Ps.66:16 says "Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he has done for my soul".

I'm going to attempt to give you a story of regrets that has been in my life.
Webster says Regrets are = A sense of loss, Expression of grief, Remorse, To feel disappointed or distressed about.

I wasn't raised in the truth, but I was taught good morals and standards. We lived on a farm and we had cotton, soybeans, cows, pigs, chickens, etc....I was the oldest of 10 kids yep there were 10 kids 6 Girls and 4 Boys. My Mother lost her first He was 4 months old then I was born one year later. We lost one Brother James32 on 03/20/00 and his son Timmy2 they were both killed by a truck ,they were walking across a High way. Anyway when I was about 12-13 I had got very tired and one day I said "I will be glad when I get 18 then I can do what I want to do."I had told this to one of the working hand my daddy had hired and he replied to me." Son you better not wish you were 18 because one day you will turn around and you will be old." Well at this time in my live time was traveling very slow. We had to work on our farm from sunup till sundown everyday.I quit school at the age of 16 now you may think that my parents would had stop me ,but they needed me there helping and working on our farm. This was my 1st Regret quitting school. I had got my first job working at nights my pay was $1.65 an hr. boy that was a lot of money then. Well by this time we had started to an Apostolic Church and my mother received the Holy Ghost. Well time march on.

I became 18 and join the army 2nd regret. Now remember some REGRETS are FOREVER. I was grown and on my own yep my own boss. Oh boy was I wrong. I started on drugs and it got really bad. This life was all new to me. I thought the world owned me something, but when the world started paying me boy, My 3rd Regret. I was not my own I had been captured my satan and the powers of hell.I was in there control. Like a puppet on a string. When we play with the world and we enjoy all the worldly pleasures we will soon have to pay the price. REGRETS, REGRETS they will destroy you and create a Black cloud that can and will follow you all the way. Drug, Drinking, Parties, Divorce then the last Death. Boy I was living it up. I got out of the Army after I had got in so much trouble there and had went AWOL (Absent with out leave)and came home and I received an Undesirable Discharge from the Army in the mail and I was so happy.4th Regret. I had came to the place where God was really dealing with me every day. You know when God first started to deal with me I knew what was going on, but I thought I had plenty of time amen. This I truly believe is one of the devils greatest tools that he uses on people. Making them believe they have time (Later) Bible said in 2 Cor. 6:2 "For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." So by this we know that all we have is (NOW).

When God was dealing with me all I would have to do was do more drugs and the feeling would leave. I was hooked on cocaine ,acid, sniffing gas, glue, shoe polish. You name it I did it. Keep in mind I had NEVER saw or heard about drugs until I joined the Army. I was hooked and I did things that I would had never dreamed I would do before. The devil had me in his control ,but I thought I was my own boss now. Man I was wrong very wrong. If we serve sin we are Servants to sin we are not our own. WE will serve someone amen and it will be the God of all, or the devil. I was hooked so bad that I had to steal and lie to get the drugs that I thought I needed. God was with me because I have done so much back then if I had of got caught I would still be in Jail today.(THANK GOD).I was not happy and not at all. I did go to Church some just to keep my Mother off my back. (THANK GOD FOR LOVING AND PRAYING MOTHERS) . If you have a Mother that's in Church you need to lift her up and really Thank God for her amen. I had found someone and we married and I soon got in Church and I repented of my sins and was baptized in Jesus name and God filled me with the sweet Holy Ghost. After about 2 years God called me to Preach this Gospel. I rejected this for some time ,but God keep on me day and night till one day I accepted it.I was going to the Jails and Nursing homes and also Preaching in other Churches. I was Preaching about 3-5 times a week. Now I was not a Pastor just a devoted saint with a burden to help people.

It was about 6 years pasted and the devil came and totally destroyed my family. Now remember I was still going to Church and trying to Preach and it was getting harder and harder for me to go and to face people and tell them that our marriage was gone. There was times that I would feel like lying and staying home and not even go to Church. Now we had 3 kids here at home and I had to care for them myself, dress, feed , change diapers, cook and see they got there home work done. The time came that I was forgetting to Pray and soon I would stay home and not go to Church. I was so worried about losing my wife till I let that drive me out from the will of God. Soon I was smoking again and we had broke up and I moved in with my Mother. Well time marched on and I started on drugs again yep you would thing that I had learned my lesson before, but I did not. By this time we had got back together. See the devil had told me if I would go out and do the same things my wife was doing we could be together again, but remember the devil can’t tell the truth. He is a liar amen. After a time we broke up again and this time we filled for divorce. The devil had control of my life once again. I was his puppet and he had the control of the strings. Oh yes I did Pray a lot and you can’t make me believe that God don’t hear a sinner Prayer. I was going to bars and drinking my life away and fast too. Drugs and whatever I could get to make me to forget this was what I was doing. If I could insert one thing here is to PLEASE don’t ever stop Praying and no matter what your wife ,or husband does stay in the Church. This is your only means of help amen. Oh I had lots of friends. Worldly friends and remember I had dreamed and wanted to me by own boss. I was never my own. When I’m going to Church those friends are gone.

Well I started back to Church again. One more thing that I want to share with you is God does not have to give us a second chance, he does ,but it’s by his mercy. Well I got back in the Church again and I was doing great and I had lost a lot of my life .But God accepted me back Praise His Holy Name. By this time I had so many Regrets in my life even though I was back in the Church. You know people would look at me and think you are divorced and this was hard ,but I knew God was in my life again and I did not want to let him go again. Well God started to deal with me again about the Nursing homes and etc... I just did not feel I needed to Preach. But I tried to follow what I felt came from God. Soon I was getting more problems. The devil used my past to try to trip me again ,but I stayed on my knees and Prayed to God every night before I go to bed, and I read my Bible.Prayer and Reading your Bible Daily is a key to making it amen. Now remember I was Preaching in Nursing Home ,but a little in Churches ,but there was still something missing in my life something that I felt I really needed amen.
I had talked to my pastor and he said I really need to Pray and to know what God wanted in my life. I really Prayed and Prayed and fasted. Well I ask God to send me someone if he wanted me to have someone in my life. I meet this Lovely lady her name was Becky. I ask her out just for dinner and a walk in the mall. Now this lady was someone who had been in the Church before also. She also had been divorced too ,but we knew each other from Church years ago. I prayed and said "God if this is your will for me or not let me know". Now before someone thinks wrong of me I don’t preach in Churches now and do and have went to the Nursing Homes still and will again and if you think I'm wrong I would ask you to come to me and let me know how you would handle this. I have a Web Ministry,note" here we do not browse the internet and no kids gets on it at anytime", and I feel God in what I do .

Now again from the time that I had divorced first till I meet Becky there were a lot that had happen in my life and I mean a lot.Some that I had repented of and I really want to forget and I have a promise that God has forgotten it and so do I. If I inserted all that I done this printer would not have enough ink to print it all. Again I truly repented of all my sins and even for divorcing yes that also ,but there some things that we can’t go back and change amen. God has forgave me and God has forgotten it and I can't understand why my fellow saints (Bro's & Sis's) can't forget it also but this is life with Regrets ,Regrets ,but I had God now. Any way we keep on seeing each other and it was not long till we fall in Love. I did Pray and I wanted to keep God and I did not want to do anything to change that. We got married yep and we are very happy now. We both have a lot of Regrets and there some that going to follow us to the gates of that city (HEAVEN) ,but they can’t inter in with us amen. I really Praise God for this I will not have NO REGRETS IN HEAVEN. Oh every where I go people look at me like I had aids or something ,but that’s ok. Really it ok because I now have God. There's no way you can say what you would have done until you have walked in my shoes.God has given me back a lot that I had lost, but please note I still have Regrets. I was attending a Church that taught that divorce was ok and I could still Preach ,but we were not happy and soon God leads us to a Church that taught truth and strong standards (.JUDAH CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST). Like I said I’m not Preaching now because I would have to Preach against divorce, remarriage amen. This does not mean that there’s not a call still in my life because there is amen. God has gave me a burden to reach out to the lost. I'm going to do it with ,or without fellow Christians help.
As you Read this article I pray that you will stay in the Church and don’t ever let the devil trick you into staying home no matter what comes or goes no matter what your Husband ,Wife ,Mother ,Daddy ,Grandparents does stay true to God and always Pray and read your Bible daily and most of all attend a church that will teach you the truth. God richly Bless you in Jesus name.

Ps 66:19-20 19 "But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer."20 "Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me."

Regrets they can be forever and ever.
Stay regret free and you will have a better life.
updated Version 2001
Written by: Bro. Donnie