My Testimony
Hello and welcome to my testimony
It has been a while since i shared this and putting it on the
net is a whole different kettle of ball games so here goes-
My background-
My name is Luke McCrae i was born in 1969 in Victoria Australia
and at age twenty five was born again
in those years a great series of events occured that led me
to the feet of my saviour.
My parents divorced when i was one due to my fathers nature
and i lived with my mother untl the age of seventeen
At the age of nine due to my fathers ways i ended up
in intensive phsycological therapy, eventually i guess
i got better but these things have a habit of
changing you,
In amongst all this only now do i see the love
of my Heavenly Father and how many times i should have died
but was rescued by his hand
My favorite scripture is Psalm 27:10
Though my mother and father forsake me
The Lord will lift me up
In later years my mother turned to alcohol which i found
convenient as it gave me a cheap and abundant supply,
it led to the demise of our relationship and eventually
destroyed her as five years ago she took her own life.
As i grew older and became more independent i started
to develop a taste for stronger drugs,i became a waste disposal unit
for illicit substances,by the time i was twenty i was
was well and truly gone. i spent every waking moment
seeking to get wasted and i spent the best part of eight years
in a haze
it’s funny how you watch people around you die of overdoses
or commit suicide and yet you still do it conviced that it won’t
happen to you but every time you put a needle in your arm
the thought crosses your mind,what has this been cut with,
will this be my last hit.
All this abuse was taking it’s toll on me, i was paranoid,
delusional and suffered from speed (meth) psychosis
not to mention the physical effects,it played great havok
with my body
How i got saved-
My first experience with God that i can remember is being about eight
and lying in bed one night and there was a noise in the wall
and i was frightened and i said to God, if you are real
please stop this,and of course:)
My mother was heavily in to the occult,being involved in circle(coven)
and other such practices so i have always known of the other world,
having seen more entitys in my house than i care to remember
and spent a lot of time delving into the occult and keeping
the company of witches.
I always believed in God and knew he was real although content to
travel my own path i had a hunger to know the truth.
At age Twenty four i moved to Queensland with a girlfriend,
we had a child and three months later she left
so here i was in a strange town,didn’t know anybody
no money,and pretty broken and twisted.
I landed a job working for some Christians(Gods funny)
and the first time i heard the Gospel was when this bloke
told me about it,anyway about three months and a few
more stupid things later i went to work in another place and met another
Christian (George, i’m sure he was ex mafia) lol, and he shared his faith with me,
So i immedietly went on a week long blinder
cullminating in waking up on Sunday morning.
I woke up on Sunday morning about seven thirty feeling
pretty lousy and i procceded to get dressed as if i was going somewhere
but i didn’t have anywhere to go,in my mind i said to myself
“why am i getting dressed”?
At that moment God spoke to me and said “You are going to Church”
Now i’d never heard Gods voice before but i new it was him
and i knew to obey.
So off i wander to church(i knew where it was) and lo and behold
it’s not open.
So i check the opening time and then walk to a friends(drinking buddy) around the corner.
I’m there for a while chatting and drinking coffee and at about
quarter past nine God says to me ” it’s time to go now”.
So i says to friend “seeya” and he says “where are you going”?
and i said “to Church” he says “what for” i said “to check it out”
So off i wander back to the church,on my travels to my friends place
i had passed another church (no names) so as i am approaching this
church while i am walking i am thinking to myself”which one do i go to”
as i didn’t know any different (the last church i went into was to deface
the visitors book with Ozzy Osbourne lyrics) anyway
right as i am thinking this Mafia George pulls up in his car,looks at me and
says”i know where your going,get in” so in i hop and we drive down to the
church,jump out and walk in the door.
(He told me later that God told him to wait at home later than usual
so he would catch me)
To this day i cannot explain this fully but to say that the air in the
church was thick and warm,i know now that it was the presence of God
but then the words in my head were fairy floss(weird)
We sit down,and i am looking around,i had never been in a place
with so many people before,so i watch what goes on and at the start
the Pastors wife (Mellisa) is on stage and she is saying”before we start
we are going to pray for a lady and her son,well that was my cue,
after losing the girl that i loved and my newborn this cut my
heart and i started to cry,for an hour,i sobbed as God dealt with me
about my life,following this the Pastor came off the platform to me
and the whole place is quiet,and 250 people are watching the following
Pastor Stewart: Gday mate my name is Stewart
Me: sob sob sniff,Hi Stewart my name is Luke sniff.
S: What is the matter Luke?
L: I am an alcoholic suicidal drug addict
S: Do you believe in God?
L: yes.
S: Do you believe in Jesus and that he died to forgive
you of your sins and to heal you?
L: Yes
S: Will you pray with me?
L: Yes
Stewart told me later that God told him to wait till i was ready.
So we pray,i don’t remember exactly(sinners prayer)
and all the while Mafia George is sittin there grinnin like the Chesire cat,
(only time i ever saw him smile)
As soon as i said “Amen” three things happened,but they all happened at once
First it was like two hands had been pushing me down on my shoulders
my whole life and i could see God grabbing those hands by the wrists
and lifting them off,the physical effect was incredible, the weight that
lifted off me was amazing,the next thing that happened was that the fire of God
went through my body and was burning up those things inside me, i could
feel the sin and addictions being consumed,the third thing that happened
was in my mind i said”this is how i was always meant to be”
and from that moment on i was forgiven and free of my addictions.
I walked out of that church a new creation,redeemed,delivered, restored
and healed and onto a wonderfull relationship with God filled
with amazing happenings 
as an add-
How God restored me to my Dad,
I am sitting in my kitchen one night reading, about three weeks saved
God: Luke,i want you to ring your Father
Me: Kill him God,i hate him,make sure it hurts
God: Luke i want you to ring your Father
Me: You kill him God and i will help,iv’e got the plans
and you’ve got the power, together we can reek havok,
silence for a while
God:Luke i want you to forgive your Father
Me: And then will you kill him?,make it greusome.
God:Luke..
Me: Ok God.Father i forgive my Father as you forgave me and i mean it
God:Now i want you to ring him
Me: Ok God
so i rang him and spoke to him for the first time in twelve
years,three years ago he passed away,but i was able to tell
him that i loved him which felt good.
This is my Testimony to the the Power of God and
the love of our Lord Jesus Amen.
Luke.