From Death To Glory

On September 19, 1997 I was in Hendersonville, Tennessee. I had recently arrived, following where I believed God had led me. At the time, I was jobless and practically homeless. I was actually staying in an old tour bus that a new friend of mine and I had been given permission to temporarily stay in. That day I had reached a point to where I had been literally begging God for a job so that I could get my own place. This was totally new territory for me… Suddenly, that night, out of nowhere, God did exactly what He had promised to do for me! He provided! Thank You Lord God Almighty! I was ecstatic!!! So that same night, as I was praising the Lord and just thanking Him with everything that I had in me for Him being so good to me, this song came bursting out of my soul. After I had written the song down and sung it a few times over, I felt so tangibly enraptured by His love that, that night as I went to sleep, it was as if He was physically right there with me, giving me a big, warm hug. After the tough days that I had just endured, I knew that I hadn’t been “forgotten”. Oh what a mighty God I serve! Oh what an awesome, awesome Lord!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When God first put it into my heart to actually record the music that He’d been giving me, He simultaneously impressed these words into my heart: They’re from the latter part of Matthew 10:8, where He says; "Freely you have received, freely give." So I freely share this music with everyone. IF, however, you wish to contribute to my efforts; one way you can support what I am doing, AND even benefit your own health and well-being, can be done by using products that I myself personally use on a daily basis, which are: For your General Health and Wellness – try the X39 patches, they’re amazing. https://lifewave.com/rsherrera Thank you…

What do people unwittingly crave for but, simultaneously deny themselves of? FORGIVENESS… But before there can be forgiveness; there has to be repentance… I knew that I had to act… I had to do what I believed God was asking me to do, concerning my mother’s husband. So I went and knocked on their bedroom door and asked to speak with him, along with my mother. He reluctantly agreed, then we walked into the living room where he and my mother sat on the sofa, and I sat on the ottoman in front of them. I then proceeded to tell him that I believed God had put it in my heart to tell him that He, God, wanted him, my stepdad, to turn away from the drugs and the alcohol that he was using and abusing. I told him that I believed that God had told me that if he didn’t stop doing what he was doing that it was going to kill him, and that he was going to die… SOON. He immediately reacted in the negative, which was exactly what I had expected, but had inwardly hoped that he wouldn’t do. He then cussed me out and told me that he didn’t want to hear anything else that I had to say to him, and that he didn’t want for me to EVER say anything to him about GOD again either! He then got up and stormed off back into their bedroom and slammed the door behind him as mom and I just sat there looking at each other, not saying a word. After a short while, I was still sitting there on the sofa in the living room praying and asking God if I had messed up somehow, and done something wrong, because that was exactly what it felt like. As I was praying, he came out of their bedroom and was walking through the kitchen towards me, when suddenly everything; time, suddenly seemed to have slowed down to a trickle as he was walking by me. I sat there looking into his eyes and saw that there was nothing there as he walked by me. Instead of eyes, there were black, empty sockets where his eyes were supposed to be. There was no light in them whatsoever. Darkness… Immediately, God whispered three words into my heart that gave me a cold chill which went down into the marrow of my bones. What I heard was; “Dead Man Walking.” The following morning, as I was sitting there thinking about what had happened the night before, the Lord began to give me the words to this most sincere and very real song. I hope that you can truly understand and grasp what it is that God wants for each of us… FORGIVENESS… Not only FROM Him towards us, but from us, to everyone who has ever wronged us; and to those who WILL wrong us in the future. But remember, before there can be forgiveness; there has to be repentance… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When God first put it into my heart to actually record the music that He’d been giving me, He simultaneously impressed these words into my heart: They’re from the latter part of Matthew 10:8, where He says; "Freely you have received, freely give." So I freely share this music with everyone. IF, however, you wish to contribute to my efforts; one way you can support what I am doing, AND even benefit your own health and well-being, can be done by using products that I myself personally use on a daily basis, which are: For your General Health and Wellness – try the X39 patches, they’re amazing. https://lifewave.com/rsherrera Thank you…

I was concerned… Plus, I was getting more than a little frustrated with how some of my very own family members were kinda blowing me off and not taking me seriously when I would talk with them about God and salvation. Interesting… They were treating me the same way that I had treated other “Christians” before I myself surrendered to Him: And that was… “NOT INTERESTED!!!” I laugh about it now but, at the time I was genuinely concerned for my brothers and sisters. They were the ones that I loved more than anyone else in the entire world at the time. I eventually ended up just asking for the Lord to help ME to be a good example in the way that I was living my life so that they too would eventually come to know Him the way that I was getting to know Him. To be honest, I think that they were expecting me to go back to “normal” after awhile. After all, I hadn’t even been saved for an entire year yet. So, as I was working through some of my frustrations, I got to thinking about how God warns us in His Word in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, where He says: 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. That’s right… “In the twinkling of an eye.” That’s what HE says, not me. And then again, in 1 Thessalonians 5:2, where He says: 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. That’s right… one of these days… POOF!!! just like that! He’s going to snatch us right out of here. “Like a thief in the night.” That very day, God gave me the words to this song which expressed exactly what I had been feeling, and trying to share with, well, anyone who would listen to this “crazy guy”. One thing that I hope to never do, and that’s to tell someone that; “You need to repent or you’re gonna do to hell…” I hated people telling me that. BUT… If you feel that tug in your heart, don’t keep putting it off. None of us is guaranteed a tomorrow… ------------------------------------------------------------------- When God first put it into my heart to actually record the music that He’d been giving me, He simultaneously impressed these words into my heart: They’re from the latter part of Matthew 10:8, where He says; "Freely you have received, freely give." So I freely share this music with everyone. IF, however, you wish to contribute to my efforts; one way you can support what I am doing, AND even benefit your own health and well-being, can be done by using products that I myself personally use on a daily basis, which are: For your General Health and Wellness – try the X39 patches: https://lifewave.com/rsherrera Thank you…

One night, as I was thinking about the time that I had voluntarily given of myself, by volunteering to go to the Dream Center, and about what a privilege it had actually been for me to be there; I realized that I had actually learned a lot for the short amount of time that I was there. Then I got to thinking about some of the people that I had met there and about the lessons that God had begun to teach me as I was learning to see others through His eyes, or trying to at least. It wasn’t an easy task for me. I had only been saved for a few months and I was still very rough around the edges. I can be so hard-headed sometimes, but I did my best. After sitting there reminiscing for a while, I felt compelled to go through some of the notes that I had written when I was over there, so I pulled out my journal and began reading through some of the notes. There were so many things that I had forgotten. Then I suddenly came across these thoughts of mine, which I had written on the fourth of July after I had spent the evening watching the fireworks across the city of Los Angeles from the Dream Centers’ rooftop with a few friends, and shortly after I had read the book of Matthew that night. I remember how I had been thinking about how Jesus must have felt as He was hanging on that cross, dying, and knowing that He had just been betrayed and abandoned by His closest friends, and I was thinking about how He must have felt so all alone, even though He knew that that was the reason for His coming here to earth. For us… For me, and for you… As I was thinking back on that moment of time, I then began to hear these beautiful words coming to me in a most solemn and sincere way. So, I got ready to receive what I believed the Holy Spirit was about to give me. I could literally “feel” Him coming towards me… The words… and the melody… When I began to pen the words which had started to flow through me, it was like there was this slow, soft, melancholy melody which had magically swirled itself around the words and, while accompanying them, they melded together into this soft, beautiful song which describes Jesus’ humanity, along with the ultimate “purpose” for which He had voluntarily and humbly injected Himself into His creation… FOR YOU… I don’t know… that was just the way that I felt it or, perceived it in my heart. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When God first put it into my heart to actually record the music that He’d been giving me, He simultaneously impressed these words into my heart: They’re from the latter part of Matthew 10:8, where He says; "Freely you have received, freely give." So I freely share this music with everyone. IF, however, you wish to contribute to my efforts; one way you can support what I am doing, AND even benefit your own health and well-being, can be done by using products that I myself personally use on a daily basis, which are: For your General Health and Wellness – try the X39 patches: https://lifewave.com/rsherrera Thank you…

My nephew, whom we used to call “Little Houdini”, had unbuckled himself from the car seat; needless to say, he took a tumble when my sister was taking him out of the car; face first… right onto the sidewalk… OUCH!!! I quickly scooped him up and rushed him into the house as he was crying and screaming his head off. My first instinct was to anoint him and to pray, asking God to please help my little nephew, and to take the pains away from him. He had a scrape on his face that went from his forehead all the way down the left side of his face, and a huge knot had formed over his left eye. As I was holding him in my arms and praying for him, with my sister was standing right behind me still holding all of his things still in her arms; the car seat, the diaper bag, etc… She was still in a little bit of shock from what had just happened and as she was standing there watching, immediately; and I mean IMMEDIATELY, the scrapes on his face and the bump on his forehead just disappeared, vanished! As I was holding him in my arms, he suddenly stopped screaming and crying and immediately became peaceful and tranquil; it was as if nothing had even happened. It was absolutely amazing!!! My sister and I were speechless for a little bit, as you might imagine. The following morning, I was sitting in the living room just thinking about and meditating on what God had done the day before, and seriously trying to process and put into perspective how really REAL God had become to me; and how He had, up to that point, continuously, and without reservation, been proving Himself to me in the short amount of time from when I had accepted His Son, Jesus Christ, as my personal Lord and Savior. He’d done it over and over again. Even after I had recently been so quick to forget, and get impatient with what I, in my stubborn way of thinking, thought that things should have happened. I couldn’t help but to once again think; “Who am I Lord; that You would show Yourself, Your power, to a little insignificant, nobody like myself?” I was so humbled… and I felt so unworthy. He hadn’t forgotten. He was still doing exactly what I had asked Him to do for me not too long ago. Just before accepting and inviting Jesus into my heart, I’d said: “I’ll follow You. I just need You to be real to me…” That was pretty much exactly what I had said to Him. So, while I was still in the process of taking all of this in, and focusing on His love for me, I began to get “that feeling” and then the words to this song began to formulate and come out from within me. This song is what came from that awesome and amazing experience. -------------------------------------------------------------- When God first put it into my heart to actually record the music that He’d been giving me, He simultaneously impressed these words into my heart: They’re from the latter part of Matthew 10:8, where He says; "Freely you have received, freely give." So I freely share this music with everyone. IF, however, you wish to contribute to my efforts; one way you can support what I am doing, AND even benefit your own health and well-being, can be done by using products that I myself personally use on a daily basis, which are: For your General Health and Wellness – try the X39 patches: https://lifewave.com/rsherrera Thank you…

Shortly after leaving Los Angeles, I was back in Texas and I sensed God telling me that I would once again be leaving and that it would be sometime soon. Then He dropped what was equivalent to an atomic bomb on me… He told me that He wanted me to go to my home town and ask some of my family members for forgiveness! “WHAT!!! Why do You want ME to ask THEM for forgiveness! THEY are the ones who should be asking for forgiveness from me!” I vehemently cried out. It was a very painful struggle for me to have to deal with at the time. There was a lot of bad history there. “No way!!!” I said. “I can’t…” After only a few minutes, if it was even that long, I began to settle down. The Lord then began to “gently” explain to me that IF I would just trust Him, I would soon see how it was for my own good. At the time, I didn’t understand what He meant by that. He then went on to show me that IF I couldn’t (or wouldn’t) do what He was asking me to do, I wouldn’t be able to move forward in my walk with Him and accomplish what He wants for me to accomplish in my lifetime; BECAUSE IF I couldn’t forgive and let go of the past, I truly wasn’t His. After He said that to me, it caused a cold fear to go through my heart. It hurt. But I knew that He was right. He’s God… Of course He is right… He then showed me how it had been “me” who was the one who had been harboring the feelings of animosity against some of my family members for the mental and physical abuses that they had causes me to go through when I was a child. He told me that He knew all about how I felt. Then, He said something to me which almost caused my head to explode… He told me that “they” didn’t even remember the things that “I” had personally been upset about for all of them years. WOW!!! After listening to Him, (for a few hours I might add) I knew in my heart that He was right. I knew that I had to let go of all of that emotional garbage from my past. I just didn’t know how to do it. I also knew that I knew that I had to go to where it was that He was asking me to go. Deep in my heart I knew that it was time… I HAD to go. I was no exception to the rule… If for no other reason, but for my own sake… IT WAS TIME… AFTER I decided to follow HIS lead, He gave me the words to this beautiful song. And you know what??? HE WAS RIGHT!!! While I pray that these words bring HEALING to your soul, bring HEALTH to your body as well... When God first put it in my heart to actually record the music that He’d given me, He simultaneously impressed these words into my heart: They’re from the latter part of Matthew 10:8, where He says; "Freely you have received, freely give." So I freely share this music with everyone. IF, however, you wish to contribute; one way you can support what I am doing, AND even your own health and well-being, can be done by using products that I personally use, which are: For your General Health and Wellness – try the X39 patches: https://lifewave.com/rsherrera Thank you…

In June 1997, I was in my room that night and I had been reading my Bible for a while. I had been feeling some pressure because of some personal things that I was going through, again. During this time my mind was also being bombarded with the thoughts of certain events and memories of things from my past; and even though I knew that I knew that I was saved and had been forgiven for every one of the things that were entering my mind, that wasn’t the problem, the problem was that I was hating on myself. I felt like I was on a roller coaster; up and down, up and down… The truth was that I couldn’t forgive myself, truly, for some of the ugly and disgusting things that I had done before. I was tempted to just walk away from everything that night. I was struggling… I had even entertained the thought of giving up on God and going back to the way that I used to be, again. I was telling myself that I wasn’t worth it. Isn’t that crazy? I just couldn’t shut my brain down. So in the midst of all the turmoil, I was exhausted, and I had decided to go to sleep a little earlier than usual. As I was lying there, I started to hear a melody coming towards me from a distance. It was interesting the way that it happened because it was very faint in the beginning, then, it became as clear as day in my mind. So I opened my eyes and reached over to get the poem that I had written a little earlier and, wouldn’t you know it! The music went perfectly with the words that He had given me. While I pray that these words bring HEALING to your soul, bring HEALTH to your body as well... When God put it in my heart to actually record the music that He’d given me, He simultaneously impressed these words into my heart: They’re from the latter part of Matthew 10:8, where He says; "Freely you have received, freely give." So I freely share this music with everyone. IF, however, you wish to contribute; one way you can support what I am doing, AND even your own health and well-being can be done by using products that I personally use, which are: For your General Health and Wellness – try the X39 patches: https://lifewave.com/rsherrera Thank you…

So, I’m still at the Dream Center in Los Angeles, volunteering as an electrician. I had only been saved for about seven months and was doing really good in dealing with situations WITHOUT the violence. I used to have a terrible temper… On this particular day, by the lunch hour that afternoon, I had totally lost it with this one guy. He was behaving in a way which had made it close to impossible for me to work with him. PATIENCE!!! I kept telling myself. By the end of the day I was ready to get the heck out of there. Just leave! I had allowed him to get under my skin and I was totally frustrated. I used to tell people that I only had ONE button so, for them to please NOT push it… Well, that day this guy had pushed it several times! So when the work shift was over I went straight to my room, locked myself in there, and I began to pray. I was so mad, angry and frustrated. I really needed for God to help me because all that I wanted to do was pounce on that guys face. Well, almost as soon as I jumped onto the bed and began to pray, I felt God interrupt my tantrum and say to me, “Write it down.” “What!? You want me to write my prayer down?” I said. So I immediately grabbed my pen and notebook and, with tears in my eyes, I began to write. As I sat there and allowed the Holy Spirit to minister to my broken soul, this song is what poured out of my heart that day. Afterwards, I sat there for a few minutes and I wondered why I had allowed myself to lose it with this guy the way that I had done. I knew the reason why he was acting the way that he was. So I sat there and asked God to please forgive me for the sins that I had committed in my imagination, and then I went on to thank God for yet another beautiful gift: this song. While I pray that these words bring HEALING to your soul, bring HEALTH to your body as well... When God put it in my heart to actually record the music that He’d given me, He simultaneously impressed these words into my heart: They’re from the latter part of Matthew 10:8, where He says; "Freely you have received, freely give." So I freely share this music with everyone. IF, however, you wish to contribute; one way you can support what I am doing, AND even your own health and well-being can be done by using products that I personally use, which are: For your General Health and Wellness – try the X39 patches: https://lifewave.com/rsherrera Thank you…

IT’S TIME TO SHARE… In May 1997 I was in Los Angeles volunteering as an electrical worker at an inner city ministry (Dream Center) and there was a lot of frustration and confusion going on at the time. I was trying to figure out why God had asked me to go there. I myself was frustrated and broken-hearted because of the loss of a close friend, to a cult that had infiltrated the ministry. I didn’t understand why I was there and I couldn’t “see” it. As I was walking around asking God to help guide me through what I was going through, I ultimately found myself simply asking: “Why am I here Lord?” So that evening, in the midst of all the turmoil that I was surrounded by, God once again read my soul and He gave me this, what I refer to as, my “relief valve” from the pressures that I was experiencing at the time in the form of an amazing song which perfectly described what was in my heart. I love God. He’s so loving and patient with me. While I pray that these words bring HEALING to your soul, bring HEALTH to your body as well... When God put it in my heart to actually record the music that He’d given me, He simultaneously impressed these words into my heart: They’re from the latter part of Matthew 10:8, where He says; "Freely you have received, freely give." So I freely share this music with everyone. IF, however, you wish to contribute; one way you can support what I am doing, AND even your own health and well-being can be done by using products that I personally use, which are: For your General Health and Wellness – try the X39 patches: https://lifewave.com/rsherrera Thank you…

On October 11, 1996 I experienced a life-changing transformation. I CAME TO THE POINT WHERE I "TRULY" SURRENDERED MYSELF TO JESUS CHRIST… Two and a half months after this amazing experience, I was miraculously set me free from addictions and bad habits, and I began a journey which would transform my entire lifestyle. Shortly thereafter, on the night of February 25, 1997, I was struggling to forgive myself for things from my past and I couldn’t erase the memories from my mind. I was praying about this when something amazing happened… It came in the form of a poem. In a nutshell, it was the story of my life! It was a very accurate account of my life. In a matter of just a few minutes the Holy Spirit had uncovered and revealed the REAL me to myself in an unexpected way; a way that I, personally, would have never considered. I had suddenly been completely and totally exposed… He had taken a hold of me, the real me, and He had begun to lead me on a journey which would eventually begin to release me from most of the shame, and the feelings of unworthiness, which I had carefully tucked away and hidden in the innermost part of myself for the better part of my life. The ugly, negative truths from my past which I had, for so many years, attempted to protect and most of all, prevent from ever being exposed to the world for the simple fear of the “shame” that I believed I would have to endure, and not only that but, I feared having to relive “the pains” which I had already been quietly and secretly suffering with and suppressing for the better part of my life. ALL OF IT had finally been exposed through this short, simple, sincere and heart-felt poem. He didn’t have to give it to me, but He did… He gave it to me simply because He loves me. I know that now… This was the ice-breaker… It’s taken a lifetime but: This is WHY I am WHO I am… It’s TIME FOR ME TO SHARE… IT’S TIME to kill the shame… IT’S TIME to be SET FREE!!! While I pray that these words bring HEALING to your soul, bring HEALTH to your body as well... When God put it in my heart to actually record the music that He’d given me, He simultaneously impressed these words into my heart: They’re from the latter part of Matthew 10:8, where He says; "Freely you have received, freely give." So I freely share this music with everyone. IF, however, you wish to contribute; one way you can support what I am doing, AND even your own health and well-being can be done by using products that I personally use, which are: For your General Health and Wellness – try the X39 patches: https://lifewave.com/rsherrera Thank you…