So this is my first ever Blog and i promise they will get better and I am very sure that they will not be in order alll the time! Ok so i'm going waaaay back right now and going to tell a little bit about me and my life till me great adventure started.
My name is Christian Klopfenstein... I was born in Lincoln Nebraska on June 23, 1984. I lived there in Lincoln with my parents and older sister Davina. when i was around 7 we moved to a town called Wichita Kansas. The Family lived there for around 2 years while my Father (Tim) finished his school and my mother (Darla) worked as an interpreter for the deaf. during the two years we were there my sister and i attended a elementary school called Riverside elementary. When i was about to turn 9 the family had a great surprise .... I was going to have another brother!!! On February 26 he was born (the only one to be born outside of Nebraska but we still love him!) Soon after that the family moved back to Nebraska to a little town called Henderson...it was a quaint little village of no more then 1000 people .... At this time my mother and father decided to homeschool there children and so that is when a great adventure of home education started ....but that is another story for another time. I lived in Henderson for about 9 years. Then i was off to the big time Collage... well that didn't last very long at all! I was not a fan of school and I'm still not a fan. OH! i missed a very important detail... I was raised in a Christian home were we went to church every sunday and where we had a pretty good home life... yes we had our ups and downs but we made it through. My parents loved the Lord Jesus Christ and they still do and serve Him with everything that they have and even some that they don;t have... but we will get to that. Well back to me cause this IS my blog... I went out on my own and fell HARD right on my face and then i would get up and fall again... and again. I fell soo many times and was wondering who was pulling the proverbial rug out from under me ... then I realized that somehow I was the one who was on a path of self distraction that was leading me right to the gates of hell! I was heavy into drinking and to drugs to the point where i would not have food sometimes but i would always have money for a drink or for that next high! it was in my opinion a great life .... then i realized that I was missing something that there was something else that i was made for.. I would always say to my friends " someday i'm going to grow up and stop all this start going to church and stop doing drugs settle down and have a family" well i said that for about 6 years and every time i said it it was my "five year plan" haha. This whole time i was greatly blessed I had all i "wanted" but nothing I "needed". I didn't find this out till later but its better that i tell you now so that you understand how someone who had all that he wanted to change his mind and to so drastically make a move in the other direction.... During this whole time my mother was praying for me ... she would fast she would pray for me day and night with out stopping " JESUS BLESS MY SON!!!!" she would weep for me she would cry out for he son to come back home! Then one day she was praying and she changed her prayer from Blessing to "God anything it takes , just DON'T kill him". So in less then a month I lost my job that i had had for 4 and a half years I lost my friends, my roommates stole all of my things and sold them i lost everything that I had made up as an excuses to not change my life to not turn back to God.... So on october 5 12:03 am 2007 i was with my parents cause it was an easy place to be excepted and to get a hot meal. We were in the basement of the house they were staying in and we were just talking and they were asking me. " Christian why don't you move to Kansas City to be with the International House of Prayer (IHOP-KC). My responses were always an excuse ...I have a job or I have a house and a girl friend or something like that and we were talking and i just would make excuse after excuse. Till about midnight then My Crown of Excuses my reign of being the King of Excuses came to an end and i had nothing i had no job i had no house no friends no reason to stay where i was! So i said " I GIVE UP!" i'm done living for me it's all stupid anyways..... So i looked at my Father and said ok what do i have to do I have said the "sinners prayer" when i was 8 yrs old but this is different this is surrender this is a prodigal standing at the gate of his fathers house wondering how to get back in .... and so my dad says well Christian you have to pray to God and ask for forgiveness and commit your life not just your heart or your body but your life ... everything that you are you have to give it to Him. Side note I was high on Mary Jane and hungover from the night before...and back.... So i had not prayed for about 6 years at this point but i had heard that it's like talking to someone who wants to be your friend ,....so i said " God i am yours from this day forth till my mortal body dies ...i give my life to you and i will follow you from this day on" and i started crying like a little baby girl who had her doll stolen from her. My mom was crying my dad was crying i was crying everyone was crying I think even God shed a tear for His son Returned. I open my eyes after like 3 or 4 minuets and the room was sooo bright ...I wasn't high i wasn't hungover I was sooo full of life sooo full of grace and mercy from Jesus . I was instantly delivered from addictions to drugs and Alcohol and to cigarettes. Jesus set me free ..I tapped into the gift of the Cross . Then the next month was hell we stayed in the town where i lived in the Valley of the Shadow of Death and it was hard ...cause it was all my old haunts and it was all my old memories and all my old friends ...it was hard...then around Thanksgiving of 2007 I moved to K.C. and it was hard at first from a popular drug dealing party animal to sitting in a basement in a town where you knew no one and you didn't know how to have fun other then getting high or drunk ....so i made up my mind and said I will commit 2 hours a day to you God in the Prayer Room at The IHOP missions base and we will learn together cause i have no one else i have no friends i have no girl i just am all alone... The First thing that God told me was " Be my friend, Be my bride and then rest will come." He also Gave me Isaiah 43:2 ." When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you." through Christ we are unmovable..... Then I went to a youth conference at the end of December 2007 called One-thing and it changed my life I then sighed up for a night time internship at the IHOP-kc missions base. it was a six month internship where we learned the basics of a what it means to be a Christian in this generation and how to pray and study the word and to be fully in the service of the King of Kings......well that is all for now ...i hope i didn't bore you and that you will read again soon.
This is only the beginning of my Big adventure and it's all happened in the past 3 yrs.
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