Hello

Frank Welder (fwelder@ccinet.ab.ca)
Fri, 16 Feb 1996 21:36:54 -0700


 "Who is Frank."
I live in Fort McMurray Alberta, Canada. My testimonies is a gross one.
To put it short. I drink, did drugs of every sort. I was raped by a man and
I had then sex with any person. I was in jail and I slept in the streets.
I tried to kill myself five or six times. I felt like I was the only one in the world.
I hated the system and fought against it. From the age of sixteen to twenty three,
I was so messed up that my parents were told that I was going to die if I did not
change. At the age of twenty three I moved in with my Grandma to take care of her.
On Jan. 3 1983 at 12:03 I had a dream. In my dream I was in a house that was 
peaceful, I left that house and went next door and there was a party going on.
I could not fit in this party, so I went to the living room window to look out.
The house was on a hill over looking the valley were the city was. As I looked
over the city three tornadoes suddenly appeared, ripping up every thing in their path.
I turned to warn everyone that we were about to die, they just carried on. I looked
back out the window and dropped to my knees, and shout out "God forgive me." 
I woke up beside my bed crying. I then went back to bed. I had a second dream. 

In this one I was in the back of a pickup truck, hiding underneath a piece of canvas. 
When I peeked out from under the canvas I notice we were trying to out run another 
truck. Finally we came to a stop and the man that was chasing us ripped the canvas 
off of me. When I went to look at him he had a outline of a man, but within him was the 
darkest dark I had ever seen. The person said to me, "I own you but I have to let 
you go and I will be back. I woke up shaking in bed and notice that it was 12:05 AM. 
I went back to bed and had a third dream. In this dream I was in the midst of apartments, 
and as I stood there watching the kids play a horse was run my way. It was a white horse 
and it had no head, but it's head was a eyeball. As it ran by me it tore up the earth and 
behind it's trail shoot fire and death. The next time it came by I found myself grabbing 
children from its path and pulling them into a swimming pool. I woke up and it was 
12:07 AM, I got out of bed and wrote the dreams down on paper. I moved back to my parents
house two weeks after those dreams.

>From Jan.17 to Aug.15, all I did was party. I never new what it felt like being straight.
One day my Dad told me that there was a job opening at a brick factory. To keep my Dad
happy me and my brother who was living with me went to check it out. I got hired for
the day shift and he was hired for the nite shift. At this job I work with 13 other guys.
One by one I talked to them and showed them my paper on my dreams, to see if they
knew what they mean. Each had a story that did not set with my heart, but one man named
Mel said one simple line,"God is calling you." I looked at him and thought why, I am
nobody that He wants. I never knew that out of those 13 guys, 4 were Christians. One was
a Pastor who knew not why he was there. Mel went and told the Christian to pray for me.
Later that day I heard sing in my ear, it was a song by black sabbath and it glorified
satan, yet in my other ear I heard a whisper that said unto me. "I love you and I have a 
purpose for you." After I heard this I went to Mel and told him what was going on in
my mind. All that he said to me is the Holy Spirit is speaking to me. I said unto him that
we have to talk some more. He came over to my house nite after nite, to share the gospel
with me. He later on told me that he felt like he was walking into satan's house. Because
all my walls were covered with posters that were given from hell. As he preached to me
I listen and read with him. When one nite he left me, I put on some AC/DC and they sang to me,
"Your on the highway to hell." I then realize that these were singers that were ministers
for satan. I went out to a Christian supper with Mel, and heard a speaker share with me how
Jesus had saved him. As we stood up to pray the sinners prayer, the speaker ask that if
that was the first time anyone had prayed that pray before to step forward. As I step forward
my whole life change. I left that supper with peace and joy and the assurance that I was His.

Within one year God changed my heart, He took my life and replaced it with His. I was baptized
in the name of Jesus and filled with the Holy Ghost and a new tongue. I prayed every day that
He would send unto me my wife to be. A year later I meet my wife in Sept. Five months after
that we were married. We have been married 11 years this week. We have four beautiful 
children. One girl [10] and three boys [5,3,1] That is what the Lord Jesus has done for me.

To close this out I want to share God's answer to me, about my dreams. The first dream Jesus
said unto me," But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood
came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. [Matt. 24:37-39]
"In whom the god [my father] of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,
lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
[1 Cor. 4:3-6] But the Lord said unto me " I am the way, the truth, and the life,my blood has 
set you free unto Me." 
My second dream was about the devil, he was my father, I served him.
But when I repented and believed that Jesus was the Son of God,
I then became a child of God.
My third dream the Lord said unto me. "Go ye into all the world, and
preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he
that believeth not shall be damned. [Mark 16:15-18] That is who I am because of what He has
done unto me. I will close this off with one verse that I hold dear to my heart.
"Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much:
but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. And he said unto her, 'Thy sins are
forgiven.'" [Luke 7:47,48] 

In His service, the ONE true God,
Lord Jesus.
frank