43 YEARS OF PRAYER

By Eric Davis

This book is about the struggles of life, and how God is not dead. He is alive and still doing miracles today.
This is the first of many books to come to show Gods people that our father is still with us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781387663361

Eric Davis

ERIC DAVIS is a former U.S. Navy SEAL and decorated veteran of the Global War on Terror. Eric has been recognized as one of the premier sniper instructors in the U.S. military and has served as a Master Training Specialist at the SEAL sniper school in Coronado, CA. Eric began to master his writing in the SEAL teams by designing, writing, and producing numerous final training exercise scenarios. Eric is now the founder and CEO of averagefrog.com, which repurposes the proven performance principles of the SEAL teams to help people to live a good life and lead others to do the same. He is also a featured writer on sofrep.com, navyseals.com, specialoperations.com, and The Loadout Room. Eric lives in Orange County, CA, with his wife and is a dedicated and loving father to four wonderful and successful children. He is enthusiastic about being active with his children and converting those experiences into valuable life lessons that he wants to share with others through his book.

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43 Years of Praying

God’s Miracles in Today’s Times

This book is about my journey and my ride with the Lord.

In the beginning, I can remember back to when I was two years old. My first memory is at an airport. We were picking my sister Danielle up from visiting my dad. My next memory is of me at my great grandma’s house at the age of three. She would make me jelly and mayo sandwiches for lunch. I can remember different things from my childhood, which are still important to me to this day. As a kid, I did not know anything about the Lord, but what my parents taught me and what I learned in Sunday school.

In church, I would see people dancing and shouting and falling out as they praised the Lord. I never knew what it meant, but I thought that some type of spirit had overtaken their body. We learned about Noah’s ark and the story of how Moses set God’s people free from slavery.

Now all through these years, I would hear plenty of stories of how good God was as a kid, but I could never really put two and two together because I had never seen him for myself. So to me, it was just a follow the leader type of deal. My mom and family believed, so I believed too.

Now up into this point of my life, and this point being around eight years old, everything was pretty and peaceful. My mom was always home with us. We went to church three times a week, and on weekends my grandmother would pick us up and take us out for ice cream. Then in 1987-88, my great aunt, who was the one who would take us to church, passed. She always made sure we were in service and knew every Easter and Christmas speech.

She was our spiritual foundation.

So, around the time of her passing, my mom was given her house to live in or do whatever she liked. We wound up moving out of the projects into our first house, which was right next to another project. That being said, it was a bad environment. Now I don’t know when my mom started using drugs, but I can tell you when I started to see it. She was not the same person she had been in the projects we moved from. She started being away from home all the time, and I could see a change in her demeanor.

As a kid, I did not