“I know where I am going because I know where I have been.”

Oh, how well I remember!

It was many, many years ago when I was on staff at Chester Avenue Baptist Church, (now, Chester Avenue Community Church), that friend and Senior Pastor, Pastor Keith Fultz, began to encourage me about sharing what God had done in my life.

My initial response was, “Get real!”

In terms of my past involvement with homosexuality, it was a dead, ugly, a “don’t want to talk about it” issue, that I did not want to revisit or certainly share publicly.

However, through my Pastors encouragement and a whole lot of prompting by the Holy Spirit, I finally came around and agreed to go public. And I mean public!

Ultimately, a Sunday morning service was selected for me to share my testimony. No advance announcement was given in terms of my sharing and certainly not what I would be disclosing.

To this day, I find it remarkable if not downright amusing that the sanctuary was packed. Wouldn’t you know it?

I remember very well saying to God – “Father, I know you have a sense of humor, but this is not funny!”

So, there I was for the very first-time spilling “it” in detail. Yes, you could have heard a pin drop.

I remember stating to my Pastor that if I was going to “tell all about it,” then I was going to “tell all.” Now, not the sordid, gory details – that never has any value.

After sharing my testimony, my pastor asked the congregation if they would be willing to come forward and pray for me. To my absolute delight and “Whew, it’s going to be ok,” the entire church began making their way to the altar where I was standing.

A sea of humanity was making its way to me. It really was as though they couldn’t get close enough. Frankly, I was overwhelmed.

There is something incredibly powerful and wonderful that God does when we are open and transparent about your shortcomings, when we expose the dark past and present our lives in an atmosphere of honesty and vulnerability.

It’s as though the light of truth is able to shine on those formerly dark and hidden places, and the power of God powerfully, dramatically, and significantly provides healing and wholeness in the twinkling of an eye.

Those sudden and totally unexpected visits of God when He provides all that you need and enables you to move well beyond what you thought was impossible.

He remains a God that says today – “Yep! Possible!”

Pastor Phillip Lee
Executive Director
His Way Out Ministries

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