Praise the Lord! I am glad to be able to introduce myself to you. I am daniel. This is my personal testimony to you.

I began living for the Lord in April of 1979. I am now in my fifties and my how time does get away from one. I guess the closest description of my occupation has fallen under the category of being a Crash Dummy. I have been in fifteen car wrecks and none have been attributed toward my driving skills. Either someone else was driving or someone else collided with me. It does not matter God spared my life and no one loves life anymore than me.

By the way! I also have diabetes, have suffered first, second, and third degree burns, had a heart attack in 1992, have had mastoid in my ears, had a lot of factures and breaks, have been seriously hurt by a horse, have had the usual marital problems to work through, and have preached many funerals of loved ones. It still is common to suffer pain on a regular basis and I still have days when I am confined. I think I am through crying now, hahahaha!

I know that most people say immediately, “What bad luck,” yet I am the most blessed man to be alive. I know that my life has been filled with accidents and pain. I have spent a lot of time confined to the bed, hospitals, and wheel chairs, but thank God I am able to walk short distances now. Further more I was allowed to preach and speak to the ones that were in the hospitals, have preached from wheelchairs, and have preached lying in a floor in front of a pulpit and praise God! I have taken up my bed and shouted unto the Lord also.

Life is a continual Merry-Go-Round and everyone will suffer the pains of life. Death, and tragedies are common unto all that are human and that are born of woman. (Job 14:1 KJV) Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

I know at this point you are wondering, "What kind of testimony is this?" It is a testimony praising God for allowing me to see my beloved daughter grow up, hold my precious granddaughter, and live with my wonderful Christian wife. I appreciate the fact that I have had more time than most to study the word of God, find truth, study history, and find the differences between God's word and the traditions of men. I have been allowed to travel more than most, meet more people, and preach the word. What a tremendous blessing if one wants to live life, as God wants one to live?

Depression is Satan's greatest tool and many are snared by negative happenings in their life. Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy. The battlefield is in ones mind and it is possible to take tragedy and turn it into strength for the purpose of helping others. It is important to understand the value of life and how it should be used to leave the world a better place for others and strengthen them in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. We must remember that we are just passing through this world and if we use our time wisely then there awaits a far better place.

I want all to know that we have a choice in every area of our lives to choose how we will handle adversity. We can seek to be positive or we can allow ourselves to be pessimistic. In Jesus Messiah there is only blessings for we seek to bless others first. This alone is a tremendous reason to live. So many young people need direction and there are so many that need help to overcome the trails of this life. Be assured that we all will suffer the tribulations of life, but praise God! In the end we will be purged of the desires of the first Adam, and be made as pure as gold to live and reign with the Lord Jesus throughout eternity.

(Rev 7:13 KJV) And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in WHITE ROBES? and whence came they? (Rev 7:14 KJV) And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of GREAT TRIBULATION, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Every man suffers greatly at times in his life, one way or another. From Elvis, Princess Diane, to Howard Hughes they all had their own hell right here on earth. What good does it do one to gain all the wealth of the world but lose his own soul?

Even if there is no reward here after, which I know there is! It is better to bless others now because in doing so one can only bless themselves greatly in this life. I have been blessed more than most for I have been able to serve others and have become rich knowing that my heavenly father owns it all and that I am his son. All he has is mine now and I am reigning with him and I now sit in heavenly places.

I want to also thank the Lord Jesus for all of my material blessings and how he truly has supplied my every need. This is the day that the Lord has made and I will rejoice in it and be glad!

(Psa 118:24 KJV) This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Pastor daniel