I was told in 1994, by a prominent marriage counseling organization that I had no creativity. They told me they were surprised I was a pastor because of my scores on their tests. They were right! This was the last-ditch effort to try and save my first marriage. It didn’t work. The marriage ended, and my ministry was over and my life was as far as I could tell.
God began to do something special in my life. I chose to never bad mouth my boy’s mother. I never did! I had been a child of divorce and knew how that hurt; being in the middle. I chose to take the high road.
A year later, I met the Love of my Life, here on earth. Her name was and is Ginelle. She is the most amazing woman in the world for two reasons. She loves God with all her heart and she loves me unconditionally. That kind of love is hard to find.
Ten plus years ago, many of you know I prayed and asked God to change me, “to do whatever he had to do to change me.” I went through 10 years of hell on earth and came out a changed man with a Divine Healing Teaching Ministry and the goods to back it up. I once heard Lowell Lundstrom say “people are tired of empty promises they want someone who can deliver the freight.” I can humble and confidently say “I can deliver the freight now.” I give all the glory to God.
When I became deathly sick in 2005, I started to remember those words “you have no creativity. So, I thought let’s show them Lord. Not in a prideful way, but in a going from wimp to warrior way. So, I started writing songs. I wrote 40 in 6 months. I wrote every kind of song that you can imagine. I sent them to record producers, and finally one lady said you have songwriting talent. Those words affirmed me. Then amazingly the songwriting talent turned into a teaching gift and is still developing.
I am writing this to tell anyone who is struggling with health, mental, confidence or any kind of issue(s) that God can change you. I have the same basic personality that I always have had, but in Christ, I am totally different: from wimp to warrior. If he did it for me, he will do it for you. He doesn’t play favorites. YOU MUST GO AFTER HIM WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART AND YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPOINTED!
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:11-13) “
I can tell you one thing you have a choice to be a victim or a victor. You can’t be both: it’s one or the other. Please choose Life!
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19)
Let me leave you with this. Here is a song I wrote for Independence Day about nine years ago. This is my first healthy fourth of July since 2005. I look forward to many more!
IN GOD WE TRUST
BY SCOT ASHCROFT
(CHORUS)
THERE’ ONE THING I KNOW
WHEN I SEE THAT FLAG BLOW
I’M AN AMERICAN PROUD
AND THIS IS A MUST
THAT IN GOD, IN GOD I TRUST
AREN’T YOU GLAD YOU LIVE HERE
YOUR FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES DEAR
IF YOU’RE AN AMERICAN PROUD
THEN THIS IS A MUST
THAT IN GOD, IN GOD YOU TRUST
UNITED WE STAND,
WON’T YOU PLEASE TAKE MY HAND?
IF WE’RE AMERICANS PROUD
THEN THIS IS A MUST
TOGETHER, IN GOD, IN GOD WE TRUST
They took prayer out of school
What happened to the golden rule?
Now violence abounds
On our kids’ school grounds
We’re a country that’s free
But we’re losing our liberty
What can we do?
Now let me ask you?
Our money says this
That in God we do trust
But is this the truth?
I think it’s a must
Do we still believe?
Or have we lost that dream?
It almost seems
We’re too jaded for hope now to beam
(CHORUS)
Our sons and our daughters
Have shed their own blood
For freedom to reign
Don’t let it be now in vain
We honor them now
As they served us and how
They laid down their lives
The greatest of all sacrifice
Ask what can I do?
To serve my fellow man too
To make this land
A better place for me and for you
Why not now pray?
Stand up on this day
Say give me liberty now
Before they take it away
(CHORUS)
(ENDING)
WE’RE DIFFERENT IT’S TRUE
BUT AS LONG AS WE’RE RED, WHITE AND BLUE
THEN THIS IS A MUST
THAT TOGETHER IN GOD, IN GOD WE TRUST
LYRICS AND MUSIC COPYRIGHTED 2008
God began to do something special in my life. I chose to never bad mouth my boy’s mother. I never did! I had been a child of divorce and knew how that hurt; being in the middle. I chose to take the high road.
A year later, I met the Love of my Life, here on earth. Her name was and is Ginelle. She is the most amazing woman in the world for two reasons. She loves God with all her heart and she loves me unconditionally. That kind of love is hard to find.
Ten plus years ago, many of you know I prayed and asked God to change me, “to do whatever he had to do to change me.” I went through 10 years of hell on earth and came out a changed man with a Divine Healing Teaching Ministry and the goods to back it up. I once heard Lowell Lundstrom say “people are tired of empty promises they want someone who can deliver the freight.” I can humble and confidently say “I can deliver the freight now.” I give all the glory to God.
When I became deathly sick in 2005, I started to remember those words “you have no creativity. So, I thought let’s show them Lord. Not in a prideful way, but in a going from wimp to warrior way. So, I started writing songs. I wrote 40 in 6 months. I wrote every kind of song that you can imagine. I sent them to record producers, and finally one lady said you have songwriting talent. Those words affirmed me. Then amazingly the songwriting talent turned into a teaching gift and is still developing.
I am writing this to tell anyone who is struggling with health, mental, confidence or any kind of issue(s) that God can change you. I have the same basic personality that I always have had, but in Christ, I am totally different: from wimp to warrior. If he did it for me, he will do it for you. He doesn’t play favorites. YOU MUST GO AFTER HIM WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART AND YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPOINTED!
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:11-13) “
I can tell you one thing you have a choice to be a victim or a victor. You can’t be both: it’s one or the other. Please choose Life!
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19)
Let me leave you with this. Here is a song I wrote for Independence Day about nine years ago. This is my first healthy fourth of July since 2005. I look forward to many more!
IN GOD WE TRUST
BY SCOT ASHCROFT
(CHORUS)
THERE’ ONE THING I KNOW
WHEN I SEE THAT FLAG BLOW
I’M AN AMERICAN PROUD
AND THIS IS A MUST
THAT IN GOD, IN GOD I TRUST
AREN’T YOU GLAD YOU LIVE HERE
YOUR FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES DEAR
IF YOU’RE AN AMERICAN PROUD
THEN THIS IS A MUST
THAT IN GOD, IN GOD YOU TRUST
UNITED WE STAND,
WON’T YOU PLEASE TAKE MY HAND?
IF WE’RE AMERICANS PROUD
THEN THIS IS A MUST
TOGETHER, IN GOD, IN GOD WE TRUST
They took prayer out of school
What happened to the golden rule?
Now violence abounds
On our kids’ school grounds
We’re a country that’s free
But we’re losing our liberty
What can we do?
Now let me ask you?
Our money says this
That in God we do trust
But is this the truth?
I think it’s a must
Do we still believe?
Or have we lost that dream?
It almost seems
We’re too jaded for hope now to beam
(CHORUS)
Our sons and our daughters
Have shed their own blood
For freedom to reign
Don’t let it be now in vain
We honor them now
As they served us and how
They laid down their lives
The greatest of all sacrifice
Ask what can I do?
To serve my fellow man too
To make this land
A better place for me and for you
Why not now pray?
Stand up on this day
Say give me liberty now
Before they take it away
(CHORUS)
(ENDING)
WE’RE DIFFERENT IT’S TRUE
BUT AS LONG AS WE’RE RED, WHITE AND BLUE
THEN THIS IS A MUST
THAT TOGETHER IN GOD, IN GOD WE TRUST
LYRICS AND MUSIC COPYRIGHTED 2008
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