From Crack to the Cross

First of all I want to give Jesus Christ all the Honor, all the Glory and all the Praise for the salvation of my soul and forgiving me for all of my sins. At the age of nine, I started drinking beer and smoking cigarettes. By the time I was thirteen, I was smoking marijuana and selling drugs at school. I started in the dope game at a very young age and wised up real quick to the code of the streets. Before I knew it I was selling three to five ounces of weed every other day at school. For a kid that was just thirteen I was living large so I thought.

By the time I graduated high school I had been arrested twice and was using and selling harder drugs like black mollies, volume and codeine just to name a few. I joined the Navy and got married thinking I could get away from the lifestyle, but after my discharge I came home to find out that the streets was the same but the drugs had changed. This time the drug of choice was cocaine. I immediately started using and selling drugs and found myself bound and addicted, I couldn't manage this habit like the other drugs I had used.

At this time in my life I lost my mother to an aneurysm. She had been in a vegetative state until she died just one month after my second sons first birthday. Less than three months later my wife left me. Someone told me about Jesus, but I wasn't feeling it because I would ask how could God let my mother go thru so much pain and suffering? My world began to cave in around me.

All my friends were either in prison or dead. I never realized the power of influence until my best friend took his life. I was the one who introduced him to crack. When his mother (who was like a mom to me) told me she didn't want me at his funeral and that I killed her son, that was just too much to bear.

By this time I had tried several rehab programs trying to change, but I would always find myself back at the dope house. I knew that it was a matter of time before I would end up at the county morgue, but God had other plans. A man named Elder Hampton began to tell me about Jesus. I remember that there was something different about him. We worked together and he was always telling me that Jesus loved me and that he could save me.
At the age of twenty nine I was admitted into the hospital from a drug overdose and heart attack. I will never forget the next day…Jamal came to the hospital with a card signed by all of my co-workers.

He looked at me and said, “you know God can heal you don't you?” I replied “if your God can heal me I would give Him a try.” In a cold hospital room I could no longer run from God. My life was filled with fear, rejection, loneliness and pain. I humbly asked Jesus to save me as the tears began to flow.

Over the next few days the doctors were running different tests on me because I had a major heart attack. They said the x-rays they had taken the day I came in of my heart were not the same as the one's they had taken this morning. I knew that the Lord had healed me. Thank you Jesus!!
After cheating death three times I knew Jesus saved me for a reason. My life would never be the same. To fast forward, I graduated from the Victory Fellowship of Texas leadership academy in San Antonio, Texas.

Back in Dallas, I worked full time with Benny Hinn Ministries for three years before founding Thomas Freeman Ministries. To this day I have dedicated my life to reaching the lost at all cost with the message of Jesus Christ the Son of the living God.

Society says once an addict always an addict, but Jesus said “if any man be in Christ he is a new creation, old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

I would personally like to thank the love of my life and my best friend, my beautiful wife Vannessa for showing me how to love myself again and thanks to my three sons Shun, Philip and Thomas II.

My life has been inspired by my Pastors Danny & Norma Wegman and the Pathway of Life Church family.

Thank you Pastor Freddie & Ninfa Garcia, Pastor Benny & Suzanne Hinn, Pastor T.D. Jakes and to Elder Jamal Hampton for introducing me to the King.

Coming Soon in my new book “From Crack to the Cross” you will read my whole story.