have not embraced the calling of Christianity-for those that feel no need for the Truth in the gospel of Christ-I hope you come into a realization as I have done that a walk of faith is not a walk of boredom, of struggle, of mediocrity.
That is a lie that holds no truth in it. I once believed that.
I once walked without truly embracing the call we have all been privy to in Christ. I attended the Sunday services and read the Word without truly seeing the hand of God and feeling His presence in my life.
I hope through my words, you come into a deeper understanding of the message of Christ-a calling to life and a path to greatness away from the death grip of the devil who sinks us all in death, pain and destruction if we miss the mark of Christ on our lives.
And no, I am not trying to sound like a conventional gospel preacher because believe me, how I got here I am not sure but what I have come to understand is that without Christ my life would have lost any scent of direction for when my brother strolled out, the LORD stepped in and changed my story to a testimony of His Grace.
The only message I will share today is this: allow your life to be lived through Christ and watch how He shines Himself through your individuality and brings and births new gifts into your story that you were not even aware you could carry.
Allow Him in and watch your story change and embrace the message of grace in your life.
I am a living testimony of that fact.