If there is one verse that I claim as my life verse it is this one. While attending Temple Baptist Church, God began to work in my heart through the powerful and helpful preaching of the Word by Bro. Ken Trivette, my pastor. My pastor asked me to pray about taking the college and career age Sunday School Class. I'd never taught anybody any thing before. But God was challenging me to trust Him. So I said yes to the class. I would hold a Sunday school quarterly in front of my face and read it and then say, "Did you get that?" then read on. Slowly God began to add to my lessons. He began to give me things to say that shocked even me. Somewhere during that time I realized that God was calling me to preach. I was scared. I kept saying to myself "There is no way. I'm not that type of person." I ran from God's call on my life. For an entire year, almost every Sunday I would tell my wife on the way home from church, "I'm not called to preach. I can't do that. There ain't no way."

But finally, while doing an Experiencing God series with my Sunday school class, things changed. It seemed as though God cornered me with Numbers 11:23. I realized that I was right that I can't do it. But Numbers 11:23 indicated that God could and He would. He was able not me. The verse just got so big in my life. God can! God can!

God seemed to be asking me "Are you willing to trade all that I have in store for you in the future, because you have a hang up about talking in front of people?" I was not willing to trade going on with God because I would not trust Him completely. On July 22 2001, there in my bedroom, I told the Lord I"d do what ever he wanted me to do. I announced it to my church family and on Aug. 15, 2001. I preached my first message: "He's Is More Than Enough." That night it seemed as though God carried me from the front pew to the pulpit. Since then, God has captured my heart with the preaching of His Word and I'll preach anywhere God gives me opportunity until the day that I die.