About Prayer Can Help
In the truest sense this website is a testimony to
our God, that He has a great sense of Humor
and a plan for everyone. We purpose this
Ministry to be a Church without walls for our
God without Limits!
I was a confessing atheist. I was been born with
cancer (a tumor the size of a mans fist) and
having to grow up still feeling its effects on my
body and family relations, I had no relationship
with God. I would be so bold as to say that I got
to the point where I didn't even want one if I
thought he were real. Now it has been said that
ignorance is bliss, but it is only a good feeling
until you look back and see what you could've
had. When my parents split, I could have been
comforted and encouraged by His presence,
when I was alone in the hospital facing one of
the 6 operations that spanned 12 years of my
life, I could have felt victory that God was
saving me.
If you have not yet checked out our beliefs
please do so here before asking us to pray with
or for you, see our mission and vision here.
our God, that He has a great sense of Humor
and a plan for everyone. We purpose this
Ministry to be a Church without walls for our
God without Limits!
I was a confessing atheist. I was been born with
cancer (a tumor the size of a mans fist) and
having to grow up still feeling its effects on my
body and family relations, I had no relationship
with God. I would be so bold as to say that I got
to the point where I didn't even want one if I
thought he were real. Now it has been said that
ignorance is bliss, but it is only a good feeling
until you look back and see what you could've
had. When my parents split, I could have been
comforted and encouraged by His presence,
when I was alone in the hospital facing one of
the 6 operations that spanned 12 years of my
life, I could have felt victory that God was
saving me.
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please do so here before asking us to pray with
or for you, see our mission and vision here.
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Ben's personal Testimony and Witness
As I said earlier, I was born with cancer. Before the age of three months, a tumor the size
of a grown man's fist lay lodged against my spine, bending it and rearranging my internal
structure. By the grace of God my mother knew something was wrong, not exactly what but
something, she kept taking me back till they found it. So I had an operation, I had
chemotherapy and I had radiation treatment. I lost my hair and had a body riddled with scars,
but I lived. In all God kept me. For his purpose.
Because the cancer had bent my spine, not only did I have the reminder of scars and a
limp, I eventually had spinal discs pinching my spinal nerves which in-turn caused me to
involuntarily fall to the ground. For no reason whatsoever I would fall down. Once the doctors
discovered the reasons for me falling, they operated again with a spinal fusion. So after
months in the hospital and recovery, I was released. It didn't take, the operation slowed the
problem but didn't reverse or halt its progression. So I was taken to A.I. DuPont in Delaware
and the doctors put me in Halo Traction. With a steel halo bolted to my head by four bolts
drilled into my skull, I lay on an angled bed for over half a year, the theory that the weight of my
body pulling against my head, (which was joined to my spine would pull my spine straight, (like
a piece of string pulled between two fingers). It worked, to make sure it stayed that way there
were two more operations, a chunk of my hip was removed and fused to my spine to hinder
any further curvature.
This worked and I was ready to go or so I thought. The halo would stayed bound to me
for another 6 months, 2 in the bed, 4 bound to a cast about my body supported by 4 steel
girder like poles embedded in the cast. Then came the daunting task of not only learning to
walk again, but walking supporting the weight of the cast and head apparatus.
Once released my life became pretty normal. I was in several major car accidents and played
with guns. And I lived in other dangerous ways too numerous to count. At the age of 16 only by
divine intervention, I met my wife. I was working at McDonald's and serving as the drive-thru
presenter, which entailed me standing in the second drive-thru window handing out the orders
while someone else got them. Nichole and her mother came inside to eat, even thought they
lived no where near the McDonald's and had no real intention of coming there in the first place.
She noticed me in the drive-thru booth, she wrote a note and delivered it to one of the front
cashiers. When my coworker delivered the note to me, I thought it was a joke, I looked in the
dinning room and it was empty. So I shoved the note in my pocket and went back to work.
Later that night at home, I emptied my pockets and found the note. Still believing it was a joke,
I decided to play along. I called her, when she answered she explained she was busy could I
call back, Sure. Three times I called her and three times I got this answer, so on the third call I
responded, Listen take my number down and call me.
A few days later she called me. We went out and have been together now for 15 years
(now 17). Throughout that entire time we have faced hardships, anger, pain, loss, trial, near
death. We now have three children and our house is a house of Prayer.
It didn't start like that, I denounced God. I fought God. I rebelled in such ways to only be
compared with Satan himself. I was mean, hateful, spiteful, and without reproach. Yet God
through his Grace still showed me mercy. I now prostrate myself humbly before the Lord my
God and Worship Him as my Creator and Father. I thank him for the blood sacrifice of my Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ. I cannot repay what has been done, but I can accept it and be
thankful of it.
So what is the lesson in this;
God protected me and provided for me because I was a sinner, God picks special people
and protects them while others die, God will take care of us no matter what we do? NO!
There is no simple answer, but I will try to explain. What the Spirit gave me is this: God is God
in spite of us. In spite of my turning from him, I still came back and found my purpose in Him. In
spite of what we think God should be and do, God will be God, and His will be done not ours.
In spite of our best effort to hide the truth of God, truth will always be truth. God doesn't
change, hasn't changed, and will not change. Therefore if we expect to find him or be found by
him we must change.
Turn from your sinful ways. Who are we to expect anything from God but that which he
already promised in the bible. The Bible is his word to us, made living in Christ Jesus.
Nichole and I are walking improbabilities, both of us under protection of the Holy Spirit,
both of us marked for death more times than I can count. Not only that, but we found each
other through the Grace of God. We lived and we loved, and we are that God wills us to be.
Nichole started her walk with Christ long before I did and at times I fought her. I challenged it,
the whole while she prayed. Sure she would argue, she would see my ignorance, but for the
Grace of God she stuck with me. God had to peel the layers off my hardened heart slowly to
reveal my core. As I lay there naked and exposed before the Lord my God, I was scared and
angry. I built that shell for protection!
God asked me, "But did it work?"
"No, but it was mine."
"Come now Ben, was it yours, or was it mans' lies designed and implemented by a sicker
world. It is all meant to keep you from Me. I am your purpose Ben, let go."
"But, I am scared, I have done too much. Can I really be forgiven?"
"I know what you have done, I know what you can do, I know what I designed you for. I
sent my Son to clear the way for you, Ben. I sent him to take your sins, your inequities, your
pain, and everything else that is dark and full of the world. I sent him that you may be forgiven,
and live the life eternal with me. All you have to do is believe. Say it."
As I lay there in the full glory of the Lord I wept, "I am unworthy of you, what can I do to
earn my forgiveness."
"Ben, don't be silly, the price is too great, you have done, to much."
"Then what hope is for me, God kill me now that I suffer no more, if I can not earn my way
what can I do."
"Ben look, your debts are paid, you are free. You could not pay so my Son, Jesus, picked
up your tab. Just acknowledge it and thank him, that you may come to me also."
The tears steamed from my eyes and my body shook heavily under the sobs. "Jesus, I
accept you, I accept your forgiveness, I ask for it in your name Jesus, See these sins I have
committed against you, forgive me. Thank you Jesus, I thank you for all you have done. To me,
for me and through me." I opened my eyes and my Pastor was praying for me, my wife and
children stood behind me in the congregation. I had accepted God, through the Grace of his
son Jesus Christ.
Is my life better, no doubt. Do I have a perfect life, no way. I still live with insecurities,
anger, temptation, and all this life on earth has to afford us. But I now have God Almighty to
lead me. Jesus by my side, and the Holy Spirit within me. I can't describe the joy and peace I
now feel in the body of Christ (the Church, remember Church is the people, not the building).
I now recognize what most of us hope for, something more. Something more, more than pain,
more than depression, more than fear, more than money, more than pride, more than power,
more than self. I now have the kingdom of God to look forward to, instead of death at 80 if I am
lucky. This life is merely a test. A test to pass or fail, there is no curve. I do not have all the
answers, but He does. God does.
So my real answer and testimony is Prayer. Pray all day long, Pray for anything, pray for
everything, you are a child of God you have the right to ask for anything. God will answer your
prayer any way he sees fit, he is God, he has that right. Maybe we are not ready yet, patience.
Maybe what seems good would do us more harm then good. Maybe there is something else
better coming. The answer hardest to receive when we "want" anything is no. God is God, He
is the Father and He knows best. If man were able to decide the best things for himself, would
the world really be as messed up as it is? Thank God for the answers no matter what they are.
He loves you and loves to hear from you no matter what even if we are still, selfish and greedy.
He can only help us to change if we are in his presence.
I have felt the call of God on my life. I seek to serve as a Pastor, I have Gone back to
College, and have created this Website all at the bequest of God. I am your servant.
May God Bless and Keep you Always, May His face shine upon you in loving kindness. Those
who bless you will be blessed, I hold my God up to that, and by reading this and granting me
the opportunity to pray with you, you have blessed me, so in return, YOU SHALL BE
BLESSED. In the Name of Jesus Amen.
Your Brother and servant,
Ben
As I said earlier, I was born with cancer. Before the age of three months, a tumor the size
of a grown man's fist lay lodged against my spine, bending it and rearranging my internal
structure. By the grace of God my mother knew something was wrong, not exactly what but
something, she kept taking me back till they found it. So I had an operation, I had
chemotherapy and I had radiation treatment. I lost my hair and had a body riddled with scars,
but I lived. In all God kept me. For his purpose.
Because the cancer had bent my spine, not only did I have the reminder of scars and a
limp, I eventually had spinal discs pinching my spinal nerves which in-turn caused me to
involuntarily fall to the ground. For no reason whatsoever I would fall down. Once the doctors
discovered the reasons for me falling, they operated again with a spinal fusion. So after
months in the hospital and recovery, I was released. It didn't take, the operation slowed the
problem but didn't reverse or halt its progression. So I was taken to A.I. DuPont in Delaware
and the doctors put me in Halo Traction. With a steel halo bolted to my head by four bolts
drilled into my skull, I lay on an angled bed for over half a year, the theory that the weight of my
body pulling against my head, (which was joined to my spine would pull my spine straight, (like
a piece of string pulled between two fingers). It worked, to make sure it stayed that way there
were two more operations, a chunk of my hip was removed and fused to my spine to hinder
any further curvature.
This worked and I was ready to go or so I thought. The halo would stayed bound to me
for another 6 months, 2 in the bed, 4 bound to a cast about my body supported by 4 steel
girder like poles embedded in the cast. Then came the daunting task of not only learning to
walk again, but walking supporting the weight of the cast and head apparatus.
Once released my life became pretty normal. I was in several major car accidents and played
with guns. And I lived in other dangerous ways too numerous to count. At the age of 16 only by
divine intervention, I met my wife. I was working at McDonald's and serving as the drive-thru
presenter, which entailed me standing in the second drive-thru window handing out the orders
while someone else got them. Nichole and her mother came inside to eat, even thought they
lived no where near the McDonald's and had no real intention of coming there in the first place.
She noticed me in the drive-thru booth, she wrote a note and delivered it to one of the front
cashiers. When my coworker delivered the note to me, I thought it was a joke, I looked in the
dinning room and it was empty. So I shoved the note in my pocket and went back to work.
Later that night at home, I emptied my pockets and found the note. Still believing it was a joke,
I decided to play along. I called her, when she answered she explained she was busy could I
call back, Sure. Three times I called her and three times I got this answer, so on the third call I
responded, Listen take my number down and call me.
A few days later she called me. We went out and have been together now for 15 years
(now 17). Throughout that entire time we have faced hardships, anger, pain, loss, trial, near
death. We now have three children and our house is a house of Prayer.
It didn't start like that, I denounced God. I fought God. I rebelled in such ways to only be
compared with Satan himself. I was mean, hateful, spiteful, and without reproach. Yet God
through his Grace still showed me mercy. I now prostrate myself humbly before the Lord my
God and Worship Him as my Creator and Father. I thank him for the blood sacrifice of my Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ. I cannot repay what has been done, but I can accept it and be
thankful of it.
So what is the lesson in this;
God protected me and provided for me because I was a sinner, God picks special people
and protects them while others die, God will take care of us no matter what we do? NO!
There is no simple answer, but I will try to explain. What the Spirit gave me is this: God is God
in spite of us. In spite of my turning from him, I still came back and found my purpose in Him. In
spite of what we think God should be and do, God will be God, and His will be done not ours.
In spite of our best effort to hide the truth of God, truth will always be truth. God doesn't
change, hasn't changed, and will not change. Therefore if we expect to find him or be found by
him we must change.
Turn from your sinful ways. Who are we to expect anything from God but that which he
already promised in the bible. The Bible is his word to us, made living in Christ Jesus.
Nichole and I are walking improbabilities, both of us under protection of the Holy Spirit,
both of us marked for death more times than I can count. Not only that, but we found each
other through the Grace of God. We lived and we loved, and we are that God wills us to be.
Nichole started her walk with Christ long before I did and at times I fought her. I challenged it,
the whole while she prayed. Sure she would argue, she would see my ignorance, but for the
Grace of God she stuck with me. God had to peel the layers off my hardened heart slowly to
reveal my core. As I lay there naked and exposed before the Lord my God, I was scared and
angry. I built that shell for protection!
God asked me, "But did it work?"
"No, but it was mine."
"Come now Ben, was it yours, or was it mans' lies designed and implemented by a sicker
world. It is all meant to keep you from Me. I am your purpose Ben, let go."
"But, I am scared, I have done too much. Can I really be forgiven?"
"I know what you have done, I know what you can do, I know what I designed you for. I
sent my Son to clear the way for you, Ben. I sent him to take your sins, your inequities, your
pain, and everything else that is dark and full of the world. I sent him that you may be forgiven,
and live the life eternal with me. All you have to do is believe. Say it."
As I lay there in the full glory of the Lord I wept, "I am unworthy of you, what can I do to
earn my forgiveness."
"Ben, don't be silly, the price is too great, you have done, to much."
"Then what hope is for me, God kill me now that I suffer no more, if I can not earn my way
what can I do."
"Ben look, your debts are paid, you are free. You could not pay so my Son, Jesus, picked
up your tab. Just acknowledge it and thank him, that you may come to me also."
The tears steamed from my eyes and my body shook heavily under the sobs. "Jesus, I
accept you, I accept your forgiveness, I ask for it in your name Jesus, See these sins I have
committed against you, forgive me. Thank you Jesus, I thank you for all you have done. To me,
for me and through me." I opened my eyes and my Pastor was praying for me, my wife and
children stood behind me in the congregation. I had accepted God, through the Grace of his
son Jesus Christ.
Is my life better, no doubt. Do I have a perfect life, no way. I still live with insecurities,
anger, temptation, and all this life on earth has to afford us. But I now have God Almighty to
lead me. Jesus by my side, and the Holy Spirit within me. I can't describe the joy and peace I
now feel in the body of Christ (the Church, remember Church is the people, not the building).
I now recognize what most of us hope for, something more. Something more, more than pain,
more than depression, more than fear, more than money, more than pride, more than power,
more than self. I now have the kingdom of God to look forward to, instead of death at 80 if I am
lucky. This life is merely a test. A test to pass or fail, there is no curve. I do not have all the
answers, but He does. God does.
So my real answer and testimony is Prayer. Pray all day long, Pray for anything, pray for
everything, you are a child of God you have the right to ask for anything. God will answer your
prayer any way he sees fit, he is God, he has that right. Maybe we are not ready yet, patience.
Maybe what seems good would do us more harm then good. Maybe there is something else
better coming. The answer hardest to receive when we "want" anything is no. God is God, He
is the Father and He knows best. If man were able to decide the best things for himself, would
the world really be as messed up as it is? Thank God for the answers no matter what they are.
He loves you and loves to hear from you no matter what even if we are still, selfish and greedy.
He can only help us to change if we are in his presence.
I have felt the call of God on my life. I seek to serve as a Pastor, I have Gone back to
College, and have created this Website all at the bequest of God. I am your servant.
May God Bless and Keep you Always, May His face shine upon you in loving kindness. Those
who bless you will be blessed, I hold my God up to that, and by reading this and granting me
the opportunity to pray with you, you have blessed me, so in return, YOU SHALL BE
BLESSED. In the Name of Jesus Amen.
Your Brother and servant,
Ben
I am a licensed minister. I don't say this to claim I am
qualified to do this, I am no more qualified than anyone else,
we are all given the gift of prayer, and God has simply told
me to share mine with you. My beautiful and supportive wife,
Nichole, has come along side me to encourage and help
minister as the Lord directs us. I have 2 degrees, one in
Church ministry and the other in Christian Studies. I say
none of this to boast, but to make those aware who would
question my faith and doctrine. I did not come to the faith
easy, but as Nichole will say if you speak with her, once I did,
I couldn't get enough. 30 years of my life were spent walking
in ignorance of God and I regret every minute spent outside
of relationship him. I am so grateful that I am here to tell the
tale.
To help fund this ministry we do solicit and ask for love
offerings (only as God leads and directs (see support us), as
of now this is our full time occupation. It is only through
God's Spirit moving others to bless us that we are able to
continue to pray and be available to pray and glorify God by
doing His command to pray without ceasing and to pray for
all the saints, to love one another.
qualified to do this, I am no more qualified than anyone else,
we are all given the gift of prayer, and God has simply told
me to share mine with you. My beautiful and supportive wife,
Nichole, has come along side me to encourage and help
minister as the Lord directs us. I have 2 degrees, one in
Church ministry and the other in Christian Studies. I say
none of this to boast, but to make those aware who would
question my faith and doctrine. I did not come to the faith
easy, but as Nichole will say if you speak with her, once I did,
I couldn't get enough. 30 years of my life were spent walking
in ignorance of God and I regret every minute spent outside
of relationship him. I am so grateful that I am here to tell the
tale.
To help fund this ministry we do solicit and ask for love
offerings (only as God leads and directs (see support us), as
of now this is our full time occupation. It is only through
God's Spirit moving others to bless us that we are able to
continue to pray and be available to pray and glorify God by
doing His command to pray without ceasing and to pray for
all the saints, to love one another.
