Introduction

Welcome to Glory 209 Ministries!

About 3 years ago my family was in turmoil. We took our daughter to a wilderness facility in Utah and to a Christian Boarding School in Montana after.

During that time, I was traumatized by the event and my heart was broken. God stepped into my life in a huge way and I was reborn. I was baptized in spirit and water baptized in a horse trough at a cowboy church.

I was raised in the Catholic Church and fell off around age 14. I had a brief stint with a church in Kansas City before we moved down to the Dallas area. I always believed in something….I just never really understood what a relationship was with God.

My salvation experience began in Christian counseling. In my distressed state from the traumatic event with my daughter, I started noticing coincidences around me. People called me that had no way of knowing what was going on with me. One evening during a counseling session, I brought it up. I didn’t understand what was going on. She replied “That’s God pursuing your family.” It melted me. Tears streamed down my face in utter shock that God would want anything to do with me. I had ruined my family and made so many mistakes. She suggested I read a book called “The Ragamuffin Gospel” by Brennan Manning.

The following weekend, we had to travel to a parent workshop. While on the plane, reading The Ragamuffin Gospel, I had a supernatural encounter with God. The events in the natural lined up with what I was reading in the book. I realized the reality of a omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent God in that moment. It was exhilarating!

There were so many incredible circumstances that occurred that week. I’ll blog about some of them later.

During this workshop, we were split up into small groups. God started melting the sin off of me in these groups. It seemed my body was reliving all my childhood traumas. The tears just kept flowing. The breakthroughs were coming at an incredible rate. The Lord was putting me through sanctification.

After that week, we flew back to DFW. I was water baptized at at cowboy church in a horse trough alongside my wife. It was exilarating!

I continued on my healing journey after that with the Lord at my side. I made some mistakes along the way and had to go through a school of hard knocks. Being reborn requires you to be an infant spiritually for awhile and I needed a lot of help. More to come…..