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My name is Rev. Luke L. Chapman.  I haven’t always been a preacher, quite the contrary.  When I was a young teenager everyone always said: “Boy what a good kid Luke is.  He is a wonderful young man.”

 Because of a stepfather that had no love for me, my clothes were packed for me and placed on the front porch on Christmas morning.  Arrangements were already made for a near friend to pick me up to take me to my real dad’s home.  This became a cycle unto me.  I learned soon to take flight in life, realizing I’m on my own.  I was kicked out of school for truancy, failure to want to go to school and to learn.  This started a foundation for my life, for my ongoing future.

 My new friends taught me how to smoke, drink, and cuss and to tell lies.  I graduated to smoking weed and using cocaine.  I never drank or used cocaine on a regular basis.  I just started on weekends or invited parties.  I got married and had a child when I was 21 years old.  But, with a lifestyle of drinking, spending money in bars and not on bills or in my home, I soon went through a divorce.  Does This sound familiar, like today’s youths?

 At This time, now I’m remarried my wife and I are both cocaine addicts.  My wife smoked weed?  I sold weed and cocaine to supply our habits.  My wife left me one day.

I was arrested the same day and put in jail.  In jail, I bowed my knees on the floor in my cell.  I was the only one there that day.  I called upon Jesus and was saved and sent to North Central Correctional Institution.  I never thought anyone cared.  But I was so wrong.  What was meant for evil for me, God changed for the good.  Prison became My Bible College.  Prison was where God counseled me about my morals.  God taught me about being a good husband, a good father unto my children and how a preacher must live and act.

I served six and a half years in prison to learn not do use drugs, not to walk through life aimlessly.  I learned my lesson.

God raised me up to be a preacher in prison.  Prison was my lifesaver.  Wow, what a statement one might say!

The reason prison was my lifeline was I could have graduated to the other side of life… Six Feet Down.  I almost did!  I had a Heart attack, just before I was sent to prison, from smoking crack cocaine.  I almost died.

 Here is why I’m so fortunate.  I never died.  Instead, I went to prison. If I would have died, I would have never been able to cry and pray to God for Help.  I would of been lost forever.

I want to reach out to everyone in jail, prison, or on the streets that drink, use drugs, have sex outside of marriage, to the youth that doesn’t know what to do at times, to the ones that don’t know where to go, to the children that are molested, to the ones that are beaten, to the ones that are locked up in dark places, basements, closets… In other words to the hurting, to the abused, to the fatherless, to the children that their parents are divorced.  I want you to know that there is help.  God was my answer… He is my help… He is my friend… He is my Lord.  God Heard me when I pleaded for Help.  That was a time of prayer for me.  God is waiting to help you also, because all of us are special, and you need to know it.  God Loves Us All…

The devil has tried to destroy so many lives.  But God is a restorer to rebuild our futures to rebuild our lives.  God is a healer and a helper in time of need…

Will You consider yourself and consider This prayer:

Lord Jesus, I am in need.  Here I am.  Please come into my heart and forgive me for all of my sins.  I don’t know want to do but I surrender right now to you by faith I commit my life to you right now.  With my mouth I repent from all my sins and I confess Jesus Christ as my Lord.  You are my Savior I receive you now.  I believe that I am yours and I promise to live for you now all the days of my life.  Please cover me now in your Blood.  I am yours.  Show me the way now.  Show me the path I am to take. 

Want you consider a time out for God?  A time out is you arriving to a time in your life for a life changing decision to where you no longer want to live a life of sin, but you want to live a new life with Jesus in it.  You want a true change.

Many have passed through life and are gone from us forever.

But we are alive… Allow God to call you to a new walk with Him and never forget to make a time out for God.

Some want to commit suicide… God is saying: “Please Don’t!  Don’t use a gun… Don’t take those pills… Don’t run your car off the road…”  There is a better answer… Try Jesus Christ… God can fix anything.  Jesus changes things.  He changes circumstances.

I used to be a drug addict, a drunk.  I had a terrible name.  But now, I am a licensed Minister.  Licensed through the State of Ohio to perform marriages.  I plead with you as a minister… Saying: “Won't you consider your soul?  Will you give your life to God?”

These few words are a small outline to paint a very small picture of hopelessness.  To have been given a lifesaver, so I could be a good man for Church work as a preacher.  What can God do for you in your life as God shows you a new way to live in life for Him?

Your Friend, The Preacher Man

Luke L. Chapman

Gods Vision… A Ministry of Fire

Rev. Luke L. Chapman

GODS VISION

MINISTRY OF FIRE

8656 County Road 134

Upper Sandusky, Ohio 43351 USA

1-419-731-3784

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1-419-835-4914 

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