It Was Meant to Bind You

By Willie B. Grayson

IT was meant to bind you.

What is your it? Everyone, no matter who you are has an it.

That very thing that has us bound and kept us from being the person that God created us to be. Whatever it is, it ca

• Language: English
• Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
• Release date: Jul 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798885905992

Willie B. Grayson

Willie and Jade have been married f 18 years, they married as a blended family of 7 and were blessed with 2 daughters together. They also have 12 grandchildren. They have been in ministry together since the first day they met. They have pastored and planted churches in Arkansas and Oklahoma. They are also the founders of Street Church which is a street ministry where they travel and do ministry in different cities that send for them to do outreach.Willie Grayson has a passion for those who are struggling with addiction and for those who have lost their way. Willie Grayson was addicted to crack cocaine for five years and has been clean for 35 years. Willie and Jade have a heart and passion to see people delivered and set free from the hand of the enemy.

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IT WAS MEANT TO BIND YOU

IT WAS

MEANT

TO

BIND

YOU

BY WILLIE GRAYSON

Charleston, SC

www.PalmettoPublishing.com

It Was Meant To Bind You

Copyright © 2022 by Willie B Grayson

All rights reserved

No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted

in any form by any means–electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or other–

except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without prior permission of the author.

Paperback ISBN: 979-8-88590-598-5

Ebook ISBN: 979-8-88590-599-2

Dedication

T

his book is dedicated to my dear mother, Lorraine Grayson. Thank you, Mom, for your dedication to your family and for being a strong woman and leader to your family and friends. Your leadership and smile are two of the greatest memories people talk about when I greet them. You may be gone, but you will never be forgotten. Rest in heaven, and I’ll see you when I get there.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1Your Sins Don’t Just Affect You

Chapter 2The Deceitfulness of Riches and the Love of Money

Chapter 3I Was Born Like This

Chapter 4You Are Who He Says You Are

Chapter 5He Can Save You

Acknowledgments

Meet the Family

About the Author

Preface

I

t was meant to bind you. What is your it? Whatever it is, it came with a purpose; it came to render you powerless. It came to keep you from fulfilling your destiny and being the best you that you could be.

Chapter One

Your Sins Don’t Just Affect You

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ow, before I get started, I would have you know that this part of my story is not intended to bring dishonor to my parents or to bring up any past hurts or feelings, but it must be told so that you can get the whole picture.

It was about late November of 1961 when I was conceived. Both of my parents were married at the time, but not to each other. My father had just come home from deployment, and my mother’s husband was still away serving in the army. This affair would soon come to a screeching halt when my mother found out that she was pregnant with me. She called my father to let him know that she was having his child. This obviously was not part of the plan. My father and his wife did not have any children together. My mother, on the other hand, already had two little girls. When my father got word that my mother was pregnant with me, instead of facing his responsibilities, he up and reenlisted in the military. I never got the complete story, but I do know that they sent him to Alaska, where he faced a life-threatening incident. So my mother was left alone to face her husband coming home to find out that she was pregnant with another man’s child.

I would like to stop here for a moment to remind you that your sins don’t just affect you. They affect everyone around you.

Can you imagine all that took place once my mother’s husband got this news? Anger, distrust, unforgiveness,