Sowing and Reaping a Fearless Heart: Convicted Not Condemned - Softcover

David Lee Waters Sr.; Anita Tarlton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425920454 ISBN 13: 9781425920456

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2006

Synopsis

"Sowing & Reaping a Fearless Heart - Convicted not Condemned" is the true story of one man's spiritual journey through life. His journey begins in a dysfunctional household as a child with an alcoholic policeman father, a tolerant mother and a brutal older brother, and takes him through 3 failed marriages, one son and 8 years in the Marine Corps. While in the Marines, he gave his life to Jesus Christ. However, helicopter crashes and shark infested waters left him plagued with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and he resorted to self medication with drugs and alcohol. This lifestyle eventually landed him in jail and 27 months of prison.He finds his roots in his father's childhood home of Winnsboro, SC, and begins seeking restoration from family that he's let down over and over. On a walk home from shopping, he's shot in the head and left for dead. This experience causes him to realize he needs Jesus more than ever and he cries out to GOD in surrender -- then finds more than he imagined. GOD heals him, restores him, and moves him to go on a mission to Swaziland in Southern Africa. He meets a kindred spirit online, a published author and high school teacher who goes on missions to Ghana, West Africa annually. Soon, they are engaged and he is ordained as a Minister. Together they form Waters Edge Ministries, planting home based mini churches and coordinating missions to Africa. An exciting journey that will bring you closer to GOD. Foreword by Ralph Moore, founder of the Hope Chapel movement.Notice: The SOFT COVER version has errors. Page 14, place an "A" between - "and mother" in the first paragraph; to be, "and A mother". Page 192, #3 should be #2, in the third paragraph.Visit http://web.infoave.net/~weministry/

About this title

Book Description:

Though I baptized David, we never developed a personal relationship in the short time he attended my church. But, we are friends - email friends.

That all began when he was financially destitute. Assessing his past, he sought restitution wherever he saw the need. That search caused him to write me a letter asking if I would cash a series of monthly checks to make good on an old commitment to our building fund.

This poor guy was broke and needed to be let off the hook. Or, so I thought. God interrupted my reply in no uncertain terms. He told me...

Nah, you'll have to read that yourself. It is David's story after all. It's a wild ride that leads from early rejection by his dad, through a series of really dumb sexual relationships into which any man among us could have tumbled. Throw in the wild cards of drugs and alcohol and you'd have the story of a fairly ordinary American male.

But, David's journey passes through jail with no free passes or $200 rebates that go with Monopoly. He did the time both in jail and out. The story bottoms out with a bullet in the back of his head.

This is more despair than one life can hold. Yet, the David I know and communicate with by email, is a man of hope who walks in the power of the Lord.

He's a guy like so many of us. One who could have wallowed in his own destructiveness until it took him out. But, he had the courage to stick his head up one more time than Satan could knock it down.

Brace yourself for a painful, but fulfilling read. This book will give hope to anyone who dares turn its pages.

From the Author:

This book reads like a condensed journal. I attempted to press 40+ years of my life into 260 pages. It would be impossible to include every event of my life, so I wrote about the most significant ones from my perspective.

This book was written with a purpose in mind. To bring glory to GOD in Christ and provide Hope for those who turn it's pages!

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1425920454
• ISBN 13: 9781425920456
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280