Pushed out the Crack House into God’S House: How to Allow Your Past to Push You into Your Destiny

By Michael L. Williams Jr.

Have you ever lost hope in life because of your past? Has a situation taken hold of you? Are you a backslider? Its okay! It is never too late to be who God has created you to be. NOW, is the acceptable time for you to allow your past to push you into your destiny! God led me from a house that had crack in it to the only person who was capable of filling those cracks in me. His name is Jesus Christ and He will make right all the wrongs in your life if you allow Him to. Pushed Out the Crack House tells how I was pushed from a bad situation into something greater, it just so happened that my bad situation was an actual crack house. Were you once in a bad situation; or do you find yourself in one now? Does it seem as if your past is holding you back? The Lord hears your cry! If someone once told you that youre hopeless, like they told me; or maybe you told yourself thisthen this book is for YOU! Jesus has a destiny for my life and he has one for yours and He will use your past to get you there.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Nov 27, 2012
• ISBN: 9781449780647

Michael L. Williams Jr.

Michael L. Williams Jr.is a first-time author who has been taught to always seek first the kingdom of God and he also loves to worship the Lord. He was born and raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey, he is a member of “the best church on this side of glory”-Glory Tabernacle Church in Bridgeton, New Jersey, where he now lives. He sits under the preaching\teaching of Bishop David A. Hadley, Sr. www.minoradjustments.org

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ISBN: 978-1-4497-7143-0 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2012919465

WestBow Press rev. date: 11/21/2012

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

There’s a Purpose in Your Past

Surrender

(The Key to Victory)

Always Visualize Vertically

You Must Have Endurance

Minor Adjustments

Stay Humble

Living Victorious

About the Author

Resources

A Word from My Bishop

Acknowledgments

TO HAVE WRITTEN A BOOK BASED OFF OF WHAT I LIVED REALLY IS SOMETHING I COULD’NT HAVE DONE WITHOUT MANY PEOPLE BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST I HAVE TO SAY THANKS TO MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST FOR NOT CHANGING MY FUTURE BECAUSE OF MY PAST. ALSO, TO MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE LERNELL APPLES WILLIAMS FOR ALL THE THINGS THAT SHE HAS DONE FROM A-Z I LOVE YOU APPLES MAY GOD REWARD YOUR LABOR OF LOVE AND YOUR LOYALTY AND LONGSUFFERING BECAUSE I SPENT A LOT OF YOUR TIME THAT’S OWED TO YOU AS YOUR HUSBAND WHILE I WAS WRITING THIS BOOK BUT NOT ONCE DID YOU COMPLAIN. MOM & DAD THANKS FOR ALL THE LIFE LESSON YALL TAUGHT ME ABOUT JESUS AND FOR ALL THE VISITS WHEN I WAS BACK AND FOURTH IN PRISON YOU BEEN AROUND THE WORLD MOM:), SHOUT OUT TO MY SISTER DOD, MY BROTHER TOB & ABU AND ALL MY COUSINS, NEICES AND NEPHEWS & MY GREAT NEICES & NEPHEWS, MY GRAND CHILDREN DEUCES & ROCHEAD LUV YA, MY AUNTS AND UNCLES AND ALL MY FRIENDS, TO THE GREATEST CHURCH ON THIS SIDE OF GLORY GLORY TABERNACLE AND WITHOUT A DOUBT MY MENTOR BISHOP DAVID A. HADLEY SR THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE WAY YOU ALLOWED ME TO DEVELOP, THE BEST IS NOW KEEP WATCHING THANKS FOR SHARING HIM WITH ME FIRST AND ONLY, TO ALL MY CO-WORKERS, TO MY AMERICAS KESWICK CREW COLONY OR MERCY WE CAN DO IT, THE JOHNSON FAMILY AND TO ELDER JAMES & ELDER YVETTE, TO BIG HELLELUJAH & NEW LARRY, TO ‘POP’ FROM TRENTON, AND A HOST OF OTHERS MAINLY MY IN-LAWS, AND MY TWO STEP CHILDREN AND TO L.C.J , GRANDMOM AND ALL THOSE WHO WENT HOME TO BE WITH THE LORD AND HAVE BEEN WITNESSING THE WORK OF GOD IN MY LIFE AND ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORTED MY DREAM WITH MONEY AND PRAYERS, THANKS TO MRS COSLOP AND MRS. COLON FOR THE VICTORIOUS LIVING SNACKS, TO PASTOR RUSSEL AND HIS WIFE,I WILL ALSO LIKE TO THANK MY PAST FOR PUSHING ME INTO MY DESTINY:) LAST BUT NOT LEAST, MUCH LOVE TO MY FIVE CHILDREN MICKEY, MISSY, CIAUNTIE, MIQUEL AND MIKEY I’M SO SORRY, I KNOW THAT MY WAY OF LIVING REALLY HAD TO HURT YOU AND FOR THAT REASON, HOWEVER YOU FEEL ABOUT ME IS JUSTIFIED IN MY EYES, MICKEY AND MISSY IM PROUD THAT YOU WENT TO COLLEGE AND I PRAY THAT YOUR SISTERS AND BROTHER FOLLOW THAT LEAD BECAUSE YOUR GRANDMOTHER NEVER LET YALL USE ME NOT BEING THERE AS AN EXCUSE. FOR THAT REASON I THANK THE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT BECAUSE WITHOUT YOU NONE OF THIS IS POSSIBLE.

MICHAEL L. WILLIAMS JR

Preface

AS I STARTED TO WRITE THIS BOOK I BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE GOD ON ANOTHER LEVEL. THE REASON WHY I WANTED TO WRITE WHAT I FELT INSIDE IS BECAUSE OF THE LOSTED WORLD THAT I GO INTO EVERYDAY. I CARE ABOUT THE SAMETHING JESUS CARES ABOUT THE LOST SOULS. SO I SAT BACK AND WATCHED THE LOST AND THEN I WATCHED THE REDEEMED AND THEN THE LOST AGAIN AND THEN THE REDEEMED AND TO MY SURPRIZE THE REDEEMED WASN’T TELLING THE LOST ABOUT THERE PAST WHICH IS THE BRIDGE THAT WE HAVE TO GET THEM TO JESUS. SO I SPENT TIME ALONE WITH GOD AND STUDIED THE HOLY LIVES OF MEN AS A.W.TOZER, BISHOP DAVID A. HADLEY SR, HENRY AND RICHARD BLACKABY, CHAPLAIN JIM FREED, TO NAME A FEW. AND I’VE NOTICED ALL OF THEM WOULD OFTEN USE THERE PAST WITH THE WORD OF GOD TO MINISTER/PREACH TO THE LOST. SO I’VE LEARNED THAT YOUR PAST IS SOMETHING THAT’S TO BE USED. HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE YOU WAS THE ONLY ONE WITH A PAST? HAVE YOU EVER BEEN HURT BY WORDS SPOKEN ABOUT YOU IN CHURCH/THE WORLD? HAVE YOU EVER SEEM TO BE WORKING OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION AND THEN FINDOUT THAT YOUR CHILD WAS IN BONDAGE? WELL LET ME TELL YOU THIS, YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH A PAST AND YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS BEEN HURT BY WORDS OF OTHERS AND YOU DON’T HAVE THE FIRST OR LAST CHILD IN SOMEKIND OF BONDAGE. IF THAT’S YOUR CASE OR ANY OTHER SITUATION IT’S ALL CONSIDER YOUR PAST NOW, EVEN IF IT HAPPEN TO YOU AN HOUR AGO, IT’S NOW YOUR PAST, BUT YOUR PAST IS WHAT HAVE THAT LIFE CHANGING POWER IN IT, BUT ACCORDING TO THE WORLD WAY OF THINKING IF YOU HAD SOMEKIND OF PAST OR WAS LIVING A LIFESTYLE THAT WAS DOMINATED BY SIN THEN THEY ASSUME THAT YOU MUST NOT REVEAL THAT LIFESTYLE TO ANYONE, OR TALK ABOUT THE WORDS THAT HURTED YOU, BUT THE DEVIL IS A LIAR, THE WORLD DON’T WANNA ACCEPT THE FACT THAT GOD HAS ENOUGH GRACE TO TRANSFORM A PERSON FOR THE BETTER. AND AT THE SAMETIME USE YOUR PAST TO HELP IN THAT LIFE CHANGING PROCESS. SO BEING ASTHOUGH THE WORLD THINK THIS WAY WE FALL INTO THERE BELIEF SYSTEM SOMEHOW AND WE KEEP OUR PAST HIDING FROM OTHERS AND INSTEAD WE TEND TO LET OUR PAST HINDER US FROM WHAT GOD HAS FOR US AND WALK AROUND WITH OUR HEADS DOWN BECAUSE OF SHAME, HURT, PAIN, GUILT AND FEAR. AND NEVER REALLY SHARE WITH OTHERS WHAT WE BEEN THROUGH. I NOTICED HOW I HAVE BEEN SO AFRAID OF DOING OTHER THINGS BECAUSE OF THE THINGS I’VE DONE IN MY PAST, I BECAME CONTROLED BY SOMETHING I COULD’NT CHANGE WHICH WAS MY PAST IT TOLD ME THAT I CAN’T DO THIS OR I CANT DO THAT AND IT SAID DON’T FORGIVE THEM FOR WHAT THEY HAVE SAID OR DONE TO YOU AND I REASONED WITH MYSELF THAT I GUESS I CAN’T BECAUSE I DID DO THIS OR I DID DO THAT OR THEY DID SAY THIS OR THEY DID SAY THAT, SO I WOULDNT TRY TO TELL SOMEONE ABOUT MY PAST OR THE THINGS THAT HURTED ME OR TELL PEOPLE ABOUT JESUS BECAUSE WHO WAS I, NOTHING ACCORDING TO MY PAST. SO I FOUND MYSELF WONDERING ABOUT ALL THE GREAT MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS WORLD, CHRISTIANS OR NON-CHRISTIANS, DID THEY HAVE A PAST. I DON’T KNOW THEY HAVEN’T SAID SO, DID THEY GO THROUGH THINGS? I DON’T KNOW THEY HAVEN’T SAID SO, WHERE THEY TALKED ABOUT IN CHURCH/THE WORLD? AGAIN, I DON’T KNOW THEY HAVEN’T SAID SO, WELL ATLEAST I DID’NT HEAR ABOUT IT, THEN I THOUGHT MAYBE GOD DON’T USE PEOPLE WITH PROBLEMS OR PEOPLE WHO HAD ISSUES OR STRONGHOLDS OR PEOPLE WHO WAS LOOKED DOWN UPON. SO I STARTED STUDING THE PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE AND READING OTHER PEOPLE BOOKS AND TO MY SURPRIZE GOD ALWAYS USED PEOPLE WITH SOMEKIND OF PROBLEMS ABRAHAM WAS OLD, JACOB WAS INSECURE, LEAH WAS UNATTRACTIVE, JOSEPH WAS ABUSED, MOSES STUTTERED AND HAD A ANGER PROBLEM, GIDEON WAS POOR, SAMSON WAS CODEPENDENT, RAHAB WAS IMMORAL, DAVID HAD AN AFFAIR AND ALL KINDS OF FAMILY PROBLEMS, ELIJAH WAS SUICIDAL, JEREMIAH WAS DEPRESSED, JOHAN WAS RELUCTANT, NAOMI WAS A WIDOW, PETER WAS IMPULSIVE AND HOT TEMPERED, MARTHA WORRIED A LOT, THE SAMARITAN WOMEN HAD