MY OBITUARY

We live a life that creates our identities based upon our affiliations, experiences, relationships and choices. People expect us to behave or conform in certain ways based upon these identities. These expectations shape the perceptions people have about us making recognizing change impossible and even making us believe we can't achieve that change. I myself have struggled and have been struggling with people's acceptance of who I have become in Christ. It seems as if daily I am faced with inquiries from people looking for the Deon they once new. Looking for the Deon who posted on craigslist, looking for the Deon who used to sleep around and perform all types of sexual acts, looking for the Deon who was in the homosexual lifestyle, looking for the Deon who emailed and or texted them the naked photos and etc. Daily I found myself faced with the temptations and expectations to fulfill the duties that that Deon once indulged in and because of this I found myself back on the internet, back on craigslist and back indulging in sexual immorality.

As I began to get frustrated and stress out and even found myself being tempted to give up the fight and just completely go back and just accept the calls and appeals, I heard God speak deep down in my Spirit that it was time for me to write an obituary. At first I was perplexed and confused but in a weird way it made sense to me. See in God's ability to know and see all, He knew that this dilemma would take place not just in my life but in yours as well so that's why he spoke words such as unless a man be born again he can not inherit the kingdom of God. Or words such as you can't put new wine in old wine skin. These words spoken from the heart of our God explicitly implies that in order for us to walk in newness of life their has to be a death to take place. It is the natural order of things. Where death occurs life is always right there to replace that which is dead. Jesus couldn't go into glory until He died on the cross and with his death came the resurrection. Lazarus couldn't have been raised from the dead into a new life unless he had died.

So what am I saying: I am here to declare and proclaim to the world that any pics, emails, sex messages or craigslist post u may have seen, or received from me or about me you should delete them and  throw them away, because that Deon you are looking for that Deon you think you know or knew no longer exists, HE DIED. I don't care if it was last year, last month, last week. or in the last 5 minutes that Deon is DEAD and gone. I'm sorry you missed the funeral but the good news is he has be reborn into me, bad news for you is he is no longer what you used to, he is no longer your sex slave, he is no longer that sex craved homosexual who seeks out men via craigslist, chatlines and etc.: HE IS MINISTER DEON L SANDERS A TRUE PRODUCT OF THE SAVING AND REDEMPTIVE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, OLD THINGS HAVE BEEN WASHED AWAY AND NOW BEHOLD ALL THINGS ARE NEW, HE IS THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK "TEARS OF DELIVERANCE" AND HE HAS BEEN SAVED, REDEEMED AND HOLY GHOST FILLED TO SERVE THE KINGDOM OF GOD FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS!!!