When I was like three years old my aunt started taking me to church.  After a lot of work and prayer she was able to get my mom, brother, sister and myself to begin attending a church in town.  About a month after we began going, she went off to Bible college along with my other aunt.  Within weeks of her leaving, a lot of religion drove my family away from the church and put my aunts into tears, and almost caused them to quit Bible school and return back to get us back in church. 

She did not come back and I was out of church for many many years.  Not knowing and not caring I had no idea what it was all worth.  I never stepped foot into church or made an attempt to know someone who so much wanted to know me.  For weeks a couple of kids from the youth group of the same church started inviting me to come on wednesday nights.  I would always tell them I would come, just to get them off my back, never meaning to make any attempt to go.  On this one day, for some reason I did not know at the time, I decided to go see what all the fuss was about, and that night God broke me down and I gave my life to him.  For awhile I was doing well but soon afterwards I begin to slip away from the lord.  Still in my word and still having a prayer life, I lived my life in the world.  Always telling God I would lay those things I still hung on to so heavily when I graduated high school.  When high school ended I began saying well when college is over Ill quit partying and give 100% to You.  Not knowing how much easier and joyful that decision would be, I kept living the lifestyle I did. 

On August 11, 2000, I went with one of my friends to a service at our church's youth camp.  That night when I got home, I began praying and God told me the time was now and to get rid of the sin in my life and come to him.  At that moment I was delivered and set free from the bondage of sin and began living for him and not the world. 

From that night until February of the next year all I did was seek him.  Yes i still had unpleasant things in my life but I
seeked my God and rebuked the devil every time he would come at me.  I don't know what happened in February, but I
began to fall away from that relationship I had.  Letting sin back into my life, and not seeking him began to be my lifestyle. Falling further and further away from the Lord, I kept getting further and further from the joy and peace that really knowing him brings.  Leading that 50/50 lifestyle is never anything but trouble.  Not seeking him with everything you have and wanting to have the intimacy he so desires to have with you is the hardest thing in the world.  Knowing him, no matter what comes against you, always ends with peace, joy, happiness, and is always so much easier. 

Well since Feb. I have been in a 24/7 struggle with the enemy and all his trickery and deceit, but tonight on August 4, I will begin seeking him with all I have again.  No more excuses of not having time to be in his word and spending time with him.  I will seek him with every breath I breathe. 

RIGHT NOW I REBUKE SATAN AND ALL HIS TRICKS.  YOUR WORD SAYS WHATEVER I BIND ON EARTH IS ALSO BOUND IN HEAVEN, AND RIGHT NOW I BIND SATAN UP IN MY LIFE AND I CLAIM MY MOTHER AND FATHER'S SALVATION.  I CALL IN THE EAST AND THE WEST AND THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH.  THIS BATTLE HAS BEEN WON BUT THE WAR IS FAR FROM OVER, BUT I KNOW I HAVE SOMEONE SO MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN THE ENEMY ON MY SIDE AND HIS NAME IS :

JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

be praying for me my brethren,
William Stewart