I feel compelled to share two #amazing praises that were revealed to me through a book I'm currently reading... ALL IN by Mark Batterson.
Michael and Maria Durso are the founders of Christ Tabernacle in Queens, New York. Their spiritual journey started with a dramatic conversion experience. In their twenties, Michael and Maria were as far from God as you can get. In fact, they mocked anything remotely religious. They were living together; living from drug fix to drug fix. Then one day Maria mysteriously came under the conviction of the Holy Spirit. She wasn't in church. She wasn't reading a Bible. She was in their hotel room on vacation when the conviction came out of nowhere. What she didn't know until she returned home was that a group of her friends had gotten saved while she was away. At that very moment, thousands of miles away, they were forming a PRAYER CIRCLE and INTERCEDING for Maria.
When they returned to NY, Michael and Maria stopped sleeping together and started going to church together. After making the decision to follow Christ, Michael knew he needed to divorce himself from his past. He gathered all of his drug paraphernalia, along with magazines and videos that were vestiges of his old self. One by one, he dropped them down the incinerator chute of the NYC apt., building!
