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Hey what's up everybody.

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I just wanted to share with you real quickly

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just a testimony of God's grace

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and His mercy and His love.

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just so that you can see exactly what God's 
done in my life

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and I'm right back at the exact place where 
I got shot 8 times

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this happened on April 2, 2004

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a lot of emotions go through me standing 
here, but

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the main emotion that goes through me more 
than anything is just a sense of gratefulness

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a sense of gratitude in my heart for God 
saving my life, and I remember like it was 
yesterday

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literally it's 3 o'clock in the morning. 
I'm walking to the store

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to get some gatorade and these guys approached 
me

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these guys were doing a gang initiation for 
a member in their gang

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this member was the one who shot me. You 
can see right through here

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this is where they were standing before they 
approached me

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and when they approached me I was actually 
crossing the street

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and I was standing in the middle of the street 
coming to the side and the guy was like

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"What's up with your phone. What are you 
doing out here?" and I remember saying

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"I'm not doing nothing man, I'm just chillin." 
and that's when he pulled out a 45 caliber 
and he pointed it at me

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and he shot me one time and I fell to the 
ground

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then he stood overtop of me and said "You 
gotta roll out homie" and he shot me

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seven more times, and the most incredible 
thing about this testimony

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was the Angel that God sent to protect me, 
 because I had no time to think about an

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Angel stepping in front of me. I didn't even 
know I was getting shot, but literally God 
sent His Angel

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in front of me in a second. So if I'm facing 
this direction, I just want you guys

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to understand how this Angel covered me. 
I'm facing this direction, the gunshots are 
coming

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towards me, and the Angel is literally in 
front of me with it's back to me like

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this kneeled, and every bullet that is going 
through the Angel is

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is going to me, and it's crazy thinking about 
it because

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that's the type of God that we serve is the 
God who does dispatch Angels on our behalf

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to step in for us literally at our darkest 
times

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and you might not have got shot like me, 
but you might have got shot with some depression

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you might have got shot with some financial 
issues, with an eviction notice, you might 
have got shot

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with all types of terrible news, but God 
is bigger than every situation

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that you ever will face, and I want you to 
understand how real He is. This spot right 
here was where

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I was laying on the ground, laying there 
with one elbow on the corner, and I'm sitting 
here

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crying out to God, and I'm asking God to 
help me and I

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have the phone you know, and I'm looking 
up at the street sign, and

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the 911 operator is like "Where are you at?" 
I just happened to be laying here, so I'm 
laying here

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in this pool of blood, and I look up at the 
sign Ulman avenue

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and I sit up and I say that's where I'm at. 
I need help.

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and I remember the police coming here. I 
remember them putting the crime scene tape 
everywhere.

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I remember feeling like that was it. I'm 
about to die right here on the street at 
3 o'clock in the morning. I'm gonna

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die right here, and God strengthened me.

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God gave me strength, He gave me hope. Tears 
began to fall directly

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from my face, from my eyes, and I remember 
just crying out saying "God help me."

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and He helped me, and the same God that helped 
me and saved my life

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that saved me from an 8 hour surgery

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where I had 6 major organs damaged. My colon 
re-attached

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my small intestine completely taken out, 
my pancreas half of that's gone

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my spleen is completely gone. My stomach, 
half of my stomach is gone

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When you serve a God that can heal you from 
that, it really makes you see that

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the things that you're going through are 
very small in comparison to what God can 
do.

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so if God can heal me, if God could save 
you, if God could heal you from cancer

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if God could heal you from diabetes, if God 
could restore broken relationships and end

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generational curses in your life. The same 
God that could do that

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is a God that could get you through any situation 
that you face

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The whole purpose of this testimony is just 
so you can reflect and know that the next 
time you're going through something just 
remember how

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big God is. You don't have to look hard to 
find Him, you just look up, you will see 
His greatness

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you will see His glory, you will see His 
majesty, and it will really give you this 
shrinking feeling

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where you'll feel like, you'll feel incredibly

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detailed, inredibly precious, incredibly 
just so

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fragile that God encases you, get's you home 
from work everyday

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get's you home safely everytime you get into 
a car. Saved you from that drunk driver that 
could have killed you

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saved you from that black ice that you could've 
drove over, thats the God that we serve, 
a God of

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unlimited possibilites, because God is sovereign, 
He's bigger than any

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situation and He's bigger than anything that 
you will ever face.

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God bless you guys

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