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Not because of, but in spite of...

What do you do when you are down and out with nowhere to turn to? Meet James L. Roebuck as he takes you on a journey through his life. The following paragraphs are his own words.


"I was raised Seventh Day Adventist and sent to private schools for all 12 years, my senior year my girlfriend rolled her car and I was thrown out on my head and in a coma for four days and they thought I wasn't going to make it but they came in and had prayer for me and was out of the hospital in a week and a half, 6 months later I bought myself a 71 Toyota Corona and was heading down to Medford Oregon and I rolled my car end over end just outside of Burns Oregon but it landed up back on its wheels I didn't even have my seatbelt on, I got out of the car without a scratch wiped the glass off the seats and got back in and drove the rest away to Medford Oregon, so you see God has big plans for me, then at 21 I went out into the world and started the life of drugs, sex and rock and roll. I went through allot of ups and downs and had a relationship for over 18 years, she left me just before her oldest son died from throat cancer at 43, lost my house, my dignity, went through allot of hurt, depression and feeling lost while still using and drinking then God pulled me out of my hell and took the desire of drinking and using away in one night and started back to church the same week, he put me on a new path with a better future, my mom told me about Doug Batchelor and Amazing facts Ministries so I watched all of his sermons re-educating myself and asking God now I need a purpose. But through all of this time I ended up losing everything I have, the devil put every hurdle he could in my way and losing everything like Job in the bible hoping I would turn my back on God and blame him for it all, I only grew stronger with my relationship with God, during this time my work got slow and I was evicted from my apartment a $1,000 of my stuff was stolen from the parking lot and I had to sell the rest, staying in different places, first at a friend of my mom's for 3 weeks, a motel where I was for six months where God first led me to facebook where I could touch the world with Amazing facts Ministries videos, website and other related videos and materials that I have come across and used to share to all my friends around the world in over 33 countries in Africa, Philippines, Malaysia, Pakistan, Jamaica, Brazil, India, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad, Madagascar, Fiji, Samoa and many more other countries, I use my google translator to be able to communicate to my friends that can't speak English, then I was kicked out of the motel because couldn't afford it anymore from lack of work so I posted on Facebook my situation and an old school friend responded from Port Orchard and let me stay there for 3 weeks she is bipolar and OCD so one day she just wigged out and kicked me out in the rain with one bag and the clothes I was wearing, I ended up on the streets in Bremerton Washington at the men's shelter for 8 months and now sleeping on the streets, while doing this I've been doing my ministries in over 50 countries and most all my friends in these countries are Seventh Day Adventist, I started a group on Facebook groups sending out 1300 invitations now I have almost 11,000 members in it and 5000 friends on my timeline getting all my friends to send invitation to their friends and family to the group so that they can come and learn and share, most of these countries don't have access to these materials, so I focus on doing the Lords work 16 hrs. a day 7 days a week, while being here on the streets, I've had my bedding, clothes and wallet stolen a couple of times down to just the clothes I was wearing, the devil took it away but God was still looking out for me and help me find a way to replace my bedding and get more clothes, each time I was in a dilemma God always came through providing for my needs, so until I get off the streets he takes care of me while using these trials that the devil has been putting me through testing my faith reshaping and strengthening my character, my trust and faith in God, teaching me patience and long-suffering getting me ready for the next part of this journey of what He has planned for me and up to this point I've been here on the streets now for over 14 months and homeless for over 2 years and clean and sober for 4 years, when I get out of here and off to Africa I will be sharing my story that I've been writing since I started this journey over 2 years ago and my testimony showing God's glory in everything he did providing for me taking care of me through these trials making me the man that he needs me to be to do his work for what he has in store for me next."

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