If you knew me before, I was a very shy person. I didn’t want to mingle much. I wasn’t too good with talk, in fact I’m a man of few words – until now in some matters. I wasn’t this deep into my relationship with God before. I didn’t care much about my influence with people. So what happened? Someone showed me the way.

When I was younger I dreamed of being rich and powerful. I wanted to be a person who can have anything and everything he wanted in the world – be it material possessions, physical gratification, emotional pleasure, in other words, I wanted to have all the world has to offer. Let’s be honest, who doesn’t?

Daniel is usually renowned for his faith in God with his story about him and the lion’s den. I really enjoyed that story when I was a kid. Now that I’ve grown up I’ve come to appreciate and understand it a whole lot more. But what really got into my mind was his story about his cry for help from God.

David had it all – power, wealth, fame, love for God, love for people. But he sinned when he fell into lust for Bathsheba. He had a lot of wives and concubines who bore him sons and daughters. He could’ve had any woman he wished – unmarried virgins. But at that point in time, he lusted after Bathsheba – a married woman, wife to one of his most trusted fighting men, Uriah.

His greatest moment: When God took it all away