The Prodigal Father: I Faked My Own Death

" I faked my own death and lived under other names for almost three years. I was the prodigal son, prodigal husband and prodigal father. I left my mother and father, ten brothers and sisters, and my wife and three children. I knew I couldn't live a deceptive life and take God with me. I couldn't take my family and live a deceptive life, so I verbally told my God goodbye. He left me alone. The children of Israel wanted meat in the wilderness. God gave it to them, but He sent leanness to their souls.------I got the freedom I wanted, but leanness to my soul. Through a series of miracles, however, God visited me again and persuaded me to come back.....to Himself and my family. That was over forty years ago."

David lives with his wife of over 50 years in Utopia, Texas. He founded "Ministries of Mercy", which reaches prisoners, street people and imperfect Christians alike. His messages are down-to-earth and provoke people to have more Godly attitudes. After forty years of an abundance of mercy and fullness of grace, he was taught the way of God more perfectly, and helped thousands of others receive and give mercy and forgiveness to others. His daughter Debbie has said, "He is more like Jesus than anyone I know".