I used to keep adding stock and people would come and buy. I have a good character, whether am drunk or not I have favour, people like me and they come to me and even when I would drink no one would tell where I drink from. I would be at the shop and in the night, I go to the bar and drink till morning.
One morning entered a certain bar with 300,000, while I was drinking, as you know the things of the bar, I started fighting with the girls in the bar and they stole all the balance I had left. I wanted to sleep with her but the money disappeared. I wanted to take them to the police but when I looked outside it was morning and I realized I was only going to ashame myself. So I crossed the road and went back to my room.
I remember it was 28-Feb, the grace came down to me, I meditated about my/my life and I wondered.Still drunk,I called my uncle who stays in katongole and I asked him to come and see me ,he asked me what’s wrong but I just asked him to come and see me dead. So he called a relative of mine that I used to stay with but that night he was not around because he used to go to the farm for the weekends. He’s telling that he’s dead, So the boy came and found me sleeping on the sofa so drunk.
He asked me what had happened to me and I said nothing. He ignored me after realizing that I was drunk. Then my uncle also arrived, when he arrived, I got up and sat started telling him that me I died, so leave me and I weeped while talking to him. I was just confused, I didn’t know what to do or where to go. He asked me why I called him.
I also didn’t know, I didn’t even tell him that I wanted to give my life to Christ. He said ok let me go back home, I said its ok go, but just know I slept in the bar and lost all the money, so I don’t have any money, no life, no head. I am not alive, so leave me and go to your home and go knowing that am dead.
My uncle left me and called his sister and told her. Imagine Julius now has the guts to call me when he’s drunk to show me how wasted he’s. He no longer hides his behaviors, he’s so disrespectful. When he left I kept weeping so much. Robert has a supermarket with his wife so I went there so early so I could find him and tell him that I want to give my life to Christ. Unfortunately he wasn’t there, but deep inside me I had decided to get saved that day.
The voice told me get saved, that’s the only thing that will help you and you will heal .I knew I had no other alternative, but that day I didn’t get saved . I came back to my house with my hung over and slept. I woke up at around 3pm. But when I woke up, I still had the thought of giving my life to Christ. I got out and went to the restaurant because when my uncle left ,he sent me money on my phone but my phone was off and when I put it on I saw the message, I didn’t know where it was coming from, but the voice kept telling me to get saved.
While I was in the restaurant, some born agains found me-Peter, Denis and Kamara mpaka. They would see me always but they feared to approach me because I was quiet and I wasn’t their colleague. Somehow God spoke to them and they told me this had a retreat and the diocese just come and attend, I said ok, when? They said this Sunday.
The voice came to me Friday. Saturday I didn’t leave my house, I stayed there the whole day. That day two people had passed on, some immediate neighbor and some other guy who was popular and my friend and I were supposed to go for burial. So I was confused wondering where I should go. I heard the voice very clearly saying those who have died are dead, go save your life. Go get saved, so I did exactly what the voice told me.
So I went to the retreat at the guest house, the preacher started preaching but I was not listening to him, I was listening to the voice which was inside me already telling me to give my life to Christ. I was just waiting for the after call and in fact when that time came I was the first one to get up and I confessed my sins and gave my life to Christ with a lot of strength.
I said a lot of things. I declared and said I have been the devil’s CEO but today, I declare that I will be a CEO of Christ. From that day, its ten months now and I have never looked back. You know things come but there is that power that helps us to overcome. When I by passed a bar, the first time, second time and spent days without smoking. I knew there was power {Wonder working power}.
I threw the match boxes, my pocket would be full of match boxes, I threw away cigarettes, I by passed bars, I finished one week, two weeks and I wondered at the power of God. But I kept in those fellowships and I would tell them that I have not turned back and they would encourage me to keep focused. They became my brothers and sisters. There’s no other better family for me by the way other than this.
Friends of the world reduced but am so happy that I have this great family of God. I have a thought it was not x-mas for Jesus to be born to us I would not be saying all this, I would even be lost and there would be no hope at all. My last was, I thank God for saving me because he has really saved me. I pray so much, even this minute, I keep asking him to help me so that I don’t mix him with anything else.
