Hi, my name is John. I'm born in Mexico. I grew up in Mexico.
As a child, I was sexually molested and that lasted throughout my childhood. I remember
I was eight years old when my dad took me to church for the first time on a Christmas morning
and the pastor was talking about this Jesus. How He came to earth to judge us for our sins,
that Jesus had this big whip that for every sin we will do, we will get a whip
and we were singing a song but this God, how mad God was at us. At the age of 22,
I got married to my wonderful wife. We moved to Canada.
We have five kids and we went to a church that believed in salvation. They didn't believe
in the Holy Spirit. They didn't believe the Book of Acts, the gift of the Spirit
but they believe in salvation. In 1996, I was convicted
and I went to my pastor's house and he prayed over me. He led me to Jesus. I gave my life
to Jesus. I accepted Jesus that was 1996 in June, I accepted Jesus as my personal savior.
I remember leaving the pastor's house how I felt. How good I felt.
How free I felt but my childhood was always haunting me. And from that day on, God kept
nudging us go back to Mexico, to your own people. Bring the gospel back to your people. In 2007,
my wife and I, we sold every team we had in Canada, packed our family, moved to Mexico.
We you started a small school. We had 13 kids to begin with.
And we start ministering to these kids and these kids would give their accept Jesus as their
Savior. These kids would go home to their parents and tell their parents about Jesus and their
parents wouldn't believe and the kids would read out of their own Bible that Jesus came to save and
these parents would give their life to Jesus and we saw Revival but the church got so mad. In 2012,
they ex-communicated me out of their Church in order to stop the school but
that made the school grow faster yet. That very same year 2012 on November,
the tenth, the church paid the cartels ten thousand dollars to kidnap me and kill me.
At 7:30 in the evening, these cartels came and they picked me up,
handcuffed me, threw me in the back of their pickup truck. And that deep peace
was over me. There was no, I was not afraid of anything. I kept telling Jesus, Here I come and
I was thinking, This is the day, I am going to meet Jesus and when they stopped the pickup truck
and they got me out of the pickup truck, I was in front of these big machine guns and Jesus,
the truck between us and He touched me on both of my shoulders. He says, An audible voice says,
"John, I've got this" and I say, "Thank you Jesus, Hallelujah", and these guys says, You're crazy.
Nobody's ever stood in front of these machine guns and has smiled and they dropped me off that very
same like 5:30 in the morning, I came home and it was not normal in Mexico. If you get kidnapped,
you're dead and I was alive and we started one church and we started the second church
and we kept teaching. The book of Acts was for the apostles, it's no longer for us.
In 2019, I was in the mountain. I was up in the mountain and I was praying for revival
and I had an encounter of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit told me, "John the book of
Acts is for you." "The gifts of the Spirit, they are for you. they are for you today,"
and we found a church that believed in the gifts of the Spirit
and I started studying in my Bible, I just had a different Bible,
it was talking to me all over the place but this childhood thing was still haunting me.
This one one day, I was listening to a minister, Andrew Wommack and he talked about deliverance and
at the end of that the teaching, he gave a prayer line number like people could call. I typed in
that number and I saved that number and I called that prayer line. I told this minister, Hey I have
demons. He says, How do you know you have demons? Well, I told him about my child and he says, Yes,
you have demons and he started praying over me and I felt like he was ripping my heart out like the
next thing I knew, I was looking for my phone. I couldn't find my phone. I don't remember what
all happened. When I found my phone, I said, Are you still there? He says, Yes, I'm still here. He
says, What happened? I said, I have no idea and he says, What's going on? I said, I feel so light. I
feel so good and he started ministering with the Holy Spirit to me. Got off the phone call to go do
some deliverance about seven hours away from home and I called my spiritual mentor and he called my
pastor, they both came over and they prayed over me and then they sent me out. I called my wife and
said, They're coming and you have a ride. There's a seat in the plane. They rented a small plane.
The next morning was Tuesday morning, they got into the plane and as the plane took off,
short after the take off, the cartels brought the plane down
and it crashed and everybody was killed on the plane. A friend of mine drove me back
to the funeral. When we got to the funeral home, I asked the funeral director, I said, Where's my
wife? He says, we can;t tell it to you. I said, In the name of Jesus, I will bring every door down
in this house until I find my wife and I started kicking the doors with my foot. I was so angry
and he led me into a room and he says, in that bag is your wife and I opened that bag.
I grabbed my wife by the hand and I said, Have you changed your mind? Just checking.
She opened her left eye halfway and turned her head away from me. I said,
I'm so sorry and will let you go. I said no goodbyes and I let her go and after the funeral,
my sons took me to Canada. This grieving period is the toughest time of journey in my life.
God has sent many people in my life that helped me through this grieving journey. I started listening
to pastor Vlad at HungryGen and a ministry started in Canada and I was copying pastor Vlad's messages
and I was preaching them in German.
In 2022, I saw a link to sign up for a Pastor Summit at HungryGen. I signed up and I came.
I talked to pastor Vlad and he invited me to come to the internship at HungryGen. I went back home,
I couldn't see this possible but I signed up and I'm so thankful that I have been able to
come to this internship that has changed my life. It's been a life changer for me.
My life will never be the same. I'm so thankful for that, God has sent great people into my life
to help me through this grieving journey. Although all those mistakes I've made, I've received
forgiveness from them. I received deliverance from them. If you're watching this, you don't know this
Jesus. I really encourage you, give your life to this Jesus. There's nothing too big in your
life that Jesus hasn't paid for already. Jesus has paid for all of your sins already. I would like to
pray for you. If you want to accept Jesus as your personal savior, I want you to repeat after me.
Jesus, I repent of my sin. Forgive me for all of my sin. Jesus,
I accept you as my personal savior in my heart today. Thank you Jesus.