Welcome to my new blog

Hi there and welcome to my new improved blog. I deleted the old one as it was just very messy design wise and I wasn't to happy with it anyway. I thought with this blog I will do a lot more than just pour out my thoughts and stuff but I will do a whole lot more.
The purpose of this 1st post was just to welcome back previous followers and just give a brief testimony of my life up to this very point in time.
I was born in a God fearing family, My Mum was an Orthodox Jew and Dad always believed there was a God but lived his own way looking after me and my Mum and also my little sister Sarah when she was born in 1997. From what my Mum says she started going to Church in 1990 looking for God after my childminder who was a devote Christian told her about the whole Toronto Blessing stuff. So from then she pretty much started going to Kings Church Catford. It wasn't till 1997 when she gave her life to Christ and had been Baptized that my walk with God started. Pretty much all I knew was Sunday was going to church and what not and getting sweets and seeing friends but in the summer of 1998 that changed. For a couple of years Mum began to rally the whole family to go to a Bible week called Stoneleigh and we would go and come back but for me being a kid it was just like all fun. But that particular summer I met with God in a ministry time and encountered the Holy Spirit for the 1st time and received the gift of Tongues (it was only one word but hey I was over the moon) and I remember just feeling I know God. As I grew older all of that was out to one side and it was all about being cool and stuff. By the time I was 12 I was playing Sunday league football and thought church was for losers and old people. By the time I was 14 I had been scouted and was now playing club football and because of that I developed a very bad attitude towards my parents and in general I just wasn't cool like I thought I was the man and had the whole "gangsta" attitude. In 2004 my Mum thought I would be good for me to go away to Newday (Newday is an annual Christian youth festival organized by the Newfrontiers family of churches) that year. I pretty much thought "Ok whatever "and went in the week with that attitude and it wasn't till one of the youth leaders that I thought was cool persuaded me to go to an evening meeting that God just began to take all of attitude and my so called coolness and begun a work in in me. Just to put it so you can picture I walked into the evening meeting thinking "Im the man"  and walked out all red eyed,snotty nosed and quiet just in awe of God.
From then over time I begun to change I dropped the attitude and what not. Took up bass guitar which was very random but awesome. In 2006 I was diagnosed with Achalasia which is a rare disease of the muscle of the esophagus. This meant I couldn't eat with out throwing it all back up and I ended up begin is hospital for 4 and a half months. There were several times I thought I was gonna die and stuff and that was it but ended up having an operation and just feeling very low and what not till February 2007 where on the youth weekend away God broke in restored me emotionally. Life was awesome that year got baptized on June the 17th that year which is one of the highlights in my life. Round that time to started athletics just running the 100m which was cool and that was beginning to take of even though I was still pursing a football career with the old club I was playing for. 2008 was a tough year especially from the April of that year loads of things just got me in to a very depressed state and I was just in that pit tried to overdose but failed but in the November of that year while playing bass at a prayer meeting I cried out to God and I remember just the relief after of just feeling that a burden had been taken. 
 2009 was an awesome year thinking about it I gave up chasing the football dream and God gave me his plans through several prophetic words and what not which was cool. There were several challenges presented in the form of relational stuff with friends which is still going on today but just seeing His work in me like giving me the ability to learn piano and acoustic guitar supernaturally and just other things He has done for me gives me faith to carry on even though half the time I don't know what going on He does so I just hold on to that truth and journey on.