FROM DOPEFIEND TO DEACON
CHASING A PIPE DREAM
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• FREE PREVIEW: I DROVE AND DROVE UNTIL IT WAS CLOSE TO DAY BREAK AND I COULDN’T FIND WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR SO I WENT HOME. I FIXED ME A GOD FATHER HIT. I HAD IT IN MY HEAD THAT I HAD TO HAE SOMEONE WITH ME. MY PARANOIA WAS UP AND ALERT. THAT ONLY HAPPENED WHEN I WAS FATIGUED. I HAD RESTED AND EATEN, BUT THE VOICES WERE CLEARER TO ME. EVEN WITH THE NOISE ON THE STREETS THE VOICES CARRIED. I RODE UNTIL I SAW A FAMILIAR FACE.I WAS APPREHENSIVE ABOUT PICKING HER UP. I PULLED UP AND LEANED OVER TO OPEN THE DOOR. SHE LEANED IN AND SAID,”DEACON GO HOME” AND STEPPED BACK FROM THE CAR. NOW I WAS GETIING HIGH OUT OF FRUSTRATION. I GOT SO HIGH AND MY FRUSTATION WAS OUT OF CONTROL THAT I WENT TO WENT TO MY BACK BEDROOM. I STOOD THERE ANGRY. I LASHED OUT AT GOD AND EVERYTHING IN THE HEAVENS. “YOU CALLED ME! YOU CHOSE ME, I DIDN’T CHOOSE YOU. I AIN’T GETTING DOWN ON MY KNEES. IF YOU WANT TO STRIKE ME, THEN IT’S ON YOU”….. THE MOVE OF GOD IS REAL! I KNOW ITS REAL BECAUSE NOT ONLY WAS I A WITNESS, BUT I WAS A PARTAKER IN IT. SISTER PAM, WHO I HAVE ALWAYS CALLED ‘MY DOVE’, BECAUSE OF HER WONDERFUL VOICE, SANG UNDER THE AWESOME ANOINTING. SHE SANG “I TOLD THE STORM” AND AT ONE POINT SHE SANG REPEATEDLY, “I WON’T LET GO.” AS I CRIED………
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IT WAS PLACED ON MY HEART A FEW YEARS AGO AFTER BEING REJECTED, YET AGAIN, FOR A PROMOTION ON THE JOB TO BEGIN WRITING. FOR FIVE YEARS, I WROTE ON AND OFF UNTIL COMPLETION. I WANTED TO SHARE HOW GOOD GOD HAD BEEN TO ME EVEN WHEN I DID NOT REALIZE IT. I ALSO WANT TO ENCOURAGE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO KNOW THAT THERE IS HOPE FOR ALL OF US. THAT HOPE RESTS IN JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOUR. SO LET US OVERCOME BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND OUR TESTIMONIES. THIS IS A PART OF MINE, GOD BLESS.
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WILLIAM A. BEDFORD WAS BORN TO WILLIAM JR. AND GLORIA BEDFORD. HE IS THE SECOND OF FOUR CHILDREN. HE IS THE PROUD FATHER OF THREE: BRITTANY, WILLIAM L., AND FRANCES BEDFORD. HE IS THE GRANDFATHER OF THREE LOVELY YOUNG LADIES, HEAVEN, AMAYA AND AALIYAH. HE IS A SON OF CORNERSTONE AND ALSO A MAN OF GRACE. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A GOOD BIBLE BELIEVING AND GOD LOVING CHURCH, HE HAS TWO WONDERFUL SUGGESTIONS: THE CORNERSTONE CHURCH OF CHICAGO, 8521 S. COMMERCIAL CHICAGO IL 60617 & GRACE PENTECOSTAL 8432 S. GILBERT COURT, CHICAGO IL 60620. THESE ARE THE CHURCHES THAT HE HAS BEEN FOND OF AS A MEMBER AND HAS CALLED HOME SINCE ACCEPTING CHRIST IN JUNE OF 1996.