The Testimony of Brother Martin:
By Pastor Martin Odhiambo
In Dec of 2003, I had a dream that convinced me that I needed to teach the Bible. God had laid in upon my heart to pray for the people and even to preach in outreach evangelism. Needless to say, “I prayed about it.” About three months later I started preaching and planted two branches which I am leading. I have a great anointing of the lord to do His will, but I lack many resources to help me in going out to preach. I have come to realize that if you don’t have funds you cant move nor walk in the mission field. Unable go to most places and yet the field is rip and needs more labors to do it and to fulfill the great work of our Lord God. Kenya is the most beautiful and wonderful place to preach within, it is so painful to see many have not heard about the gospel in Kenya and yet we can not reach most of them due to the lack of funds.
I was in church praying for God to open the doors for us to preach. Immediately after church a man came over to me and asked if I would help them with a preaching meeting and even head it up. Being sure of God’s will, I told him, “I would do it.” So, I went! Isaiah 6:8 says, “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.”
I am married with two children. A girl and a boy. My sons name is Raymond Otieno Odhiambo and my daughters name is Faith Awuor Odhiambo.
Hebrews 6:1-2 says, So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God. You don’t need further instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
Perfection can mean: “maturity, or to make as good as possible, holiness, righteousness.”
2 Timothy 2:15 says, “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
We need to study God’s Word to be a good witnesses. Luke 21:15 says, “For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.”
The Testimony of Brother Ezekiel:
By Brethren Ezekiel
I had a long and extensive life. I was born in New York, and raised in Long Island; until we moved upstate when I was seven. I accepted Jesus Christ when I was five years old at my own free will, but being a child I was; didn’t really realize what this meant more than I was going to go to Heaven when I died.
I grew up in an abusive household. My mother was a new Christian and my father wasn’t a Christian. My father beat my mother on a daily basis and molested me from the time I was born. My mother was unaware my father abused me. I kept this secret with me until after my little brother was born. We constantly lived in abuse shelters running from my father, but he always managed to sweet talk my mother and I into coming back home.
When I was four years old my father went to the Canadian Government claiming to have the designs for the ‘Black Box’ which is the flight recording system for Airlines and Planes we hear about today. The Canadian Government sent for my mother and I to come to Canada. We had no knowledge that my father was caught up in some conspiracy. So needless to say, we went with the escort who took us to the airport. When we arrived in Canada we were taken to a boat which then took us across this very large body of water to a private island. Once we arrived to the island we were forced to live in a small Bungalow. Guards with Machine Guns sat outside the Bungalow door preventing us to leave. Several days later my father was able to con the Canadian Government into freeing us from our captivity, claiming he would not provide them the data they wanted unless we were first freed. My mother and I were freed and taken to a five-star hotel within Ontario, Canada. There we awaited for my father to come to join us. Finally, my father arrived to the Hotel and our time at the Hotel ended quickly as we escaped back to the United States, and him leaving the Canadian Government with a brief case with Mickey Mouse pictures in it. Yep, Mickey Mouse pictures! I still today wonder if this was just a stunt for him to con-someone out of their money or gain a free vacation?
Things didn’t change once we made it back to the States. My father was back to his old abusive self. Having to leave home at all times of the night to flee off to abuse shelters so my father would not beat my mother. At this point my mother still didn’t know I was being molested by my father.
When I was seven we moved from Long Island, New York to upstate New York. Things appeared to be getting slightly better. My mother was beat a few times a week rather than daily and my father began to stop molesting me. Later that year my mother suspected my father was abusing me. She contacting a Social Worker at Social Services. I came home from school to be taken away from my parents and put into Foster-Care. My mother fought to get me back and just over a month later I was returned to my parents.
When I got home things seemed much different for a while. My father stopped molesting me and began to stop beating my mother. That year my mother became pregnant. I earnestly helped her around the house when she was pregnant because I always wanted a little brother to play with and had not too many friends.
In 1988, my brother was born. During the birth he almost died because the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck. The Doctors saved him, however since day one he was an angry baby who did nothing but cry and cry. I became very jealous of my brother because he was eating up all the attention. I then became like my father and began molesting my brother just as my father molested me.
A couple of years later my little brother said to my mother that my father was molesting him, but never mentioned my name. My mother confronted me about my father and that’s when I broke to tears and told her that my father had molested me also. My mother freaked out and demanded my father to leave. She called the Police and pressed charges against him.
Since my brother was to young to testify in Court, I had to testify against my father and explain in detail what my father did to me. Just before the sentencing hearing my father was living back at home with his mother. He was deeply depressed and still in denial. Instead of being a man about what he done and take responsibility, he chose to take his own life in his mother’s basement by hanging himself with his tie to a pipe on the ceiling.
A few years later we moved out of state. There we began to try to live a new life, however I was now like my father and being attacked daily by demons in my dreams and in my physical being. I continued to molest my brother for just about one year.
In 1994 my brother told my mother I too was molesting him. I ran away for about two days and stayed with a Mexican friend who was twice my age. I knew I had to do the right thing and hated who I have become, so this is when I decided to go back home. My mother called the Police. When the Police arrived I told them the truth about what I have done. At that point I was arrested and carting off to Jail.
I spent one month in the local Juvenile Detection Center prior to them taking me to the Adult County Jail. I spent just over six months in the Adult County Jail. My time there will never be forgotten. I was raped, beaten, starved to death and tried to take my life while there. I still today, try to block out these memories in which I write to you all today. The State Prosecution was requesting the Death Penalty for me. I was scared to die without first knowing Jesus Christ. I knew I betrayed Jesus by becoming like the man I grew to hate, my father. I knew Heaven was not an option for me unless I recommitted my life to Jesus Christ and obeyed him and followed His commandments to the fullest. I confessed all my sins to Jesus and cried out for Him to have mercy on me and forgive me of my transgressions. I wrote the Judge a 8-9 page letter telling her how truly sorry I was and requesting her to send me to a treatment facility rather than executing me. Not realizing it was a conflict of interest for the Judge to read my letter, I wrote it any ways. Jesus laid it upon the Judges heart to open up my letter and read it. With this being said, she excused the State Persecutions offer to put me to death. A plea came into effect for me to be tried as a Juvenile rather than an adult and sentenced me to a Level 8 Maximum Security Treatment Facility (prison). In total I spent three years of my teenage life behind lockup. At no point was it a vacation to me.
Finally in November 1997, I being 18 years old was released from the Level 8 Maximum Security Treatment Facility and felt like a new man, but still lacking the joy of the Holy Spirit. I had to attend outpatient treatment several times a week and remained on parole for over a year. God truly bless me throughout this situation!
As all this came to an end I became to fall into Satan’s trap again. This time it wasn’t sexual molestation, but now I fell into lusting of woman and drugs. I started smoking Marijuana to gain acceptance by woman. Then eventually I began selling Marijuana to support my habit. I experiment over time with other drugs such as Cocaine, Crack, LSD, etc.
I quit my job one month after my mother co-signed for me to purchase a brand new car. Thanks to God I found another job just up the block at a local Pizza shop. This is were I met my wife. She was a good girl but was vulnerable and felt she would never meet anyone who would love her. We must have been work friends for about a month when we had already went to bed together. The luck of the draw, I got her pregnant the very first time we had sex. This causing so much confusion in my mind and fear I would not be a good father. I basically tried to sabotage our relationship, but my wife wouldn’t give up on me.
Needless to say, I fell in love with her a couple of years later and asked her to marry me. The first few years of our marriage were very rocky. We fought and fought, over the dumbest of things! One of my wife’s major complaints was that I was still smoking Marijuana.
Over the years we had two more children and I smothered myself into my work and neglected my family quit a bit. Spending more time working then spending time with my family.
In the Summer of 2004, the Lord Jesus spoke to me through my heart, but sounded just as loud as if He was speaking through my ears and He told me “I am coming soon”. That’s when I fell to the floor in my kitchen and confessed my sins to Jesus and asked Him to Truly come into my heart and save me from my wickedness.
At this point I felt renewed, a new man. I began to work towards spending more time with my family and becoming a better Husband and Father to my kids. I took this warning from Jesus as an opportunity to grow towards Him and towards my family. I feel very blessed by the warning Jesus summoned on my Heart!
In August 2008, I took a public stand for Jesus Christ against a local false Christ and less than two weeks later Jesus blessed my family and I immensely by putting us into our dream home. Jesus is AWESOME!!! I began to feel burdened by the World. Not in an inconvenient way, but a burning desire to want to share my testimony with them and show the World how wonderful and forgiving Jesus is and how much he loves us. Anyone and everyone can be saved from the pit of Hell, just as long as we believe Jesus came to die for our sins on the cross and we confess with our mouth all our transgressions to him and begin to follow His Word he gave us in the Bible to the fullest extent within our lives. Jesus didn’t come to condemn us, but to save us from our sins. Who else do you know that would give up their own life for you?
In Dec of 2008, I joined this ministry. I felt God’s calling on my heart and laid to rest from my own Worldly Secular Job to work exclusively for Jesus Christ within the ministry as a volunteer. With pure faith and little income, the Lord has showed me to trust 100% in Him and to be continuously filled by his Holy Spirit and Jesus will take care of the rest in my life.
“I see a typical problem with Christian’s becoming complacent with their salvation and not following what God’s plan is for our lives and rather continue following their own plans or back-sliding into sin”
I felt Jesus has brought me to this ministry to share my testimony regarding my previous experiences growing up and about when Jesus delivered me from Sexual immorality almost 15 years ago and showed me how-to bind the strongman (Satan).
I put online the nine lessons that helped me fight Satan and his Demons from out of my life and physical being. This spiritual training course I refer to is called “How to Destroy the Roots and Strongholds of Sin.” These lessons are amazing and a true blessing. Minister Danny Daniels covers from A to Z on Satan’s plan to destroy us. Thanks to Minister Danny Daniels and Jesus Christ, the captive has been set free.
I hope my testimony has been a blessing to you. My testimony is living proof that Jesus loves us so very much and He just wants to use us to show the World how much He loves us and will forgive us from ALL our sins, just as long as we allow Him to forgive them, plus we need to learn to forgive ourselves.
Remember, Moses was once a Murderer. However, he confessed with his mouth to Jesus he was a sinner, repented for all his transgressions and now Moses too has been set free from the captivity of Satan and his Demons.
Now it’s your turn!
