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JESUS


a crackhead?
(the saddle-stitched booklet)





by

James Anthony Allen




The Story of
A Divine Supernatural Intervention!



Copyright © 2004
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Life...............11
Growing Up in Christ
Dead in Sin

2 Rushing Through Life...............15
Rushing
Moving
Indian Burial Ground
Wardaddy

3 Life Out of Step with God...............18
Out of Season.
Three Demons

4 The Beginnings of Bad Times...............20
A Really Good Friend
Work Going to the Dogs

5 In Walks Calamity...............24
Learning
Sad Face

6 No Remedy in Sight...............26
To the Doctor
Removing Stress
A Promotion

7 The Bondage, The Captivity...............30
21 Days
Severe Depression
Addiction
Beep Beep

8 No One Left Behind...............34
Demons. Crack. Why
Meeting Friends on satan’s Ground
Enough Was Enough
Overcomers Ministry
I Didn’t Sign Up for This
Rebuking satan
Given Up

9 Turn Around Day...............41
A Hallelujah Day
In Steps Judy Jacobs
Nicholas’ Birthday

10 Dream Grandma Bettie...............44
Everyday a Struggle
Tuesday Night

11 The Supernatural Deliverance...............47
Death Day
Mosquito Witness
All of a sudden

12 The Attack of the Enemies of God...............50
Disheartening
Work Your Recovery
Pendulum Swinging

13 Walking in My Miracle...............55
Dead Man Walking
The Attack Continued
Growth in Spiritual Life

14 The Storm Passing Over...............59
My Prayers Changed
Hearing Things Loudly
A Little Taste

15 Growing Rich With
Spiritual Families...............62
Our Different families
Our New Family

16 Walking with
Christ Jesus Daily...............64
satan
Power of Ascension

17 Spiritual Warfare Prayer...............66

18 Under the Microscope...............68
A Refining Fire

19 A Pastor Once Said...............70

20 Epilogue...............73
Love is the Answer!
Focus on the Positive!
God is our Provision!
 

PREFACE


May God bless you continually and your family with the richness of His Will!

“Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:” Luke 12:8 (KJV)

Before we start I sincerely ask you to please forgive me for my sins against our Father, El-Shaddai, the Lord Jesus the Christ, against Heaven and all the Sovereignties, Powers, Spirits, Attributes, and Saints. Forgive me for sins, known and unknown, directed towards my family, my friends, the Church of the Living God and the worldwide community.

“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.”
Proverbs 28:13 (KJV)

In the Overcomers Ministry at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Anthony Berry always says, “Tell on your sickness! That’s one of the ways we overcome!” In this book, I am going to tell on my sicknesses. I am going to be vulnerable in your presence and in the Presence of the Lord. So I beseech you, brothers and sisters in Christ and in the world—please forgive me so we all can be blessed in God’s Provision, which He has established in us!

“And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.” Deuteronomy 28:2. (KJV)

As you read this book, please feel free to laugh with me and at me, to share my joy, peace, happiness, and sadness; grieve with me, cry with me, rejoice with me and above all, love with me.

The title of this book was planned to be “Tears of Joy”. When I began to research Christian book titles and secular book titles, I realized there were many books with that title. I felt that this title would benefit those who were looking for deliverance, help those who saw me cry tears of joy in church understand that the tears were of joy, not grief, nor sorrow, nor sadness, nor guilt.

I searched my heart for another title. In my heart, the title, Jesus Delivered a Crackhead. surfaced.

After deciding on that title, the Lord showed me something. The story goes like this. A friend told a co-worker that they had been sober for years. When they told them how long they had been sober, they replied, “Hey, you have been delivered.” The response was, “I hadn’t considered myself delivered but I guess I was.” If you’re not sure, you’re working your recovery. You’re either pregnant or not. And that’s okay. Be strong in your recovery!

It’s like in AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), where some people say, “if a candle or chair helps you to overcome your addiction, then fine say the chair got you delivered.” I am not at all in this vein of thinking or belief, but this is what the Lord was showing me.

I had a supernatural deliverance. The Messenger of the Lord God, the Holy Ghost or an Angel of the Lord, came one night and DELIVERED me from my old lifestyle. I realized that people, who have not been truly delivered by the Hand of God, do not know true deliverance.

Realizing this, I couldn’t use the “deliverance” title. This time I asked the Lord for a title. When I prayed to the Lord for a title, I received the title, Jesus is a Crackhead. in my spirit. I knew that title was harsh and would probably not be accepted by the Christian world, or Christian bookstores. I said Lord, help me with this title. I presented the title to my wife and son. Immediately, they had plenty to say about it—not necessarily positive either.

What was said by Bishop Paulk at the International Pastors Conference at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit stood out when I thought of this title: 1) The world takes what it doesn’t understand and makes noise about it. And my son Marcus reminded me of 2) Let the other person bring up the accusation or make the judgment.

Then the Lord spoke through my son, and I heard Him with big ears. “Let the title be: Is Jesus a crackhead?, then you are not accusing Jesus of being anything negative. This is how the title was derived.

I want to thank you for purchasing this book. God Bless you and keep you continually. The Lord Jesus Christ has promised that this book and the books to follow will raise a generation of spiritually dead individuals, churches, communities, counties, states, regions, nations, hemispheres, the world and the universe! This book is the precursor to the book which will “set the world on fire!” This book is the kindling! We are the fire; we are the light of the world!

“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”
Matthew 5:14 (KJV)

“Run for your life,” is what Pastor Sam would tell me when I first started the Overcomers program. If you are in an addictive situation, addictive relationship with a person, food, drugs, television, radio, alcohol, etc. I am telling you now to turn and fight the challenge in your life. Resist it! Resist, resist, and resist! Run to the Church! Run to your Bible, your pastor or Jesus!

You are an important piece of God’s puzzle for life. Not only your life, but for the lives of others. God is waiting for you to step up to the plate and receive your miracle; in baseball, we say, “Hit a home run!” God is going to hit the home run for us, we just have to step up to the plate of obedience, swing in faith by our actions, and watch the beauty of our God as He hits a home run with His Promises! Hallelujah!

Let me also add that I read the Bible cover to cover three times during my youth. But I see the Bible with different eyes now! I have been talking to the Lord off and on in my lifetime and He is speaking back to me like never before!

When I was five, after Church I would hold a conversation with God for what seemed like hours. I hear from God with different ears now! I see God with different eyes now! I approach God’s Throne a different person! I am a new creature in Christ Jesus! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Tell on your sickness! Tell on your disease! Tell on your shortcomings! Tell on it in an atmosphere of Love, where God’s Presence is. And the Overcomers Ministry at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit or a strong church addiction rehabilitation program is a great place to find the Love of Christ.

“Things don’t change until we change.”

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


Hallelujah praise to El-Shaddai! Glory and honor to the Most High God, Yahweh-Ropheka, my healer.

Love and appreciation to the endurance, patience, perseverance which my wife, Elizabeth exhibited during those “troubling times” of my captivity to addiction, during my bondage.

Love continually, to my daughters Francesca Zakiya, and Olivia Zalika for loving me when it was impossible to do so. Love to Nicholas as he endured his fiery trials as well. Love to my son Marcus for his unending prayers and faith.

The Lord God will honor their bearing with me in His perfecting me for His service. Our tribulation, bondage, suffering is the foundation of God’s Perfect Work being birthed in us! It is His Refining Fire!

It has been a pleasure to write this history of events because I know this story. It is Christ’s story. This has been my life. The misery is over and the Joy has just begun. Please do benefit from my failures and shortcomings, so you don’t have to go through that which I have already been. Don’t emulate the world!

God is our Pillar of His Love, Peace, Salvation, Joy, Strength, Devotion, and Provision!
 

    1     Life


“And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.”
Malachi 3:3 (KJV)

Growing Up in Christ. I was once a crackhead. This modern adage is not true; “Once a crackhead, always a crackhead.” For me it does not hold true. I am free! The Lord has set this captive free. I once was lost but now I’m found! This is the story of my family’s pain and suffering—the short story. This is but one story of the intervention of the Lord Jesus in the life of one He loves. I am free indeed!

I can remember talking with the Lord Christ Jesus when I was five years old. I would sit next to the window in the den of the house in North Carolina. My sister and three brothers lived with my mother and father in that house. My father built that house with his father and other laborers before he was thirty.

The modest brick house was at that time, when I was five years old, a place of refuge. Unknown to me it would become a hellhole; but that’s the “Wardaddy” story. My father was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and we endured a thirteen-year hell, which ended in his committing suicide with a shotgun blast to his head. Now back to this story!

After church, I would spend hours on the wooden square built-in sofa that my father built right next to the window in the den. I would share with the Lord about what was going on in my life. On this one occasion, my grandfather, Papa, had given us silver dollar coins one Christmas. I can remember loving the Lord so much that I put the silver dollar in the church collection plate. I wanted to give Him what I had to give.

Well guess what? When I got home from church, guess where I went? To the window in the den to sit and talk with the Lord. Now guess what was waiting for me there. My silver dollar coin! My parents could have gotten it from the ushers or deacons at church, having given it to my parents, they could have placed it in the window sill. They knew that I would go perch there and find it. But imagine a five-year-old discovering a splendid cherished silver coin, which he had given in earnest to the Lord because he loved God so much.

To this day, I believe it was the Lord who placed that coin there that day. But guess what? If it was my parents, the ushers, or the deacons who afforded that event to happen in my life, it was God who moved them to place the coin there! Hallelujah!

I read and studied the Bible through three times in my youth. Church members used to call me a Bible scholar. After I finished my homework on many weekdays and on the weekends, I would read the Bible in the living room. I would read and read and read while sitting next to the fish tank. Life goes on. I grew up, went to college, got married, became a father and ventured into the United States Army. Life was moving at a good clip.

Dead in Sin. At the time of this writing, I am a member of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Decatur, Georgia. In the past, the church was known as Chapel Hill Harvester Church. During the Sunday morning church service I find myself often shedding tears—tears of joy. I was sharing with Reverend Ette of Nigeria one morning on the way to an Inter-national Pastors Church Conference, how I cry tears of joy. I told him that many people may think that I am crying tears of guilt or shame relating to my past—but they are not—they are tears of happiness. Tears of joy because the Lord has moved supernaturally in my life and in the lives of my family.

I was dead in my sins. I was dead in my relationship with my family. I was dead in my relationship with my church. I was dead in my relationship to my community. I had no relationship with God. I was a mess. I was a messy mess!

I have learned through the ministry of Pastor Bill Reiley in the Overcomers Ministry at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, a great many truths, the least of which is: some people--many people--have addictive personalities.

If we are not addicted to drugs, we may be addicted to food, fast food, poor relationships, television, work, sex, etc. In my heart, the Lord has let me realize that people are designed to worship something, people are designed to love something and people are designed to surrender to something.

And I will go as far as to say, we may be addicted to making poor decisions in our lives. If poor decisions haunt you, if the results of your past decisions curse you and your family, then consider changing your behavior and your habits. And the trick to doing that is to first change your mind.

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Romans 12:2 (KJV)

Change your thoughts. Focus on the positive. If there is any good thing, focus on that. Paul says:

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Philippians 4:8 (KJV)

Focus on the positive and leave the negative behind. Leave the negative alone; leave it with Jesus. Change your thoughts, change your behavior, change your habits, and change how you evaluate the choices, which are set before you. Change your decision making process if it is not producing positive results.


My son Marcus at age 22 says, “Obedience and discipline equals good choice.” He makes a great point! In the Overcomers Ministry at church, there is a great saying, “Nothing changes, if nothing changes!” Remember that! Walk with that!

RESURRECTION.

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