Welcome One and all ! ! !

First of all i would like to extend my greatings to all that might visit my newly formed corner of the Web, thanks to James.
I would like to use this oppitunity to tell you a little about myself, and yes some things in his introduction can be exagerated a little sometimes like where i am from but most true.

My name is Gregory Leigh Peterson, i infact i come from and was born and raised here in good old Melbourne Australia and am prowd to be 100% Australian :-) i am lucky in that reguard and i thank god for bringing me into this world. What can i say i would like to think i have a good heart, kind and generous person at times and would help anyone out if they were ever in need. I work within the CBD doing customer service work, thats were James meet me and challenged me about christ and god etc. To me at the time God was someone or something out that was out there that had little interest in me. He was an out there figure someone who didn't know me and i didn't know him so i we carried on our lives seperately.
He would talk to me about God.... and i would be like yea but all the time trying to get away from the topic. At the time i had a level of belief but thought what has he ever done for me and never really took interest. But slowly my view changed as he challenged me, a part of me wished he would just give up like samething saying you don't need to hear this if you know what i mean. He gave me my own bible to read, i just didn't know what to think so i read it. To be honest i thought James was mad and anyone that followed this stuff like i saw on TV was just mad and that the entire group was brainwashed (eg. Cult). Nope i didn't want anything to do with that but i accepted my place in the world as i did gods.

It was not till later when i was going through tough times and all i wanted was for everyone to leave me alone and i wished or prayed for death and an end to all suffering, that i guess you know what happens in those moments, Something answers god answers you could say you tend to feel a presence you have never known before or did but was long forgotten. James was online one day chatting as usual talking over and confrounting me on different issues something inside made me give in to it, i told James about it and he assured me it was the Holy Sprit. I am like Holy Sprit you say hmmmm....... yea. This was at a time when i was at my lowest i had nothing else to loose my pride, happiness, anger (was great at myself), self esteem was right out the window and i was at my lowest.

Now i thought this was going to be an intro.... i think god has different plans for this post.

I was bought down, humbled before my creater i like to call it. I was always telling James you can't be serious i am a joke to God i am his play thing, he dosen't seriously care about me, he infact hates and despices me i rather be alone, infact i am alone now and forever. But at that very moment i was telling you about earlier something was compelling me to hear what James had to say even though i didn't want to hear it. He asked me to pray to Jesus to come into my life, that it's him don't let this oppitunity slip, you have to etc. After a bit of convincing i did it, my sadness turned to gladness, my anger to happiness and finally i felt at peace with myself. Not long after James convinced me to go along to a Planet Shakers meeting in the city i still remember feeling as though i didn't belong and that everyone was crazy and that i was only dreaming the day before. I was up in the balcany one time and James asked me to do as the preacher suggested that anyone that wished to accept christ now come to the frount or to the frount row of the balcany. It was then as James was praying for my something weired happened The pastor that was speaking the good words stopped what he was saying and said to me in so many words "There is something great that will happen in your life, you will become something great" something to that effect i thought he was just giving his speach but he wasn't he was looking up at the balcany there was others i thought he ment someone else. I looked around to see who it might have been he said no you, i was confused pointing to myself he said yes you in you i see potential you will do something great is all i can remember or be something. I still don't know what he means to this day, it has been a year, but i can tell you one thing i have learned so much since that day i have been empowered since then i believe and i am being tought and leactured to by the Lord My God himself, Jesus is my instructor. I see things in every day life god wishes me to learn. He shows me by my experiences how he feels what he loves how life is and how it can be. I have been baptised by the holy sprit slain some might say. I believe i am being refined by fire and made rightious and holy though god himself. I have read the entire bible some might say they in there entire life has never read the who thing before. I tell you friends i learn from the very word themselves i don't listen and take what others have said for granted and as gospal i take it from the word and test what others say and ask god to show me his way to become more like his son. I will tell you more about the things that are happening in my life or have happened in later posts.

This is a basic outline of how i have came to know christ once more, how he forgave me and convicted me of all sin, in turn saving my eternal soul and how he will contine to use me to that end. I will talk more about empowerment later. Friends as i write this i tell you the truth life is hard and life is never easy and fair sometimes but there is alwasy hope. God is there for us all if only we would trust and faith in him i tell you anything is possible. He many times convicts me to say something or do something nags me to do it hehe i am lazy sometimes. It is my experiences and the things i personally learn that James from what he's heard asks me to write them down, put them here so others might learn and get something out of them and hear the wonderful news that is and i agree in my laziness lol and i am sure god wants me to share.

To everyone i thank you for sticking around this long, i pray god contines to work through you and blesses everyone in all that you do. So it is with great pleasure that i say god bless, i wish you all the best and hope to be back soon to write more. There is much to write thats for sure, i don't know where to start. I am also looking forward to hearing form others and making new friends along the way.

In Jesus name i pray, god bless.

Amen