[Music] my brothers the Peace of the Lord I am Pastor Jos Maderos and today I'm here to tell a little of my story a little of what the Lord Jesus did a little of what God accomplished in my life early on my grandparents went to the city of guanna at the time my parents were in no position to raise me so my grandparents took me to a sue we lived in the interior of goas and I grew up I was instructed in the way of God since childhood every day my routine was to go to
church and go to school and within the church you started using me very early when I was 8 years old I received the first opportunity to preach the word of God from then on I really discovered what God wanted to do and what God wanted to accomplish in my life even very early on my grandparents received invitation so that I could be at churches in the region carrying the powerful message of the Gospel I continued in the ways of God only with 7 years old I lost my mother my mother was a drug user so
she had some complications in the heart and ended up having surgery and he didn't survive when I was 15 years old I started to away from God's ways so I stopped going to church and then I started to disobey my grandparents and it was exactly at that moment that hell began to operate in my life the only thing that what hell needs to operate in someone's life is an opportunity it's a loophole and through this Gap he began to control my life he began to guide my paths I started drinking using drugs living far from
God's ways and I saw more and more concern in the eyes of my grandparents who saw their grandson who was raised in the paths of the gospel and now was lost and far from the paths of light it was exactly at that moment that I entered the world of crime I had already started using drugs I was already snorting cocaine I was already drinking and more and more I was getting closer to people who brought me closer to the dark path there are people in our Lives who are said by God and there are also
people that hell uses to keep us away from God and I learned that whoever does not add subtracts people who do not bring you closer to God will end up moving you away from God and taking you into the abyss of darkness onto a path that often has no return aged 18 age I was arrested for the first time I was arrested for drug trafficking for association with drug trafficking and for corruption of minors because there were some miners who were trapped there with me I never had I went to a prison I had never
been inside a cell and there inside that prison for the first time in my life I was trapped there for 11 months they were long days they were terrible months where I got deeper and deeper into drugs where I got deeper and deeper into sin I no longer saw hope for my life I no longer saw any perspective for my life it felt like I was in a hole with no way out and I couldn't I had nowhere to run I had nowhere to run there I met dangerous criminals I met criminals highly dangerous men
who increasingly influenced me to sink into the criminal underworld 11 months passed and I was released I received the release permit but unfortunately I left worse than when I entered I became an even worse person because I already had a gun on my waist doing a robbery I remember that when I left I already had a house to live in I already had a criminal who at that time was my boss he was above me so he spoke to me you will live in this house because I will need you very much but when I
left the prison my grandparents were already at the door of that prison they were already waiting for me because they believed that I was good that I had change they believed that God would change my life and my story and then I had no other solution I had no other way I had to go to their house but even though I lived with them I sank deeper and deeper into crime there I was already managing that entire city I was Distributing drugs throughout the city throughout all regions I wore an ankle bracelet Electronics I was
tracked and monitored by the police but I still carried out robberies even though I knew I was being monitored one day I was at home I had having just used drugs with some friends I got home laid down on the couch couch and then I remember perfectly that I was watching a game and then the doorbell rang I lived with my grandparents and when the doorbell rang my grandmother went to the house gate and spoke to me there are two men calling you when I went outside they said are you Jos mados I said yes
and they said you're under arrest I said arrested why they said you're under house arrest and yet you're leaving whenever you want you're doing everything you want and they asked me do you have drugs in your house I replied no they said do you have any weapons I said no they asked me to call my grandmother so she would be aware that they were going to take me so I called and she didn't it went out he said ring the bell when I rang the bell I ran out between them I remember I ran out
and the police started running after me when I turned the corner he said lay down lay down lay down I'm going to shoot and as I ran all I heard was the sound of gunshots and then I managed to enter a forest there in that bush I cut the anklet and threw it into a dam and managed to escape those police officers I managed to escape to another neighboring state and lived there for a few months I lived in the house of one of the biggest bandits in that region and a few months later I
managed to return to my state when I went back there someone reported me and I remember that I was arrested in the living room at my house the police arrested me in the living room I was taken to the prison where I stayed in that prison for 3 days and in those 3 days that I was there they were terrible days they were very complicated days in the cell that I was there it was the pipe cell I couldn't keep my clothes on there I was left with just the parts intimate because of that I
had pneumonia I remember that I was taken to another prison and when I was taken to the other prison I had a lot of problems with my lungs and I contracted pneumonia in tuberculosis this period was a period very difficult because there are a number of imprisoned detainees who were there with me also contracted this virus and we have seen death face to face there came a time when I had to be isolated from the other prisoners and I remember that one prisoner came to me was a man of quite Advanced age and he spoke
thus unto me haven't you been to the hearing yet I said no so he like that to me I have an idea if you want to leave here there is only one option for you to get out of here and I spoke what it is this option he spoke like this you will go before the judge then you will tell her that you need to go to a rehabilitation Clinic to a treatment Clinic because once you are there you will be able to escape if you don't do this you can be sure that you will
stay here for many years so I ended up embracing this idea and that's exactly what happened when I arrived before the judge I spoke to her doctor I need help I'm sunk in drugs I really wanted you to help me I wanted you to take me to a rehabilitation Clinic to a treatment Clinic she looked at me and said like this I will give you this opportunity but if you run away you can be sure that if you will come back into my hand and if you come back into my hand you will suffer the
consequences for this you will eat the bread that the devil needed so she sent me to a clinic and when I arrived at the clinic the next day I managed to escape the other day I was a fugitive I was being sought and then I started doing a lot of robberies with some criminal friends and I remember that we were at a friend's house and we decided to carry out a robbery so we stole a car and when we stole this car we put in another sector for the car to cool down for now the
police didn't stop looking so we went back to this friend's house and there we drank and used drugs and there a very drugged friend looked at me and spoke shall we go and get the car I spoke dude if we go and get the car now we're definitely going to run into the police then he spoke let's go I said let's go we were so drugg that day we were so drunk so intoxicated that we didn't look one way or the other as he just got in the car and I remember that when we got
in the car the boy who was with me was driving we didn't even walk 100 m the police were already on our tail everyone was pointing pistols at us and shouting arrest at that moment I thought I'd rather die than go back to prison so I threw myself out of the car and threw myself out of the car I remember the police started shooting in my direction and I started jumping walls and suddenly I was into of a house I remember it was a very big house there were two cars in the garage and I
hid under that car and then I heard the police knock on the gate then the owner of the house from inside screamed there is no one here so I felt more at peace I felt calmer a few minutes passed I couldn't stand being under that car any longer I remember I sat down there was a blindex window above me and I Heard a Voice very quietly to say he's here I saw him here and the person said I'll open the gate and you take him at that moment I looked and saw that the walls of
that house were very high and even so I ran and Managed IT to jump I was so desperate the adrenaline was so great that I would pass through electric fences and not feel anything I remember that I stopped inside another house and in that house there was a dispensation and within that dispensation I said a prayer I said Lord if you really have a plan in my life and in my story you will free me from here if you really chose me you will give me the deliverance and that nothing happens to me if nothing
happens to me I give my life to you and I won't do anything wrong again I remember that the day was Dawning and that I saw when the light turned on and when that light turned on my feet were all pierced my feet were all cut from stepping on broken glass and thorns and I couldn't jump over the wall of this house because the wall was very high and had an electric fence so I asked the woman in that house to open the gate so I could escape and then she opened the gate she was
very desperate and very scared so I ran away from there I remember that I went to an aunt's house and then I continued dealing I continued selling drugs during that time I received a call from a friend asking me to control and manage all his drugs and the next day I already had kilos and kilos of drugs with me I had already forgotten the promise I had made to God and it was at that moment that I remember that I went to a neighboring town there I was ready to take the life of a boy
who owed me and there I shot this guy several times when I got into the car with a colleague who was with me when we got in the car we were leaving the scene of the crime we came across the police and has already started persecuting us the police started shooting at HIS Direction so we could stop the car but we didn't stop and then we went around a bend in a street and that guy who was with me was shot but he continued driving even though he was being shot at and there came a
point where he couldn't take it anymore and he ended up crashing the car and then we were caught and on that street where we crashed the car there were no light posts it was a completely dark Street at that that moment I felt like I was going to die I felt like I didn't have a chance anymore at that moment I knew about the promise I had made a few days ago and I knew that I had not fulfilled it I knew that God was love but he was also consuming fire and I thought that
at that moment my life would be taken and at that moment I suffered great oppression the soldier kept begging the lieutenant to kill me to end my life he said I was hopeless and at that moment I couldn't even pray anymore I remember that I was knocked out three times they put a bag over my head then took it off and put it back on so I could tell them where I had disposed of the revolver I remember that when I woke up that's after after a few minutes there was a man and a woman
there telling me where I had thrown the revolver because she had seen it I remember that I wasn't killed that day because the lieutenant commander of the operation he was a Believer he served God and that's why he didn't allow it that my life would be taken away that day I was taken to prison and I stayed there for 2 years and 2 months inside that prison I became a member of a faction and there I made a blood packed with a candom blé wizard there in that prison I saw my life increasingly far from
God's paths far from the promises Gods but after a few months there I had an encounter with God I learned that in the worst places we have the best experiences inside the prison I had several experiences Terrible Bad experien I remember that every time we were going to be searched that there was going to be a search in that prison we were pulled out of the cell with total pressure there were bombs and rubber bullets we were slapped with rubbers slapped with batons we were left naked in the courtyard waiting for the police to search
the cell and there we were very oppressed but I looked for it with my own hands I was never influenced by anyone I decided to go that path I had everything to be different because my grandpar parents raised me in a Christian home only that I made my wrong choices and there was a time when I hated the police for me they were my enemies only today I realize when I look back I'm ashamed of the person I once was when I look back I'm ashamed of what I have already practiced in that prison there
were days when I had nothing to eat it was there that I discovered hunger there we only had 2 hours of sunbathing a day we spent 22 hours in the cell and 2 hours in the sun each cell there was for 10 people but there were 40 prisoners in one cell we often had to change places to sleep there were so many people that there wasn't enough space for everyone to lie down some slept until 4:00 in the morning and after four others slept until 600 so that everyone can sleep and then I remembered what
that judge had told me that I was going to eat the bread that the devil needed and when I was going through this terrible phase in my life my family said that I was hopeless that I no longer had a solution tion and there when I was inside that prison suffering a lot a pastor who was visiting there looked at me and said look who sway don't give up the greatest quality of a winner is never giving up these words I carry with me to this day weekly there were Services there and I remember that
I was inside the cell and every day that there was cocaine I snorted I had become a servant of cocaine I had become a slave to cocaine so many times I stuffed my nose with cocaine to be able to forget about things outside to be able to forget everything but when the cocaine ran out depression always arrived again and I was a person who for many years that I stayed in that place I struggled a lot with depression I fought against suicide because every day the devil spoke in my ear to take my life he
said that nobody loved me so there was a day that I remember perfectly time I had a cell phone in my hand inside the cell it was 4:00 in the morning morning the devil came forward and spoke to me he told me to take my life he talked about my mother he talked about my brother he talked about my family and unfortunately I even believed his talk and when I took a rope to hang myself and when I was about to commit suicide a boy much more drugged than me looked at me and said don't
do that man God has a plan in your life he has a plan in your story after hearing that I stayed from 4:00 in the morning until 8:00 at night just crying and I said to God sir if you really have a plan in my life you will use someone to talk to me you will use a vase to talk to me and I thought that if God was really going to use someone God would use one of the pastors who went there at that time prison weekly but there was one day it was already
getting dark the sun was already setting and I heard someone preaching the word when I looked through the cellars I saw a prison guard I saw someone with a pistol on their waist and in uniform he looked at me and said God loves you God has a plan for your life and God will change your story I grabbed those words and then there was a day when I tried again to take my life and when I was about to take it I Heard a Voice unlike any other and I only saw a light that voice
spoke to me like this enough I'm going to put an end to this your suffering ends here today I will give you a new heart and I will change your story and I remember that I started crying and after that moment I felt peace happiness the next day I looked for the pastor who preached there and then I accepted Jesus I was baptized in water I was baptized with the Holy Spirit I won several souls to Christ there and to this day I preached the gospel of Christ
