I was born in Jamaica and because of a very difficult childhood based on being motherless/fatherless and being raised in a foster home I grew up having to overcome a lot of social issues which were considered unfavorable....these issues back then were huge obstacles to overcome. The main thing I lacked when growing up was social acceptance and a real defining spiritual identity, this lack propelled me socially to seek this acceptance at any cost.

I developed a non stop burning desire to chart my own pathway in life, to challenge all conventional, social and spiritual authoritative ways of thinking which I blamed for my lack of social and spiritual acceptance. I became a social voice for people whom I thought were victims like myself, being exploited by people who had the authority and means to help BUT because of greed and utter selfishness refused to, choosing instead to turn a blind eye .

This insatiable appetite for justice propelled me relentlessly and recklessly towards this goal of fighting for the less fortunate, especially those who were victims of what I called " religious exploitation",...I simply hated with a passion religious groups going into an impoverished local area, setting up revival meetings for the sole purpose of inflicting fear in the hearts of the people,demand repentance and then raping the people of their material resources based on tithing and offerings and then simply disappearing from the area....no infrastruture was ever set up by these " groups " to help these "new converts" to truly rebuild their lives based on programs to not only training them to be disciples of Jesus Christ BUT also training and teaching them actual economic skills enabling them to exist in a normal society.

The majority of converts in these areas were very poor, for example, young women with babies, having no employment skills depending on "dirty money" coming from prostitution to support their families, young men, having no employment skills, depending on "dirty money" coming from selling drugs to support their families, YES, I was simply tired of these conventional, evangelical groups using the Word of God deceitfully, getting rich off the sins of the people they were supposed to be truly converting to Christ.

At the tender age of 22yrs I was indeed a very angry young man, I believed in God yes but certainly not the God reflected by those religious groups heartlessly exploiting the people for material gains.

Religious wise I grew up as a devout Roman Catholic, I served mass as an altar boy every single morning for almost ten consecutive years, I attended every Novena, Rosary, Confessional, Funeral and Church function there was ever to attend, my perception and concept of God was molded and shaped by absolute Catholic theology.

As a Catholic, the Bible was never used during worship, a small book called Catechism was used instead, this book reflected Catholic doctrine. As a Catholic I was taught and believed that only the Priests could forgive sins, you would confess your sins to the Priest and depending on the severity of the sins he would appropriate the relevant penance to be executed. The severity of the sins were differentiated by whether it was considered small or large, small sins (eg) lying,stealing were categorized as "venial", large sins (eg) murder,adultery were categorized as "mortal."

As a Catholic I also believed in the infallibility of the Pope,I believed he was the sole representative of Jesus Christ,I believed he was sinless,I believed in the saints,their relics as approved by the Papacy, I believed in the worhip of Mary, Jesus's mother ....the bottom line was I grew up as a hard core devout Catholic, mass back then was not executed in English but Latin, so as an altar boy we had to respond to the Priest in Latin as taught.

I began doing an independent critical study of Catholicism as regarding church history discovering along the way the many atrocities committed by the Church in the name of God with the approval of the Papacy, (eg) the inquisition,indulgences, crusades..the massacre of the millions of European Jews by Hitler approved again by the Papacy...the list continued,....the end result of all this study, along with my experience with the exploitive evangelical groups left me very confused, frustrated and even more angry. I vowed at this time in my life that I needed to get away from everything and everybody so as to find some degree of peace in my life.

At this juncture, I became very disgruntled and began to seek for inner peace, I took the pathway of Mysticism which basically teaches one to harness the innate powers of one's subconscious mind for the purpose of attaining "absolute peace "by reaching a spiritual state of what they called "NIRVANA",...the mystical sect I became involved with were the " ROSICRUCIANS", I learn't about them through an aquaintance of mine who had learned the principles of meditation through their teachings.

This new spiritual journey I pursued was thoroughly based on frustration due to my lack of spiritual maturity at that point in my life, I was not yet a christian so my approach and analysis of life was purely emotional and intellectual....one of the main discoveries I made leading to that point was very illuminating in my coming to understand human nature and the exercise of free will irrespective of social status. I discovered that however hard I had lobbied for the people exploited by the evangelical groups in the past,however justified my criticism of Catholicism were, the victims as long as their lives were not yielded to Jesus Christ would have still been victims of the prince of this world ( satan ) system.

This simply mean't that even if my efforts were successful in the past in getting these evangelical groups to establish a proper infrastructure for these converts in training them to be useful in society, if their lives were void of Jesus Christ it would have been dead works anyway.

It was no surprise that my carnal efforts was to no avail because I was not yet a servant of Jesus Christ, all my self efforts were solely based on a sense of carnal justice. The result was that I disconnected from society and sought comfort through solitude and began my search for inner peace.

Through the " Rosicrucians " I learned through meditation how to block distractions from my mind that were interfering with me achieving my goal of inner peace. Through self discipline I developed my ability to block any thoughts I deemed to be a distraction from polluting my mind, this in itself as a principle was I considered positive because this principle practiced daily contributed to growth in my self confidence as an individual in bringing about positive changes in my life.

During this period,I left my mind open hoping to one day truly pursue studying God's Word not as a critic but as one seeking answers to life's problems. I kept practicing the principles of meditation for a period of almost two years after which I noticed that these teachings were taking a very ugly path.....the teachings began to subtly move away from the development of self which was based on harnessing the powers of the subconscious mind so as to achieve positive goals in life. The teachings took on false deceptive proportions, they became focused on claiming that sin was so called by people in the dark ages because of their ignorance of spiritual knowledge and that once this knowledge was made accessible through the teachings of this sect sin would be eradicated, because sin is, just simply put ignorance. They claimed that once this was achieved, the mind and spirit would become" free at last " to attain what was once considered blasphemy, we would in essence become one with God, we would be like God, we would become partakers of His perfect image since we were made in His image and likeness, we would in fact be God..basically these teachings claimed that once we succeeded in ridding ourselves of spiritual ignorance, our limitations would be erased and we would then evolve to a perfect divine state and if we happen to die before we got to that state we would simply reincarnate until we achieved perfection in our new reincarnated state.

Thanks be to God that during this period,my mind was still open, although barely open, nevertheless open, I knew somebody had me in prayer, rest assured , his or her prayer was being answered. The Bible says in Matt 12:20 "...a bruised reed He will not break, a smoking flax He will not quench..", although I was a bruised reed JESUS CHRIST did not give up on me, He did not break me but instead through His divine mercy He strengthened me, although I was a smoking flax, He did not put out that smoke but instead through His Holy Spirit He rekindled that smoking flax to reignite in bright flames once again, He rekindled my desire for Him once again to burn with passion for Him so as bring glory to His precious Name.

Yes,through His love and mercy He delivered me,my mind was being tossed to and fro by every wind of metaphysical doctrine (Ephesians 4 : 14), yes indeed my mind was in trouble..He fully understood what I was seeking, He understood I was seeking spiritual Knowledge , I was seeking inner peace so the first thing He did was to lead me to His precious Word to seek CORRECT KNOWLEDGE, TRUE KNOWLEDGE ....in Isaiah 28 ( 9-10 ) His word says,...." Whom shall He teach Knowledge? and whom shall He make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts........for precept must be upon precept,...line upon line...here a little and there a little.."

God through His Holy Spirit led me to question the false teachings of the ROSICRUCIANS sect on the premise they were nothing more than darkness masquerading as light, they were teaching a very dangerous doctrine, they ignorantly claimed that no pathway to God is false, they blindly proclaimed that as mankind ,we should respect each other's pathway to the truth as long as it culminated in love, peace and harmony bonding us together in a universal brotherhood of perfect oneness.

Jesus through His Holy Spirit led me to Matt 6 ( 23 ) where He said,..".......if THE LIGHT in YOU is darkness then how great is that darkness, He did not say if the DARKNESS in YOU HE said if the LIGHT in you is DARKNESS..simply meaning they were IN DARKNESS BUT THEY THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE IN THE LIGHT, ..suggesting their mind was actually CLOSED to the LIGHT ( TRUTH )....in the book of Isaiah 5:20 His Word declares.." Woe unto them that calls DARKNESS for LIGHT and LIGHT for DARKNESS.

It became obviously apparent that through their own teachings they had come to believe a lie, they had reach the conclusion that they could reach the state of PERFECT GODHOOD, as I continued my study of His Word through the divine guidance of His Holy Spirit, my mind became totally illuminated by His Holy Spirit and as a result I became TOTALLY CONVINCED of their errors leading me to severing ties with this sect, renouncing the curse of it's subtle but destructive deceptions . The Bible, His Word declares in Proverbs 14:12 " There is a way that seems right unto man but it's end is the ways of death".

They had no regard for sin,they totally dismissed the salvation of Jesus Christ through His shed Blood choosing to instead entertain thoughts of being God. They denied what Paul said in 1Corinthians 3 ( 16-17 ),..." Know ye not that you are the TEMPLE of God...if any man defile this TEMPLE him shall God destroy, for the Temple of God is Holy.."

Man represents the TEMPLE in three phases, his physical body represents the outer court,his soul (mind) represents the sanctuary and his spirit represents the Holy of Holies where he communicates with God....by insolence, people in the metaphical world ,in this case the ROSICRUCIANS committed the abomination of desolation by entering the HOLY of HOLIES, they desecrated God's TEMPLE and declare themselves to be GOD by their false teachings.

This journey seemed forever but Thank God for delivering my soul from imminent destruction, I thank God for finally giving rest to my searching mind, He used His Holy Word to reiterate this by declaring in Matt 11 ( 28 ) " Come unto me all ye that labour and heavy laden and I will give you rest ."

The inner peace I sought so earnestly, by His loving Grace, He freely gave me in abundance , in the book of John 14 ( 27 ) he Says, " Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give unto you NOT AS THIS WORLD GIVES, GIVE I UNTO YOU ...LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED, NEITHER LET IT BE AFRAID".

To God be the Glory, He is indeed my ROCK AND SALVATION... after years of being in the wilderness of spiritual search God through His Mercy and fatherhood took me back into his fold, He faithfully kept His promise he promised in Jeremiah 29 ( 13 ), " And ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall search for me with ALL YOUR HEART'.

I continued to study His Word faithfully, I joined with a local congregation,I was baptized in the precious name of Jesus Christ by being dunked in the beautiful Caribbean ocean by a very good friend of mine,a brother in Christ, Lance Watson....as a now commited christian one of the first things He showed me was that the first Adam had a simple choice, to follow his own will ( self ) or to follow God's will...Adam choice was to follow his own will which led to the original sin of disobedience.

The second Adam Jesus Christ showed by example that although he had the power and the free will to have lived life here on earth on His terms he did not, He lived his life according to His Father's will bringing glory to His Father...His having the power was clearly demonstrated in the Garden of Gethsemane when Peter struck the sevant's ear off with a sword Jesus did not only heal the servant's ear he also told everyone present that if He wanted, by his will He could have divinely requested help and His father would have sent twelve legion of angels to His rescue but that was not the Father's will.

His father's will as related by Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane was for Him Jesus to go to the cross to be crucified, to shed His precious Blood for our salvation, an eternal free gift. I have embraced this Free Gift of Jesus Christ with all my heart since being totally commited to him.

There has been high peaks and low valleys in my walk with him since I have given my heart to Him but every single day of my walk with Him I have come to recognize on a daily basis, the magnitude of His grace, His mercy, His love and His forgiveness...praise be to His name.

In my walk with Jesus, two major incidents took place in my life which defined my walk with Jesus Christ forever and served as confirmation of His divine work in my life. Incident number one happened in Jamaica at a friend's apartment ( Cosmo Swaby), I was all by myself that Sunday morning, it was roughly 6am ....I jumped in the pool, there was nobody around, after completing two laps I suffered a severe muscle spasm in both my legs, I was in the middle of the pool, I instinctively grabbed both legs and began sinking rapidly, I could not move, the pain was very excruciating....I simply helplessly sank to the bottom of the pool ....as I laid there,I began to panic, I am thinking in my mind, " Oh my God, I'm drowning", my lungs were literally bursting, I could not open my mouth, my entire life was flashing before me...all I could do was think..I started thinking aloud,.." JESUS, JESUS... HELP ME PLEASE, SAVE ME ", I desperately pleaded, with my eyes closed...my thoughts were COMPLETELY ON JESUS....my mind went blank...when I recovered I found myself outside the pool as white as snow..how did I get there , my friend ask Jesus ...because on that Sunday morning all I can remember was, I was drowning, I called out to Jesus in my mind and He literally saved my life, He became my lifeguard both physically and spiritually, yes that Sunday morning there was no doubt that He dispatched His angels and indeed rescued me.

The second incident took place right here in United States, I came here to this Country on what is called a " visitor's visa " which allows you to vacation only, I was caught working when I should not have been working, I was detained by immigration officials and sent to krome Detention Centre in south Florida awaiting deportation.

My friends and family tried desperately to bond me out but to no avail, they failed, immigration officials advised me that within seven hours I would be on my flight back to Jamaica, the flight was scheduled for 9am the following morning. My step sister came and dropped off my personal belongings at the Detention Centre and also bidded me farewell..I felt so empty, I wanted to vomit, my hands were sweating, I wanted to use the bathroom, my head was furiously pounding...my friends, believe me suddenly I felt so all alone,my knees were so weak, I felt so nauseatingly sick.

I reluctantly went to my bunk, I sat on my bed ( bunk ),buried my face into the palm of my hands, I started to sob...ALL MY RESOURCES HAD FAILED ME, FRIENDS, FAMILY......ALL I HAD LEFT WAS GOD AND WITHIN SEVEN HOURS I WOULD BE ON THE FLIGHT BACK TO JAMAICA......desperately I lifted my thoughts to JESUS CHRIST the same JESUS I had cried out to in that pool that Sunday morning I was helplessly drowning, I cried out to Him once again saying to Him in prayer, " Lord I need your help to stay in this Country, Lord I sacrificed everything materially just to get to this Country, Lord first of all I confess my sin of disobedience for working on my "vistor's visa" when I should not have been working, please forgive me but nevertheless I am asking you to PLEASE allow me to stay in this Country and I will forever give testimony of this miracle wherever I go and however long I stay in this Country bringing glory to your Name."

Gentlemen, believe it or not, I heard somebody's voice saying. ," Hey man where are you from," I was startled,I opened my eyes and I saw this rastafarian standing over me, he said his name was Derek , his bunk was way across the other end of the facility, I introduced myself and explained my dilemma to him, he explained he was in the same situation and was also being deported back to Jamaica the following day on the same flight, then he said something to me which CHALLENGED THE VERY CORE OF MY BELIEF IN GOD, he said to me," Patrick do you want me to help you to stay in this Country?", I was dumbfounded, in my mind satan was attacking me, mocking me saying ,how can this man help you when he himself is being deported back to Jamaica, do not listen to him,he cannot even help himself from being deported back to Jamaica. This stranger, stood there and like he was reading my mind, he said to me, Patrick do not worry about me I can come back at any time, I will make it back,...again he repeated ," Do you want me to help you to stay in this Country?',..I heard God's voice saying to me, you prayed to me for help I have sent it, immediately coming to my mind was the Scriptures in Hebrews 13 when He said be careful how we entertain strangers because sometimes we entertain angels unknowingly...I looked up at this stranger and said yes, he gave me a telephone number to call, I went to the telephone and nervously called the number, the voice at the other end said, " This is Patrick Murphy of the American Quakers, how can I help you" I explained my situation to him,he said he would be there within 30minutes, sure enough he showed up and after filling out relevant paperwork I was released. This did not cost me one dime. Gentlemen,God Almighty the Great El Shaddai miraculously delivered and answered my prayer of desperation, that stranger or angel God dispatched to me quietly took my hands and said good luck and goodbye I never saw him again . Today almost 25yrs later I am a United States citizen,happily married to my current wife of 7yrs and I am still giving testimony about what happened at that krome Detention Centre because that was the promise I made to Him.

Today I am here at the Gwinnett County Jail because of alimony I owed to my ex wife of divorce taking place approximately 10yrs ago, gentlemen, brethren my being here is another opportunity God allowed to have me once again testify of the miracle which happened almost 25yrs ago. My being here is not a coincidence but a part of God's plan for me, he divinely orchestrated this to happen the way it unfolded, in the book of Roman's 8 ( 28) God says, " And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose."

When I was stopped by that cop on July 15,2010 for seat belt violation and I found out about the outstanding warrant "contempt of court" based on alimony owed God reminded me of the following Scripture found in John 21 ( 17-18 )..Peter had just reiterated to Jesus that he loved Him and would feed His sheep, Jesus turned to Peter and said, " When you were younger, you girded yourself and walked where you wished, now YOU ARE OLDER another is going to gird you and take you where you do not wish to go ". ..that cop took my wrists and girded them with cuffs and took me where I did not wish to go, here at the gwinnett County Jail.

Yes God through His divine purpose, through His Holy Spirit has given me another opportunity to not only testify of the miracle which happened almost 25yrs ago but also to feed His sheep here at this facility by winning souls and encouraging others which I have done obediently through my writing and encouraging one to another by witnessing in person.

Brethren,it is our duty and divine calling as servants of the most high God to be HIS light unto the other men in this facility by the way we conduct ourselves as brethren, by the way we treat each other as brethren and by the way we support each other as brethren. Let the love of Jesus Christ be seen daily in our attitude towards all men ESPECIALLY to those of the household of faith Galations 6 ( 10 ).

Give thanks brethren. This testimony was written while I was at the Gwinnett Jail Facility, I have since then been released and I am still committed to the cause of spreading the Good News of His salvation to the lost. Praise be to the Precious Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Brother..... Patrick Lyn . e-mail address dragon_ 4482@yahoo.com