The thing about Teen Challenge is that you have access to leave. It’s an open door. They also understand that it is not the program that changes you, but Jesus through the program who changes you.
When Todd left Teen Challenge, he returned home to his girlfriend and their daughter, where he discovered that things were already starting to change for the better.
As Todd recalls:
My girlfriend had started on the road to Jesus even before I entered Teen Challenge. While I was there she gave herself fully to the belief that God could transform me. So she came to Jesus, I came home, and we got married four days later in the middle of a church service.
God is so amazing! Today I have the most incredible wife and we have the most incredible marriage. We have never been closer. My wife is absolutely amazing and I love her with all my heart. The Bible says that a husband is to love his wife like Jesus loved the church, and that is an unconditional love.
As for my daughter, who never knew her father except as a drug addict, God has by His amazing grace and mercy enabled her to never look back, but only forward. Anytime we do look back it is only under the covering of the blood of Jesus as a testimony of what He has done for us. Destiny now knows that her dad always keeps his word, never lies, and always follows through with everything (at least I try to).
She understands that God has completely transformed not just her daddy, but her life, and her mommy’s life. Since that time Zoey, our youngest, has joined the family. Both girls accompany me frequently when I pray for people in stores and other public places. In fact, we pray for them together.
Spirit-Filled “Chutzpah”
Todd’s encounter with the strange homeless man on the street that day bears many earmarks of an angelic visitation. The apparent randomness of the encounter, the word of knowledge that was given, the sudden disappearance of the man afterward…
All these suggest that the fatigues-clad, goggle-wearing man pushing the shopping cart may have been a heavenly messenger. Whether or not this is so, one thing seems certain: Todd received an impartation of love that day that has since manifested in amazing instances of miracles, words of knowledge, and healing.
After living for the devil for so many years as a drug addict, he lives exclusively for God now. He goes out on the streets to minister to people because he loves people. He will even walk up to complete strangers to lay hands on them and pray.
He has a Spirit-driven holy boldness; a Spirit-filled “chutzpah,” if you will. Chutzpah is a Hebrew word that means “nerve.” Todd once had nerve for the devil; now he has nerve for God. And many people, often perfect strangers, are blessed as a result.
Taste and see that the Lord is good. How happy is the man who takes refuge in Him!
Psalms 34:8
Miraculous Monday: 18th September 2023
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