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Pastor robert morris counselor sept 2016
Pastor robert morris counselor sept 2016






pastor robert morris counselor sept 2016

It’s wonderful.” I thought when she said she called her husband, maybe he was at home, or he was at work, so I asked, “Where was your husband when you called him?”Īnd she put her head down, and then she said, “Well, he’s in prison.”Ī few years after that, we saw that he had gotten out of prison. And I called my husband and I read it to him over the phone, and he gave his life to the Lord, too.”Īnd we said, “Oh that’s great. We left that big tip with this little booklet that told about Jesus.Īnd when we went back later, she told us, “Hey, I read that little book that you left and I gave my life to Jesus. We saved up to put a fifty dollar tip for the waitress, and we started praying for a month. There was this restaurant where we would go and we would share a meal because we were on a very limited budget since we’d first gotten married. I started dating Debbie as a junior in high school, and then as a senior in high school, and then we dated our first year of college, and we got married after that. “There’s a different direction in my heart.” – Robert Morris There’s a different direction in my heart. I’ve never wanted to go back to that old life. But I’ve never wanted to go back to drugs. I’m not saying that I didn’t make mistakes, that I haven’t done a lot of things wrong since then, because we’re all human. Literally, from that moment on, I never wanted to go back to the old life. So I said, “Lord, the other thing you need to know is that I can’t change because I’ve tried to change. I wanted to more than anything.” – Robert Morris I’d never given Him control, and I wanted to. “Even though I believed in Jesus, I’d never given Him my will. And that-I don’t know why, I guess it was just God’s moment for me-that’s when I realized even though I believed in Jesus, I’d never given Him my will. But finally, when I was nineteen years old, I was in a motel room and a guy started sharing with me about truly giving control of your life to Jesus.

pastor robert morris counselor sept 2016

That was the only system that we had: you get saved as a child, and then when you stray, you rededicate or recommit your life to the Lord. So there was that escape.Įvery time I’d go to church, though, I knew that what I was doing was wrong, and several times I rededicated my life. You feel like the weird kid at school-or something like that. Even when you grow up in a good, Christian home, you have problems. I liked the feeling of escaping my problems. Marijuana was really big when I was growing up, and I started smoking marijuana as a young teenager. I started, unfortunately, getting involved with the wrong crowd.

pastor robert morris counselor sept 2016

I grew up always thinking I was a Christian, but then I started going my own way. I could tell that I had this communication gift. When I was in high school, I got involved in drama and I loved making people laugh. I actually entertained a group of about twelve hundred, which was a pretty big group for a twelve-year-old. I started doing ventriloquism when I was 12 years old. When I was young, I actually entertained people. We went to church two or three times a week, so I grew up never doubting that Jesus was the son of God. I grew up in east Texas, in a medium-sized town, and I grew up with good Christian parents. Today’s guests have seen, in different ways, how God can take troubled moments of our past and heal them, using them to bless others in the present: Pastor Robert Morris and singer/songwriter Matt Maher. Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. God Can Use Our Present to Heal Our Past: Pastor Robert Morris and Musician Matt Maher – Episode #165

pastor robert morris counselor sept 2016

And I’ve seen this over and over and over again. But I also believe that God wants us to be a blessing. Robert Morris: One of the reasons I believe that God blesses us is because He loves us, just like we want to bless our children.








Pastor robert morris counselor sept 2016