WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:02.720 I'm so thankful to get to see you today. 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:05.519 If I've not met you, I'm Lee Pastor here for us. 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:07.599 So good to see you if you're new with us. 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:08.320 Welcome. 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:15.679 My wife and I, we uh got away this last week for our 15th wedding anniversary that we got to celebrate. 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:21.280 And we had a great time, but we missed you guys because Man, I love our church. 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:22.480 Don't you love our church? 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:23.920 Man, I love our church. 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:25.359 I love you all so much. 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:31.600 And and I I'm thinking about what God is doing right now in and through the summertime. 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:37.520 And what's kind of crazy is that we don't even really know what all the fall holds. 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:49.200 Um, this kind of blew my mind, and this will encourage you that two Sundays ago in the middle of July, we had one of our highest attendance Sundays of the entire year in the middle of the summer, which was just crazy. 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:57.679 We got to celebrate baptisms over the last couple of weeks and see God moving and changing and encouraging lives. 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:02.240 We got different things coming up this fall with school coming back. 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:07.840 You heard about Collegiate Corner that's having their back to school bash here very soon. 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:18.079 And what you don't know is that, yes, Haley said that this is a KSU alumni uh-led organization that does tutoring and helps students across our community. 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:22.000 Uh, they're actually right here in our complex, uh, right across the way. 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:28.239 And back in February, they asked if we would be a part of this back to school bash to provide school supplies and encourage and help. 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:29.040 And you know what we said? 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:31.680 There's this verse in there about loving your neighbor. 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:33.040 Y'all know that one? 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:39.120 And we were like, they asked us as literally our neighbor, if we would be involved, and we said, 100%, absolutely. 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:40.400 We would love to be an encouragement. 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:54.239 When we church with our neighbors, which is just great, as we're thinking about students going back to school, we got administrators and kids going back to school, and that also brings college students returning to school. 00:01:54.480 --> 00:02:02.959 A lot of athletes are going back to campus at K-State starting tomorrow, and then a couple of weeks later, more students will filter into campus. 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:22.639 And for those of you all who have been around for a while, you know that when the Lord put planting the work and the expression of multiply church in Frankfurt on our heart four years ago now, or five years ago now, that it was for the purpose of seeing God do a work here in Frankfurt and also at Kentucky State University. 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:32.560 A couple of uh weeks ago, I told you about how the Lord put a vision in my heart that we would see students from campus be baptized in the summer of 2025. 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:43.680 And I'm thankful to let you know that even before the summer of 2025, we've had four or five students who've been baptized in this house, which has been so encouraging. 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:56.560 And today you're gonna get to hear from my friend, my uh teammate, uh someone who I've just absolutely love, and Pastor Desenor Antoine. 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:19.680 Pastor Desenor and I we met two years ago at uh uh uh a youth ministry event, and he told me his testimony uh very briefly in our first encounter, and this is two years ago, and when I heard his testimony two years ago and we first met, it was then that I said, I want multiplied church to hear the testimony of what God has done in the life of this man. 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:22.400 That was two years ago, and today that's gonna come to fruition. 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.039 You're gonna get to hear what God has done. 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:33.280 And I'm excited for you to hear because it it's got all kinds of implications for what God is doing right now, in this moment, and in the future. 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:41.520 And so if you would, uh here in just a moment, I'm gonna I'm gonna pray for us, and then we're gonna have a time where you're gonna get to hear this testimony. 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:46.080 If so, if you would uh take your seat as we pray, Father. 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:47.919 I thank you, Lord, for this morning. 00:03:48.719 --> 00:04:00.639 Gotta pray over this time right now, Lord, as we're gonna get to hear a powerful testimony, God, of who you are, how you love us so much. 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:03.120 God, you meet us exactly where we're at. 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:10.319 And Father, today, Lord, this is this is uh this is something that's been in my heart to come to fruition two years of the making. 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:19.600 So, God, I pray today, Lord, that you would in this moment, Holy Spirit, that you would invade this place in hearts and minds. 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:28.639 And Lord, as we hear, God, the testimony and the stories of what you're doing, God. 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:43.920 I pray that today, Lord, you would implant something fresh, something new into hearts and the lives of God, hope, and to those right now who are in desperate need. 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:56.160 Father, also encouragement and strength and to ones in the room who are walking in a in a strong place that Father, they would get even stronger today because of how good you are. 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:59.759 We love you, we praise you, we thank you in the strong name of Jesus. 00:04:59.920 --> 00:05:01.279 Everybody said amen. 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:08.160 Church, will you help me welcome Pastor Decanor Antoine as he comes up today? 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:11.199 And I can't wait for you all to hear his story. 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:12.800 Love you, brother. 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:14.720 I'm grateful. 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:23.199 Like I said, we met a couple of years ago, and uh as as Pastor D, I call him Pastor D, by the way. 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:25.839 That's uh my name for Pastor Destiners, Pastor D. 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:41.759 And uh when we when we met, um God was already stirring and already uh moving, and so you're gonna hear the story today and and from his life and what God's uh doing at Kentucky State and outside those walls of other campuses in our community. 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:58.959 I I just even if you come you've come in today and you may be visiting from out of town and you don't know anything about Kentucky State, or maybe you're in the room today and you you don't even have any uh kids or students that are connected to any campus today, even if you don't care one bit, I'm praying that the Lord is gonna move and shake your heart today. 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:06.560 To to show you what how powerful our God is and what miracles he can do in and through your life. 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:09.120 And so, uh, brother, thank you for being here. 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:11.040 Uh thank you so much for uh having me. 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:12.000 Praise the Lord. 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.040 Uh thank thank God for this guy here, Pastor Forrest. 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:15.680 I love him, man. 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:16.879 He's my man, you know what I'm saying? 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:18.639 Y'all give it up for Pastor Forrest, amen. 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:19.600 Praise the Lord, man. 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:26.639 Uh for this is a great work, you know, for to be able to be able to come here into a town and set up shop for Jesus Christ, man. 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:31.040 That takes a lot to do that, to be able to come here and and do the work of the Lord. 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:33.199 It just doesn't happen in one day. 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:34.959 It takes a heart full of faith. 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:36.560 And that's what I call faith right there. 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:38.720 Someone that's acting upon what they believe. 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:44.160 And look at this, all this right here, is because one man believed God to step out by faith and do what you're doing, man. 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:44.959 Man, praise the Lord. 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:45.279 Praise God. 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:51.439 More than anybody that it's a team effort, and uh it's been a team effort with you know with us. 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:56.639 Um and I want you I want you to start us uh you're not from Frankfurt, you're from South Florida. 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:57.040 Yeah. 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:01.759 So tell us uh about um where you're from and about growing up there. 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:02.720 All right, everybody. 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:06.000 I'm uh well, born and raised in Miami, Florida. 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:08.160 Amen, the uh sunshine state of Florida. 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:10.959 That's where I was born, in Dade County, Miami, Florida. 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:16.319 So uh born and raised there, uh both my mom and dad are from there, they're from the island Haiti. 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:18.319 So I'm a full-blood Haitian. 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:21.920 I may look like an American, but uh Sapase Tumun. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:22.959 Tumun Bon La. 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:23.759 Amen. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:25.519 I mean, it's just what's up, everybody? 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:25.839 Good. 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:26.879 I'm glad you said that. 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:27.839 Yeah, I'm glad you told us. 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:32.560 Hey y'all say it's somebody if you ever see a Haitian, they say sapase, you're supposed to say not bule. 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:33.360 Nabula. 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:34.639 Y'all can say that, not bule. 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:35.600 What does that mean? 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:40.160 I mean in in an English term, saying in English, that means I'm on fire. 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:42.720 But but I don't know why, but not like you say not like that. 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:44.560 I'm cool, you know what I'm saying? 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:48.639 But I say y'all hear somebody say sapase, y'all say not bule. 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:49.360 Not bule. 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:50.000 Amen. 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:50.399 Amen. 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:58.160 But uh just born and raised in Miami, uh, raised up uh, you know, uh in that type of environment and atmosphere that I was raised up in. 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:06.959 Uh, you know, growing up in Miami, uh my brothers and stuff like that, they they dealt with a lot of different things, you know what I'm saying? 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:16.079 As far as uh my older brother uh started selling dope at I don't know how old he was, but he you know, started selling dope at a young age and uh moving weight. 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:19.519 Uh when I mean by moving weight, it's not this little$5 here,$5. 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:21.360 I'm talking about money. 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:21.600 Yeah. 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:25.279 So where I'm seeing them count bags of money, you know what I'm saying, since kids. 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:36.159 So uh raising in that kind of atmosphere, all the boys in the neighborhood started dealing in that situation, started growing in that growing up into it, and started dealing, and everybody on our our block was like, you know, dope dealers, you know what I'm saying? 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:43.279 So so basically uh in that type of environment, I was just uh a kid that just ran around and uh they they took care of me, man. 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:47.919 They they bought me what I wanted, what anything I need, my cars, anything clothes, go to prom. 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:50.000 I had uh guy pay for my whole prom. 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:54.799 Uh, you know, saying, but you know, that's that's that kind of money, that type of lifestyle. 00:08:54.879 --> 00:09:00.240 But anyways, but grazing up that way, uh, you know, didn't know no difference from you know, right or wrong. 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:07.039 But uh, you know, that's the kind of environment I raised up in, and basically uh living a rough life in that type of form. 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:09.039 And you were not raised in a Christian home. 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:11.279 Oh no, no, no, I was raised in a Christian home. 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:15.519 Like I said, my mom and dad are from Haiti, so uh that's just a different culture. 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:19.840 Uh so that's like uh, you know, we dealt with uh spirits. 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.799 Uh it's called in our language called lois. 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:29.600 So, you know what I'm saying, in you know, American language, y'all people probably heard of uh, you know, witchcraft and voodoo and stuff like that, you know what I'm saying? 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:33.120 So, but you know, that's what we dealt with and actually growing up with that. 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:41.200 Uh you know, raised up in a house, seeing my mom actually do these things, you know, saying we respect it, we we honored it, we we worship, you know what I'm saying? 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:44.720 That's far as far as the same when you reverence something, you're honoring it. 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:45.360 You know what I'm saying? 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:47.440 So I didn't know, you know, that's our just our culture. 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:49.759 And so that's what kind of lifestyle I was raised in. 00:09:49.840 --> 00:10:00.480 So not a Christian home, uh, you know what I'm saying, so-called went to Catholic church here and there, but didn't have no revelation, didn't have no thing, no, no true relationship with Jesus Christ, man. 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:08.960 So and then uh in a kind of crazy turn of events, you ended up at Kentucky State to play football. 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:09.759 Yes, yes. 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:10.720 How that happened? 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:18.879 Uh well, uh my senior year growing up, uh getting ready to leave, my brother told me, you know, I wanted to play football. 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:23.440 All my life I played football, and uh I wanted to play football going into the next level. 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:26.159 And uh my brother told me, won't you come up here to U of L? 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:27.279 And I said, Okay. 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:28.399 So uh, amen. 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:29.840 Y'all got some UVL fan out there. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:31.120 Any U of L fan? 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:32.000 Amen, amen. 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:33.919 Y'all throw them L's up, but I ain't go there. 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:34.879 It's all right. 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:38.559 But anyways, uh my brother told me, come on up there, man. 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:50.480 So uh me and my friend uh we packed up my car and he was helping me drive, and we packed a uh a pound of weed in the back of the truck, uh back of my Chevic uh Caprice and drove all the hill to uh Freyford, Kentucky. 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:53.120 And uh basically got up here. 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:58.480 Uh things ain't work out well at U of L to where I can be able to play because I didn't have no test scores, no nothing, man. 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:01.440 I just came up here just straight up hood. 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:02.799 You if you know what I mean by that. 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:03.120 Yep. 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:03.519 Amen. 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:08.480 Uh so basically, basically, uh it didn't work out there. 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:24.879 So I got a little job working at a construction company, and there's a man there that played baseball at Kentucky State University, and he told me, man, if you really want to play football, uh I'll take you down there, show them your film, your game film from uh high school, and see if they could get you into school. 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:25.759 I think they'll get you in. 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:28.399 So man, I came here, showed them my highlight tape, they liked it. 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:30.240 They say, Man, we're gonna get you in here. 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.039 So they found a way to get me in Kentucky State University, man. 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:35.840 They got me in there, man, and uh they appealed me in. 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.919 I took some 099 classes, man, and then uh within a year I was on the field. 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:41.039 And what position did you play? 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:42.799 I played running back and fullback. 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:43.600 Yeah. 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:52.960 And you know, you've told me uh you know that's in order that um during your time at K-State there were some dark days. 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:59.200 And I would love for you to uh to fill that in and share with us uh about what was going on in that season. 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:12.320 Okay, uh well in that season of my life, uh that time when it started getting dark, is that basically uh my brother got hit with uh kilo to cocaine. 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:15.759 If y'all know what kilo to cocaine is, anybody in here know y'all watch the movies? 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:16.240 Amen. 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:19.519 So it's a lot of dope, not a little thing, it's a lot. 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:25.919 So he got hit with that and uh busted and uh basically called me up and told me, hey man, go flush everything. 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:26.720 They got me. 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:40.879 So I went to the house, flush everything down the toilet, uh, took the money, went, put it to the other house, took the car, took it to the other house, and uh next thing I they shook the house down, meaning they came and checked the house and looked for dope, they ain't find nothing. 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:42.480 So I hang down low in Kentucky State. 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:44.320 I wasn't going back and forth to Louisville. 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:52.639 So I stayed up there in Kentucky State University, and uh so in that time of frame, I was I said, look, I'm I'm not gonna mess around no more. 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:57.519 I got with this young lady from Indianapolis, and I said, I'm gonna I'm gonna be clean, I'm gonna do it right. 00:12:57.600 --> 00:12:58.480 I try to do it right. 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:01.200 So I said, I'm gonna settle down with this girl, you know what I'm saying? 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:02.960 And uh, you know, praise the Lord. 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:05.039 We was, you know, in a long-distant relationship. 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:06.799 She moved from Frankfurt, Kentucky. 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:08.480 She had to go back to Indianapolis. 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:11.120 We tried to work it out with a long-distance relationship. 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:14.960 I was driving back and forth every weekend that I can to go meet her. 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:19.600 And uh, you know, so we came to football practice that going into my junior year. 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:26.639 I remember this like yesterday, anyways, but to make it real quick, I was in two days, I couldn't go nowhere. 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:28.320 They took my car, they took the keys, everything like that. 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:29.759 So I had to stay in a dormitory. 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:33.679 And I was blowing her phone up, calling her left and right, like, you know, I just want to speak to her. 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:34.000 It's late. 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:34.559 You know what I'm saying? 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:37.759 I want to talk to my girl, you know, and she wasn't answering. 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:43.919 And uh basically, back in those days, you used to have those cell phones that if you sit wrong, you can make a call. 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.159 You ever y'all y'all ever had them cell phones back in the days? 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:47.279 But butt down. 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:49.600 Do I got any witnesses with them old phones? 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:50.159 Amen. 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:56.080 So basically, uh, she she I'm calling her phone and she ended up butt dialing me. 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:58.720 And uh, you know, saying I heard everything go down, man. 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.840 I heard it like, oh man, you know, saying I thought this was the one. 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.240 I I I sat up there, I took the ACE test. 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:06.159 I mean, I didn't mess with nobody else. 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:07.759 I got serious, Pastor Force. 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:09.840 I mean, literally, I thought this was the one. 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:13.200 Uh but I heard it all go down. 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:15.120 So next thing you know, I played it off. 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:16.639 I I hung the phone up. 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:18.159 She called me later on that night. 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:19.360 I said, Hey, how you doing? 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:20.159 You know, I played it off. 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:20.720 How you doing? 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:22.159 Uh, you know, I've been trying to call you. 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:26.559 So she said, uh, I had my phone in the back of the trunk and everything with my purse and everything. 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:27.679 I didn't get to hear a call. 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:31.600 And man, I just I just went off off the deep end on her, you know. 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:33.360 And I wasn't a Christian, amen. 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.440 I wasn't a Christian, so I started cussing out and calling every name that I can. 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.000 And you know, saying just trying to rip her from A to Z. 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:45.679 But the next thing you know, uh, you know, I hung the phone up in that moment, Pastor Forrest. 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:55.679 I hung the phone up, and uh, I remember a certain man named Brother Gill told me, if I ever come into a problem, call on the name of Jesus. 00:14:55.840 --> 00:15:01.519 And I knew that time and that that period, that thought came back to my mind, call on the name of Jesus. 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:21.840 And there's something else I wanted to share real quick in this testimony, because I remember one day we was at church, me and this girl, uh her mom and then went to church, and uh the girl I was messing with, and one day I was at church and I looked across the seat, like in the aisle, and I know we was all in, you know, how many of y'all do you know you could go to church and still sin and it ain't the will of God, you know what I'm saying? 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:23.759 So there's a lot of people in church that's faking a funk. 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:25.039 Y'all know what faking a funk is? 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:31.759 When you go to church and act like you're holy, but you ain't really holy, but you're living a lifestyle outside of the will of God, and I was that, you know what I'm saying? 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:33.200 Because I, you know, I was chasing the girl. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:45.519 But anyway, I was sitting there, for some reason, I was looking at my girl and her twin sister, and they were sitting in the aisle, and for some reason there was an aisle next to us, and it was a little girl about like nine years old, Pastor Force. 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:48.480 I didn't mention this to you, but she was crying. 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:50.080 I didn't know why she was crying. 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.799 It was it wasn't a cry like a mama pinched her or something and told her to be quiet. 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:55.440 It wasn't that kind of cry, it was a real, like a holy cry. 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:57.519 It was like God was all over this little girl. 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:02.080 And I looked at this little girl and I looked at my my girlfriend, and I don't know why I said this, Pastor Force. 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:05.360 I said, if I ever leave her, Lord, I'll serve you with all my heart. 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:06.639 I don't know why I said this. 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:08.960 This is in the point of the time of what I said this. 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:15.679 Yeah, and you know, I'm I'm it's gonna I'm gonna afford it now to why what Brother Gill told me, either it's gonna be God or the girl. 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:20.960 Yeah, he told me that, and I and I I know now when I looked at her, I said, if I leave her, I'll serve you with all my heart. 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:21.759 But anyways. 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:25.440 And then also at this time, because your brother got busted. 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:32.639 Yeah, you all two, there's chaos going on, and your football coach set you down as well. 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:33.039 Yes. 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:34.960 And knew what was going on, and what'd he tell you? 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:41.759 Yeah, he told me straight up, he came up to me and said, Man, I don't know what you're doing, Destinore, but either either you're gonna play football or do what you're doing. 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:49.039 And he came up and he told me that straight up and said, I don't know what you're doing, but you're gonna serve, uh, you're gonna do what you you gonna do what you do or you're gonna play football. 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:50.639 Because he started seeing me riding around. 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:58.000 I had like three, like two different cars, and my brother had like a drop top with some uh y'all remember back at Trules and Vaux and D's. 00:16:58.159 --> 00:16:59.519 Anybody in here know about that? 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:01.440 You know, this new generation, amen. 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:10.240 It's back in the days you used to ride around with uh trues and vols, uh that's what they call it back in the D's, uh Daytons. 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:11.759 Yeah, okay uh back in the days. 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:13.920 I don't know if you remember that, but no, I don't, but we're all right. 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:14.480 Amen. 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:14.960 Amen. 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:21.039 Hey, that was a looker back then, you know, have the drop top with those type of wheels, everybody tried to holler at you, but amen. 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:22.000 Oh, rims. 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:22.960 Rims, yeah. 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:27.920 I gotta bring it back to y'all term rims. 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:29.440 Amen. 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:36.799 So uh he told he seen all these vehicles, he had big chain and everything like that, and so he just he just stepped to me and told me that. 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:51.920 So in those, you know, in that moment in my dark time, after I hung the phone up with that, but my girl, I got on my knees, man, and cried out to the Lord Jesus Christ and said, Lord, forgive me for putting women, drugs, and alcohol before you. 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:54.240 And man, got something left my life. 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:56.079 I mean, I felt it leave me. 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:56.799 You know what I'm saying? 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:02.240 I didn't know what it was, but now that I know demons was leaving my body, you know, leaving my mind, leaving everything. 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:04.480 I mean, I got delivered in one day. 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:08.079 I mean, cold turkey stopped everything in one day. 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:09.279 God is faithful, man. 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:10.880 God is amazing, amen. 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:13.680 God, we serve a we serve a living God, amen. 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:16.640 A good God, a God of deliverance, a God of power. 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:17.519 You know what I'm saying? 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:18.720 This is a God we serve. 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:19.920 He's not a fake God. 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:22.000 This is not some something of our own imagination. 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:24.799 This is a living God that created everything, folks. 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:26.480 He's here, he's here right now. 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:27.119 Amen. 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:27.920 Amen. 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:30.000 And so that night that changed everything. 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:30.720 Yes. 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:38.400 In your dorm room at Kentucky State, crying out to the Lord and tell us what happened after that. 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:40.160 Man, what happened after that, man? 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:43.839 I I literally uh I knew I was changed. 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:45.279 I knew something happened. 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:53.519 You know, saying I was a new, uh, you know, I didn't know that now, but the Bible says that if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:55.200 Old things passed away. 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:57.119 Behold, all things become new. 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:01.759 I knew I didn't know that scripture, but I knew something happened in my life. 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:03.599 I wasn't that same man. 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:08.000 And then from that point on, I started, I had a hunger for the things of God. 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:12.400 I mean, I don't know what God did in me, but it was like I hated sin. 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:16.799 I hated everything about it because it felt like I was deceived all my life. 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:17.599 You know what I'm saying? 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:26.000 Being raised up in the culture that I was raised up in, I didn't know that that God was a living God until I asked him to fill me with his spirit. 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:30.400 I told him, Lord, fill me with your spirit because I seen in the Bible asked that, and I told him that. 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:36.480 And God filled me with his spirit, and I mean something overtook my life to where I knew we serve a living God. 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:38.480 And that's what happened to me, Pastor Forrest. 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:44.559 That's what changed everything because I knew we was dealing with my mom dealt with spirits and all that, and I didn't know that God was a living God. 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:44.799 Right. 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:50.319 I don't never, I wasn't raised in church, I didn't know anything about church, so I I couldn't, I couldn't, I can't be religious. 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:51.279 That's what I'm trying to say. 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:52.559 Right, I can't play this. 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:55.599 So, and I I was crying out to God, like, God, show me you. 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:57.200 I don't want to know anything but you. 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:01.200 I put my football things to the side, I put all my my books to the side. 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:04.240 I said, God, teach me how to live. 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:04.640 Yes. 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:06.880 And from that point on, man, I had a hunger. 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:12.160 And I I went on a I went on a rampage on Kentucky at Kentucky State University. 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:18.079 I went on a rampage of just telling people about Jesus, man. 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:23.920 I mean, it just seemed like a switch was cut on that everyone needs to know about Jesus. 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:24.319 Yeah. 00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:27.440 I don't know why, but I wanted to tell everybody. 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:33.680 So uh basically, uh, you know, saying I'll go on campus and just started talking to people. 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:36.880 Uh, you know, people start knowing that Destinor, something's about Destinor. 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:38.000 Destinor changed. 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:44.880 Even my own football player, my own football teammates, they will uh see me and they'll be like, man, something's going on with Destinore, man. 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:47.759 And so basically, uh they they started coming to me. 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:53.359 Uh some of the players, like I even say the quarterback, came to me one night and said, Man, I need prayer, man. 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:54.480 Can you pray for me? 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:55.279 You know what I'm saying? 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:59.359 And from that on, that point on, everybody on the team started coming to me. 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:03.839 The tight ends, everybody started, we started having Bible studies in the room. 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:06.960 And when we go out of town, I'll just be minister on a bus. 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:07.680 You know what I'm saying? 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:08.799 Just be, you know what I'm saying. 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:12.480 I did my first fast uh going to a football game. 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:21.039 I I don't know what a fast was, but I did the first fast going to I think it was going to Albany, Albany State or something like that, and I fasted breakfast. 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:21.680 Amen. 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:26.240 I just want I just was hungry for God, folks. 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:28.640 I just wanted to know Jesus, amen. 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:34.559 The Bible tells us that we the those that hunger and thirst for righteousness shall be filled. 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:36.240 I'm telling you, folks, amen. 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:36.640 Go ahead. 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:41.839 And as you were doing that, and literally the Holy Spirit is flowing through you when you're ministering on campus. 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:45.599 You also got to minister to your future wife and didn't even know it. 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:47.359 Oh, Lord, have mercy. 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:48.000 Amen. 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:48.960 Praise God. 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:50.880 I'm just telling you, man, God is good, man. 00:21:50.960 --> 00:22:00.720 He he uh I remember uh one day God ministered to me or well stirred in my heart to go talk to this young lady that was on the campus that uh Was in our dormitory. 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:02.559 I was I worked in uh stuff. 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:03.839 We was in school for business. 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:04.559 Me and my wife. 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:06.400 Well, she wasn't my wife then. 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:06.720 Amen. 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:11.680 But anyways, uh God told me to go minister to this girl. 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:15.920 And uh, because she was going through some problems and she would be coming to class crying. 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:19.440 And uh I knew who she was, and I knew her boyfriend. 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:24.640 The boyfriend was like this this he was a star on the team, but all the girls liked him. 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:25.279 You know what I'm saying? 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:27.039 And he was a player, you know what I'm saying? 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:27.920 A real player. 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:28.640 You know, amen. 00:22:28.799 --> 00:22:30.000 Y'all know more than one way. 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:30.960 Yeah. 00:22:31.119 --> 00:22:34.880 And so basically, our God was moving on me to go minister to her. 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:36.079 I said, okay, I'm gonna talk to her. 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:37.519 I'm gonna talk to her after class. 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:41.039 And so, how many know that the class uh dismissed? 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:43.440 And uh I didn't go talk to her. 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:45.759 I was scared because uh fear. 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:50.720 How many know that God can move on you to go do something and you won't do it because of fear? 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:51.440 You know what I'm saying? 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:54.640 What somebody's gonna think, what's somebody gonna say, oh man, you're weird. 00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:56.640 You know, all these type of thoughts will try to hit you. 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:57.920 So I didn't act upon it. 00:22:58.079 --> 00:23:01.920 And so she left, and I'm like, oh man, Lord, forgive me, forgive me. 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:11.920 And so I'm as I'm walking out of the business department area, I see two girls sitting on a couch that's in front of the department area, and I said, Okay, Lord, I'm gonna go talk to them. 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:15.599 And I you know how you gotta try to redeem yourself. 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:18.559 So I said, I'm gonna go talk, I'm gonna go talk to these two girls. 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:23.839 And so basically, uh I went up to them and I Pastor Force, I said this, you know what I'm saying. 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:26.480 I'm gonna keep, I'm just say this the same way I said it. 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:28.799 I walked up to them and I said, Hey, y'all know Jesus. 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:33.599 And I mean, hey, I didn't tell you this, but they both was high as a kite. 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:34.960 You know what I'm saying? 00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:36.640 They both were high. 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:40.319 And and and I and I walked up to them and said, Do y'all know Jesus? 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:45.599 And I said this, you know, I could walk this campus and look sinus, sin in the face and won't even sin. 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:50.319 And I don't even know why I said it, Pastor Force, but the the Holy Ghost or whatever just spoke through me. 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:53.440 And I said those words and it caught her attention. 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:55.599 And so I said, Can I pray for y'all? 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:59.039 You know, saying, and I said, Well, I'll tell you what, let me pray, because we had to go or something. 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:01.519 I think it was we had to go, they had to go to class or something like that. 00:24:01.599 --> 00:24:04.960 And I said, Well, let me just get your number and I'll call you and pray for you later, like that. 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:09.680 So uh I went back to the dormitory later on that day for some reason and I called her. 00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:14.720 I I picked up the phone and I called her, and uh her boyfriend answered the phone. 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:18.319 And her boyfriend, I didn't know some guy answered the phone and said, Hello. 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:20.240 I said, uh, can I speak to Till? 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:22.480 And he was like, uh, who this? 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:24.319 I said, this is Destinor. 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:25.279 Destinor. 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:27.920 Oh, he just handed the phone over to her, you know what I'm saying? 00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:33.119 And I didn't know this, but her boyfriend was the defensive end on the team. 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:34.720 And I didn't even know that. 00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:37.279 And he that, but they knew I was a Christian. 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:38.559 He knew I was a Christian. 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:42.799 So he just handed the phone over to her and uh said, uh, she came on the phone. 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:44.079 Our voice was very shaky. 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:46.240 I said, uh, can you can uh is it a good time? 00:24:46.319 --> 00:24:49.359 And she was like, no, like that, straight up, like told me no. 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:58.400 So uh she hung the phone up and me and my roommate we got together and locked in agreement in prayer and said, Lord, we prayed over her. 00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:04.640 I don't know what prayer, but we prayed the prayer of faith and locked in agreement that God would do something in her life and change her life. 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:19.920 And then a year later, Pastor Forrest, as I was sitting in the department of the business department in there studying for a test or something like that, I come this young lady comes to the room, knocks on the window of the glass over that the business department said, I don't get high anymore. 00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:21.119