Today we’d like to introduce you to Damien Davis.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
My name is Damien Davis of God Light For The World Ministry Inc. Our organization is an educational organization that teaches Philosophy and Religion, Sociology, Psychology to study knowledge and search for wisdom and discern the behavior and actions of humanity to solve our most critical problems the world face..
At God Light For The World Ministry Inc, we are currently working on a project that aims to improve and reduce Houston’s crime rate by bringing lost souls to Christ Study shows once a person takes off the old man he takes on an unfamiliar man, which brings forth a novel way of living and a fresh way of thinking.
Colossians 3:9-10
“Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to an accurate knowledge according to the image of the one created him..”
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Challenges I had to face before teaching and the conversation I have with those that looking for a way out and change of life.
I was talking to one of my cousin’s the other day in which he was like I see your change.
God called you but he didn’t call me.
So I’m just going to continue to do what I do until God call me.
I was like God called you just as God called me.
You got to want it bad as you want that drug, bad as you want that drink, bad as you want them women.
I went to the clubs and worried about what people thought about me; drove cars with shiny rims and loud music to show out in front of people; I flashed my money and stood out on them blocks.
What that life almost cost me was 10 years of my life, and it left me empty and it will leave you empty, and the same people’s I was showing out in front of didn’t come to see me when I was in jail.
See you got to get to where you just don’t care no more, you got to want to lose your life just to gain your life.
It’s time for you to want it as bad as you want to breathe.
We’ve been impressed with God Light For The World Ministry Inc, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I picked social media to teach because the word is free and how it was supposed to be.
Had to gain respect from clergy members because of starting a ministry on social media was unheard of, the pandemic made it make sense before teaching and preaching the word of God was based on whether you had the Ministerial Degree and that represented what area one was serviceable.
The bible told me that the stereotypes were foolish, plus this kind of behavior was only discouraging for future leaders, teachers, and thinkers of the gospel.
Luke 21:14-15
“Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer, for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will withstand or contradict.”
Not having the enormous church and fancy suits because of your status of being a good preacher was based on that.
It took hard work to get the respect from my community and taking me seriously at first.
In my neighborhood, it is captivating to be a gangster rapper, a thug, a drug dealer. I even saw The City Of Houston Government giving Houston rappers a day of recognition for coming out of Houston and how rapping about gangs, drugs, women and cars valued by the state as achievement.
They portrayed this image to be the cool guy that every cool guy in the neighborhood should strive to become because of making this image appealing to the future generation.
I saw there is a need for more managers. There is a need for more mathematicians. There is a need for more teachers. We need more people who care.
I would debate with the dealers and local rappers in the communities to give the youth the truth about the path they took without the nice clothes and slab rides and fly girls.
Amid bringing people to Christ in my neighborhood and on social media things, just taking a turn into politics, being an activist doing the time of black Lives Matter movement.
I use my social media platform to give me and my people a voice and uncover what they have hidden in the dark and bring into light.
And what I wanted to do was to create such a situation that the powers that be would have to deal with me. The demonstrations on social media were going to build and God Children the Christians from Houston and all over the world were going to be inspired and that it was going to spread and that the fact that it spread was going to force the government, that is the national government in Washington to move and act.
What does success mean to you?
Remember this behind every success story is a person who did not give up.
The comeback kid.
A person who repeatedly demonstrates the propensity to overcome downturns or periods of bad publicity, and rebound to victory or popularity.
Throughout my entire life, I’ve had to overcome obstacles of comebacks from losing everything.
Life isn’t about what we have been through but to gain strength out of the things we go through and learn to be better from our experiences because it strengthened us to be better.
Challenges we faced that were so huge and now so little.
became a mountain in someone else’s life that we can help the next person get through much faster than what we did.
The key to life struggles and why God allows us to go through.
We might lose houses, cars, money, people, etc. How much you can take and keep moving forward, it’s how winning is done.
Contact Info:
- Email: godlightfortheworldministryinc@gmail.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/damiendavistheteacher/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/damien.davis.7906
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/davisdiamond695?t=KpVBVEAtU-cIOSaH3apMaw&s=09
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCD3HWclOwKvWCJdRRsvVBeA
