Having tasted what the world could offer, I completely ditched church and started living a life that was full of toxic relationships that led to many wrong choices. When I turned twenty-one, I started going to bars five to six times a week, went from relationship to relationship, going from one-night stands to another, and got involved in fights. I didn’t care about anyone but myself and this went on for nearly two years.
One night after going home late, I walked into the room I shared with my eleven-year-old brother and thought to myself,
“How can I be the man I am now and expect my brother to look up to me?”
I knew I needed to change. The lifestyle I had was only going to lead to my own self-destruction—I had been left with nothing but a broken heart, an empty wallet, and faded memories. So I made a choice to turn my life around. Looking back, I see how it was the Holy Spirit leading me to make that decision, and the Lord protecting me and calling me back to Himself.
I started spending more time with my family and making memories I could actually remember.
I began climbing out of my debt by making wiser decisions with my money and being more intentional with who I pursued in terms of relationships and friendships. I spent less time at bars as I started going back to church and made the commitment to be involved in ministry once again.
To be completely honest, while this was all happening, there were still times that I would be going to the bars, and hanging out with my “old friends.” It wasn’t as frequent nor as wild as it once was, but it was still happening. Even though my transformation didn’t take place overnight, I began to desire once again things about my Heavenly Father. It was evident that the Lord was reaching out to me and bringing me out of the bondage I was in through the people He was placing around me.
That was my first encounter with Pastor Prince’s ministry and I was still trying to wrap my head around the message of grace. But it left me curious and hungry for more of God. There were times when I was drunk while waiting for my friends to pick me up for a night out but still chose to watch Pastor Prince’s sermons on my phone. Even in my state of drunkenness, I just couldn’t seem to get away from the small, quiet whisper that was calling out to me.
My heart was crying out for the only love that satisfies—Jesus.
A few months later, I was introduced to Pastor Prince’s book Destined to Reign. This book completely changed my life. As I read, I began to see the simplicity of the gospel of grace in a way I had never experienced. Pastor Prince showed me the beauty of Jesus and the perfection of His finished work in a way that caused my heart to melt all over again for my Savior.
I found out that Pastor Prince has a church planted here in Texas, so I decided to spend one Resurrection Sunday at Grace Revolution Church. I remember thinking to myself,
This is it. This is what my soul has longed for my entire life.
For a long time, I was trying to find love and acceptance in all the wrong places. I thought I could find a place in the world through the lifestyle I was in. But in that service, I realized that home was where my Heavenly Father is, and that He has a place for me in His house, the church! I walked out of that service completely changed from the way I was before I walked in that day. I immediately knew this was the house God wanted to plant me in.
So I started going to service every Sunday, joined the young adult ministry, and eventually started serving.
I’ve been faithfully attending and serving at Grace Revolution Church since. The Lord has transformed me from who I once was to who I am today by His grace. I’ve lived my entire life knowing about Jesus, but it wasn’t until I was exposed to the beauty of the gospel of grace that I truly knew Him.
I give thanks to Pastor Prince and his ministry for showing me the unadulterated gospel of grace that has changed my life forever!
Kolton Moss | Texas, United States
