Enter through the narrow gate.
For wide is the gate, and broad is
the road that leads to destruction.
And many enter through it.
But small is the gate, and narrow the
road that leads to life.
And only a few find it.
Everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise
man who built his house on the rock.
The rain came down, the streams rose, and
the winds blew and beat against that house.
Yet it did not fall, because it had
its foundation on the rock.
But everyone who hears these words of mine
and does not put them into practice is
like a foolish man who built his house
on sand.
The rain came down, the streams rose, and
the winds blew and beat against that house.
And it fell with a great crash.
When evening came, many who were demon-possessed
were brought to him.
And he drove out the spirits with a
word and healed all the sick.
This was to fulfill what was spoken through
the prophet Isaiah.
He took up our infirmities and carried our
diseases.
Whoever finds his life will lose it.
And whoever loses his life for my sake
will find it.
Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also
acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.
But whoever disowns me before men, I will
disown him before my Father in heaven.
My name is Roy Hollis.
I'm from Dauphin Island.
I'm 43 years old.
It makes me 43 years old.
And I wasn't raised in a church.
I didn't know anything about the church.
I didn't know anything about the Bible.
And so I went out into the world
and soaked it up best I could and
got involved in the sake of the world.
In 1982, a good friend of mine gave
me a Bible for a birthday present.
And I looked at it, and I thought,
it's an odd birthday present.
But I wasn't saved, but I had manners,
so I said, Thank y'all a lot.
And every time I moved, it moved with
me.
And it stayed somewhere between the photo albums
and the other books.
And then in October, the Lord came knocking.
And I had no foundations at all to
recognize what was happening.
But I knew that Bible somewhere had the
answer.
So I went and found it.
And so I started reading that Bible.
And this time, when the Lord came knocking,
I didn't understand what was happening in my
life.
And since I had not been raised in
church, I had not had any spiritual foundation
whatsoever, I could only relate to it in
a secular sense.
So I would ask people, Do you even
believe in angels?
And they'd go, What are you talking about?
And I'd say, Man, I think mine just
got fired.
And the one I've got now is real
strict.
And the power of the Lord's Spirit came
over me, and I started reading the Bible
by myself, at kitchen time.
And I'd start about seven at night, and
I'd see the sun come up.
And I'd sleep, and I'd start reading again.
And this went on and on and on,
until it just started filling my heart.
And I started realizing that all the answers
to life was in that book.
Amen.
Then, the Lord decided it was time to
show me to me.
And one night, while I was praying, He
turned me inside out, and He showed me
what I was.
And when I got through whimpering like a
puppy, because I had always taken the position,
You know, No, don't you have some fears,
and some famine, and some wars, and some
bad things to go deal with?
I'll take care of my own problems.
I can handle it.
There's got to be some crisis in the
world that needs more attention than me.
So I just pushed Him away, and pushed
Him away, and pushed Him away.
And then when He revealed me to me,
and I got up, I knew what an
ugly, ugly sign I was on the inside.
But the beauty of it was, when I
got up, I realized that it had all
been forgiven.
I am so grateful.
Oh, you just don't know how grateful I
am to be in the Association of Christians
for the first time.
In my life.
Glory be to God.