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Dear Mr. John C. Mac Iver,
Please allow my letter to find you and yours within the blessing of the Lord. As for myself I am blessed with the Lord as the head of my life again.I want to thank you and your ministry for allowing me to study and learn more about our Lord. So much good has come my way now that I am back in the work.I have left Islam because I found so many things about Islam and there way of living they have many rules to live by as a Muslim and they don’t believe in Jesus Christ who died for our sins!Also, I go home in ninety (90) days! And I would love to meet you all and continue my study with your Ministry.
Thank you Sincerely , Danny
Brother John,
Greetings in Jesus Name. I want to thank you for getting me on your mailing list. You wrote asking for some info about me. Well here it is. I am white 52 year old male. My birthday is Jan. 25th, ‘56. I have been married 3 times all ending in divorce. I come from a single parent home. My dad left when I was about 5 years old. My mom raised 7 children, I am the middle one two sisters and one brother older and two brothers and one sister younger. My oldest sister and oldest in thefamily died about 10 years ago as did my brother of two years younger in ‘06. My brother was saved my sister wasn’t. My brother died on my daughters birthday which is 11/11/01 (as I said he died in ‘06). I was not able to go to his funeral as it’s not allowed anymore in WI. (The last inmate to go shot one escort guard and beat the other, he was only out for a couple of days). D.O.C. Makes the rules and the actions of inmates changes them :(. I have been saved since ‘84 and have learned that not all teaching is based on Bible Truth. Shortly after receiving Christ I was delivered from a life of drugs, drinking and smoking. I have always struggled with lust of the flesh mainly sex. Shortly after leaving all the other stuff behind I went back to viewing porn and that has always hindered my walk. It has cost me two wives and now my free on the outside life. My addiction has led me to assaulting my step son and daughter. When I came in I had 12 years and 8 months to do. I plead guiltyto 1st degree sexual assault of a child. She was 11. They (my wife nor the courts)didn’t know about the step son. When I came to prison I thought God had failed me and was all mixed up. So I left all I had learned from all the churches I had gone to and started reading and studying the Word with all I had. And what I have found out is God did not fail me it was me who failed to apply what I had been taught. I mean the basics. The putting offs of Ephesians and Colosians. The putting on the mind of Christ and His righteousness. The renewing of the mind must be followed with the renewed action. The casting down of imagination to the obedience of Christ.I now have a Bachelor of Ministry Degree. Even with life without I am free. In my studies and through my prayer life God spoke to me about what I had done to my stepson and the guilt he was carrying and the un forgiveness he had towards me. All the things I carried with me all my life as I was assaulted also as a child. I knew deep in my being I had to write him a letter. I knew the cost if they took it to the lawand I also knew the cost if I didn’t write it. So in June of ‘07 I wrote the letter and they took it to the law. I pled guilty and got life without parole or ext. Supervision. I have never been more free in all my life. Many Christian friends left me when I first came in and many more left me when I got life. Jesus said He calls me His friend and brother and it’s not what I did that He calls me brother it’s what He did for me that gave me the strength to confess to what I had done. I could write all the scriptures to back all I have said and hope you could too so it’s not needed. Many past friends that are now in my life, wrote and asked for forgiveness for the anger they had towards me. That’s what Christ died for to restore our relationship with God. Once we get that we/He can restore our relationship with each other. Many Christians in here say I’m crazy and God would never ask us to do that, if that was true then we can take out Matthew 5:23-24 and Mark 8:34-38. Jesus once asked, "Why do you call me Lord and do not what I say? When I read that my heart just sank and it took me 4 years to write the letter. I used to be part of the Christian Motorcyclists Association-C.M.A. I was the WI state coor. I will save that for another letter. I will talk to anybody about my case no matter the cost. Cause it will open the door to tell them why I did what I did and who helped me to do the right thing.
Until next time, 2 Timothy 2:15, Dave