Know Your Identity
(Testimony read to congregation at First Baptist Church in Lovington, NM in July of 2018) Answering God’s Call I wanted to share the process of how I got to this point and how my identity had to change in order to hear the call God had for me and my family. To be called I had to go through a process and its been the hardest thing me and my wife have ever faced. There were a lot of sleepless nights. So many failures and a lot of times I asked why? “Why do I have to go through this? Why me?” But, that’s the commitment we all made. Making the commitment to follow Jesus was the easy part. The hard part is when life demands that you honor or faulter on your commitment. Following is supposed to be hard. Luke 9:23 says “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must deny yourself, take up your cro...